Daws Butler
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| Years active at Warner Bros. Cartoons | 1952-1960 |
| Years active at Warner Bros.-Seven Arts | 1967 |
| Characters played | Nasty Canasta Ralph Crumden Ned Morton Sam Cat |
Charles Dawson "Daws" Butler was an American voice actor who voiced several characters in the Looney Tunes and Looney Tunes theatrical series of shorts.
Butler died from a heart attack on May 18, 1988 at the age of 71.
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In 1949, Butler appeared in a televised puppet show created by Bob Clampett titled Time for Beany, where he provided the voices for Beany Boy and Captain Huffenpuff.
From 1957 until his passing in 1988, Butler worked mostly for the Hanna-Barbera animation production company, where he originated the voices of its familiar characters such as Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Elroy Jetson, Snagglepuss, and Wally Gator.
Butler had provided the voices of many characters from Walter Lantz's theatrical cartoons, which would later be shown on his anthology series, The Woody Woodpecker Show. The most notable roles were the penguin Chilly Willy and his rival Smedley.
In various television commercials from the 1960s to the 1980s, Butler voiced the mascot for Cap'n Crunch cereal.
