Dan Butler

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia 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 McNallys 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 Butlers 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 Description above from the Wikipedia article Dan Butler licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia