I went to school with Daws' grand daughter and during career days, Daws would come and do voices for all of us kids. It was such a fun time. I got his autograph in 1985 (when I was in 7th grade) and still have it to this day.
My story about animation legend, Daws Butler in about when I visited him in the hospital the week before he died. Daws told me that night that life is like playing a piano concerto...you have the hight notes....and you have the low notes.... (Then gesturing from his bed like he was playing a piano up and down the keyboard, he continued, "You need ALL the notes to play a concerto!" then he smiled at me. And then we were told that visiting hours were over and I needed to go. I knew it was probably the last time I would see him...and as I turned back at the door to wave goodbye...Daws was smiling and miming playing the piano keyboard up and down the imaginary keys. I waved and as I started to choke up...I literally ran for the elevator, because I didn't want him to see me cry. He never left the hospital and died the following week. I will miss him always!
@@JamesSmith-jq6omheart attack 1988 71 yo A few months prior to that he had suffered pneumonia and and pretty much for the last few months was in Caesar's Sinai hospital. was a short guy 5'2
Yeah he did Huckleberry's voice based on an old neighbor of his who was from Texas I believe,and had a strong southern accent. That's basically all Daws did when he did Huck's voice was speak with a heavy southern drawl.
@@JamesSmith-jq6om is that the origin of Huckleberry Hound? I vaguely remember in an interview that the voice was basically an imitation of Andy Griffith
The one thing that humbles me with a little sadness, is that when i was a young boy getting into these cartoons on a Saturday morning or after school, these greats were all passing away. I could sit and watch all these cartoons again without thinking that I'm in my 30's. It's great nostalgia, very much like watching a western. Classics that are a treasured part of our youth. It most definitely is to mine.
You should have seen him when he was ALOT younger, he was pretty cute, although it’s probably a fangirl thing. 😊 ruclips.net/video/EPPaFZclOTk/видео.html In fact honestly ALOT of them were back then. :) (When time travel’s possible, yup, I’m going back then. XD
Such a humble artist. He didn't need to act any other way because he knew well what his capabilities were. His peer group, with very small exceptions such as the cast of the Simpsons, have come close to the greats of his generation. Although I feel that Mel was the greatest, Daws was a very close second followed by the rest of the actors listed whenever this subject comes up. They have given me joy and in partnership with the great animators and studios, memorable total experiences. Nice to see him as a human being. I also was surprised at how humble he lived. Perhaps by choice. Yet he was more than worthy of another level if he chose to do so because he deserved it.
Joe. Thanks for posting this. Daws was one of my heroes. He also worked with some good friends of mine like June Foray and the late Henry Corden. I never got a chance to meet Daws, but would have loved to do so. I heard from many people what a wonderful man he was. Such a great talent.
Yeah. Mel died the following year after Daws,then Don Messick passed away away sometime in 1997. June died on July 26, 2017,less than 2 months from her 100th birthday. All of them talented VAs and awesome people. They mentored some and helped pave the way for some of the present day voice actors who have come along,like Tress MacNeille,Jim Cummings,Corey Burton,Rob Paulsen,Tom Kenny,Nancy Cartwright,Mark Hamill,and so forth.
It's really sad that he passed away 2 years after this was recorded; He was really one of the best cartoon voice actors in our time, in my opinion; No one will EVER replace him, no matter HOW close they may come to impersonate him; Daws Butler 4EVR!! :)
This is amazing, I absolutely love Daws Butler.. the guy was so talented! I would’ve loved doing voice overs with him and learning his techniques. His regular voice sounds so much like Huckleberry Hound without the accent lol. I’ve always found cartoon voiceovers fascinating and Daws was definitely one of the best!
I would of loved to ask this guy a million questions on how he broke into the business and his coming up with all his voices. He really had a hell of a career! I grew up with watching these cartoons and have really enjoyed seeing the gentleman behind the voice.
He was my mentor and I rote his biography. Daws Butler: Characters Actor and voiced the audiobook version. Both are on Amazon. Also, you could ask me some if them of your questions. I probably asked the same ones over the years I knew him.
Joe Bevilacqua How does a person get into that type of business? Voices and impressions are second nature to me, along with all types of dialects. It’s interesting to work with a person like that. It gets your creativity following and you get a great rhythm going.
