Pat ButtramFilmography

Back to the Future Part III

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen, Thomas F. Wilson, Lea Thompson

Synopsis: The final installment in the Back to the Future trilogy picks up where the second film left off, but it casts off the dizzying time travel of the first two films for mostly routine comedy set in the Old West. Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) receives a 70-year-old letter from his inventor friend, Doc Read More

Return to Green Acres

Synopsis: The cast from the popular television cornball comedy series are reunited when Oliver must save Hooterville from developers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Actors: Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy, Charles Fleischer, Stubby Kaye, Alan Tilvern

Synopsis: In Robert Zemeckis's trailblazing combination of animation and live-action, Hollywood's 1940s cartoon stars are a subjugated minority, living in the ghettolike "Toontown" where their movements are sharply monitored by the human power establishment. The Toons are permitted to perform in a Cotton Read More

The Fox and the Hound

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Kurt Russell, Pearl Bailey, Jack Albertson, Sandy Duncan

Synopsis: The Disney animated feature The Fox and the Hound tells the story of a friendship between traditional enemies. Tod is a fox whose parents have died. His best friend is a hunting dog named Copper. As Copper grows up, he learns that it is his job to hunt foxes. Tod's caretaker Widow Tweed takes Tod Read More

Choices

Actors: Paul Carafotes, Victor French, Lelia Goldoni, Val Avery, Dennis Patrick

Synopsis: Director Silvio Narizzano totes out a Sunday morning public affairs programming style in this it-could-happen-to-you drama about a popular high-school student who finds that he has what some consider a disability. Paul Carafotes plays a high-school student who loves to play football and music. But Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: Days of Shine and Roses

Synopsis: In the opening episode of The Dukes of Hazzard's second season, lifelong antagonists Jesse Duke (Denver Pyle) and Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) take a trip down Memory Lane while watching a scratchy old newsreel of their bootlegging days. Arguing over which of them was the better "ridge-runner", Boss Read More

Angel's Brigade

Synopsis: It's the ladies to the rescue in the low-budget actioner Angel's Brigade. Wearing form-fitting fatigues, the female stars play a team of highly trained avengers. Their mission: to wipe every drug dealer off the face of the earth. To accomplish this, they drive around in a custom-built van, decked Read More

The Rescuers

Synopsis: Two fantasy novels by Margery Sharp were combined for in the Disney animated feature The Rescuers. The title characters are a pair of mice, Bernard and Miss Bianca. A little girl named Penny has been kidnapped by Miss Medusa. When the human law enforcement officials fail to locate the child Read More

Emergency!: Floor Brigade

Synopsis: Pat Buttram, aka "Mr. Haney" of Green Acres fame, guest-stars in this episode as an old hermit whom the emergency team must rescue from a cave. Also: a chemist loses consciousness in a burning warehouse laboratory; and Dr. Morton (Ron Pinkard) ministers both medically and emotionally to a one-time Read More

More Milton Berle's Mad World of Comedy

Actors: Milton Berle

Synopsis: Watch the comedy unfold as Milton Berle trades wisecracks with his hilarious guests on this videotape. Some of the funniest people in show business are featured in this collection hosted by "Mr. Television" himself. Pat Buttran, Dick Martin, Mort Sahl, and Eddie Quillon are interviewed. Footage of Read More

Robin Hood

Actors: Brian Bedford, Andy Devine, Peter Ustinov, Roger Miller, George Lindsey, Phil Harris, Terry-Thomas

Synopsis: Robin Hood is one of the first animated films produced by the Walt Disney Company after Walt Disney's death in 1967. For the film, the studio's animators took the Disney tradition of adding human-like animal sidekicks to established tales (Cinderella, Pinnochio) a step further by making Robin Read More

Adam-12: Keeping Tabs

Synopsis: Things get personal for Rampart Police Sergeant "Mac" MacDonald (William Boyett) when a rebellious young man is arrested for joyriding in a stolen car. The driver turns out to be Mac's own son Bill (Sean Kelly), prompting Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) to lend a Read More

The Gatling Gun

Actors: John Carradine, Guy Stockwell, Woody Strode, Patrick Wayne

Synopsis: This Western presents a fictionalized account of the ways in which the Gatling gun was created. Also chronicled are its tremendous effects on the great frontier. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Evil Roy Slade

