Dick Beals, a voice actor best known for injecting youthful enthusiasm into the character of Speedy Alka-Seltzer commercials, has died. He was 85.Beals, whose radio and television career spanned seven decades, died Tuesday at Vista Gardens Memory Care in Vista, said his friend Peter Gorman.
He was first heard in such shows as THE LONE RANGER and THE GREEN HORNET, which were recorded at a Detroit radio station, and later on DRAGNET and GUNSMOKE.
Beals moved to Hollywood in 1952 where he landed a soap opera gig.