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John R. Butterworth
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RCHorsch
Philadelphia
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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. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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partner_of R.C. Horsch business partner 4
2026-09-23 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.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 The Philadelphia Inquirer listed the registration of the fictitious name Butterworth's Hickory Pit, a barbecue restaurant in North Wales, Pennsylvania, 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

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 ↩︎