# Bill Butler

Wilmer Cable (Bill) Butler (Cripple Creek, 7 april 1921 – Los Angeles, 5 april 2023) was een Amerikaanse cameraman die bekend was om zijn werk aan The Conversation (1974), Jaws (1975) en drie Rocky-sequels. Butler voltooide ook One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) na het ontslag van Haskell Wexler.

## Erkentelijkheden

* 1975 - Nominatie Academy Award voor beste cinematografie, voor One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
* 1975 - nominatie BAFTA voor beste cinematografie, voor One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
* 1976 - Primetime Emmy Award voor uitmuntende cinematografie, voor Raid on Entebbe
* 1983 - Nominatie Primetime Emmy Award voor uitmuntende cinematografie, voor The Thorn Birds
* 1984 - Primetime Emmy Award voor uitmuntende cinematografie, voor A Streetcar Named Desire
* 1997 - Prijs voor beste cinematografie op het internationaal filmfestival van Stockholm, voor Deceiver
* 2003 - Oeuvreprijs van de American Society of Cinematographers

## Werk
### Films

| Jaar | Titel | Regisseur | Opmerking |
| 1967 | Fearless Frank | Philip Kaufman | |
| 1969 | The Rain People | Francis Ford Coppola | |
| 1970 | Adam's Woman | Philip Leacock | |
| 1971 | Drive, He Said | Jack Nicholson | |
| 1971 | The Return of Count Yorga | Bob Kelljan | |
| 1972 | Deathmaster | Ray Danton | |
| 1972 | Melinda | Hugh A. Robertson | |
| 1972 | Hickey & Boggs | Robert Culp | |
| 1973 | Running Wild | Robert McCahon | |
| 1974 | The Conversation | Francis Ford Coppola | |
| 1975 | The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery | Dean Hargrove | |
| 1975 | Jaws | Steven Spielberg | |
| 1975 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Miloš Forman | Vervangt Haskell Wexler |
| 1976 | Lipstick | Lamont Johnson | |
| 1976 | The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings | John Badham | |
| 1976 | Alex & the Gypsy | John Korty | |
| 1977 | Demon Seed | Donald Cammell | |
| 1977 | Capricorn One | Peter Hyams | |
| 1978 | Damien: Omen II | Don Taylor | |
| 1978 | Grease | Randal Kleiser | |
| 1978 | Uncle Joe Shannon | Joseph Hanwright | |
| 1978 | Ice Castles | Donald Wrye | |
| 1979 | Rocky II | Sylvester Stallone | |
| 1980 | Can't Stop the Music | Nancy Walker | |
| 1980 | It's My Turn | Claudia Weill | |
| 1981 | The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia | Ronald F. Maxwell | |
| 1981 | Stripes | Ivan Reitman | |
| 1982 | Rocky III | Sylvester Stallone | |
| 1983 | The Sting II | Jeremy Kagan | |
| 1985 | Beer | Patrick Kelly | |
| 1985 | Rocky IV | Sylvester Stallone | |
| 1986 | Big Trouble | John Cassavetes | |
| 1988 | Biloxi Blues | Mike Nichols | |
| 1988 | Wildfire | Zalman King | |
| 1988 | Child's Play | Tom Holland | |
| 1990 | Graffiti Bridge | Prince | |
| 1991 | Hot Shots! | Jim Abrahams | |
| 1993 | Sniper | Luis Llosa | |
| 1993 | Cop and a Half | Henry Winkler | |
| 1993 | Beethoven's 2nd | Rod Daniel | |
| 1996 | Flipper | Alan Shapiro | |
| 1997 | Anaconda | Luis Llosa | |
| 1997 | Deceiver | Jonas Pate Josh Pate | |
| 2000 | Ropewalk | Matt Brown | |
| 2001 | Frailty | Bill Paxton | |
| 2006 | Funny Money | Leslie Greif | |
| 2006 | The Plague | Hal Masonberg | |
| 2007 | Redline | Andy Cheng | |
| 2008 | The Chauffeur | Jérôme Dassier | |
| 2009 | Evil Angel | Richard Dutcher | |
| 2016 | The Boys at the Bar | Richard Dutcher | |

#### Korte films

| Jaar | Titel | Regisseur | Opmerkingen |
| 1968 | A Space to Grow | Robert O'Donnel | Documentaire |
| 2005 | Berserker | Josh Eckberg | |
| 2006 | Zombie Prom | Vince Marcello | |
| 2008 | Looking Up Dresses | Jared Ingram | |

### Televisie
#### Tv-films

| Jaar | Titel | Regisseur | Opmerkingen |
| 1962 | The People vs. Paul Crump | William Friedkin | Documentaire |
| 1965 | The Bold Men | William Friedkin | Documentaire |
| 1970 | A Clear and Present Danger | James Goldstone | |
| 1972 | Something Evil | Steven Spielberg | |
| 1973 | Savage | Steven Spielberg | |
| 1973 | Deliver Us from Evil | Boris Sagal | |
| 1973 | Sunshine | Joseph Sargent | |
| 1973 | I Heard the Owl Call My Name | Daryl Duke | |
| 1974 | Indict and Convict | Boris Sagal | |
| 1974 | The Execution of Private Slovik | Lamont Johnson | |
| 1975 | Target Risk | Robert Scheerer | |
| 1975 | Hustling | Joseph Sargent | |
| 1975 | Fear on Trial | Lamont Johnson | |
| 1976 | Raid on Entebbe | Irvin Kershner | |
| 1977 | Mary White | Jud Taylor | |
| 1980 | Death Ray 2000 | Lee H. Katzin | |
| 1981 | Killing at Hell's Gate | Jerry Jameson | |
| 1984 | A Streetcar Named Desire | John Erman | |
| 1987 | Bates Motel | Richard Rothstein | |
| 1989 | When We Were Young | Daryl Duke | |
| 1995 | A Walton Wedding | Robert Ellis Miller | |
| 1997 | Don King: Only in America | John Herzfeld | |
| 1999 | Passing Glory | Steve James | |
| 2000 | Hendrix | Leon Ichaso | With Claudio Chea |
| 2002 | Joe and Max | Steve James | |

#### Tv-series

| Jaar | Titel | Regisseur | Opmerkingen |
| 1972–1973 | Ghost Story | Richard Donner Paul Stanley Don McDougall Leo Penn David Lowell Rich | 5 afleveringen |
| 1975 | McCoy | Dean Hargrove Richard Quine | Aflevering "The Big Ripoff" |
| 1983 | The Thorn Birds | Daryl Duke | Miniserie |
| 1991 | Brooklyn Bridge | | |
| 1996 | Dark Skies | Tobe Hooper | Aflevering "The Awakening (Deel 1)" |
| 1999 | G vs E | Josh Pate Jonas Pate | Aflevering "Orange Volvo" |