Richard "Dick" Beals (born March 16, 1927 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American voice actor. Events 597 BC - Babylonians capture Jerusalem, replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king Year 1927 ( MCMXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Voice acting is the art of providing voices for animated characters (including those in feature films television series animated shorts and Video games) and He has performed many voices in his career, which spans from the early 1950s into the 21st century. He specialized primarily in doing the voices of young boys.
Perhaps his most recognizable characterization was the voice of the stop-motion animation figure called "Speedy Alka-Seltzer", featured in TV ads for more than 50 years. Alka-Seltzer is a name owned by the German Bayer Corporation for a line of Medications sold over the counter and taken by means of rapidly
Beal graduated from Michigan State University (MSU) in 1949, where he majored in radio broadcasting and puppetry. Michigan State University ( MSU) is a co-educational public Research university in East Lansing, Michigan USA. He covered intramural sports and performed in weekly radio dramas for the campus radio station WKAR. Beals was also a member of the Michigan State cheerleading squad. He often donned a blond wig and fake breasts, which were simply small balloons.
In January of 1949, as a senior at MSU, Beals got a call to do a radio commercial for WXYZ, Detroit. After the show, the director asked him to be on call for all the kid's voices as well as those of small, talking animals on all three network radio shows produced by WXYZ - The Lone Ranger, Green Hornet and Challenge of the Yukon. The Lone Ranger is an American, long-running Old-time radio and early Television show created by George W Challenge of the Yukon was a long-running Radio series that began on Detroit 's station WXYZ (as had The Lone Ranger and
In 1952, after performing in an episode of the Green Hornet, WXYZ station manager Jack McCarthy referred Beals to Forrest Owen of Wade Advertising. Owen showed Beals a rendering of a proposed product spokesman for their client, Alka-Seltzer and had him record a voice audition. Four months later, Beals was notified that he had been selected as the voice for Speedy Alka-Seltzer as well as the voice of Sticky, the Vaseline mascot.
Beals moved to Los Angeles where he continued making commercials as Speedy Alka-Seltzer and also provided voices for other commercials, such as Oscar Mayer, the Campbell Soup Kids, and Bob's Big Boy.
In 1953, Beals was hired to do the voice for his first cartoon character. This was Ralph Phillips, a Walter Mitty type boy in From A to Z-Z-Z-Z by Warner Brothers. Walter Mitty is a Fictional character in James Thurber 's short story " The Secret Life of Walter Mitty " first published in The New Yorker From A to Z-Z-Z-Z is a 1953 Animated cartoon short by Chuck Jones in the Looney Tunes series The cartoon was nominated for an academy award.
Beals continued doing voices for Warner Brothers cartoons, often as un-credited secondary characters. Warner Bros Entertainment Inc (or Warner Bros, Warner Bros Pictures) is one of the world's largest producers of Film and When Hanna-Barbera started with the Flintstones, and then The Jetsons, Beals did many of the kid's voices on those shows, sometimes performing several different minor characters on the same show. The Flintstones is an animated American television sitcom that ran from 1960 to 1966 on ABC. The Jetsons is a prime-time animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. One of his recurring roles was as Mr. Spacely's son Arthur on The Jetsons.
Beals voiced the famous claymation character Gumby when it was first televised on NBCin 1957. Clay animation is one of many forms of Stop motion animation Each animated piece either character or background is "deformable"&mdashmade of a malleable substance Gumby is a dark green Clay humanoid figure who was the subject of a 233-episode series of American Television which spanned over a 35-year period The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's From 1960 to 1964, he played the voice of Davey Hansen, as well as other child voices, on Davey and Goliath. Davey and Goliath was the title of a 1960s Stop-motion animated television series He did not do any voices for that series after 1965, when Norma McMillan replaced him as Davey Hansen.
Beals provided voices for both the characters "Yank" and "Dan" of the "American Eagles" troupe in the mid-1960s cartoon series Roger Ramjet. Roger Ramjet was an animated children's Television comedy series created in the United States that first ran in 1965 and has aired in syndication He was the voice of Buzz Conroy, the boy scientist on Frankenstein, Jr. and The Impossibles, and Richie Rich's naughty cousin, Reggie Van Dough on Richie Rich. Frankenstein Jr and the Impossibles was an American Saturday morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1966 Richie Rich is an Animated Television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions that aired on ABC from 1980 to Beals was also the voice of Birdboy on Birdman and the Galaxy Trio. Birdman and the Galaxy Trio is an animated science fiction series created by Alex Toth and produced at Hanna-Barbera.
During the late 1980's, Beal provided the voices for various characters on Garfield and Friends. Garfield and Friends is an American Animated television series based on Comic strip Garfield by Jim Davis.
From 1989-1993 he played Nicholas Adamsworth on the popular Focus on the Family radio drama Adventures in Odyssey.
In 1996, Beals provided the voice of the Pinochio puppet the horror film Pinocchio's Revenge. Pinocchio's Revenge is a 1996 horror Film about a mother who brings home an evil wooden puppet that may have caused a man to kill his son
Beals continues doing occasional voice acting, appears as a guest at Old Time Radio conventions and works as a motivational speaker. Old-Time Radio (OTR and the Golden Age of Radio refer to a period of Radio programming lasting from the proliferation of radio broadcasting in the early 1920s until He is active as an alumnus of Michigan State University and in his spare time he enjoys spending time on his yacht.
Beals wrote in his autobiography, "Think Big". His high voice and boyish appearance are due to a glandular problem; he did not go through puberty (much like Walter Tetley, who had provided the voice for Sherman on "The Bullwinkle Show"). Walter Tetley (b Walter Campbell Tetzlaff New York City, 2 June, 1915; d Beals is 4 foot 7 inches tall and just under 70 pounds. Despite his short stature, he has been able to fly planes using modified controls.
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