I agree that this clip brings the real Daws Butler into focus, and it makes one smile all the way through. He seems to have no ego at all, and an artist's messy house! I have to say, the videographer here showed admirable restraint just letting Daws narrate the tour; I'm afraid I would have been peppering him with questions the whole time! Thanks for this, my friend.
I loved him and the voices he did such as Huckleberry hound and Yogi Bear. I like how he lived: Nice house but not fancy and regular car. This video means a lot to me.
An absolute legend.. I love his Stan Freeberg Show skits. Daws Bulter and Mel Blanc were the best voice over guys in the business........ RIP Daws and Mel
Fascinating to see this! I wish I could get in a time machine and go back and take his workshops. Seemed like a real generous, humble person. Thank you for posting this. Very cool to see..!
My favorite Daws Butler work was the voices he did for Jay Ward & Fractured Fairy Tales. At the time, he didn't want publicity for his work with Jay Ward because his main business was with HB, so, if you notice, he doesn't even get credit on the Jay Ward cartoons. The voice he does with the puppet on this video was one he frequently used for the FFT cartoons, usually as a wimpy prince type. My favorite of all his voices was his FFT "King" voice, the voice he usually did for the characters who were kings, which voice later became better known as the Captain Crunch voice. I like Mel Blanc, but I've always liked Daws better because I think he had more range. Blanc's voices really all sound basically the same, but Daws's were all over the place, which is a good things.
The "King" voice from those FFT cartoons is based on Charles Butterworth. If you do a search for Butterworth's movies on RUclips, click the video and listen to how unreal Daws happened to be at doing impressions. As you mentioned, the voice later became associated with Cap'n Crunch.
+ACcountryFan Another thing: He did the Prince in "Sleeping Beautyland." The Prince looked a LOT like Walt Disney, and even had an inside joke that belted Disney right in the teeth. He said, "Oh, I'm not really a Prince. I never joined the Union!" This was a reference to Disney's Anti-Union stand, which caused him to sic Joe McCarthy on his own art staff.
I can see how this gentle man was such a mentor to Nancy Cartwright and others. Listen to "Talkin Toons" podcast #58 to hear how he was so generous and supportive to her before she was Bart Simpson.
How awesome would it be to play some episodes of Jellystone next to his grave? You know, to let him know that HB is still loved even 3 decades after he died.
That’s a thing that you wouldn’t want to do, I’m sorry, but they messed everything up about the characters in that, they are just stupid Teen Titans Go knock-offs of the REAL thing that would probably make him spin in his grave I’m sorry to say, now, if it was one of the original ones where he was voicing the characters in the old cartoons that’s different, he’d like that better I would think. :) (I found a clip from “The Good, The Bad, The Huckleberry Hound” 1988 where Daws as him sings “By The Light Of The Silvery Moon”, it’s a bit bittersweet because that movie was the last thing he did before he passed, but I think playing that from it, he’d enjoy it. :)
I love Daws Butler! He voiced so many of my favorite cartoon characters, like Yogi Bear, and Huckleberry Hound, just to name a couple. A very talented gentleman, one of the greats!
I'm a voice actor by trade and THIS is priceless. Talk about a legend! I do characters here & there in my work … but this man was certainly one of the kings!! Thanks so much for posting this, Joe :-)
@@kendall_knows_best2872 No famous characters, unfortunately. That said, I did do work for the Tonight Show with Jay Leno doing a number of character voices for different comedy pieces. My closest (certainly most successful for anyone impression) impersonation would probably be Sam Elliot. VERY different from my normal voice which makes it all the more hilarious when people don't expect it. I've done the promo announce for the game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire?… But that's not a character voice really - promo announcer character but not a cartoon. I do aspire to do a successful cartoon someday. Or at least make enough to pay the rent :-)
Wishing you the best of luck my friend! As a voice actor and animator/visual artist myself, I am wishing you all the best to get into the voiceover business!
I watched this again after watching Jellystone. I'm not sure if he would like it exactly but it's always good to go back to the original source material for security.
