Cyril Butcher

Cyril George Butcher (31 July 1909 – 23 February 1987) was an English actor and director and longtime companion of Beverley Nichols.
Biography.
Cyril George Butcher was born on 31 July 1909, in Suffolk, England.
In 1930 the magazine "Film Weekly" sponsored a pair of film acting scholarships. The two winners (Cyril Butcher and Aileen Despard) went on to appear in the now lost Alfred Hitchcock short "An Elastic Affair" and placed under contract by British International Pictures.
In the early 1930s he met novelist and playwright Beverley Nichols and they remained lifelong partners from then. Their friends were Hugh Walpole and Lord Berners, among others. In 1939 Butcher was living with Nichols and a valet at 1 Ellerdale Close, Hampstead, London.
In 1934 he published "In Extremis, Worst Moments in the Lives of the Famous" with a foreword by Beverley Nichols. In 1939, together with Albert Arlen, he directed the play "Counterfeit!" at the Duke of York's, London.
In 1953 Butcher adapted "Evensong" by Beverley Nichols for the television, while in 1956 he directed the television adaptation of "Macadam and Eve" from the play of Roger Macdougall. Butcher was the producer of the 1957 television drama "Granite Peak".
Between 1959 and 1963 he directed for television: "Ideal Home Exhibition" (1963), "The English Captain" (1960), "The Last Hours" (1959), "Old People; Part 1" (1959) and "Election Results 1959" (1959).
On the death of Nichols in 1984 Butcher was the main beneficiary in his will, amounting to £131,750 (£ in sterling).
Cyril Butcher died on 23 February 1987 at Sudbrooke Cottage, the house he shared with Nichols, at Ham Common, Richmond, Surrey.