Dayton Allen, voice of Deputy Dawg, dead at 85 HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Dayton Allen, a comedian and actor best known for his work as the voice of the cartoon character Deputy Dawg and the grumpy mayor Phineas T. Bluster on The Howdy Doody Show, has died.
He was 85.
Allen, who also was a regular on The Steve Allen Show, died Thursday after a massive stroke, said his brother, Bradley Bolke.
His most notable voice work came from his longtime association with the cartoon studio Terrytoons. He provided most of the voices for The Deputy Dawg Show, a syndicated series that debuted in 1960. He was also the voice of the cartoon magpies Heckle and Jeckle and many other characters.
Earlier, he spent four years on the original Howdy Doody Show with Buffalo Bob Smith, voicing such puppet characters as Phineas T. Bluster and Flub-a-Dub, as well as such on-camera characters as Pierre the Chef.
On The Steve Allen Show, he often appeared as a bogus expert or in the comic Man on the Street interviews. His frequent comment, “Why-y-y-y-y not?”, became a popular catch phrase.
― Huk-L, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)
I was thinking, just the other day, that you don't really see Deputy Dawg cartoons on TV very much if at all. RIP.
― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)
I remember me and my brothers used to watch them at around 6.50 on weekday evenings on Channel 4, just before Channel 4 news. It really was one of the highlights of the TV watching week, though obviously this was quite a few years ago now. I used to wonder if they were meant to be arty or something because of their timeslot and the channel they were on, but then i sort of realised they weren't, and I thought to myself, 'Wow, how nice of Channel 4 to do this for us!'
Then they replaced it with Murun Buchstansangur, which we all thought was bollocks.
Deputy Dawg, though. He was great. RIP, and no spoofin'.
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)
Yeah, I was just talking about Deputy Dawg the other day in the context of banned cartoons (I don't know if it's some or all of them, but many of them were bought by Turner and locked in the vault to keep anti-Southern stereotypes out of circulation). The Terrytoons were some of my favorites. I had no idea Deputy Dawg and Heckle and Jeckle were voiced by the same person.
― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)
Holy Christ, they really locked up Deputy Dawg? Irksome. And I'm from the South.
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 18 November 2004 04:08 (twenty-one years ago)
All I read was these two pieces:
died Thursday after a massive stroke
“Why-y-y-y-y not?”, became a popular catch phrase.
― Adamdrome Crankypants (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 18 November 2004 06:23 (twenty-one years ago)