Time for Beany ran from 1949 to 1954, and won several Emmy Awards. The show's writers were Charles Shows and Lloyd Turner, whose dependably funny dialog was still always at the mercy of Butler's and Freberg's ad libs. An entire stable of recurring characters were seen. Butler voiced Beany Boy and Captain Huffenpuff. Butler was teamed with Stan Freberg, and together they did all the voices of the puppets. Cartoons animation director Bob Clampett called Time for Beany. In 1949, Butler landed a role in a televised puppet show created by former Warner Bros.

Thus, Messick voiced Droopy in several shorts. Butler did a few lines, then recommended Don Messick, another actor and Butler's lifelong friend, who could imitate Thompson. While at MGM, Avery wanted Butler to try to do the voice of Droopy, at a time when Bill Thompson had been unavailable due to radio engagements. This character also appeared in Sheep Wrecked, Billy Boy and many more cartoons. īeginning with The Three Little Pups, Butler provided the voice for a nameless wolf that spoke in a Southern accent and whistled all the time (the tune was Henry C. Theeves and Spike (one line) in Droopy's Double Trouble, Mysto the Magician in Magical Maestro, John the Cab and John the B-29 Bomber in One Cab's Family and Little Johnny Jet, and Charlie in The Legend of Rockabye Point. Throughout the late 1940s and mid-1950s, he had roles in many Avery-directed cartoons the Fox in Out-Foxed, the narrator/cat in The Cuckoo Clock, the Cobbler in The Peachy Cobbler, Mr. At the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, Tex Avery hired Butler to provide the voice of a British wolf on Little Rural Riding Hood (1949) and also to narrate several of his cartoons. His first voice work for an animated character came in the animated short Short Snorts on Sports (1948), which was produced by Screen Gems. Some time after, he met his wife Myrtis during a wartime function near Washington, D.C. They dissolved their act in 1941 when Daws Butler joined the U.S. The team played in theaters, on radio, and in nightclubs, generating positive reviews from regional critics and audiences. Later, he teamed up with fellow performers Jack Lavin and Willard Ovitz to form the comedy trio The Three Short Waves.

Nonetheless, Butler won professional engagements at vaudeville theaters. He had entered them not with the intention of showing his talent, but as a personal challenge to overcome his shyness (with success). In 1935, the future voice master started as an impressionist, entering multiple amateur contests and winning most of them. The family later moved from Ohio to Oak Park, Illinois, where Butler became interested in impersonating people. 9.1 Animated films and theatrical shortsīutler was born on November 16, 1916, in Toledo, Ohio, the only child of Charles Allen Butler and Ruth Butler.

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