Barney Butterbur, also known as Butterbur Snr, is a Man of Bree who appears in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. He is the proprietor of the Prancing Pony inn and the father of the innkeeper Barliman Butterbur. A non-canonical character created for the film trilogy, he was played by Richard Whiteside.
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