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| 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}}
(contracted; show full)bert McKimson]]'s films at Warner Brothers 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 more original voice.  Hokey Wolf began as an impression of [[Phil Silvers]], and Snagglepuss as [[Bert Lahr]]. In fact, when Snagglepuss began appearing in commercials for [[Kellogg's]] [[Cocoa Krispies]] in 1961, Lahr threatened to sue Butler for "stealing" his voice. 
To appease him, As part of the settlement, the disclaimer "Snagglepuss voice by Daws Butler" was given screen credit at the end of thoserequired to appear on each commercials, making him the only voice actor ever to receive one in an animated TV commercial.  Again, Butler redesigned these voices, making them his own inventions.  Huckleberry Hound was inspired many years earlier, in 1945, by the North Carolina neighbor of Daws's wife's family, and he had in fact been using that voice for a long time, for Avery's laid-back wolf and Lantz's Smedley.

==Later life==
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