Dan Butler
Daniel " Dan " Eugene Butler ( born December 2, 1954 in Fort Wayne, Indiana ) is an American actor. Butler is best known for playing the role of macho or liable proletenhaft sports presenter Bob " Bulldog" Briscoe on the comedy series Frasier, which he played from 1993 to 2004.
Life
Butler grew up as the son of a pharmacist Andrew Butler and his wife Shirley on in Fort Wayne. In the 1980s he turned to acting.
His partner is the drama teacher and director Richard Waterhouse.
Career
Getting attention could draw in 1989 by a role in Terrence McNally's play The Lisbon Traviata on to Butler. At this time he also wrote an autobiographical Off Broadway stage play entitled " The Only Thing Worse You Could Have Told Me .. ". The title refers to a comment from Butler's father, this made when Dan Butler is outed opposite.
In the early 1990s, Butler began increasingly to take on supporting roles in comedic television series. After playing a regular part in the series Roseanne since 1991, took over Butler in 1993 his most famous role to date as Bob " Bulldog" Briscoe on the series Frasier. As boorish hormone -controlled radio host of a sports information program Butler formed until 2004 a counterpoint to the cocky elitist title character of the series, Frasier Crane. The frictions and comic scenes and complications that arose almost inevitably between the two disparate men, formed a recurring plotline ( subplot ) of the series.
While Butler was known to a wide audience as macho as a Bulldog, he is in real life gay, as he revealed in 1994 as a guest in the entertainment program Entertainment Tonight.
Works (selection)
TV
- Roseanne ( TV series), a kind, 1992-1993
- Frasier, as Robert " Bulldog" Briscoe, 1993-2004
- Hey Arnold!, Voice of Mr. Simmons / Purple ' s father, 1997-2002
- Star Trek: Voyager - episode " Vis a Vis ", as " Steth ", 1998
Film
- The long way as Charlie, 1990
- The Silence of the Lambs as Roden, 1991
- Dave as a reporter in 1993
- The fan as Garrity, 1996
- The Public Enemy No. 1 as NSA director Adm.. Shaffer
- Prayers for Bobby as Reverend Whitsell, 2009