The Voices of Daws Butler

[RRaquello]

My favorite Daws Butler voice is the Captain Crunch voice, which he also used frequently in the Fractured Fairy Tales cartoons.

A great forgotten voice guy is Charlie Cantor, a radio actor best known as the voice of Finnigan on the Duffy's Tavern radio show. He spent most of his career in New York, so I don't know if he ever did cartoons, but the Baby Huey voice of Sid Raymond was a direct steal from Finnigan. Cantor later went to the West Coast and did some TV work with Jack Benny.

[mohammad2alam1]

how about that wolf from droopy dog who always whistles "kingdom coming"

[DreamDancer82]

@mohammad2alam1 Yeah that was Daws Butler. I didn't include him because he sounds too much like Huckleberry Hound.

[JonnyLikesPie]

Snagglepuss was my all time favorite cartoon voice. This info just rocked my world, thx

[ClassicRocker61]

Cartoons in heaven must be a blast between Mel Blanc, Daws Butler and Paul Frees

[YammyGP]

Didnt he do the wolf from Droopy? That was my favorite.

[daws441]

R.I.P. Daws Bulter

[quelrat]

Check out the lovely work he did on the Bosco commercials, now posted on YouTube and which can be found by searching for "Bosco Daws Butler"

[pernelldh]

Daws Butler also voiced Hair Bear of "Help! It's the Hair Bear Bunch!"

[digital2500]

There is an episode of the radio series "Suspense" called "Fleshpeddler" that stars DeForest Kelley. Daws Butler uses his "Mr. Jinks" voice for a supporting character! Great show.

[dryspud]

You forgot one of his later performances, Scooby-Doo's dimwitted cousin Scooby-Dum

[DreamDancer82]

@dryspud Why don't you do a follow up that *does* include Scooby Dum? Because I'm not doing any more of these. Sorry.

[c0mf0rta61ynum6]

Does anybody else notice that when Snagglepuss says "Exit, stage left", he actually goes stage right? That's a mistake. A blooper, even!

[DreamDancer82]

@c0mf0rta61ynum6 Not really. It's confusing, but it's *not* a blooper. I took theater classes once, so I learned something like this (but the way I explain it, it's confusing). When Snagglepuss exits stage left, he exits to the *audience's* left, not his left. When he exits stage right, it's to the audience's right. I don't know, look it up on Google and you'll see what I mean.

[SirHatchporch]

@DreamDancer82 Actually, the audience's left would be "house left," not "stage left." So it is a mistake. :-(

Anyway, thank you for these videos. They are wonderful.

[fishjnky]

All these + others were the good cartoons.nowadays its all shit.

[c0mf0rta61ynum6]

I have always loved voice acting, maybe it's because of the fact I share a birthday with Daws Butler (November 16).

[radiootoo]

We still have June!

[joedeech]

I believe he also voice "The Funky Phantom" too...

[DreamDancer82]

@GJNCA sorry, but if I included every single voice the man has ever done, you'd be complaining that the video would be too long. If I left out a favorite of yours, I'm sorry, but the truth is I don't have footage of a lot of these things. Besides which, these videos are *my* personal favorite voices. I don't make these videos to please others, I make them to please me. If you don't like it, then make one yourself! I'm tired of all these "you forgot so and so" comments.

[powergirl901]

yup, he is way too talented to for a human. AKA, perhaps no human should ever again be this talented.

[BluDevil93]

Huckleberry Hound was by far his best role, did some good voice-work for Tom & Jerry too!

[weikko79]

Didn't know he did Yogi Bear too.

[Magicienne2005]

I think that should have been "Exit, stage right."

[adogg619]

Heavens to murgatroid!

This is great, amazing even.

[bluegrassman776]

this guy was the greatest voice over guy of all time.

[asswhole455]

Thanks for posting this. Daws is one of my heroes. Has anyone noticed how similar his Huckleberry Hound voice is to Robert Easton's?

[babystinky]

Butler, Blanc and Messick were in a league all by themselves. there is no talent like this anymore. they were seriously unbelievable.

[Statick1]

Those three were awesome voice actors. Those who imitate them don't do their characters justice.

[colininla]

@babystinky As good as they were, I have to disagree. Rob Paulsen, Maurice LaMarche, Frank Welker and Billy West, to name a select few, are among a number of quite exceptional voice talents working today who are equal in both accomplishment and versatility.

[Originalman320]

@babystinky The closest to a current peer to these men today is Frank Welker.

[charlestonchewy]

Wasn't he also the voice of "Smedley" from Chilly Willy?

[RetroGirl85]

yes that was him.

[DreamDancer82]

I believe he was chilly Willy at one point, too.

[RetroGirl85]

yep that was him too.. daws butler did so many old cartoon voices, the guy's amazing

[ChipmunkRaccoon2]

Daws Butler's voice of Cap'n Crunch sounded a little bit like Mr. Whoopee from Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales

[jazzalex22]

Daws Butler again is another figure to focus on. He like many others got started in vaudeville. His first cartoon was Little Rural Riding Hood. He obviously voiced people in the Flintstones and he was the original Elroy Jetson. He was another great actor or voice actor right next to Mel Blanc.

