Daws Butler
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Butler in 1976
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| Born |
Charles Dawson Butler November 16, 1916 Toledo, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | May 18, 1988 (aged 71) Culver City, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Heart attack |
| Resting place |
Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City California, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Voice actor |
| Years active | 1935–1988 |
| Spouse(s) | Myrtis Martin-Butler (m. 1943; his death 1988) |
| Children | 4 |
| Website | http://www.dawsbutler.com |
Charles Dawson "Daws" Butler (November 16, 1916 – May 18, 1988) was an American voice actor who specialized in voicing animated films and television series. He worked mostly for the Hanna-Barbera animation production company where he originated the voices of many familiar characters, including Fred Flintstone, Yogi Bear, Quick Draw McGraw, Snagglepuss, and Huckleberry Hound.
Daws Butler was born on November 16, 1916, in Toledo, Ohio, the only child of Ruth Butler and Charles Allen Butler.
The family later moved from Ohio to Oak Park, Illinois, where Butler got interested in impersonating people.
In 1935, the future voice master started as an impressionist, entering multiple amateur contests and winning most of them. He had entered them, not with the intention of showing his talent, but as a personal challenge to overcome his shyness, with success. Nonetheless, Butler won professional engagements at vaudeville theaters. Later, he teamed up with fellow performers Jack Lavin and Willard Ovitz to form the comedy trio The Three Short Waves. The team played in theaters, on radio, and in nightclubs, generating positive reviews from regional critics and audiences. They dissolved their act in 1941, when Daws Butler joined the U.S. Navy as America entered World War Two. Some time after, he met his wife Myrtis during a wartime function in North Carolina.
His first voice work for an animated character came in 1948 in the animated short Short Snorts on Sports, which was produced by Screen Gems. That same year at MGM, Tex Avery hired Butler to provide the voice of a British wolf on Little Rural Riding Hood and also to narrate several of his cartoons. Throughout the late 1940s and mid-1950s, he had roles in many Avery-directed cartoons; the Fox in Out-Foxed, the narrator in The Cuckoo Clock, the Cobbler in The Peachy Cobbler, Mr. Theeves in Droopy's "Double Trouble", Mysto the Magician in Magical Maestro, John the Cab and John the B-29 Bomber in One Cab's Family and Little Johnny Jet, and Maxie in The Legend of Rockabye Point.
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