Artt Butler, a veteran of the voiceover industry, has been active since 1991, a time when auditions were recorded on reel-to-reel tape and submitted via FedEx on cassette! He began his career as the lead booth director at one of Los Angeles's top voiceover agencies. He quickly became a favorite among talent because he spoke "actor" fluently and could provide concise, insightful, and in-depth direction without driving voice actors crazy. He helped them leave the booth feeling good about themselves, as if they had accomplished something, and, most importantly, helped them book work. Not being a "Hey, look at me!!" type of person, he never really had an interest in performing voiceover. However, after 15 years of directing and coaching some of the best (and worst) talent in town, he decided it might be time to try it himself. Taking everything he had learned from the seasoned veterans he had directed over the years, he parlayed that knowledge into a very successful career on the other side of the glass in the world of commercials and animation. So, in 2009, soon after voicing the McDonald's/Avatar campaign, he became the national legal tag voice for Chrysler television and radio commercials. You can also hear him as Agent Jack Flowers, a Jack Bauer-esque anti-terrorism specialist, in the season 3 finale of the hit Adult Swim show The Boondocks. In 2011, a childhood dream of his came true when he was welcomed into the Star Wars family to play everyone's favorite space-fish, the iconic Captain Ackbar. He will now have to utter the phrase "It's a TRAP!" for the rest of his life, because, as it turns out, it is indeed a trap. He wouldn't have it any other way. Good times.
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