Actors: Edie Adams, John Astin, Pamela Austin, Henry Gibson, John Ritter, Dick Shawn, Milton Berle, Dom DeLuise, Penny Marshall, Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: Overlooked when it first aired February 18, 1972, the made-for-TV Evil Roy Slade has gained a loyal and protective cult following in the past 20 years. The film was the second pilot for a never-sold TV western spoof created by Garry Marshall and Jerry Belson, Sheriff Who?. Actually, it was the Read More

Green Acres: Season 06

Actors: Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor, Pat Buttram, Tom Lester, Alvy Moore

Synopsis: The merriment continues unabated as Green Acres enters its sixth and last season, with city slickers Oliver and Lisa Douglas (Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor) no more successful at managing a rural farm than they'd been in season one. New to the cast is Judy McConnell as Darlene Wheeler, the latest of Read More

The Aristocats

Actors: Phil Harris, Eva Gabor, Sterling Holloway, Scatman Crothers

Synopsis: The Aristocats was the first Disney Studios animated feature to be produced after Walt Disney's death. A wealthy woman leaves her vast fortune to her four cats: the well-bred Duchess and her kittens, Berlioz, Toulouse, and Marie. Jealous butler Edgar, eager to get his mitts on the cats' legacy Read More

Green Acres: Season 05

Actors: Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor, Pat Buttram, Tom Lester, Alvy Moore

Synopsis: Season five of Green Acres begins as the ramshackle farm of Oliver and Lisa Douglas (Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor) is invaded by Lisa's Hungarian mother (Lilia Skala), a bejeweled countess. As "Mudder" remains on the premises for weeks and weeks, the male citizenry of Hooterville, notably hotelier Read More

I Sailed to Tahiti with an All Girl Crew

Synopsis: It's silliness on the high seas as two sneaky sailors race across the South Pacific in this fast-paced and campy comedy. The fun begins when one bets the other $20,000 that he, with an all girl crew, be the first to Tahiti in a sailboat race. The other, not to be outdone, has a few monkeyshines up Read More

Petticoat Junction: The Other Woman

Synopsis: Upset that baby daughter Kathy Jo is taking up so much of Steve's time, Betty Jo (Linda Kaye Henning) insists that Steve (Mike Minor) take her on a second honeymoon. The couple returns to their own cottage, where they must not only put up with a lack of utilities but also the crafty duplicity of Read More

Petticoat Junction: A Most Momentous Occasion

Synopsis: After fighting with Steve (Mike Minor) over bathroom privileges, Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) faces the possibility that Steve and Betty Jo (Linda Kaye Henning) will move out for keeps. To prevent this, Joe offers to install a second bathroom in the Shady Rest. Unfortunately, this requires him to Read More

Green Acres: Season 04

Actors: Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor, Pat Buttram, Tom Lester, Alvy Moore

Synopsis: It's hard to believe that the producers of Green Acres could come up with fourth-season episodes that are even crazier than those seen in the previous three seasons, but that's just what happens as city slickers Oliver and Lisa Douglas (Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor) continue to weather the trials and Read More

The Sweet Ride

Actors: Anthony Franciosa, Michael Sarrazin, Jacqueline Bisset, Michael Wilding, Sr.

Synopsis: On California's Malibu Beach in the late 1960s, young people are enjoying a life with few responsibilities and plenty of romantic opportunities. Denny McGuire (Michael Sarrazin) is a beach bum without ambition. His roommate Collie Ransom (Tony Franciosa) is a professional tennis player who soaks Read More

Green Acres: Season 03

Actors: Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor, Pat Buttram, Tom Lester, Alvy Moore

Synopsis: Season three of Green Acres begins as attorney Oliver Wendell Douglas (Eddie Albert) is nominated for the political post of state senator. Alas, this dream come true is destined to become as much a comic nightmare as city slicker Oliver's efforts to become a successful farmer in the bucolic Read More

Green Acres: Season 02

Actors: Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor, Pat Buttram, Tom Lester, Alvy Moore

Synopsis: City slickers Oliver and Lisa Douglas (Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor) make the best of another year of "farm livin'" in bucolic Hooterville as Green Acres enters its second season. Still stubbornly determined to make a profit on his rundown farm, Oliver continues to be flustered by such local looneys as Read More

Petticoat Junction: The County Fair

Synopsis: It's time for the annual Hooterville County Fair, and everyone in the Bradley family has entered one or more of the fair's contests. Unfortunately, the Bradley girls may well lose their chance at blue ribbons, thanks to the well-intentioned but woefully inept "assistance" of good old Uncle Joe Read More

