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{{Infobox person
| name = Daws Butler
| image = Daws Butler (1976).jpg
| caption = Butler in 1976
| birth_name = Charles Dawson Butler
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1916|11|16|mf=y}}
| birth_place = [[Toledo, Ohio]], U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1988|5|18|1916|11|16|mf=n}}
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==Early life and career==
His first voice work came in 1943 at [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|MGM]]. [[Tex Avery]] hired Butler to provide narration work for several of his cartoons. In many cartoons, there was a nameless wolf who spoke in a [[Southern American English|Southern accent]] and whistled all the time. Butler provided the voice for this wolf. While at MGM, Avery wanted Butler to try to do the voice of [[Droopy
 Dog]], a character that [[Bill Thompson (voice actor)|Bill Thompson]] regularly voiced. Butler performed the voice for a few cartoons, but he then told Avery about [[Don Messick]], another voice actor and Butler's life-long friend. Messick quickly became a voice actor.

In 1949, Butler landed a role in a televised [[puppet]] show created by former [[Warner Brothers.]] cartoon director [[Bob Clampett]] called ''[[Time for Beany]]''. Thirty-three-year-old Butler was teamed up with 23-year-old [[Stan Freberg]], and together they did all the voices of the puppets. Butler voiced Beany Boy and Captain Huffenpuff. Freberg voiced Cecil and Dishonest John. An entire stable of recurring characters were seen. The show's writers were [[Charles Shows]] and [[Lloyd Turner (writer)|Lloyd Turner]], whose dependably funny dialog was still always at the mercy o(contracted; show full)o-written by, and co-starred, Daws Butler. Butler also teamed up again with Freberg and cartoon actress [[June Foray]] in a short-lived network radio series, ''[[The Stan Freberg Show]]'', which ran from July to October 1957 on the CBS Radio Network. Freberg's box-set, ''Tip of the Freberg'' ([[Rhino Entertainment]], 1999) chronicles every aspect of Freberg's career except the cartoon voice-over work, and it showcases his career with Daws Butler.

In 1957, 
[[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|MGM]] closed their animation division, and producers [[William Hanna]] and [[Joseph Barbera]] found themselves unemployed. They quickly formed [[Hanna-Barbera|their own company]], and Daws Butler and Don Messick were on-hand to provide voices. The first, ''[[The Ruff & Reddy Show]]'', set the formula for the rest of the series of cartoons that the two would helm until the mid 1960s.

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