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- Birth nameWilliam Charles Allen Butts
- A tow-headed, delicate-looking child actor of the 1920s, Billy Butts (born William Charles Allen Butts) enjoyed some popularity as a young sidekick of western stars Fred Thomson and Rex Bell. He later took over from Jack Morgan in the popular "Gumps" two-reel comedies, but his waif-like qualities didn't survive puberty and he retired at the ripe old age of 17.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Mark Welsh
- According to his surviving brother, Timothy O'Byran, Billy was most proud of his work on the Mary Pickford classic "Sparrows" (1926) and "Our These Our Children?" (1931).
- He was half Comanche on his father's side, and half Cherokee on his mother's.
- He served as a member of the Army Air Corps during World War II. For the remainder of his life he continued working in aviation in the Glendale and Long Beach, California. Among other things, he was a flight instructor.
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