Sergeant Deadhead

Actors: Frankie Avalon, Deborah Walley, Cesar Romero, Fred Clark, Gale Gordon

Synopsis: In this comedy, a hapless Army sergeant's plans to marry are temporarily delayed after he accidentally ends up launched into space with a chimpanzee. Upon his return, he is a changed man and is ultimately sent to prison after he threatens to go public with the mix-up. Meanwhile, suave Sgt. Read More

Green Acres [TV Series]

Actors: Eva Gabor, Eddie Albert, Pat Buttram, Tom Lester, Alvy Moore

Synopsis: The third of producer Paul Henning's enormously successful "rustic" comedies of the 1960s, Green Acres made its CBS bow on September 15, 1965. Reversing the situation established on Henning's The Beverly Hillbillies, in which a group of yokels was transplanted to luxurious Beverly Hills, Green Read More

The Munsters: All-Star Munster

Synopsis: Paying a visit to niece Marilyn's college, Herman (Fred Gwynne) had intended to simply discuss a matter of tuition with the main office. But through a series of bizarre occurences, he ends up being mistaken for the college's latest sports acquisition, basketball whiz Moose Mallory (played by Read More

Green Acres: How to Enlarge a Bedroom

Synopsis: This episode serves to introduce those carpenters extraordinaire, the Monroe brothers. Well, at least Alf Monroe (Sid Melton) is a "brother"; Ralph Monroe (Mary Grace Canfield) is a woman, but don't tell her that. Anyway, the Monroes show up at the Douglas farm when Lisa (Eva Gabor) decides it is Read More

Green Acres: Season 01

Actors: Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor, Pat Buttram, Tom Lester, Alvy Moore

Synopsis: City-bred attorney Oliver Wendell Douglas (Eddie Albert) and his chic, sophisticated wife, Lisa (Eva Gabor), undergo quite a period of adjustment throughout the first season of Green Acres. Having insisted upon bundling himself and his wife to a 160-acre farm just outside the bucolic town of Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Lonely Place

Actors: Teresa Wright, Pat Buttram, Bruce Dern

Synopsis: An isolated peach farm is the setting for this nail-biting episode, in which Teresa Wright is cast as Stella, the young wife of bucolic farm owner Emery (Pat Buttram). When Emery hires a sinister-looking farmhand named Jesse (Bruce Dern), Stella is apprehensive -- especially since Jesse seems to Read More

The Hanged Man

Synopsis: Don Siegal directed this made-for-TV remake of the western drama Ride The Pink Horse, in which Robert Culp stars as Harry Pace, who has set out to avenge the violent death of a good friend. Pace's search leads him to New Orleans during the Mardi Gras celebration, where he meets a beautiful woman Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: The Jar

Actors: Pat Buttram, Collin Wilcox, James Best, Slim Pickens, William Marshall

Synopsis: Pat Buttram (he was Mr. Haney on Green Acres) brings a macabre twist to his standard country-bumpkin characterization in this bone-chilling episode. Visiting a traveling carnival, farmer Charlie Hill (Buttram) is fascinated by one of the exhibits: a huge jar, filled with water and mysterious Read More

Roustabout

Actors: Elvis Presley, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Freeman, Leif Erickson, Sue Ane Langdon

Synopsis: Charlie Rogers (Elvis Presley) is a coffeehouse singer who joins a financially troubled carnival in Roustabout. He is hired by owner Maggie Morgan (Barbara Stanwyck) and soon catches the eye of his pretty female co-worker Cathy Lean (Joan Freeman). Cathy's irate father Joe (Leif Erickson) clashes Read More

Twilight of Honor

Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Joey Heatherton, Nick Adams, Claude Rains, Joan Blackman

Synopsis: Former TV leading man Richard Chamberlain plays a young lawyer about to take on an important murder case. He is shepherded through this big break by veteran attorney Claude Rains. The client is the disreputable Nick Adams, who seems determined to sabotage his own case. But a last-minute scrap of Read More

Barbed Wire

Actors: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Anne James, William Fawcett, Leonard Penn

Synopsis: Gene Autry plays a cattle buyer in the better-than-average formula western Barbed Wire. Investigating a paucity of fresh livestock, Autry returns to his home turf of Texas. Here he discovers that powerful ranch owner Steve Ruttledge (Leonard Penn) has been fencing off valuable grazing land Read More

The Old West

Actors: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Gail Davis, Lyle Talbot, Louis Jean Heydt

Synopsis: Gene Autry was clearly tiring of the rigors of moviemaking by the time he starred in The Old West. Even so, Autry gives his all to this story of frontier religiosity. Left for dead in an outlaw ambush, Gene is nursed back to health by a travelling parson (House Peters Sr.) Our hero decides to help Read More

