Dean Butler

Acting

Dean Butler

Born 1956-05-20 · Prince George, British Columbia, Canada

Acting credits

Desert Hearts poster
7.1

While waiting for her divorce papers, a repressed literature professor finds herself unexpectedly attracted by a carefree, spirited young woman named Cay.

Desert Hearts

1985

Little House on the Prairie: A Merry Ingalls Christmas poster
8.4

Celebrate the holidays with two classic "Little House" specials, restored and remastered for superior picture and sound. In "Christmas at Plum Creek," the members of the Ingalls family share a heartwarming first Christmas in their new home, and Laura makes a personal sacrifice that captures the meaning of the holidays. In "A Christmas They Never Forget," the family waits out a snowstorm by remembering favorite Christmases from the past.

Little House on the Prairie: A Merry Ingalls Christmas

2014

Little House: Look Back to Yesterday poster
6.9

Albert Quinn Ingalls wants to be a doctor. But soon he discovers that he is fatally ill. He decides to spend the rest of his life in Walnut Grove. Meanwhile children from school are preparing for their traditional climbing of the mountain.

Little House: Look Back to Yesterday

1983

Little House: Bless All the Dear Children poster
5.4

During preparation for Christmas baby Rose Wilder is kidnapped by the woman who recently lost her child. Looking for her Laura, Almanzo and Mr Edwards meet lonely orphan boy, who finally stays with that woman.

Little House: Bless All the Dear Children

1983

The Kid with the 200 I.Q. poster
5.6

A 13-year-old genius goes to college and tries to cope not only with campus social life, but also with his professor.

The Kid with the 200 I.Q.

1983

Little House: The Last Farewell poster
7.1

While Charles and Caroline are visiting Walnut Grove, the townspeople learn that a land development tycoon has acquired title to all the land in Hero Township. They are inspired by Laura to vent their anger at this injustice.

Little House: The Last Farewell

1984

Little House Homecoming poster
NR

Cast members from Little House on the Prairie embark on a journey to the real-world locations that inspired Laura Ingalls Wilder’s classic books. Along the way, they explore the history behind the stories and revisit the enduring spirit of Little House that continues to inspire audiences around the world.

Little House Homecoming

2025

Juana la Cubana poster
6.2

The beautiful nightclub singer/dancer Juana the Cuban moonlights as freedom fighter “Commander Zeta”, joining forces with the C.I.A. to overthrow the brutal regime of a military dictator (played by Erik Estrada) who plans to unleash bacteriological warfare on the U.S.A.

Juana la Cubana

1994

Gidget's Summer Reunion poster
6.0

Former beach bunny/girl surfer Francine “Gidget” Lawrence is an adult and married to her long-term beau Jeff “Moondoggie” Griffin. She deals with a variety of marital spats, as well as running her own travel agency, running interferences with her teenage niece, and trying to arrange a reunion of her husband’s old surfing friends. Meanwhile, Jeff works as an architect and must fend off romantic advances from his beautiful and lascivious boss. Gidget’s niece wants to learn how to surf and gets too much when she sneaks out to see a suave, self-serving beach bum behind the back of her nerdy boyfriend.

Gidget's Summer Reunion

1985

Private Affairs poster
1.0

A departure from most ABC Afterschool Specials, this one focuses on Madeline Green, a teenage girl who discovers her father's affair with a friend of her mother, and struggles to keep it from tearing her family apart.

Private Affairs

1989

The Final Goal poster
3.8

One man buys the future, another stands between the posts to preserve it, in this brutal showdown on the soccer field to win the World Cup.

The Final Goal

1995

Forever poster
10.0

Romantic drama about a teenage girl's first love and the perennial adolescent dilemma of whether to give herself to him in order to hang on to him. Based on the novel by Judy Blume.

Forever

1978

Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page poster
NR

Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page presents an unvarnished look at the unlikely author whose autobiographical fiction helped shape American ideas of the frontier and self-reliance. A Midwestern farm woman who published her first novel at age 65, Laura Ingalls Wilder transformed her frontier childhood into the best-selling “Little House” series. The documentary delves into the legacy of the iconic pioneer as well as the way she transformed her early life into enduring legend, a process that involved a little-known collaboration with her daughter Rose.

Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page

2020

Little House on the Prairie: The Legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder poster
NR

Wilder's personal story as a writer, wife, and mother is explored through interviews with scholars and historians, passages from the Little House on the Prairie books, archival photography, paintings by frontier artists, such as Harvey Dunn, dramatic reenactments, and original artwork.

Little House on the Prairie: The Legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder

2015

Behind the camera