{"id":285,"date":"2012-06-05T21:53:49","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T02:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/?p=285"},"modified":"2012-06-05T21:53:49","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T02:53:49","slug":"dick-beals-march-16-1927-may-29-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/05\/dick-beals-march-16-1927-may-29-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Dick Beals (March 16, 1927 – May 29, 2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Richard Beals<\/a>, voice of Adventures in Odyssey’s<\/em> short-lived but well-remembered character, Nicholas Adamsworth, passed away on May 29, 2012. Mr. Beals’\u00a0role in the voiceover world, thanks to his small stature (4 feet, 6 inches in height), primarily focused on children’s voices.<\/p>\n

Although he didn’t make many appearances on Adventures in Odyssey<\/em>, Dick Beals <\/a>became well-known for his\u00a0role\u00a0as a\u00a0stop-motion animation figure called “Speedy Alka-Seltzer”, featured in television commercials for more than 50 years. He is also known for his role in “The Gumby Show” (1950’s) and Davey in “Davey and Goliath” (1960’s). His work includes numerous other roles as child characters, thanks to his childlike voice affected by his height. Dick Beals <\/a>is an example of a man who used his God-given condition as a\u00a0platform for a career in voiceover.<\/p>\n

Said in his obituary:<\/p>\n

“He was one of the great voice actors of all time,” Ron Simon, curator of TV and radio at the Paley Center for Media, told The Times on Wednesday. “He was one of those anonymous people who pioneered what animation would become today.” (Obituary, Los Angeles Times<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Here’s to a man who brought some extra life to Adventures in Odyssey<\/em>,\u00a0making his first appearance in Eugene’s Dilemma<\/a>\u00a0in 1989.\u00a0Thank you for your work, Mr. Beals. There’s no doubt you have impacted many lives as a result of\u00a0your work.<\/p>\n

You can read Dick Beals’ full obituary here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Richard Beals, voice of Adventures in Odyssey’s short-lived but well-remembered character, Nicholas Adamsworth, passed away on May 29, 2012. Mr. Beals’\u00a0role in the voiceover world, thanks to his small stature (4 feet, 6 inches in height), primarily focused on children’s voices. Although he didn’t make many appearances on Adventures in Odyssey, Dick Beals became well-known […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,55],"tags":[76,75,77],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actors","category-news","tag-actors-2","tag-dick-beals","tag-nicholas-adamsworth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/dick_beals.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2kCCw-4B","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}