His road to stardom come in the mid 1940s at MGM. Tex Avery hired Butler to provide narration work for many of his cartoons. Inside several cartoons there was the unknown Wolf world health organization spoke within the southern accent and whistled all the time. Butler provided a voice for this Wolf. When at MGM, Avery wanted Butler to try to launder a voice of Droopy Dog, a character that Bill Thompson regularly gave voice to. Butler did a voice for two or three cartoons then again told Avery just about Don Messick, a soon-to-become-legendary voice actor & Butler's life-womb-to-tomb friend. When Messick had his foot in the door, rather Butler, it was a lot rising from either there.

Inside 1949 Butler landed the role around a televised puppet show created by Warner Brothers cartoon director Bob Clampett called Time for Beany. 33-season-old Butler was teamed higher by using 23-month-old Stan Freberg and together did all the voices for the puppet show. Butler was "Beany Boy" & "Captain Huffenpuff". Freberg was "Cecil" & "Dishonest John". An stallion stable of recurring characters were seen. A indicate's writers were Charles Shows & Lloyd Turner, whose reliably funny dialog was however universally at a mercy of Butler's & Freberg's ad libs. Period for Beanie ran from either 1949 to 1954 and won several Emmy Awards.

Butler turned his attention to TV commercial message. This did non previous super hanker because he shortly rendering a voice to numbers of unidentified Walter Lantz characters on the Woody Woodpecker program. His notable character was a penguin "Chilly Willy" and his side-kick, a southern speaking puppy Smedley. Likewise in the Fifties, Stan Freberg asked Butler to help him write comedy skits for his Capitol Records albums. Their number 1 collaboration, "Saint George and the Dragonet" (based on Dragnet), was the first comedy record to sell over one million copies. Freberg was further of a ridiculer world health organization did song parodies however the bulk of his "talking" routines were co-written & co-starring Daws Butler. Freberg's pack-placed, Tip of the Freberg in Rhino from 1999, chronicles each aspect of Freberg's career except a cartoon voice-above act & it showcases his career by owning Daws Butler.

Within 1957 Hanna-Barbera left MGM. Daws Butler & Don Messick get on-hand to provide voices. A 1st, The Ruff & Reddy Show, set the formula for the rest of the series of cartoons that the two would helm until the mid 1960s.

It was in the 1957–1965 era that Daws Butler gave voice to the resulting characters:

Reddy the dog Huckleberry Hound Yogi Bear Snagglepuss Quick Draw McGraw Baba Looey Loopy De Loop Dixie Mouse Mr. Jinks Super Snooper and Blabber Mouse Fibber Fox Aesop's Boy (in the "Aesop and Son" section of The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show) Wimpy Augie Doggie Hokey Wolf Wally Gator Alfie Gator Peter Potamus Lippy the Lion Elroy Jetson Cogswell Henry Orbit Captain Skyhook among others

Butler would voice virtually all of victims characters throughout a decades to came when it happened to come out around TV shows or even in commercial message. "Cap'n Crunch" became an icon of sorts on Saturday morning TV through many cereal commercials produced by Jay Ward. Butler formulate to the Cap'north from either a Sixties to the 1980s. He depending the voice in an old character actor known as Charlie Butterworth (world health organization was besides a inspriation for the voice of Speedy Draw McGraw (sustaining a American twang added). In the 1970s he was the voice of "Hair Bear" & two or three characters inside minor cartoons like C.B. Bears. In Wacky Races Butler was a few of the racers. In Laff-a-Lympics, Butler was virtually the entire "Yogi Yahooey" team.

Butler depending a few of his voices in popular celebrities of the day. Yogi Bear began as an Art Carney impression (Butler had done the similar voice inside many of Robert McKimson's films at Warner Bros and Stan Freberg's comedy record "The Honey-Earthers). However, Butler soon changed Yogi's voice making it much deeper and more sing-songy, thus making it a complete original voice. Hokey Wolf began as an impression of by Phil Silvers, and Snagglepuss as Bert Lahr. But again, Butler redesigned these voices, making them competely his own inventions.

Huckleberry Hound was inspired many years earlier, in 1945, by the North Carolina neighbor of Daws's wife's family. (SOURCE: Daws Butler himself).

When Mel Blanc was recovering at home from a motor vehicle accident, Butler stepped in to do Barney Rubble—another rather Carney-esque voice—in four Flintstones episodes.

Aside from the Jetsons, Butler remained somewhat low-key in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1975, Butler began an acting workshop that spawned such talents as Nancy Cartwright (The Simpsons), Corey Burton (Old Navy, Disney), and Joe Bevilacqua (NPR, XM Radio, www.comedyorama.com.

In the year of his death was released The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound, a tour-de-force featuring most of his classic early characters.

Daws Butler died in 1988 at the age of 71. Many of his roles were picked up by Greg Burson, who had personally studied with Butler for years.

For further information

The video Daws Butler: Voice Magician is a 1987 documentary of Butler's career from his pre-MGM days on up through his teaming with Freberg in 1949 and the teaming with Don Messick in 1957.

Former Butler protege Joe Bevilacqua hosts a radio series on XM Satellite Radio's Sonic Theater Channel (163) called THE COMEDY-O-RAMA HOUR which features a regular segment called What the Butler Wrote: Scenes from the Daws Butler Workshop, with rare scripts of Daws performed by his students, including Nancy Cartwright (the voice of Bart Simpson), and rare recordings of Daws himself.

Joe Bevilacqua has co-authored the autorized (with Ben Ohmart) biography book: DAWS BUTLER, CHARACTERS ACTOR, and edited the book SCENES FROR ACTOR AND VOICES written by Daws Butler, both published by Bear Manor Media.