Dick Beals

Dick Beals was born in Detroit, Michigan, on March 16, 1927. Source: Wikipedia

At Michigan State University he acted in weekly radio dramas on the campus station WKAR, and he graduated in 1949 with a major in radio broadcasting. Source: Wikipedia

In January 1949 Detroit station WXYZ called him in for a commercial, and its director then kept him on call for children and small talking animals on The Lone Ranger, The Green Hornet and Challenge of the Yukon. Source: Wikipedia

After he was heard on a 1952 Green Hornet episode, an advertising agency picked him as the voice of Speedy Alka-Seltzer, a part he went on to record in 225 TV commercials. Source: Wikipedia

The Radio GOLDINdex lists him on Space Patrol from 1952 to 1954, including a 1953 Ralston commercial in which he voiced both twins. Source: Radio GOLDINdex

The same index credits him on Wild Bill Hickok from 1952 to about 1954, on Gunsmoke from 1952 to 1957 and on Suspense from 1953 to 1957. Source: Radio GOLDINdex

After moving to Los Angeles he worked in the dramas of radio's final decade, most notably Gunsmoke. Source: Know OTR

He stood 4 feet 7 inches; in his autobiography Think Big he put his high voice and boyish look down to a glandular condition. Source: Wikipedia

He died in Vista, California, on May 29, 2012, at 85. Source: Wikipedia