Night Stage to Galveston

Actors: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Virginia Huston, Thurston Hall, Judy Nugent

Synopsis: Gene Autry and Pat Buttram are innovatively cast as Gene Autry and Pat Buttram in Night Stage to Galveston. Set during the wild-and-wooly days when the Texas Rangers were supplanted by various local corrupt police officials, the story finds Gene at odds with crooked police chief Gen. Slaydon (Robert Livingston Read More

Apache Country

Actors: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Carolina Cotton, Harry Lauter, Mary Scott

Synopsis: The "B"-western field of the 1950s was laid low by increasing budgets and decreasing box-office appeal. Gene Autry's series for Columbia was still turning a profit in 1952, but films like Apache Country were a lot stingier-looking than his earlier efforts. Autry plays a government agent who rides Read More

Blue Canadian Rockies

Synopsis: In this musical western, a rancher sends a man to prevent the marriage of his daughter. When the man arrives he finds a dude ranch and several murders which require solving. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Wagon Team

Actors: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Gail Davis, Dick Jones, Gordon Jones

Synopsis: Gene Autry goes undercover once again in this rather pedestrian western from Columbia Pictures. Suspecting jailed youth Dave Weldon (Dick Jones) of complicity in an army payroll heist, special investigator Autry has himself jailed. He quickly discovers that there is more to the case than meets the Read More

Texans Never Cry

Actors: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Mary Castle, Russell Hayden, Gail Davis

Synopsis: Texans Never Cry but they sure do sing a lot in this Gene Autry western. Cast as a Texas Ranger, Autry is trying to get the goods on a frontier numbers racket. Perpetrating the crime is Tracy Wyatt (Richard Powers, who'd previously been a western hero himself under the name of Tom Keene). Adding Read More

Silver Canyon

Actors: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Gail Davis, Jim Davis, Bob Steele

Synopsis: This 1951 Gene Autry vehicle is based on a supposedly true incident. At the close of the Civil War, a band of Southern guerillas disguised themselves as Union soldiers, the better to perform acts of sabotage in Utah. Autry plays a cavalry scout who goes after guerilla leader McQuarrie (Jim Davis). Read More

Gene Autry and the Mounties

Actors: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Elena Verdugo, Carleton Young, Richard Emory

Synopsis: Gene Autry is back in the saddle again, albeit North of the Border. Montana marshal Autry and another lawman pursue a bank robber into Canada. Teaming with a straight-arrow Mountie, Autry tracks down the criminal in the Canadian wilderness, taking time out once in a while to sing one of his host's Read More

The Hills of Utah

Actors: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Elaine Riley, Donna Martell, Onslow Stevens

Synopsis: Hills of Utah casts Gene Autry as a frontier doctor with a predilection for singing. A recent med-school graduate, Autry sets up practice in the midst of a long-standing feud between cattlemen and miners. While patching up the participants of the feud, Gene searches every nook and cranny for the Read More

Valley of Fire

Actors: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Gail Davis, Russell Hayden, Christine Larson

Synopsis: Valley of Fire is a fairly gutsy title for this formula Gene Autry western. This time, Autry plays the reform-minded mayor of a wide-open western town. The villain of the piece, Tod Rawlings (Harry Lauter), decides to undermine Gene by convincing a band of disreputable miners to hijack a wagon Read More

The Blazing Sun

Actors: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Lynne Roberts, Anne Gwynne, Edward Norris

Synopsis: Gene Autry is back in the saddle again in The Blazing Sun. On this occasion, Autry plays a lawman in pursuit of two bank robbers. Adding novelty is the fact that the film is set in the contemporary West, with Pat Buttram co-starring as a conceited radio actor Mike. Weaving in and out of the Read More

The Gene Autry Show: The Doodle Bug

Synopsis: Someone is trying to ruin the Rocky Mountain Stage Line in Dentonville and mine superintendent Gene Autry suspects that Collins (Gregg Barton), the stage driver, has something to do with it. Meanwhile, the local stage agent, Mrs. Wilhelmina Wilkins (Minerva Urecal), takes a dim view of Read More

Beyond the Purple Hills

Actors: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Don Beddoe, James Millican

Synopsis: Gene Autry and his horse Champion play "themselves" in Columbia's Beyond the Purple Hills. This one finds Autry serving as a cattle-town sheriff. When his best friend is accused of murder, Gene does his duty and arrests the man--then conducts his own investigation to prove that his pal is Read More

