
Dan Butler
Born: 1954-12-02
Place of birth: Huntington, Indiana, USA
Daniel Eugene Butler (born December 2, 1954) is an American playwright and actor known for his role as Bob "Bulldog" Briscoe on the TV series Frasier. Butler was born in Huntington, Indiana and raised in Fort Wayne; the son of Shirley, a homemaker, and Andrew Butler, a pharmacist. Openly gay, he starred in Terrence McNally's 1989 play The Lisbon Traviata and wrote an Off Broadway play about his life, The Only Thing Worse You Could Have Told Me..., which derives its title from a comment Butler's father allegedly made when Dan came out to him. Though Butler never hid his homosexuality, he disclosed it publicly on Entertainment Tonight in 1994 during his run as a swaggering heterosexual on Frasier. His partner is acting teacher and director, Richard Waterhouse.
Filmography

House
2004

Malcolm in the Middle
2000

The X-Files
1993

The Silence of the Lambs
1991

Quintuplets
2004

Supernatural
2005

From the Earth to the Moon
1998

Columbo
1971

Prayers for Bobby
2009

Hey Arnold!
1996

Quantum Leap
1989

Banshee
2013

Monk
2002

Star Trek: Voyager
1995

All My Life
2020

Hey Arnold! The Jungle Movie
2018

Rocket Power
1999

Frasier
1993