@@joebev59 THANK YOU! FINALLY! Sadly the company went completely dead once Hanna Barbera and the original VA’s passed away, the only reason why these terrible insulting reboots to all of them exist (JellyStone, Scoob!, Wackey Races (2017), Yabba Dabba Dinosaurs, etc. exist is to make money, they don’t respect ANYTHING of the original source material, VA’s (like Daws), or the fans and turn these shows and it’s original characters into something they aren’t. Whoever’s behind the company these days should be ashamed… The only recent reboot of them I thought was alright was the 2nd 3D Top Cat movie, (not a big fan of his redesign in the first one, so because of that the 3D version is alot closer to his original character, AND the VA is REALLY close to Arnold Stang as him too. :) I’m a 2D animation fan all the way, but it’s one of the rare moments I actually like something 3D. )
Thank you for posting this. I love Mr. Butler's work and he's one my my biggest inspirations. To see his workshop and hear him talk about his work is amazing. ❤️
I met Daws around this time, myself. I was invited ,by a student of his that I knew, to attend his workshop. I figured I would just watch the proceedings and that would have been plenty for me. But, Daws being generous soul that he was, he invited me to read with the group that night. All I can remember was the title of the piece, that he had written, which was "The Writers Meet the Vultures". I'm pretty sure I didn't impress him with my performance that night but I didn't care. I got to meet and read with the great Daws Butler. Not only that, but he signed my "Best of the Stan Fereberg Radio Shows" album that night. Stan had signed it back in 1979 when I met him (I later worked with him a bit) and June Foray signed it a year or two after Daws, I still have it and it is one of my prized possessions.
Cartoon voice actors are what inspire me to be a voice actor, not things like anime(english). Daws Butler is a great example. I hope I can become on the level of him, Mel Blanc, Don Messick, June Foray, Frank Welker, Casey Kasem, Grey DeLisle, Phil Lamarr and so much more like them.
This is the very first time I ever see Daws Butler, the man himself alive on this very rare video. Very good to share and show it. Daws is the man ever with his talent of his character voices I have gorwn up with. I LOVE YOU, DAWS!
Daws Butler had so much range of expression; he could give a character a note of tenderness in a way Mel Blanc never could. Mel was perfect for the Warner cartoons where every character was a smartass, but his delivery was too "Borscht Belt" for anything else. As for Paul Frees, you always felt him playing his voice like an instrument, much the same as Harry Shearer today. Daws could (and did) outact Mel and Paul. He and June Foray were the best in my opinion.
just when I started to believe youtube was all tripe,i stumble on this gem. what a wonderful bit of footage.Its Tailor-made for youtube as a futuristic way of visiting our now past.
One of the bands I was in during my 20's was called "Snaggle Pusss". It was our "back up" name so if the crowd hated us (cuz we sucked), we would come back from our break and say, "thank you detroit, we are snaggle pusss. our next song is called 'gay black male'. then we'd proceed to do thrash metal b.s. that made no sense. after the song we'd all say, "the cage door is open... exit stage left!" in our best Snaggle Puss voices. and we'd bail out of the club as fast as we could.
DAWS BULTER THANK YOU SO MUCH,,,,,,WE MISS YOU SO MUCH,,,,,,MY FIRST CARTOONS SHOW I WATCHED AND LOVE WAS RUFF AND REDDY,,,,,,,,,,,IT SHAME THAT WE WILL GET TO SEE RUFF-REDDY ON TV OR VHS-DVD I HAVE FEW,,,,,,BUT LOVE TO HAVE MORE..........I STILL THINK THAT REDDY AND HUCKBERRY SOUND THE SAME......JUST LIKE LIPPY-PETER AND SNAGGLEPUSS AND FUNKY PHANTOM SOUND ALIKE HOPE SOMETIME WE CAN SEE RUFF-REDDY AGAIN,,,,,,,,,GOD BLESS YOUR FAMILY
What an incredible talent, and an awesome intimate look at his life's work. From what I've read Daws Butler provided the voice for the "country wolf" character in the Tex Avery 'Threee Little Pups' and 'Billy Boy' cartoons. Can anyone confirm this for me?
yes, daws used the same voice he used for Huck! Thanks! Check out all THIS: www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Daws+Butler
I just bought the Jetson series today which lead me to this basically. I've been buying into older television and movies. I know it's not that old but you know. Shit on TV today is terrible.
Daws butler is awesome.the voice of quickdraw McGraw yogi bear Elroy jetson the funky phantom baba looey captain crunch hair bear Huckleberry hound and mr jinx and pixie last but least snagglepuss
Daws Butler, Don Messick, Paul Winchell, Casey Kasem, Alan Reed, Henry Corden, Jean Vander Pyl, Gary Owens…Loved them all of Hanna Barbara
Frees?
I went to school with Daws' grand daughter and during career days, Daws would come and do voices for all of us kids. It was such a fun time. I got his autograph in 1985 (when I was in 7th grade) and still have it to this day.
My story about animation legend, Daws Butler in about when I visited him in the hospital the week before he died. Daws told me that night that life is like playing a piano concerto...you have the hight notes....and you have the low notes.... (Then gesturing from his bed like he was playing a piano up and down the keyboard, he continued, "You need ALL the notes to play a concerto!" then he smiled at me. And then we were told that visiting hours were over and I needed to go. I knew it was probably the last time I would see him...and as I turned back at the door to wave goodbye...Daws was smiling and miming playing the piano keyboard up and down the imaginary keys. I waved and as I started to choke up...I literally ran for the elevator, because I didn't want him to see me cry. He never left the hospital and died the following week. I will miss him always!
So what happened to him? Was he ill? I knew he died but I don't guess I ever knew how he died.
@@JamesSmith-jq6omheart attack 1988 71 yo
A few months prior to that he had suffered pneumonia and and pretty much for the last few months was in Caesar's Sinai hospital.
was a short guy 5'2
His natural voice sounds a little like Huckleberry Hound.
I was thinking the same thing
it does!
Minus the southern accent!🤔
Yeah he did Huckleberry's voice based on an old neighbor of his who was from Texas I believe,and had a strong southern accent. That's basically all Daws did when he did Huck's voice was speak with a heavy southern drawl.
@@JamesSmith-jq6om is that the origin of Huckleberry Hound? I vaguely remember in an interview that the voice was basically an imitation of Andy Griffith
Daws Butler, June Foray, Mel Blanc....love them all!
Don't Forget Paul Frees , Mae Questel ( Betty Boop & Olive Oyl ) , Jack Mercer ( Popeye the Sailor ).
😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
The one thing that humbles me with a little sadness, is that when i was a young boy getting into these cartoons on a Saturday morning or after school, these greats were all passing away.
I could sit and watch all these cartoons again without thinking that I'm in my 30's. It's great nostalgia, very much like watching a western. Classics that are a treasured part of our youth. It most definitely is to mine.
When no matter the height of fame, or the true depths of genius you're still a humble and unpretentious man.
And never stopped giving 🤎
Daws is incredibly sweet in this!! I would have LOVED to have met him... I can't wait for the day time travelling becomes available to everyone ;)
You should have seen him when he was ALOT younger, he was pretty cute, although it’s probably a fangirl thing. 😊 ruclips.net/video/EPPaFZclOTk/видео.html
In fact honestly ALOT of them were back then. :) (When time travel’s possible, yup, I’m going back then. XD
Such a humble artist. He didn't need to act any other way because he knew well what his capabilities were. His peer group, with very small exceptions such as the cast of the Simpsons, have come close to the greats of his generation. Although I feel that Mel was the greatest, Daws was a very close second followed by the rest of the actors listed whenever this subject comes up. They have given me joy and in partnership with the great animators and studios, memorable total experiences. Nice to see him as a human being. I also was surprised at how humble he lived. Perhaps by choice. Yet he was more than worthy of another level if he chose to do so because he deserved it.
Joe. Thanks for posting this. Daws was one of my heroes. He also worked with some good friends of mine like June Foray and the late Henry Corden. I never got a chance to meet Daws, but would have loved to do so. I heard from many people what a wonderful man he was. Such a great talent.
Hearing his voice is magical.
Great memories of Mr. Butlers work. He and Hanna Barbera is greatly missed.
What a fun guy,..would have loved to hang out with him and hear more stories!
This guy practically raised a whole generation of baby boomers with his cartoon characters. I loved those toons!
Thanks for sharing this.
Not just the baby boomers. gen Z as well with Cartoon Network rerunning the HB programs.
First comedy gold record. Wow!
I wish could've met him along with Don, Mel, and June. 😔
Yeah. Mel died the following year after Daws,then Don Messick passed away away sometime in 1997. June died on July 26, 2017,less than 2 months from her 100th birthday. All of them talented VAs and awesome people. They mentored some and helped pave the way for some of the present day voice actors who have come along,like Tress MacNeille,Jim Cummings,Corey Burton,Rob Paulsen,Tom Kenny,Nancy Cartwright,Mark Hamill,and so forth.
Daws is one of my great voice actors. He is very kind hearted with a lovable and considerate voice. I love him.
imagine the convo in Heaven with him and Mel Blanc
Omg yes
And Paul Frees, too!!!
It's really sad that he passed away 2 years after this was recorded; He was really one of the best cartoon voice actors in our time, in my opinion; No one will EVER replace him, no matter HOW close they may come to impersonate him; Daws Butler 4EVR!! :)
But at least there are voice actors and actresses (like Nancy Cartwright) that have learned at Master Butler's knee and are still doing it today!
I was 8 years old.
So this was in late 1985 or early 1986 then. He passed away in May 1988.
@@BaarBear he trained a whole generation of voice actors
Thank you everyone for all the love and support you have given to the Great Daws Butler.
Daws Butler did the voice of Bingo in The Banana Splits Adventure Hour.
So his natural voice is Huckleberry Hound. First time ever to see Yogi Bear voice actor to talk this long. Good job uploader!!
Yes. Minus the North Carolina accent.
I would have loved to sit and listen to him talk for hours
This is amazing, I absolutely love Daws Butler.. the guy was so talented! I would’ve loved doing voice overs with him and learning his techniques. His regular voice sounds so much like Huckleberry Hound without the accent lol. I’ve always found cartoon voiceovers fascinating and Daws was definitely one of the best!
One of the greatest voices of all time!
I would of loved to ask this guy a million questions on how he broke into the business and his coming up with all his voices. He really had a hell of a career! I grew up with watching these cartoons and have really enjoyed seeing the gentleman behind the voice.
He was my mentor and I rote his biography. Daws Butler: Characters Actor and voiced the audiobook version. Both are on Amazon. Also, you could ask me some if them of your questions. I probably asked the same ones over the years I knew him.
Joe Bevilacqua How does a person get into that type of business? Voices and impressions are second nature to me, along with all types of dialects. It’s interesting to work with a person like that. It gets your creativity following and you get a great rhythm going.
I agree that this clip brings the real Daws Butler into focus, and it makes one smile all the way through. He seems to have no ego at all, and an artist's messy house! I have to say, the videographer here showed admirable restraint just letting Daws narrate the tour; I'm afraid I would have been peppering him with questions the whole time! Thanks for this, my friend.
Apparently, he was very sweet and very kind to everyone he trained
That’s my great grandfather right there
Fantastic! Thank you so much for uploading this. A true hero from my youth, casually at home...Talking. To ME!
I loved him and the voices he did such as Huckleberry hound and Yogi Bear. I like how he lived: Nice house but not fancy and regular car. This video means a lot to me.
He seemed like a gentle soul, he is legendary
holy shit hes huckleberry hound naturally
what a character that was
Never met him, but I Love him for making parts of my Childhood fun. Clearly a master of his craft. Thank you for the fun, Daws!
I hear elroy the most in his regular voice!!!
An absolute legend.. I love his Stan Freeberg Show skits.
Daws Bulter and Mel Blanc were the best voice over guys in the business........
RIP Daws and Mel
Amazing! I never thought I'd get to visit Daws Butler! Thanks for sharing this!
"HEY, HEY, HEY!" It's Daws Butler and all of the unforgettable students that created so many fun and deep characters. Stay safe everyone!
Fascinating to see this! I wish I could get in a time machine and go back and take his workshops. Seemed like a real generous, humble person. Thank you for posting this. Very cool to see..!
