Obit: Dick Beals at 85...voiced radio dramas and many, many TV commercials

[CrankyYankee]

Most notable, he was the voice of "Speedy Alka-Seltzer."
http://www.newsfromme.com/2012/05/30/dick-beals-r-i-p/

 

[crainbebo]

RIP Speedy!

-crainbebo

 

[Markd]

Dick beales voiced Davey and Goliath as Davey as well as voices of other boys for the first 39 episodes from 1960-65 that Art Clokey produced himself and his last episode was the Christmas episode called "Lost & Found". From 1967 to 1975 Davey was voiced by Norma McMillan. On those episodes, Art Clokey p;layed a more limited role. But Dick Beales was the original voice of Davey. He also voiced various chgaracters on hanna Barbara Cartoons as well. So now its just Ginny Tyler and Nancy Wible still living from the original group of Davey & Goliath voices. Hal Smith and Norma McMillan died years back. I believe Dick Beales voiced Gumby at some point. Gumby went through several voices at least.

 

[bpatrick]

Didn't he do one of the two boys who are watching a Road Runner
cartoon and Wile E. Coyote stops the action and talks directly to
them:

BOY: I wonder why he wants to eat the Road Runner anyway?
WILE E.: A legitimate question, young man, deserving of a legitmate answer
(then points to a chart with the 20 different flavors that correspond
to the parts of a road runner).

As I understand it, Beals was 4'7" tall and his voice never changed at puberty.
That's how he was able to do little-boy voices all his life.

Another great voice actor gone. The way things are going, Billy West is going
to wind up doing all the cartoon voiceovers.

 

[bpatrick]

The voice he did for Warner Brothers was Ralph Phillips,
a little boy with a propensity for daydreaming.

 

[rnigma1]

Dick Beales voiced Davey and Goliath as Davey as well as voices of other boys for the first 39 episodes from 1960-65 that Art Clokey produced himself and his last episode was the Christmas episode called "Lost & Found". From 1967 to 1975 Davey was voiced by Norma McMillan. On those episodes, Art Clokey played a more limited role. But Dick Beales was the original voice of Davey. He also voiced various characters on hanna Barbara Cartoons as well. So now its just Ginny Tyler and Nancy Wible still living from the original group of Davey & Goliath voices. Hal Smith and Norma McMillan died years back. I believe Dick Beales voiced Gumby at some point. Gumby went through several voices at least.

Yeah, I believe Dallas McKennon eventually played Gumby, Pokey, et al. (and played Cincinnatus on "Daniel Boone").
Norma McMillan also played Caroline Kennedy on Vaughn Meader's "The First Family" record, and she was the mother of Alison Arngrim.

The voice he did for Warner Brothers was Ralph Phillips, a little boy with a propensity for daydreaming.

...in Chuck Jones' "From A to Z-z-z" and its sequel "Boyhood Daze."

Of course, like many voice actors of that era, he started in radio, doing hundreds of shows. One episode of the radio "Gunsmoke" had him playing a young runaway who would become Billy the Kid. Perhaps the one show that served as a metaphor for his career was the CBS Radio Workshop episode from 1956 that adapted Ray Bradbury's story "Hail and Farewell," about a dwarf who ran away from the circus and had himself "adopted" by childless couples... and after a few years, he would move on to another family, as a sort of rent-a-kid.

 

[cd637299]

RIP Mr Beals.

A lesser known cartoon character he voiced was Buzzer Bell in "The Funny Company," which is still shown on TBN's Smile of a Child subchannel late Friday nights 2 am Eastern/11 pm Pacific.

I could be wrong about which character, but his name is definitely in the credits.

Didn't know he was 4'7"; it seems he was able to keep that voice well into his senior years.

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[Ultimajock]

...Beals also voiced both Yank and Dan of the American Eagle Squadron on Roger Ramjet...