Butch and Sundance: The Early Days Butch and Sundance: The Early Days Butch and Sundance: The Early Days is a 1979 Western film and prequel of sorts to the 1969 film "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". It stars Tom Berenger as Butch Cassidy and William Katt as the Sundance Kid. It was directed by Richard Lester and written by Allan Burns. It generally received mixed reviews but was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Costume Design. Wyoming. Wannabe outlaw Butch Cassidy joins forces with sharpshooter Harry Longabaugh (who renames himself the Sundance Kid) and they carry out a series of robberies. However, Butch is
Butch Cassidy to the Mormon faith while still living in England and Ireland. Maximillian Parker was 12 years old when his family arrived in Salt Lake City in 1856 as Mormon pioneers; Ann Gillies was born and lived in Tyneside, in northeast England, before immigrating to America with her family in 1859 at the age of 14. The couple was married in July 1865. Robert grew up on his parents' ranch near Circleville, Utah, approximately south of Salt Lake City. Butch Cassidy's first criminal offense was minor. Around 1880, he journeyed to a clothier's shop in another town but found the shop