My favorite Daws Butler work was the voices he did for Jay Ward & Fractured Fairy Tales. At the time, he didn't want publicity for his work with Jay Ward because his main business was with HB, so, if you notice, he doesn't even get credit on the Jay Ward cartoons. The voice he does with the puppet on this video was one he frequently used for the FFT cartoons, usually as a wimpy prince type. My favorite of all his voices was his FFT "King" voice, the voice he usually did for the characters who were kings, which voice later became better known as the Captain Crunch voice. I like Mel Blanc, but I've always liked Daws better because I think he had more range. Blanc's voices really all sound basically the same, but Daws's were all over the place, which is a good things.
The "King" voice from those FFT cartoons is based on Charles Butterworth. If you do a search for Butterworth's movies on RUclips, click the video and listen to how unreal Daws happened to be at doing impressions. As you mentioned, the voice later became associated with Cap'n Crunch.
+ACcountryFan Another thing: He did the Prince in "Sleeping Beautyland." The Prince looked a LOT like Walt Disney, and even had an inside joke that belted Disney right in the teeth. He said, "Oh, I'm not really a Prince. I never joined the Union!" This was a reference to Disney's Anti-Union stand, which caused him to sic Joe McCarthy on his own art staff.
RRaquello definitely top5..
Cartoon Carnival brought me here
Thanks. Sadly, Cartoon Carnival is no more. But Daws Butler will live forever!
@@joebev59 Yes! Glad I found you keep up the great work!
I can see how this gentle man was such a mentor to Nancy Cartwright and others. Listen to "Talkin Toons" podcast #58 to hear how he was so generous and supportive to her before she was Bart Simpson.
Daws Butler 95 this very day.... Happy birthday Daws
How awesome would it be to play some episodes of Jellystone next to his grave? You know, to let him know that HB is still loved even 3 decades after he died.
That’s a thing that you wouldn’t want to do, I’m sorry, but they messed everything up about the characters in that, they are just stupid Teen Titans Go knock-offs of the REAL thing that would probably make him spin in his grave I’m sorry to say, now, if it was one of the original ones where he was voicing the characters in the old cartoons that’s different, he’d like that better I would think. :) (I found a clip from “The Good, The Bad, The Huckleberry Hound” 1988 where Daws as him sings “By The Light Of The Silvery Moon”, it’s a bit bittersweet because that movie was the last thing he did before he passed, but I think playing that from it, he’d enjoy it. :)
One of the guys I know who was a regular on the Doctor Demento show personally knew Daws Butler ! Really !
Absolutely precious.
I wish I had met this guy! I love doing voices, but never learned how to do it "professionally."
Phenomenal! That was priceless. You can keep Mel Blanc. Daws Butler was the MAN!! Cheers
Cmon!! All those guys were amazing. Daws, Don, Mel, June, Howard, so many more.
@@x60hz Yep all of then cartoon voice actors and were all known in the business. I hope I can become just like famous cartoon voices.
Loved this video. Would have loved to have met him he seems like he was a wonderful man.
I love Daws Butler! He voiced so many of my favorite cartoon characters, like Yogi Bear, and Huckleberry Hound, just to name a couple. A very talented gentleman, one of the greats!
I'm a voice actor by trade and THIS is priceless. Talk about a legend! I do characters here & there in my work … but this man was certainly one of the kings!! Thanks so much for posting this, Joe :-)
Who have you done?
@@kendall_knows_best2872 No famous characters, unfortunately. That said, I did do work for the Tonight Show with Jay Leno doing a number of character voices for different comedy pieces. My closest (certainly most successful for anyone impression) impersonation would probably be Sam Elliot. VERY different from my normal voice which makes it all the more hilarious when people don't expect it.
I've done the promo announce for the game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire?… But that's not a character voice really - promo announcer character but not a cartoon.
I do aspire to do a successful cartoon someday. Or at least make enough to pay the rent :-)
Wishing you the best of luck my friend! As a voice actor and animator/visual artist myself, I am wishing you all the best to get into the voiceover business!
@@kevintotimeh6648 thank you :-)
I watched this again after watching Jellystone. I'm not sure if he would like it exactly but it's always good to go back to the original source material for security.
The new show is awful! I'll stick to the original. Daws is rolling in his grave.
