Tyler Butterworth

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Tyler Butterworth
Born (1959-02-06) 6 February 1959 (age 65)
Redhill, Surrey, England
OccupationActor
Years active1965–2008
Spouse
(m. 1998)
Children2
Parents

Tyler Butterworth (born 6 February 1959) is an English actor.

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Early life

Butterworth was born on 6 February 1959 in Redhill, Surrey. His father was Peter Butterworth, who starred in many of the Carry On films. His mother was the actress and Margaret Thatcher impersonator Janet Brown. His first roles were as a child in the 1960s in such films as Darling (1965) and the Morecambe & Wise feature film The Magnificent Two (1967).

Film and television

He starred in the black comedy Consuming Passions (1988) opposite Vanessa Redgrave and Jonathan Pryce. On television he has appeared in Rumpole of the Bailey , Bergerac , Last of the Summer Wine , Casualty (Series 1, Episode 6 "High Noon"), The Bill , The Darling Buds of May , Home to Roost, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates and starred as Osborne in the ITV sitcom Fiddlers Three .

He also played Proteus in the BBC Shakespeare adaptation of The Two Gentlemen of Verona in 1983, Angelo in the CITV children's sci-fi comedy series Mike and Angelo for its first two series and Mr Archer in Whizziwig .

In 2008, he moved into producing, and was development producer on a NASA series. [1]

Since then, he has concentrated on voice work.

Personal life

Butterworth is married to actress Janet Dibley; the couple have two sons.

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