1. Lou Butera was an American professional pool player and an inductee into the Billiard Congress of America's Hall of Fame in 1986.
13 Facts About Lou Butera
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Lou Butera gained exposure to the masses in 1981 and 1982 when he appeared in network trick shot competitions on CBS and ABC.
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When Lou was seven years old, his mother passed away.
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Lou Butera would do his homework then play pool until he and his father went home.
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Lou Butera earned his famous nickname, from setting the world record for fastest run out, in an exhibition against Luther Lassiter he ran 150 balls in straight pool in just 19 minutes.
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Lou Butera was runner-up to Irving Crane in the 1972 World Championship in Los Angeles.
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In 1991, Lou Butera served as coach of the World Billiard Federation World Team, whose members included Nick Varner, Mike Sigel and Ray Martin.
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Lou Butera was one of the 43 invited pool players who competed in the International Pool Tour's King of the Hill Shootout in Orlando, Florida, December 2005.
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Lou Butera died from Parkinson's disease on June 26,2015.
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Lou Butera appeared in several films as an actor and technical advisor.
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Lou Butera had a cameo appearance, as himself, in the pool hustling comedy film The Baltimore Bullet and as a pool player in Police Academy 6: City Under Siege.
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Lou Butera had a cameo appearance as pool player in, and was the pool technical advisor for, the 1984 film Racing with the Moon, starring Sean Penn.
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Lou Butera was featured on the 1995 Virtual Pool CD Rom video game.