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John-Henry Butterworth

British screenwriter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ17153033 ↗
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John-Henry Butterworth is a British screenwriter who has co-written several screenplays with his brother Jez Butterworth. The brothers won the Writers Guild of America's 2011 Paul Selvin Award for their screenplay for the film Fair Game (2010).

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“John-Henry Butterworth” enters the record as british screenwriter. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what John-Henry, Butterworth and British can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011, 2010—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1976, 1976-11—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. Its strongest next move is a source search built around John-Henry, Butterworth and British.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17153033. VIAF identifies the subject as 170133207. The Library of Congress control number is no2011053355. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2011 and 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “John-Henry Butterworth” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.