Daws Butler

Charles Dawson Butler (November 16, 1916 – May 18, 1988) 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 Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss, Loopy De Loop, Wally Gator, Quick Draw McGraw and Baba Looey, Hokey Wolf, Elroy Jetson, Peter Potamus, The Funky Phantom and Hair Bear. Also Cap'n Crunch.

Characters[]

Some of the characters with voices by Butler from 1948 to 1978 included:

Aesop's Son (in the "Aesop and Son" segment of The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show)
Alfy Gator (of Yakky Doodle)
Albert (Albert in Blunderland/To Be an Ant)
Ali Gator (in two Lantz theatrical shorts)
Augie Doggie
Baba Looey (from Quick Draw McGraw)
Barney Rubble (from The Flintstones) (1959–1961; The Flagstones pilot and season two episodes 1, 2, 5, 6, and 9 only)
Big Gruesome
Bingo (of The Banana Splits)
"Bring 'Em Back Alive" Clive
Brutus the Lion (of The Roman Holidays)
Cap'n Crunch
Captain Skyhook (of The Space Kidettes)
Chilly Willy
Cogswell
Colonel Pot Shot
Dixie Mouse (of Pixie and Dixie)
Droopy (1955; Deputy Droopy)
Elroy Jetson
Fibber Fox (of Yakky Doodle)
Fred Flintstone (1959; The Flagstones pilot only)
Gabby Gator (of Woody Woodpecker)
Gooney the "Gooney Bird" Albatross
Hair Bear (of Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch)
Henry Orbit
Hokey Wolf
Huckleberry Hound
Hustle (of The CB Bears)
J. Wellington Wimpy in The All-New Popeye Hour
Jonathan Wellington "Mudsy" Muddlemore (of The Funky Phantom)
Karlos K. Krinkelbein (from the 1971 animated TV special version of The Cat in the Hat)
Lambsy (of "It's the Wolf" on Cattanooga Cats)
Lippy the Lion
Loopy De Loop
Louie (from The Dogfather)
Maxie the Polar Bear
Mr. Jinks (of Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks)
Peter Perfect, Red Max, Rock Slag, Rufus Ruffcut, and Sgt. Blast (from Wacky Races)
Peter Potamus
Pug (from The Dogfather; first episode only)
Quick Draw McGraw
Quisp
Raggedy Andy (in The Great Santa Claus Caper (1978) and The Pumpkin Who Couldn't Smile (1979))
Reddy the dog (from The Ruff & Reddy Show)
Smedley the Dog (from the Chilly Willy cartoons)
Snagglepuss
Super Snooper and Blabber Mouse
Spike the Bulldog (of Spike and Tyke) (1949–1957)
Stick and Duke (of Posse Impossible)
The Funky Phantom
The Whether Man, The Senses Taker, The Terrible Trivium, and the Gelatinous Giant from The Phantom Tollbooth
Undercover Elephant
Wally Gator
Wolf (from the Droopy cartoons)
Yahooey (from Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey)
Yogi Bear

Butler voiced most of these characters for decades, in both TV shows and in some commercials. The breakfast cereal mascot Cap'n Crunch became an icon of sorts on Saturday morning TV through many commercials produced by Jay Ward. Butler played Cap'n from the 1960s to the 1980s. He based the voice on that of character actor Charles Butterworth. In 1961, while Mel Blanc was recovering from a road accident, Daws Butler substituted for him to voice Barney Rubble in five episodes of The Flintstones (The Hit Songwriter, Droop-Along Flintstone, Fred Flintstone Woos Again, The Rock Quarry Story, The Little White Lie). Butler had previously voiced the characters of Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble in the 90 second pilot for the series (when it was called The Flagstones).

In 1964, Butler was featured as Huckleberry Hound on a 45rpm record, "Bingo, Ringo", a comedic story combining The Beatles' drummer Ringo Starr and Lorne Greene's hit record "Ringo".

In Wacky Races, Butler provided the voices for a number of the racers, Rock Slag, Big Gruesome, the Red Max, Sgt. Blast, Peter Perfect, and Rufus Ruffcut. He voiced a penguin and a turtle in the movie Mary Poppins, his only known work for Disney. Along with Stan Freberg, Paul Frees and June Foray, Butler also provided voices for countless children's records featuring recreations of several successful Disney cartoons and films.