@@joebev59 THANK YOU! FINALLY! Sadly the company went completely dead once Hanna Barbera and the original VA’s passed away, the only reason why these terrible insulting reboots to all of them exist (JellyStone, Scoob!, Wackey Races (2017), Yabba Dabba Dinosaurs, etc. exist is to make money, they don’t respect ANYTHING of the original source material, VA’s (like Daws), or the fans and turn these shows and it’s original characters into something they aren’t. Whoever’s behind the company these days should be ashamed… The only recent reboot of them I thought was alright was the 2nd 3D Top Cat movie, (not a big fan of his redesign in the first one, so because of that the 3D version is alot closer to his original character, AND the VA is REALLY close to Arnold Stang as him too. :) I’m a 2D animation fan all the way, but it’s one of the rare moments I actually like something 3D. )
@@joebev59I disagree.
Thank you for posting this. I love Mr. Butler's work and he's one my my biggest inspirations. To see his workshop and hear him talk about his work is amazing. ❤️
I met Daws around this time, myself. I was invited ,by a student of his that I knew, to attend his workshop. I figured I would just watch the proceedings and that would have been plenty for me. But, Daws being generous soul that he was, he invited me to read with the group that night. All I can remember was the title of the piece, that he had written, which was "The Writers Meet the Vultures". I'm pretty sure I didn't impress him with my performance that night but I didn't care. I got to meet and read with the great Daws Butler. Not only that, but he signed my "Best of the Stan Fereberg Radio Shows" album that night. Stan had signed it back in 1979 when I met him (I later worked with him a bit) and June Foray signed it a year or two after Daws, I still have it and it is one of my prized possessions.
Cartoon voice actors are what inspire me to be a voice actor, not things like anime(english). Daws Butler is a great example. I hope I can become on the level of him, Mel Blanc, Don Messick, June Foray, Frank Welker, Casey Kasem, Grey DeLisle, Phil Lamarr and so much more like them.
This is the very first time I ever see Daws Butler, the man himself alive on this very rare video.
Very good to share and show it.
Daws is the man ever with his talent of his character voices I have gorwn up with.
I LOVE YOU, DAWS!
Daws Butler had so much range of expression; he could give a character a note of tenderness in a way Mel Blanc never could. Mel was perfect for the Warner cartoons where every character was a smartass, but his delivery was too "Borscht Belt" for anything else. As for Paul Frees, you always felt him playing his voice like an instrument, much the same as Harry Shearer today. Daws could (and did) outact Mel and Paul. He and June Foray were the best in my opinion.
This had to be quite a humbling and life changing experience to have met such a great legend, dam near one of the GOATs in the game!
What a treasure. Great foresight and great job. Hats off to you.
my grandfathers favorite character was Huckleberry Hound and he used to putter around the house singing "My Darling Clementine".... good memories...
What a lovely man!!!
He voiced all those kings in "Fractured Fairy Tales" & doesn't sound like them as himself; what a talent!
just when I started to believe youtube was all tripe,i stumble on this gem. what a wonderful bit of footage.Its Tailor-made for youtube as a futuristic way of visiting our now past.
Scott Reynolds Do you know of Twisted Toonz? Famous voice actors appear at conventions and read famous movie scripts in their characters voices.
sounds like fun
That was thrilling!!! ❤️
He was the voice of Wimpy in The All New Popeye Show before his death in 1988.
I remember seeing him interviewed by Charles Kuralt on his Sunday morning show that same year. I believe he passed away not too long after that.
He made his puppet sound like Jinxy.
in that lovely old hollywood bungalow neighborhood - wow!
I spent many hours there in his workshop in the 70s and 80s and LIVED there in the 90s!
Daws Butler was an absolute genius. One of the greatest voice over actors of all time. He is right up with Mel Blanc.
Mel was a good friend of mine too!
I was thinking that. A handheld camera capable of recording that level of video and audio quality in the eighties would not have been a cheap device.
That was really cool! Thanks for putting this up.
Wht a cool guy ☮️💖
Today Commemorates Daws Butler's 100th Birthday
Daws butler is my favorite voice actor in history. But to tell the truth. I wasn't even born in the 80's
you don't need to be born when he was alive in order to like him. the cartoons he voiced in were aired on cartoon network as reruns in the 1990s
He died Exactly one month before I turned a year old in 1988😭😭😭
204 likes and 0 dislikes - Oh, yeah!!!!!!!!! Thank you guys so much for honoring my hero. God Bless You.
