Career
He also played Proteus in the British Broadcasting Corporation Shakespeare adaption of The Two Gentlemen of Verona in 1983. He played the role of Angelo in the CITV children"s sci-fi comedy series Mike and Angelo for its first two series. His first roles were as a child in the 1960s in such films as Darling (1965) and the Morecambe & Wise movie The Magnificent Two (1967).
He later starred in the black comedy Consuming Passions (1988) opposite Vanessa Redgrave and Jonathan Pryce.
His father was Peter Butterworth, who starred in many of the Carry On films. His mother was the actress and Margaret Thatcher impersonator Janet Brown.
Butterworth is married to actress Janet Dibley and they have two sons.