Maxwell Emmett "Pat" Buttram was an American character actor.
18 Facts About Pat Buttram
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Pat Buttram was born on June 19,1915, in Addison, Alabama, to Wilson McDaniel Pat Buttram, a Methodist minister, and his wife Mary Emmett Maxwell.
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When "Pat" Buttram was a year old, his father was transferred to Nauvoo, Alabama.
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Pat Buttram performed in college plays and on a local radio station, then became a regular on the National Barn Dance broadcast on WLS in Chicago.
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Pat Buttram went to Hollywood in the 1940s and became a sidekick to Roy Rogers.
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Pat Buttram was then picked by Gene Autry, recently returned from his World War II service in the US Army Air Corps, to work with him.
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Pat Buttram co-starred with Autry in more than 40 films and in over 100 episodes of Autry's television show.
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Pat Buttram did voice work for several Disney animated features, playing Napoleon in The Aristocats, the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood, Luke in The Rescuers, Chief in The Fox and the Hound, and one of the Toon bullets in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
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Pat Buttram had a recurring role as the voice of Cactus Jake on Garfield and Friends.
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Pat Buttram's final voice-over was A Goofy Movie, released a year after his death.
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Pat Buttram is credited as one of the writers on the Hee Haw television show for two episodes in 1969 and 1970.
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In 1987, Pat Buttram returned to television with Gene Autry on Melody Ranch Theater on The Nashville Network.
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Pat Buttram retired from acting in 1980 and made his home in his native Winston County, Alabama.
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Pat Buttram was a staunch Republican who helped Ronald Reagan spice up his speeches with political quips.
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In 1993, Pat Buttram expressed surprise that with the inauguration of Bill Clinton and Al Gore as president of the United States and vice president of the United States, respectively, so many Hollywood actors were "taken with that whole country-boy image they tried to project".
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Pat Buttram died in 1994 at the age of 78 of kidney failure at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles.
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Pat Buttram is interred at the cemetery at the Maxwell Chapel United Methodist Church in the Pebble community near Haleyville, Alabama.
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In 1988, Pat Buttram was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and one on the "Alabama Stars of Fame" in Birmingham, Alabama.