Emmett Maxwell "Pat" Buttram (born June 19, 1915 in Addison, Alabama, died January 8, 1994 in Los Angeles, California (kidney failure) was an American actor, famous for playing the sidekick of Gene Autry. He had a distinctive voice which, in his own words, "... never quite made it through puberty. It has been described as sounding like a handful of gravel thrown in a Mix-Master." Wikipedia
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The son of a circuit-riding Methodist preacher in rural Alabama, Pat Buttram became one of America's best-known comic entertainers. Pat left Alabama a month before his 18th birthday to attend the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. An announcer from radio station www.imdb.com/name/nm0125426/
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Pat Buttram was a character actor in "B" cowboy movies and serials in the 1940's and 1950's, including a stint as a sidekick on the old "Roy Rogers" television series. Sadly, Mr. Buttram passed away in 1994. He is best known to Americans as the travelli www.rainbo.net/pages/voices5.htm