218 - AWESOME!
500 - LOVE IT!
Yes. 580. Going strong, guys and gals.
it's amazing how a good voice sticks with you. nowadays they all just shout at you
One of the bands I was in during my 20's was called "Snaggle Pusss". It was our "back up" name so if the crowd hated us (cuz we sucked), we would come back from our break and say, "thank you detroit, we are snaggle pusss. our next song is called 'gay black male'. then we'd proceed to do thrash metal b.s. that made no sense. after the song we'd all say, "the cage door is open... exit stage left!" in our best Snaggle Puss voices. and we'd bail out of the club as fast as we could.
Did you You realize Butler trained a whole generation of voice actors that are still working to this day
All those voices and I really liked all the voices he did in the George of the Jungle series. So funny.
rock on voice master!
Many thanks - excellent video
DAWS BULTER THANK YOU SO MUCH,,,,,,WE MISS YOU SO MUCH,,,,,,MY FIRST CARTOONS SHOW I WATCHED AND LOVE WAS RUFF AND REDDY,,,,,,,,,,,IT SHAME THAT WE WILL GET TO SEE RUFF-REDDY ON TV OR VHS-DVD I HAVE FEW,,,,,,BUT LOVE TO HAVE MORE..........I STILL THINK THAT REDDY AND HUCKBERRY SOUND THE SAME......JUST LIKE LIPPY-PETER AND SNAGGLEPUSS AND FUNKY PHANTOM SOUND ALIKE HOPE SOMETIME WE CAN SEE RUFF-REDDY AGAIN,,,,,,,,,GOD BLESS YOUR FAMILY
Now reunited with June Foray
@MrsWLeach You are thinking of Dave Willock, who played Baby Jane Hudson's father. He also played in several episodes of Green Acres.
Daws Butler and Don Messick: Best Friends Forever!
Interesting - he has a rather humble home. Not what one would think would be typical of a Beverly Hills resident.
He lived on the "poor" side of Beverly Hills. LOL
Who was his most favorite voice, because i always liked huckleberry hound.
great upload of a GREAT GUY !!!!!!!!!
i hear it too, but i think it's more huckleberry hound.
omg huckleberry hound voice so class he was a legend :)
The great Daws Butler was also Bill Farmer's mentor!!!
And Nancy Cartwright, Corey Burton, Greg Berg, me and many others!
There's an impromptu with Goofy and Yogi Bear --- never been identical to both companies whatsoever..?
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Do *_NOT_* pair up with Nakagaichi and Jōkichi Morita!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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i'd imagine that HB and Disney team up.... Never heard of Goofy and Yogi Bear having _different_ personalities...
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Did you REALLY had to team up with that "Nakagaichi" and *_Jōkichi Morita!?!?!?!?!_*
He was great!! His voicing of "Sam The Cat", in Looney Tunes, was a classic!! He is so missed!!
; Thank You!
Wow!!!
What an incredible talent, and an awesome intimate look at his life's work. From what I've read Daws Butler provided the voice for the "country wolf" character in the Tex Avery 'Threee Little Pups' and 'Billy Boy' cartoons. Can anyone confirm this for me?
yes, daws used the same voice he used for Huck! Thanks! Check out all THIS:
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Too cool! Thanks Joe!
He will be miss.
I just bought the Jetson series today which lead me to this basically. I've been buying into older television and movies. I know it's not that old but you know. Shit on TV today is terrible.
Wow, you can hear the huckleberry voice all over him..lol
Heavens to murgatroyd
Daws. The likes of him not seen today.
Daws butler is awesome.the voice of quickdraw McGraw yogi bear Elroy jetson the funky phantom baba looey captain crunch hair bear Huckleberry hound and mr jinx and pixie last but least snagglepuss
R.I.P DAWS BUTLER THE GREATEST VOICE ACTOR
1917-1988 :.(
Jaelyn Moore but he sure is funny like Paul frees and Ross bagdasarian and I know Judy Garland is dead but she still is hopeful
Jaelyn Moore but he sure is funny like Paul frees and Ross bagdasarian and I know Judy Garland is dead but she still is hopeful
yeah but i think paul frees is very greatful