Dean Butler --

Documentary Film Producer, Writer, and Director.

Why I am a Marauder

My creative life has been focused around the telling of heroic stories that touch and inspire people’s lives.  Such stories exist everywhere—from  historic fields of battle to the most out of the way back roads of the human experience.  Regardless of nationality, race, politics, or gender we benefit collectively from hearing and remembering them.

The tragedy of WWII MIAs left six decades ago on the field of battle and the mission of Moore’s Marauders to bring them home to a final resting place with their families on American soil is heroic and compelling, both

Dean Butler

Background: Dean Butler

Born: May 20, 1956, Prince George, Alberta, Canada

Current Residence: West Los Angeles, CA

Education: B.A. Communication Arts, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA

Awards: Numerous Telly Awards and Emmy nominations related to producing, shooting, directing, and editing historic documentaries, television sports, and corporate communication.

Other Noteworthy Skills/Accomplishments: Twenty years working as an actor in Los Angeles and New York.  My proudest accomplishments from that part of my life are five years playing Almanzo Wilder on NBC’s Little House on the Prairie and singing 320 performances of Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods on Broadway. In addition to acting, during those years I was able to train 9 deadly tigers for a TV special, climb the outer walls of the Cesar’s Palace Fantasy Tower in Las Vegas, judge the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City, and sing at the Grand Ole Opry.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS, ORGANIZATIONS, CLUBS

• Screen Actors Guild--1977 to Present

• AFTRA--1977 to Present

• Actors’ Equity--1988 to Present

• WGA Eligible

• IFP/West--1993 to Present

• International Documentary Association 1997 to Present

• Bohemian Club, San Francisco

Hobbies and Interests: Gardening, woodworking, computer technology, and politics.

Marital Status: Married, Wife Katherine

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Employment:             

TELEVISION PRODUCTION—2000 to Present

U.S. OLYMPIC HALL OF FAME – 90 minute entertainment special in which ten Olympic greats will be inducted into the Olympic Hall of Fame. Responsibilities include logistics, field production, and post production supervision of 17 roll-in highlight packages featuring Hall of Fame Athletes, great Olympic moments, and the American Olympic Spirit. For NBC Sports – Winter 2006

“LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE DVD PROJECTS”  3.5 hours of bonus content to support release of Season 10/Complete Series/Season 1 repackaging DVD collections. Responsibilities included sales, pre-production, field production, talent coordination, and post-production supervision. Created by Legacy Documentaries in association with Imavision and NBC Universal Television Distribution - 2006

“GOIN’ BACK” –  One hour documentary series featuring the untold stories of Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine veterans that takes them back to the battlefields of WWII, Korea, Vietnam, and the Middle East. Responsibilities included field production, direction, shooting, editorial, and post production supervision. Multiple TELLY & AURORA AWARD WINNER. For Discovery Military Channel – 2006

“LAURA’S LONG WINTERS/LAURA’S LEGACY/ LIW HISTORIC SITE TOUR” Bonus content in support of the Little House on the Prairie Season 8/9 DVD Collections.  Responsibilities included sales, pre-production, field production, talent coordination, and post-production supervision. Created by Legacy Documentaries for Imavision in Montreal, Canada – 2005

“FIELD DISCLOSURE: A Visual History”  A visual history featuring the anecdotal recollections of growers, unions, and labor in the Salinas Valley during the 1960’s, 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s.  Created by Legacy Documentaries for The National Steinbeck Center, Salinas, CA – 2005

U.S. OLYMPIC HALL OF FAME – 90 minute entertainment special in which ten Olympic greats will be inducted into the Olympic Hall of Fame. Responsibilities include logistics, field production, and post production supervision of 17 roll-in highlight packages featuring Hall of Fame Athletes, great Olympic moments, and the American Olympic Spirit. For USA Network – Summer 2004

“HONDA RACING 2004” Legacy Tribute Video commissioned by Rubin Postaer  to promote American’s Honda’s Indy Car racing program for over 2000 North American Honda Dealers.  Produced by Peak Moore Enterprises, Inc.  2004

“NATURAL THIEF” Half-hour documentary created to galvanize public opinion on the importance of acting decisively to remove non-native Salt Cedar and Russian Olive trees from New Mexico’s vital riparian areas.   Producer: pre-production, research, field production, and scripting.  EMMY NOMINATED Created by Christopher Productions - 2003

“HONDA RACING 2003” Legacy Tribute Video commissioned by Rubin Postaer to promote American Honda’s Indy Car racing program for over 2000 North American Honda dealers. Telly Award Finalist.  Produced by Peak Moore Enterprises, Inc.  TELLY AWARD FINALIST 2003

“INSIDE CART” Half-hour weekly television series on ESPN2 highlighting the people and competition of the 2000 CART FedEx Championship Series. Senior Producer: story development, pre production, production, writing, post-production oversight.  TELLY AWARD WINNER For CART & ESPN2 - 2000

LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE -- An American Classic.   Starred for five seasons as Almanzo Wilder on the NBC Western based on the writings of Laura Ingalls Wilder.  Executive Producer: Michael Landon.  One of the best-produced and most consistently excellent programs in the history of television.  Voted by Reader's Digest Poll as the Best Family Series in Television History.

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER – A Quirky American Classic. Played Hank Summers, Buffy’s often absent father on the WB/UPN hit.

THE NEW GIDGET—A Retro American Classic.  Starring for three years as Jeff Griffin in the Columbia Pictures Television series that featured America's icon of "endless summer fun" all grown up and married to the man of her dreams.

DESERT HEARTS--Critically acclaimed feature film based on the novel, Desert of the Hearts, by Jane Rule.   Co-Starred as, Darryl, the man rejected in this powerfully honest story of female independence and discovery.    Released by Samuel Goldwyn Company.

WESTSIDE STORY--One of the great musical theatre collaborations of all time between Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim and Jerome Robbins.  Starred as Tony in the 1987 International Tour.

INTO THE WOODS--The Tony Award winning  musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine.  Made Broadway debut playing Rapunzal's Prince in this very insightful adaptation of Grimm's Fairy Tales that asks the question "what happens after happily ever after.

FREELANCE WRITING--Episodic Television 1995

• Wrote "Skin Deep" episode of USA Network Series, TEKWAR.

• Alliance Television

• Executive Producer: William Shatner

• Supervising Producer: Robin Jill Bernheim

About Moore's Marauders...

Moore's Marauders is a non-profit organization that receives no government funding. We rely solely on your contributions to help us locate the 35,000 WWII MIAs the U.S. government maintains are still recoverable.