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Dan Butler
Daniel Eugene Butler (born December 2, 1954) is an American playwright and actor known for his role as Bob "Bulldog" Briscoe on the TV series Frasier.
Butler was born in Huntington, Indiana and raised in Fort Wayne; the son of Shirley, a homemaker, and Andrew Butler, a pharmacist. Openly gay, he starred in Terrence McNally's 1989 play The Lisbon Traviata and wrote an Off Broadway play about his life, The Only Thing Worse You Could Have Told Me..., which derives its title from a comment Butler's father allegedly made when Dan came out to him.
Though Butler never hid his homosexuality, he disclosed it publicly on Entertainment Tonight in 1994 during his run as a swaggering heterosexual on Frasier.
His partner is acting teacher and director, Richard Waterhouse.
As actor
All Boys
Blonde
All My Life
Hey Arnold! The Jungle Movie
Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Prayers for Bobby
Chronic Town
Karl Rove, I Love You
The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest
Sniper 2
Fixing Frank
The Sissy Duckling
Enemy of the State
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
The Assassination File
The Fan
Live to Tell: The First Gay and Lesbian Prom in America
I Love Trouble
Dave
Rising Sun
Captain Ron
From the Files of Joseph Wambaugh: A Jury of One
The Silence of the Lambs
The Rape of Doctor Willis
The Long Walk Home
Longtime Companion
Manhunter
The Manhattan Project
Silver Fox