Charles Dawson Butler (November 16, 1916 – May 18, 1988), professionally known as Daws Butler, was an American voice actor. He worked mostly for the Hanna-Barbera animation production company and the Walter Lantz cartoon studio. He originated the voices of many familiar Hanna-Barbera characters, including Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss, Quick Draw McGraw and Baba Looey, Auggie Doggie, Loopy De Loop, Wally Gator, Snooper and Blabber, Dixie and Mr. Jinks, Hokey Wolf, Lippy the Lion, Elroy Jetson, Peter Potamus, The Funky Phantom and Hair Bear.[2][3] While at Walter Lantz, he did the voices of Chilly Willy, Smedley, Maxie the Polar Bear, Gooney, and Sam in the Maggie and Sam series.
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^"OBITUARIES : Daws Butler; Voice of Well-Known Cartoon Characters". Los Angeles Times. May 20, 1988.
Charles Dawson Butler (November 16, 1916 – May 18, 1988), professionally known as DawsButler, was an American voice actor. He worked mostly for the Hanna-Barbera...
were Maxie the Polar Bear (voiced by DawsButler) and Gooney the "Gooney Bird" Albatross (voiced by DawsButler impersonating Joe E. Brown). Maxie has...
The Ruff and Reddy Show and The Huckleberry Hound Show. Voice actor DawsButler performed the show's title character, Quick Draw McGraw. The show debuted...
Ohio. She moved to Hollywood in 1978 and trained under voice actor DawsButler. Her first professional role was voicing Gloria in the animated series...
audience in self-narration, soliloquy, and asides. As originally voiced by DawsButler, Snagglepuss seeks quasi-Shakespearean turns of phrase. Some of his campy...
hyena duo in a series of goofy misadventures. Lippy the Lion (voiced by DawsButler impersonating Joe E. Brown) and Hardy Har Har the hyena (voiced by Mel...
Doodle. The show had a two-year production run. Yogi Bear (voiced by DawsButler impersonating Art Carney) and Boo-Boo Bear (voiced by Don Messick) reside...
the wolf had a southern drawl and laid-back mannerisms provided by DawsButler. The most memorable trait of the character was that whenever something...
as the town ditz and played by Jeff Bergman. Wally Gator (voiced by DawsButler impersonating Ed Wynn) is an anthropomorphic, happy-go-lucky alligator...
Bunch!; DawsButler provided the same Phil Silvers-esque voice for both Hustle and Hair. Blast-Off Buzzard (vocal effects provided by DawsButler) is a...
appearance in the 1964 television special Spook-a-Nanny, but was voiced by DawsButler. The character's appearance changed dramatically throughout the years...
Jellystone! season 3 episode "Meet the Jetsons". Elroy Jetson (voiced by DawsButler in the TV series, Herb Duncan in The Jetsons: New Songs of the TV Family...
belt, a light blue bandana, and occasionally spurs. He was voiced by DawsButler. All 45 of his cartoons that originally aired between 1959 and 1961 were...
among others. Ward mainstays Bill Scott, June Foray, Paul Frees, and DawsButler provided most of the character voices over all three segments. The cartoons...
involved in a near-fatal car crash, which sent him into a 2-week long coma. DawsButler briefly assumed the role for the first, second, 5th, 6th and the 9th...
He speaks English with a Mexican accent. He was originally voiced by DawsButler. Baba Looey, McGraw's sidekick, is often portrayed as the more thoughtful...
actor DawsButler, the voice of Yogi Bear, Quickdraw McGraw, Huckleberry Hound and other Hanna-Barbera and Jay Ward cartoon characters. Butler soon dubbed...
voice actor Bill Thompson was unavailable. Avery hired Messick after DawsButler, who voiced characters for MGM, suggested him. When William Hanna and...
Hanna-Barbera Productions. Spike was voiced by Billy Bletcher, and later DawsButler. Tyke did not talk in the theatrical shorts, (possibly his barks were...
"Scooby-Doo" role was taken by a Revolutionary War-era ghost, voiced by DawsButler in a manner almost identical to that of Snagglepuss. The show returned...
Christmas special Deck the Halls with Wacky Walls, starring the voices of DawsButler, Tress MacNeille, and Marvin Kaplan. The show featured seven Wallwalkers...
the character's debut until 1988, Yogi was voiced by voice actor DawsButler. Butler died in 1988; his last performance as Yogi was in the television...
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