---
aliases:
  - John R. Butterworth
category: "Entertainment & Arts"
tags:
  - AbuseNetworks
  - Person
  - RCHorsch
  - Philadelphia
  - Pornography
summary: "Philadelphia cameraman who co-directed the 1973 pornographic feature The Erotic Memoirs of a Male Chauvinist Pig with R.C. Horsch and later shared a barbecue business with him."
location: "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania"
relations:
  - type: partner_of
    with: "[[R.C. Horsch]]"
    role: "business partner"
    fn: 4
created: 2026-09-23
updated: 2026-09-23
---

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.[^1][^2]

### 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]].[^1][^2]

In September 1991 the *[[The Philadelphia Inquirer|Philadelphia Inquirer]]* listed the registration of the fictitious name Butterworth's Hickory Pit, a barbecue restaurant in [[North Wales, Pennsylvania|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.[^4][^5]

### Footnotes

[^1]: West, Ashley. "Unknowing Ray Horsch, Episode 2: Performance," *The Rialto Report,* Podcast 172, September 20, 2026, audio at 20:09 to 20:17. https://www.therialtoreport.com/2026/09/20/ray-horsch-3/
[^2]: "How a pornographer's violent fantasies blurred fact and fiction as cops searched Olney house for missing women," *The Philadelphia Inquirer,* August 2, 2026. https://www.inquirer.com/news/a/raymond-eugene-horsch-olney-philadelphia-missing-women-history-20260802.html
[^3]: Hamilton, Fred. [Feature on a film shoot at the Renaissance Studio], *Philadelphia Daily News,* April 26, 1971, p. 22. https://www.newspapers.com/image/184959243/
[^4]: [Fictitious name registrations], *The Philadelphia Inquirer,* September 16, 1991, p. 28 ("Butterworth's Hickory Pit, North Wales Train Station, North Wales; Raymond C. Horsch and John R. Butterworth"). https://www.newspapers.com/image/175247169/
[^5]: *In re Horsch,* No. 93-22545 (Bankr. E.D. Pa.), filed August 27, 1993, docket via CourtListener; the trade name is reported in "How a pornographer's violent fantasies blurred fact and fiction," *The Philadelphia Inquirer,* August 2, 2026. https://www.courtlistener.com/?q=Horsch&type=r