Daws Butler - Voice Characters

Voice Characters

The characters with voices by Butler from 1957 to 1978 included:

• "Bring 'Em Back Alive" Clive
• Aesop's Son (in the "Aesop and Son" segment of The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show)
• Fibber Fox and Alfy Gator (of Yakky Doodle)
• 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 Banana Splits)
• 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)
• Elroy Jetson
• Fibber Fox (of Yakky Doodle)
• Fred Flintstone (1959; The Flagstones pilot only)
• Gabby Gator (of Woody Woodpecker)
• Gelationous Giant from The Phantom Tollbooth
• 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)
• 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)
• Peter Perfect
• Peter Potamus
• Pug (from The Dogfather)
• Quick Draw McGraw
• Quisp
• Raggedy Andy (in "The Great Santa Claus Caper (1978)")
• Red Max
• Reddy the dog (from The Ruff & Reddy Show)
• Rock Slag
• Rufus Ruffcut
• Scooby-Dum
• Senses Taker from The Phantom Tollbooth
• Sgt. Blast
• 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)
• Undercover Elephant
• Terrible Trivium from The Phantom Tollbooth
• Whether Man from The Phantom Tollbooth
• Wally Gator
• Wolf (from the Droopy cartoons)
• Yahooey (from Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey)
• Yogi Bear

Butler would voice most of these characters for many 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 gave voice to the Cap'n from the 1960s to the 1980s. He based the voice on that of character actor Charles Butterworth. When in 1961, Mel Blanc was recovering from a motor vehicle accident, Daws Butler stepped in 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). In the 1970s he was the voice of "Hair Bear" on Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch! and a few characters in minor cartoons such as C.B. Bears. On 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. On Laff-a-Lympics, Butler was virtually the entire "Yogi Yahooey" team. 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.