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Tim Butcher

Screenwriter
Actor, Director, Producer.
Great Britain, London

About Me:

Website: timbutcher.co.uk
Where I work: I run my own company or organisation
Technical Skills: Scriptwriting, Editing (Video and Audio), Camera Operation

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Appearance

Hair Colour: Brown
Eye Colour: Brown
Ethnicity: White
Height: 183cm
Build: Medium
Playing Range: 20-30
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male

Skills

Native Accent: Southern English

Locations:

Based In: London
Country of Origin: England
Willing to work in: England

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Fun stuff:

Films I wish I had made:

High Fidelity, Superbad, Kickass, Submarine, Nowhere Boy, Dazed and Confused, In Bruges, The Guard, Lost in Translation, Attack the Block, 28 Days Later, Almost Famous, Fight Club, Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, Little Miss Sunshine, Short Term 12, The Constant Gardener, Moon, Children of Men, Source Code, District 9

Directors I love:

Martin McDonagh, John Michael McDonagh, Cameron Crowe, Paul Thomas Anderson, Richard Ayoade, Wes Anderson, David Fincher, David O Russel, Edgar Wright, Paul Greengrass, Sam Mendes, Jason Reitman, Park Chan Wook, Richard Linklater, Duncan Jones, Marc Webb, Brad Bird, Alfonso CuarĂ³n

Actors I admire:

John Cusack, Sam Rockwell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Louis CK, Edward Norton, Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Gary Oldman, James McAvoy, Colin Firth, Simon Pegg, Tom Hardy, Byung-hun Lee, Choi Min-Sik, Jason Bateman, Tom Hollander, Mark Strong, Colin Farrell, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Patton Oswalt, Michael Cera, Toby Maguire, Robert Downey Junior, Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Bill Murray, Alfred Molina, Jesse Eisenberg, Jay Baruchel, Marc Maron, Sharlto Copley, Joe Thomas, Charlotte Ritchie, Martin Freeman, Adam Buxton

Writers I Respect:

Sam Bain, Jesse Armstrong, Tom Basden, Tony Roche, Diablo Cody, Joss Whedon, Dylan Moran, Louis CK, Martin McDonagh, John Michael McDonagh, Simon Amstell, Nick Hornby, Tim Kreider, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, Raymond Carver, Christopher Hitchens, Rebecca Solnit, David Sedaris, Ernest Becker, Bret Easton Ellis, Ian McEwan, Sebastian Faulks, Don Delillo, Patrick DeWitt, Dave Eggers

My desert island discs:

Titus Andronicus - The Monitor, The Beatles - Rubber Soul, The Cribs - Payola, The Hold Steady - Stay Positive, Bomb The Music Industry - Vacation, Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City, Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, The Libertines - Up The Bracket, The Clash - London Calling, Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning

Books I have given my friends:

Nick Hornby - High Fidelity, Steve Martin - Born Standing Up, Louis Theroux - Call of the Weird, Patrick DeWitt - The Sisters Brothers, Stephen Grosz - The Examined Life, Barbara Demick - Nothing to Envy

The best thing I own:

I caught Ross Jarman's (Cribs drummer) drumstrick when he threw it into the crowd at a festival. Pretty sweet.