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http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/jun/05/25677/
Plop-plop, fizz-fizz, I now know what grief is.
He stood only 4' 6", but the everlastingly boyish Dick Beals was a Goliath among voice actors.
Dick Beals, the voice of Gumby, Speedy Alka Seltzer, cartoon favorite Ralph Phillips, and countless others has been forever silenced. The veteran vocal performer died on Tuesday at the Vista Gardens Memory Care facility in Vista. He was 85.
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/jun/05/25680/
Richard Lee Beals was born on March 16, 1927 in Detroit, Michigan. He began by doing children's voices for commercials and gradually advanced to small talking animals. No matter his age, Beals never sounded any older than a 10-year-old boy.
Beals moved to California in the 1950's and spent much of his life in Escondido.
Here is a partial list of Dick Beals' vocal contributions:
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/jun/05/25679/
Beals earned a spot in the cartoon hall of fame right out of the gate. His first voice for a cartoon character was Chuck Jones' wide-eyed daydreamer, Ralph Phillips in From A to Z-z-z-z. From inside his classroom, Phillips wages battle with numbers on a chalkboard, Pony Express riders, and an octopus, all to the consternation of his ever-vigilant teacher, Miss Wallace (voiced by Bea Benaderet). It's a miraculous ode to imagination, a cartoon that actively encourages its rebellious character's mind to wander. This cartoon received an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Short in 1953.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENxnrine-Jc
According to the New York Times, Beals' "youthful voice resulted from a childhood glandular problem that also stunted his growth."
He left no immediate survivors.
[Source: The New York Times]
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/jun/05/25677/
Plop-plop, fizz-fizz, I now know what grief is.
He stood only 4' 6", but the everlastingly boyish Dick Beals was a Goliath among voice actors.
Dick Beals, the voice of Gumby, Speedy Alka Seltzer, cartoon favorite Ralph Phillips, and countless others has been forever silenced. The veteran vocal performer died on Tuesday at the Vista Gardens Memory Care facility in Vista. He was 85.
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/jun/05/25680/
Richard Lee Beals was born on March 16, 1927 in Detroit, Michigan. He began by doing children's voices for commercials and gradually advanced to small talking animals. No matter his age, Beals never sounded any older than a 10-year-old boy.
Beals moved to California in the 1950's and spent much of his life in Escondido.
Here is a partial list of Dick Beals' vocal contributions:
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/jun/05/25679/
Beals earned a spot in the cartoon hall of fame right out of the gate. His first voice for a cartoon character was Chuck Jones' wide-eyed daydreamer, Ralph Phillips in From A to Z-z-z-z. From inside his classroom, Phillips wages battle with numbers on a chalkboard, Pony Express riders, and an octopus, all to the consternation of his ever-vigilant teacher, Miss Wallace (voiced by Bea Benaderet). It's a miraculous ode to imagination, a cartoon that actively encourages its rebellious character's mind to wander. This cartoon received an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Short in 1953.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENxnrine-Jc
According to the New York Times, Beals' "youthful voice resulted from a childhood glandular problem that also stunted his growth."
He left no immediate survivors.
[Source: The New York Times]