Sometimes a talented actor comes along that everyone associates with a particular role, but may be known to another generation for something else. For example, Mark Hamill will always be Luke Skywalker of Star Wars fame, but he is also known to a another generation as the definitive voice of the arch-villain, Joker in the Batman animated series. This is also the case with character and voice actor, Hal Smith.
The baby boomer generation knew Hal Smith as the loveable town drunk, Otis Campbell, on the Andy Griffith Show which ran on TV from 1960-1968. The running gag was that when Otis knew he was too drunk to function, he’d walk into the Sheriff’s office, acknowledge the Sheriff or his deputy and let himself into his jail cell.
But a younger generation would know Smith for his voice acting. He was the voice of Fred’s rich uncle, Tex, on The Flintstones. He was Disney’s voice for Owl and Winnie-the-Pooh (after Sterling Holloway passed away), Goofy in Mickey’s Christmas Carol and Gyro Gearloose in DuckTales. He was the voice of Goliath and Davy’s dad in 
Davy and Goliath and the voice of many villains in Scooby Doo, Where Are You! He was even the voice of Elmer Fudd in the 1961 Looney Tunes cartoon “What’s My Lion?” after the original actor, Arthur Q. Bryan died. This cartoon, incidentally, would be Elmer Fudd’s final starring and speaking appearance in the original theatrical Looney Tunes shorts.
But perhaps the greatest contribution Mr. Smith may have made during his long career, at least to this geek, was as the voice of the Scottish mechanic, Taurus, of the spaceship Starduster in the 1962 cartoon, Space Angel. It was hinted in Jean-Noel Bassior’s “Space Patrol: Missions of Daring in the Name of Early 
Television” that four years later Gene Roddenberry would base his Star Trek chief engineer, Mr. Scott, on Smith’s character portrayal.
While Mr. Smith would later appear in many commercials for various products, he will be forever remembered as Otis Campbell, the Mayberry town drunk, and, to me, the funny voice of Yappee (the sheep dog) of Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey. He never got the credit that the better known voice actors like Mel Blanc and Daws Butler got, but this drunk was a very talented man whose talents were underrated.