Robert Butler (director)
Robert Butler ( born November 17, 1927 in Los Angeles ) is an American film director and film producer.
Life and work
Robert Butler led at different television series directed, including Bonanza, Batman, Star Trek, The Waltons, Remington Steele, Superman - Lois & Clark and Columbo from. Now and then he came in television series, including Remington Steele, as the producer (producer) and executive producer ( production manager ) in appearance.
In addition, Robert Butler has directed a number of films, especially for the Disney Studios. These were mostly to the early films of Kurt Russell, banal college comedies in which Russell starred as Dexter Reilly. They were typical representatives of the anti-establishment comedy as the Disney Studios in the late 1960s and early 1970s produced - roughly comparable with the resulting at the same time, the German lout from the first bank - film series. Ambitious, but unsuccessful at the box office, however, was the late Western Cowboy John - The Last Hero in the Wild West ( Scandalous John, 1971) with Brian Keith in the title role.
Awards
Robert Butler was nominated five times for an Emmy Award, which he won in 1981 for the pilot episode of the series Hill Street Blues. Seven years earlier, he was twice awarded the prize for the television film The Blue Knight.