Butch McCain

Butch McCain
Born
Years active1975–present
Websitebutchmccain.com

Butch McCain is an American actor, an award winning broadcaster, producer and one-half of the singing-songwriting team, The McCain Brothers. Butch appeared as TV reporter Joachim West in MGM's Bio-Dome, the character, Creel, in Roger Corman's remake Humanoids From The Deep, dual roles as a uni-browed farmer and deputy in Bruce Campbell's My Name Is Bruce, and most recently as Mayor Eddie Modry in Dragon Soldiers. Butch and his brother, Ben McCain, wrote and performed the theme song of My Name is Bruce titled "The Legend of Guan Di". Butch is a multi-award winning broadcaster including Best Weathercaster of the year two years in a row by the Colorado Broadcasters Association.

Early life

Butch McCain was born in Muleshoe, Texas, and raised on a farm near Bovina in Parmer County, Texas.[1] McCain is a graduate of Bovina High School, South Plains College in Levelland, Texas, and West Texas State University now West Texas A&M University in Canyon, Texas.

Film and television

From 1981 to 1994, Butch McCain and his brother Ben McCain worked at NBC affiliate KTVY (now KFOR-TV) and eventually at ABC affiliate KOCO-TV, where they also anchored that station's noon newscast.[2] The McCain brothers, with Ben anchoring the news and Butch forecasting the weather, hosted a morning TV show for 12 years (six each on KTVY and KOCO).

While hosting their daily morning television program, the brothers appeared on the syndicated TV show Hee Haw, as well as ABC soap operas General Hospital, All My Children, and Loving.[3]

Butch and his brother Ben have appeared in numerous films together, including MGM's cult classic Bio-Dome,[4] Roger Corman's Humanoids from the Deep, and Bruce Campbell's My Name is Bruce, where they wrote and performed the theme song, "The Legend of Guan Di".[5] In the movie, Ben plays the mayor and Butch has dual roles as the sheriff and a uni-browed farmer. In a 1997, Daily Variety article, columnist Andrew Hindes described the McCain Brothers as "multi-hyphenated".[6] Butch also appeared in Jonás Cuarón's Desierto Butch currently works in his underground studio doing voice-overs for clients all over the world while writing songs for he and his brother’s 6th album.


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Filmography

Year Film Role Other notes
1985-1988 Nashville Now Guest (3 Episodes)
1986 Super Bloopers and Practical Jokes Weatherman
1988 Dark Before Dawn News Producer
1988 All My Children Inside Trader
1989 Loving Bartender
1993 - 1994 General Hospital 'Tex' the Cowboy, Policeman
1996 Bio-Dome Reporter Joachim West
1996 In The House Jennings
1996 Humanoids From The Deep Creel
1997 Click (U.S. TV series) Tofu Man #1
1997 Midnight Blue (film) First Executive
1997 Born Bad TV Reporter
1997-1998 The Keenan Ivory Wayans Show Various Skits (4 Episodes)
1998 Mr. Murder News Anchorman
1998 Outside Ozona Radio Furniture Salesman
1998 Under the Legs of Clouds Salesman
1998 The Adventures of Pug and Zero Outlaw Buck Toothman
1998 Outside Ozona Radio Furniture Salesman
1998 Keenan and Kel TV Anchorman
1998 All That The Love Referee (2 Episodes)
1999 The Sex Monster Radio Shock Jock
1999 Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story Young Dick Clark
1999 Born Bad News Reporter
2000 The Extreme Adventures of Super Dave Reporter
2000-2002 The Tonight Show Various Skits
2000 Martial Law Airline Pilot
2001 Skippy (2001 film) TV Reporter
2001 Accidents Don't Happen Disc Jockey
2004 Uh Oh! Pilot
2007 My Name Is Bruce Deputy / Farmer
2008 Killer Tumbleweeds Sheriff Billy Joe MacDonald
2015 Desierto Radio Talk Show Host
2015 A Balanced Life Voice of God (Voice)
2016 Callback Double Thunder Waffle Maker(Voice)
2017 The Myth Seekers: The Legacy of Vulcan (Video Game) (Voice)
2017 Indelible Winter Narration
2019 Sullivan Game Announcer(Voice)
2019 The Vaxx Clint Campbell
2020 Dragon Soldiers Mayor Eddie Mordry
2021 Hit Job Additional Voices
2021-2024 Operation Healing Heroes Narrator
2021 The Last Warrior Opening Narration
2021 Jurassic Hunt Corrigan
2023 Women, Guns and Ammo Announcer
2023 Glowzies Old Mose
TBA Killer Tumbleweeds 2 Sheriff Billy Joe MacDonald

Music

Butch and his brother, Ben form the singing-songwriting duo, The McCain Brothers. They have recorded 6 albums. Film legend Roger Corman was the first producer to use their songs in a movie. The single, "If Love Was a Crime I Couldn't Get Arrested", went number one on 50,000-watt KOMA radio in Oklahoma City. Butch and Ben also hosted a syndicated TV music program called The McCain Brothers Show.[8] They also hosted a syndicated TV music show called The McCain Brothers Show.[9]

References

  1. ^ "Butch McCain". www.nbc11news.com. Archived from the original on 2016-04-15.
  2. ^ "KOCO Takes McCain Brothers off the Air". 8 May 1994.
  3. ^ "Butch McCain". IMDb.
  4. ^ "Butch McCain". IMDb.
  5. ^ "My Name is Bruce - the Legend of Guandi | the McCain Brothers Lyrics, Song Meanings, Videos, Full Albums & Bios".
  6. ^ McCain Brothers Multi-Hyphenated
  7. ^ "Butch McCain". www.nbc11news.com. Archived from the original on 2016-04-15.
  8. ^ "McCain Duo Bringing "Jobless Tour" to Fair". 16 September 1994.
  9. ^ "KOCO Takes McCain Brothers off the Air". 8 May 1994.