Maxwell Emmett "Pat" Buttram (June 19, 1915 – January 8, 1994) was an American

United States

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 actor

Actor

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, known for playing the sidekick

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 of Gene Autry

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 and for playing the character of Mr. Haney in the TV series Green Acres

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. He had a distinctive voice which, in his own words, "... never quite made it through puberty

Puberty

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". It has been described as sounding like a handful of gravel

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 thrown in a Mix-Master

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".
Buttram was born in Addison, Alabama

Addison, Alabama

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, to Wilson McDaniel Buttram, a Methodist minister, and his wife Mary Emmett Maxwell.