14 Facts About Dick Beals

Richard Beals was an American actor and radio performer, who performed many voices in his career, which spanned the period from the early 1950s into the 21st century.

Dick Beals voiced "dozens of children, both male and female", according to Mark Evanier's obituary of him.

Dick Beals was born in Detroit, Michigan, on March 16,1927, and graduated in 1949 from Michigan State University, where he majored in radio broadcasting and puppetry.

Dick Beals covered intramural sports and performed in weekly radio dramas for the campus radio station WKAR.

Dick Beals was a member of the Michigan State cheerleading squad.

Dick Beals was a member of the cast of The Hudson Sketchbook, the "first regularly scheduled TV program to go on the air in Detroit," on the original WWJ-TV.

Dick Beals recorded his first Speedy Alka-Seltzer television commercial in 1953, doing a total of 225 in his career.

Dick Beals did not do any voices for that series after 1965, when Norma MacMillan replaced him as Davey.

Dick Beals was the voice of Buzz Conroy, the boy scientist on Frankenstein Jr.

Dick Beals continued doing occasional voice acting, appearing as a guest at Old Time Radio conventions and as a motivational speaker.

Dick Beals was active as an alumnus of Michigan State University and in his spare time he enjoyed spending time on his yacht Think Big.

Dick Beals retired from voice acting in late 2005, his final voice acting role was Baby-Faced Moonbeam in the animated television series Duck Dodgers.

Dick Beals wrote in his autobiography, Think Big, that his high voice and boyish appearance were due to a glandular problem; he did not go through puberty.

Dick Beals died on May 29,2012, at Vista Gardens Memory Care in Vista, California, at the age of 85.