[ACcountryFan]

I don't know if Daws did any voices on the Flintstones during their original run in the '60s because of him being busy providing character voices on The Huckleberry Hound Show, The Yogi Bear Show, The Quickdraw McGraw Show, plus he gave voice to a lot of characters for Jay Ward in the Bullwinkle cartoon segment known as "Fractured Fairy Tales". I know Don Messick did a lot of incidental roles on the Flintstones as well as Arnold the paper-boy and Bam-Bam.

[RetroGirl85]

he stepped in for 4 episodes on the flintstones to do barney rubble's voice.

[songojin]

Intentional or not by modern cartoons, I see so many parallels. Mr. Jinks seems to me a prototype of Stimpy (with all of the Uhs and Daehs and general misguided-ness), and Huckleberry's demeanor to Cleveland of Family Guy. I'm sure there are others that someone else will bring up, but those two really jump out at me.

[pigjamelectric]

I could hear Cleavland too. Never realized the similarity until seeing Huck again.

[broyomama]

I met Daws in the early 70's by chance. He was a wonderful gentleman - could not have been nicer. At first, I did not believe he did those voices, so he did a few for me! We spent about 30 minutes together - a great memory.

[BluDevil93]

As I watch this, I always wonder which of Butler's characters sounded like his real voice *-)

[fromthesidelines]

...and "Snagglepuss" was Daws' version of "Bert Lahr"; in fact, Bert thought the impression was TOO good, and didn't want "his" voice coming out of Snag's mouth in his 1961-'64 Kellogg's "Cocoa Krispies" commercials, threatening to sue everyone associated with those ads. To appease Lahr, Butler was credited at the end of those ads, so that people would know the voice was merely an "impersonation" {making him the ONLY voice-over artist ever to receive screen credit in an animated commercial!}.

[fromthesidelines]

Like Paul Frees, Daws started out as an impressionist- "Yogi Bear" is his variation on Art Carney's "Ed Norton" character; "Cap'n Crunch" is basically his imitation of veteran "dithering" screen character actor Charles Butterworth; "Peter Potamus" is his take on "loud-mouthed" comedian Joe E. Brown (previously used for "Lippy the Lion"); "Mr. Jinks" was Butler's favorite voice, basing it on Marlon Brando....

[ACcountryFan]

Super Snooper was based on the character, Archie, from Duffy's Tavern, a radio program...character played by Ed Gardner. When I heard "Duffy's Tavern", which always opened with Archie on the telephone announcing the name of the bar, I realized this was where Super Snooper's voice originated from. Wally Gator's based on Ed Wynn...Alfie Gator is based on Alfred Hitchcock...

[wmbrown6]

@fromthesidelines - Since you mentioned whom Yogi Bear's voice was based on, special mention should be made of "Windy" the bear (from the Walter Lantz studio); given the surface similarities between him and Yogi (both took place in parks, both were eyeing food from people), Windy's voice appeared to be based on Jackie Gleason's "Ralph Kramden" (same as in the three "Honey-Mousers" cartoons for Warner Bros. in 1956-60).

[BadNews88]

This one *needs* a part 2, as well:

Not forgetting Butler's portrayal of "Quisp" in Jay Ward's advert vignettes for the Quaker Oats cereal of the same name.

Good show, nonetheless, m8..

[lavender18197]

James Wood:Daws Butler died in 1988.

[DreamDancer82]

May 18, 1988 to be exact. That's kind of a crushing blow to me, because he died on my birthday ;_;

[fractionstein]

He was born on my birthday... or I was born on his - November 16

[RJRanke]

Appropriately,you gave Daws' most popular voice(Yogi)first and his first truly starring voice(Huck)last.Daws Butler is right on a par with Mel Blanc when it comes to voice versatility.He did a wide variety of voices over the years.When MGM closed their cartoon company in 1957,Daws Butler went along with Hanna and Barbera when they formed their own company-and they were lucky to have him.Daws also recommended Don Messick,almost as talented and versatile.

[DreamDancer82]

Actually, the Huck Hound thing was coindicental. See, my sister's favorite HB character is Huck, and she requested the clip specifically, and I just figured it fit best at the end (I think Daws was a master at the laughter seguing into crying)

[BusterTV1]

@RJRanke It's a shame, during the 70's Daws went period's of over a year without any work from Hanna-Barbera. In the Daws Buster Bio is a letter from Daws to a friend saying the biz had went down hill so bad it was going to retire from it. Sadly, he passed away soon after. I true master of voice which most people never knew by name.

[brabon1]

@BusterTV1 i didnt know that....i always thought that he never stopped working

[67nairb]

@RJRanke If Mel Blanc was the king of cartoon voices Daws Butler was the crown prince. Daws was no less talented than Mel, but the former never gained the lasting fame as the latter. I felt very sad when Daws Butler died, a part of my childhood was over.

[ACcountryFan]

not many know it but Daws was the voice of the fox in the classic DROOPY cartoon who spoke like Ronald Colman; the short was "Out Foxed" and he used that Colman voice for the fox and he used his stuffy British impression for the man who ran the dog kennel...Daws was also the voice of Spike on the TOM AND JERRY cartoons, the version of Spike that spoke like Jimmy Durante. The earlier voice of Spike when the character had the deep baritone was done by Billy Bletcher.

[jaimevenegas]

Un gran aporte a las generaciones de hoy! Felicitaciones !

[shuckslbj]

This is a fine tribute to a great actor, my friend.

[mom3grammy4]

great video thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!