Arthur (1981 film) won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Co-written by Christopher Cross, Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager and Peter Allen, it was performed by Christopher Cross. Sir John Gielgud also won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. The film was nominated for two other Academy Awards. Arthur Bach is a spoiled alcoholic from New York City, who likes to be driven in his chauffeured Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith limousine through Central Park. Arthur is heir to a portion of his family's vast fortune, which he is told will be his, only if he marries the upper class Susan Johnson, the daughter
Arthur Pierce Butler Arthur Pierce Butler Arthur Pierce Butler was an American teacher and educational administrator. Butler co-founded the Morristown School (now the Morristown-Beard School) in Morristown, New Jersey with former Harvard University classmates Francis Woodman and Thomas Quincy Brown. Butler was born to Edward Knowles Butler and Frances Elizabeth Lewis Pierce on April 21, 1866 in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from the Roxbury Latin School in West Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1884. Butler then received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1888. Following his graduation from college, he began working for the Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Company. Butler