Daws Butler
Daws Butler | |
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Years active at MGM | 1949-1958 |
Years active at Hanna-Barbera | 1957-1988 |
Characters played | Loopy De Loop Wally Gator Yogi Bear Hokey Wolf Elroy Jetson Quick Draw McGraw Baba Looey Peter Potamus Snagglepuss Lion Huckleberry Hound Augie Doggie |
Charles Dawson "Daws" Butler was an American voice actor. He worked mostly for the Hanna-Barbera animation production company where he originated the voices of many familiar characters, including Loopy De Loop, Wally Gator, Yogi Bear, Hokey Wolf, Elroy Jetson, Quick Draw McGraw, Baba Looey, Peter Potamus, Snagglepuss, and Huckleberry Hound.
Butler died from a heart attack on May 18, 1988 at the age of 71.
Roles
20th century
- Tom and Jerry (1940-1958)
- The Ruff and Reddy Show (1957-1960)
- The Huckleberry Hound Show (1958-1962)
- Huckleberry Hound
- Yogi Bear
- Dixie
- Mr. Jinks
- Dinky Dalton
- Hokey Wolf
- Farmer Smith ("Tricks and Treats," 1961)
- The Quick Draw McGraw Show (1959-1961)
- Quick Draw McGraw
- Baba Looey
- Augie Doggie
- Super Snooper
- Blabber Mouse
- Loopy De Loop
- Loopy De Loop
- Bon-Bon
- The Flintstones (1960-1966)
- The Yogi Bear Show (1961)
- Yogi Bear
- Snagglepuss Lion
- Fibber Fox
- The Cat
- Alfy Gator
- The Hanna-Barbera New Cartoon Series (1962-1963)
- Wally Gator
- Lippy the Lion
- The Jetsons (1962-1963; 1985-1987)
- Elroy Jetson
- Cogswell Coggs
- Henry Orbit
- The Peter Potamus Show (1964-1966)
- Alice in Wonderland or What's a Nice Kid like You Doing in a Place like This? (1966)
- March Hare
- King of Hearts
- The Space Kidettes (1966)
- The Banana Splits Adventure Hour (1968-1970)
- Wacky Races (1968-1969)
- Cattanooga Cats (1969-1971)
- Harlem Globetrotters (1970-1971)
- Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch! (1971-1972)
- The Funky Phantom (1971-1972)
- The Roman Holidays (1972)
- The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972-1973)
- Yogi's Ark Lark (1972)
- The Adventures of Robin Hoodnik (1972)
- The Banana Splits in Hocus Pocus Park (1972)
- Yogi's Gang (1973)
- Hong Kong Phooey (1974)
- Blubber ("Comedy Cowboys," 1974)
- Stick ("Comedy Cowboys," 1974)
- Big Duke ("Comedy Cowboys," 1974)
- The Scooby-Doo Show (1976-1978)
- Fred Flinstone and Friends (1977-1978)
- Laff-A-Lympics (1977-1978)
- Yogi Bear
- Huckleberry Hound
- Quick Draw McGraw
- Super Snooper
- Blabber Mouse
- Dixie
- Hokey Wolf (9 episodes)
- Mr. Jinks
- Wally Gator
- Augie Doggie
- Scooby-Dum (14 episodes)
- Snagglepuss
- Dastardly Dalton
- CB Bears (1977)
- Blast-Off Buzzard
- Big Duke
- Hustle
- Stick
- Undercover Elephant
- The All-New Popeye Hour (1978-1983)
- Yogi's Space Race (1978)
- Yogi Bear
- Huckleberry Hound
- Galaxy Goof-Ups (1978)
- Yogi Bear
- Huckleberry Hound
- Yogi's Great Escape (1987)
- Yogi Bear
- Snagglepuss
- Wally Gator
- Quick Draw McGraw
- The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones (1987)
- Elroy Jetson
- Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose (1987)
- Yogi Bear
- Huckleberry Hound
- Snagglepuss
- Quick Draw McGraw
- Augie Doggie
- Rockin' with Judy Jetson (1988)
- Elroy Jetson
- The Good, the Bad and Huckleberry Hound (1988)
- Huckleberry Hound
- Snagglepuss
- Yogi Bear
- Quick Draw McGraw
- Baba Looey
- Hokey Wolf
- Yogi and the Invasion of the Space Bears (1988)
- Yogi Bear
Other roles
In 1949, Butler appeared in a televised puppet show created by former animation director Bob Clampett called Time for Beany, where he provided the voice of Beany Boy and Captain Huffenpuff.
Butler had provided the voices of many characters from Walter Lantz' theatrical shorts, which would later be seen on The Woody Woodpecker Show anthology series. The most notable roles were the penguin Chilly Willy, and his best friend Smedley, a southern-speaking dog (the latter using the same voice used for Huckleberry Hound).
From various television commercials of the 1960s to the 1980s, Butler was the voice of breakfast cereal mascot Cap'n Crunch.
Tributes
- The 1989 TV special Hanna-Barbera's 50th: A Yabba Dabba Doo Celebration was dedicated to him.
- On page 11 of The Art of Hanna-Barbera, it wrote this: In memory of Daws Butler, whose many inimitable voices were so important to Hanna-Barbera.
References
- People
- Actors
- Around the World in 79 Days actors
- Around the World in 79 Days
- Augie Doggie actors
- Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy
- Blast-Off Buzzard actors
- Blast-Off Buzzard
- CB Bears actors
- CB Bears
- CB Bears (TV series)
- Flintstones (franchise)
- Flintstones actors
- Hair Bear Bunch (TV series)
- Hair Bear Bunch actors
- Hanna-Barbera
- Hokey Wolf actors
- Hokey Wolf
- Huckleberry Hound actors
- Huckleberry Hound
- It's the Wolf actors
- It's the Wolf
- Jetsons (franchise)
- Jetsons actors
- Laff-A-Lympics actors
- Laff-A-Lympics
- Lippy the Lion actors
- Lippy the Lion
- Loopy De Loop actors
- Loopy De Loop
- Pixie and Dixie actors
- Pixie and Dixie
- Posse Impossible actors
- Posse Impossible
- Quick Draw McGraw actors
- Quick Draw McGraw
- Ruff and Reddy actors
- Ruff and Reddy
- Scooby-Doo actors
- Scooby-Doo
- Snagglepuss actors
- Snagglepuss
- Snooper and Blabber actors
- Snooper and Blabber
- The Funky Phantom actors
- The Funky Phantom
- The Hanna-Barbera New Cartoon Series
- The Huckleberry Hound Show
- The Peter Potamus Show
- The Quick Draw McGraw Show
- The Roman Holidays actors
- The Roman Holidays
- The Space Kidettes actors
- The Space Kidettes
- Undercover Elephant actors
- Undercover Elephant
- Wally Gator actors
- Wally Gator
- Wacky Races actors
- Wacky Races
- Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey actors
- Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey
- Yogi Bear actors
- Yogi Bear