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John David Blake Butler[1][2] (22 October 1924 – 15 April 1981) was an English actor best known for his role as the lecherous chief librarian Mr. Wainwright during the first and third series of Last of the Summer Wine in 1973 and 1976 respectively.

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Background

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Butler was the second son of FitzWalter Butler (1889–1979), of Grantham, Lincolnshire, and Doris Emma (d. 1950), daughter of Robert Pollok, of Cavendish Park, Barrow-in-Furness. The Butler family were Irish landed gentry; Blake Butler's line, prominent in County Clare, descended from James Butler, 10th Baron Dunboyne.[3][4]

Career

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In addition to his work on Last of the Summer Wine, Butler made guest appearances on such programmes as Dad's Army, Doctor at Large, Bless This House, The Good Life, Paul Temple, George and Mildred, Grange Hill and, in 1967, Crossroads playing assistant manager Maurice Raine.

Filmography

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Year Title Role Notes
1964 Esther Waters Mr. Ward 3 episodes
1966 Death Is a Woman Lift Operator film
1967 The Mini-Affair Customer film
1969 Lock Up Your Daughters Faithful film
1972 Turnbull's Finest Half-Hour Bernard Pratt 5 episodes
1973–1976 Last of the Summer Wine Mr. Wainwright (the librarian) 5 episodes
1978 Grange Hill Mr. Rankin (the Biology teacher) Episode: #1.5
1978 A Sharp Intake of Breath Hotel Guest Episode: "Seven Year Hitch"
1978 Rumpole of the Bailey Mr. Thistleton Episode: "Rumpole and the Heavy Brigade"

Personal life

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Butler lived at 33, Bath Road, Bedford Park, London, when he died on 15 April 1981 at age 56.[5][6]

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Blake Butler (born January 14, 1979) is an American writer, editor, and publisher known for his experimental fiction, short stories, and memoir exploring themes of , , and domestic . Born and raised in , Georgia, where he initially intended to study at the Georgia but earned a B.S. in Science, Technology, and Culture in 2003, Butler later earned a from , focusing on fiction under mentors including Amy Hempel and Lynne Sharon Schwartz. After early interests in coding and music, he shifted toward literary pursuits, founding the online literary journal Lamination Colony in 2003 and co-editing the influential blog HTMLGIANT from 2008 to 2015, which featured emerging writers such as . Butler's debut novel, Ever (Calamari Press, 2009), marked the start of a prolific career, with subsequent works including the fragmented novel-in-stories Scorch Atlas (Featherproof Books, 2009), the dystopian There Is No Year (Harper Perennial, 2011), and the expansive 300,000,000 (Harper Perennial, 2014), which reimagines the United States through a lens of collective psychosis. His nonfiction includes Nothing: A Portrait of Insomnia (Harper Perennial, 2019), a lyrical examination of sleep disorders, and the 2023 memoir Molly (Archway Editions), which chronicles his marriage to poet Molly Brodak, her hidden infidelities, and her suicide in 2020, drawing from journals and therapy records. As of November 2025, Butler had published fourteen book-length works, including the novels Void Corporation (Archway Editions, 2024) and UXA.GOV (Inside the Castle, 2024), with contributions to outlets like The New York Times, Harper's, and The Paris Review, and he maintains an active Substack newsletter, Dividual, discussing writing and publishing. Now based in Baltimore, Maryland, following personal losses including his mother's death, Butler continues to explore raw emotional terrains in his formally innovative prose.

Early life

Birth and family background

Blake Butler was born on January 14, 1979, in Atlanta, Georgia. He is the son of a high school art teacher () and a self-made entrepreneur (his father). He credits with instilling a love for books from an early age.

Childhood and education

Butler was raised in , a suburb of , where he attended Wheeler High School. During his youth, he developed interests in music—playing and forming a band—as well as coding and exploring patterns in symbols, numbers, and text, often using dot matrix printer paper. Butler initially studied computer science at the Georgia Institute of Technology in , earning a degree. He later pursued , obtaining a in fiction from , where he studied under mentors including Amy Hempel and Lynne Sharon Schwartz.

Acting career

Blake Butler, the American writer, has no documented acting career. This section has been removed to correct for the previous inclusion of information about a different individual, the British actor John David Blake Butler (1924–1981).

Personal life

Family and residence

Butler has no children. He married poet and memoirist in 2017; the couple lived in , Georgia, until her death by on March 8, 2020. Later that year, Butler's mother died from two weeks after her diagnosis. In 2022, he married writer . As of 2023, Butler resides in Baltimore, Maryland.
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