John Butterworth

John R. Butterworth was a Philadelphia photographer and cameraman and a collaborator of the filmmaker Ray Hoersch, later known as R.C. Horsch, with whom he shot the pornographic feature The Erotic Memoirs of a Male Chauvinist Pig in February 1973. Horsch called him "a close friend at the time" and described him as a news cameraman for KYW-TV; no station record of his employment has been located.¹²

With Horsch

In April 1971 the Philadelphia Daily News described the Renaissance Studio, a loft at 752 South 2nd Street near Kenilworth Street where Horsch was shooting "his last scene, two reels worth" with a model and a live snake; visitors entered "through the rear past John Butterworth's still-crated photography equipment."³ Two years later he and Horsch made The Erotic Memoirs of a Male Chauvinist Pig with Georgina Spelvin, Tina Russell, Darby Lloyd Rains, and Helen Madigan; Horsch said the money came mostly from the bar owner Salvatore La Russa.¹²

In September 1991 the Philadelphia Inquirer listed the registration of the fictitious name Butterworth's Hickory Pit, a barbecue restaurant in North Wales, with Raymond C. Horsch and John R. Butterworth as the registrants, at the North Wales train station. Horsch listed the restaurant as a trade name in his Chapter 13 bankruptcy petition of 1993.⁴⁵