Charles Butterworth, Ph.D. (born 1938) is a noted philosopher of the Straussian school and currently a professor of political philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Butterworth is also a translator and editor of numerous books, including:
Butterworth received his B.A. from Michigan State University. He trained in political philosophy and Arabic as well as Islamic civilization at the University of Chicago, where he received an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science. He has also studied at the University of Ayn Shams in Egypt, the University of Bordeaux, and the University of Nancy in France (receiving a doctorate in philosophy from the latter).
Before joining the faculty of the University of Maryland, Dr. Butterworth taught at the University of Chicago and Federal City College (now the University of the District of Columbia). He has also taught at St. John's College, Georgetown University, and Harvard University, in addition to Marmara University, the University of Bordeaux, the University of Grenoble, the University of Paris I (Sorbonne), the University of Paris X (Nanterre), and the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes.`
For several years he was the Principal Investigator for the Smithsonian-sponsored Project in Medieval Islamic Logic in Cairo. He has also been the Principal Investigator for a project on medieval Islamic logic sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and has organized a two-week Salzburg seminar on the Commonality of Cultural Traditions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
In 1992–1993, he was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. during which time he pursued a project on the relationship between revelation and political philosophy. From October 1999 until March 2000, Butterworth held a Fulbright Senior Scholar Research and Lecturing Award at the Friedrich-Alexander Universität in Erlangen, Germany, and from May through August 2000 a German Academic Exchange Professorship at the same university. Also, during May and June 2000, he gave a series of lectures at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris entitled "Des origines de la philosophie politique en Islam."
At the University of Maryland, he has been recognized as a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher (1990–91) and he received an award in Excellence in Teaching and Mentorship (2001–02) granted by the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences.
Charles Butterworth (July 26, 1896–June 14, 1946) was an American actor specializing in comedy roles.
Charles Butterworth's voice served as the inspiration for the Cap'n Crunch commercials from the Jay Ward company. Daws Butler, a legendary voice actor, based Cap'n Crunch on the voice of Charles Butterworth.
Popular supporting actor in 1930's Hollywood, often portraying effete, waffling types, even though he was not a professional politician in real life.
Charles Butterworth was, before he came to Hollywood in 1930 a stage attraction on Broadway. In the 30s he had his big successes as the hero's nonsense best friend, and due to the fact, that he made always good dry quips and bonmonts during shooting, the writers honored this with writing only fragments of his scripts, hoping that he would fill the missing lines. He didn't like that very much, and his star began sinking in the late 30s. In the 40s he worked for smaller studios, except for Warner's A-production, "This Is The Army". Two years after his last movie, "Dixie Jamboree" for PRC, he died in a car crash.
