Pat Buttram

Maxwell Emmett "Pat" Buttram (June 19, 1915 - January 8, 1994) was an American Actor and Comedian from Alabama who voiced many characters for Disney, including Napoleon in The Aristocats, the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood, Luke the Swamp Mouse in The Rescuers, Chief the Old Hound Dog in The Fox and the Hound, Bullet 1 in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and the Possum Park Emcee in A Goofy Movie which was his final film role and the movie was released after his death.

On television, Pat Buttram was famous for being Gene Autry's sidekick on The Gene Autry Show and Mr. Haney the Salesman in Green Acres, which also starred Eva Gabor, who voiced characters alongside Buttram in The Aristocats and The Rescuers. Pat Buttram was married to actress Sheila Ryan who he met on The Gene Autry Show from 1952 until her death in 1975 by whom he had a daughter named Kerry. On January 8, 1994, Pat Buttram age 78 died of kidney failure at a hospital in Los Angeles California. He was buried in Alabama next to Maxwell Chapel a church organized by his grandparents in 1916 and he was survived by his daughter Kerry Buttram-Galgano and two granddaughters.