The Gene Autry Show: The Double Switch

Synopsis: Gene Autry sings "When the Bloom is on the Sage" in this early entry in his popular television series. When the board of supervisors allocates $20,000 for government roadwork, including $3,000 from newcomer Henry Harlow (Steven Darrell), the latter voices his fear of road agents. To safely Read More

The Gene Autry Show: Gold Dust Charlie

Synopsis: Gene Autry sings "Home on the Range," "Cowboy Blues," and "Mexicali Rose," and the Cass County Boys take care of the humorous "Great Grandad" in this television Western, the second entry in Autry's 1950-1955 series. Coming across the murdered body of Gold Dust Charlie, Autry hurries to the assay Read More

Indian Territory

Actors: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Gail Davis, Kirby Grant, James Griffith

Synopsis: Columbia's final release for 1950 was the Gene Autry western Indian Territory. Set during the Reconstruction Era, the story finds Autry working as an undercover agent for the U.S. cavalry. His mission: to neutralize a former Austrian army officer named Curt Raidler (Phil Van Zandt), who is leading Read More

The Gene Autry Show: The Blackwater Valley Feud

Synopsis: Aired originally on September 3, 1950, and restored by Gene Autry Entertainment in 2000, this The Gene Autry Show series entry features Stanley Andrews as Carl Meachem, the owner of the "Flying M" cattle ranch. Determined to keep the range free of fences, Meachem bars a right of way for neighbor Read More

The Gene Autry Show: The Star Toter

Synopsis: Gene Autry sings his own and Ray Whitley's "Back in the Saddle Again" in the opening sequence of this, the fifth episode of his 1950 television series. A sheriff this time, Gene takes on ten-year-old Jimmy Foster (Billy Gray), whose father, Ben (George J. Lewis), has been jailed for bank robbery. Read More

The Gene Autry Show: The Posse

Synopsis: Gene Autry takes a page out of Lady for a Day in this television western initially released on September 17, 1950. Having majored in animal husbandry, Easterner Mary Darrow (Wendy Waldron) is ready to take command of her father's ranch. But unbeknownst to Mary -- or so everyone assumes -- old Read More

The Gene Autry Show: The Silver Arrow

Synopsis: In the third entry of his long-running television series, Gene Autry comes across a man murdered by a silver arrow. In Cottonwood, Autry and sidekick Pat Buttram learn that the victim was one of four men responsible for sending Randy Edwards (Jim Frasher) up the river for a crime he may not have Read More

The Gene Autry Show: Head for Texas

Synopsis: "Sing Me a Song of the Saddle," warbles Gene Autry in this, the premiere episode of his five-season-long television series. Autry was powerful enough in 1950 to disobey his feature film employer Columbia Pictures, who, in concert with the rest of the Hollywood establishment, looked upon television Read More

Mule Train

Actors: Gene Autry, Pat Buttram, Sheila Ryan, Robert Livingston, Frank Jaquet

Synopsis: Though the hit song "Mule Train" is most closely associated with Frankie Laine, it was Gene Autry who first sang the tune on film, in a picture titled ... what else? .... Mule Train. This time, Autry plays a federal marshal who comes to the aid of a grizzled old prospector who has been framed for Read More

Riders in the Sky

Actors: Gene Autry, Gloria Henry, Pat Buttram, Mary Beth Hughes, Robert Livingston

Synopsis: Gene Autry enjoyed considerable success with his recording of Stan Jones' haunting "Riders in the Sky". He then parlayed this success into a film, which proved to be one of Autry's best postwar efforts. The basic plot concerns Autry's efforts to clear rancher Ralph Lawson (Steve Darrell) of a Read More

The Strawberry Roan

Actors: Gene Autry, Gloria Henry, Jack Holt, Dick Jones, Pat Buttram

Synopsis: Gene Autry's equine sidekick Champion takes the center stage in western drama, based on a story by fellow sagebrush star Ken Maynard. Walt Bailey (Jack Holt) is teaching his young son Joe (Dickie Jones) how to break in a horse when a high-spirited steed (Champion) throws the boy, leaving him Read More

National Barn Dance

Actors: Jean Heather, Charles Quigley, Robert Benchley, Mabel Paige, Charles Dingle

Synopsis: This film gives a fictionalized version of how the popular real-life radio program of the title began. A promoter has an idea for a show devoted to various country musicians, and an ad agency owner is interested. The promoter goes down South, finds some talented acts, and brings them back to Read More