Sandman, The Food of the Gods, The Shadow Men, Robocop, Spawn, Bluto, Cisco Kid, Where No Man Has Gone Before.

If you love the old cartoons and the voices that go along with them then Jackson Beck is a name that you'll soon recognize. I won't spoil the read with highlights, you'll just have to be amazed on your own.


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Birthdays

Kelley Jones 1962, comic book artist best known for his runs on Batman with writer Doug Moench and on Sandman with writer Neil Gaiman.

Charles "Chuck" T. Courtney, Jr. 1930, actor, stuntman, Marv Howell - Meteor Man (1958), 1st Tough - Steve Canyon (1 episode, "Operation Big Thunder", 1959), Crew Member - Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1 episode, "Eleven Days to Zero", 1964), Davod - Star Trek (1 episode, "Patterns of Force", 1968), Limo Driver - The Invisible Man (1 episode, "The Klae Resource", 1975), Davis - The Food of the Gods (1976).

Ben Slack 1937, actor, K'Tal - Star Trek: The Next Generation (1 episode, "Redemption", 1991), Trevanian - Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1 episode, "The Dad Who Came in from the Cold", 1996), Doctor - The Shadow Men (1998).

Ronny Cox 1938, actor, Dick Jones - RoboCop (1987), Gen. Balentine (segment "The Unknown Soldier") - Amazon Women on the Moon (1987), The President - Martians Go Home (1989), Vilos Cohaagen - Total Recall (1990), Captain Edward Jellico - Star Trek: The Next Generation (2 episodes, 1992), Senator Scott McMillan - Spawn (6 episodes, 1997), Lt. Col. Lester Glade - The Outer Limits (1 episode, "Déjà Vu", 1999), Senator Robert Kinsey / Vice President Robert Kinsey - Stargate SG-1 (11 episodes, 1998-2005), Richard 'Dick' Jones - Robocop: Villains of Old Detroit (2007) (V).

Jackson Beck 1912, actor/voice actor, best known as the announcer on radio's The Adventures of Superman and the voice of Bluto in the Famous era Popeye theatrical shorts. Beck had a career in radio, television, and animation dating from 1931 with Myrt and Marge, among other roles. In 1943, he took over as narrator of radio's The Adventures of Superman; it was Beck who intoned the familiar prologue "strange visitor from another planet..." Decades later, he portrayed Perry White, Clark Kent's boss in Filmation's The New Adventures of Superman animated series and was narrator as well. He also impersonated Joseph Stalin and other world leaders for the March of Time radio series, starred as The Cisco Kid on radio from 1942-1945 and sleuth Philo Vance in a syndicated series from 1948-1950, and served as narrator for the radio adventures of Tom Corbett, Space Cadet. Beck had a prolific career in animation, becoming one of the regular voice actors at Famous Studios in the mid-1940s. He voiced Bluto in the Popeye cartoons, Little Lulu's father, and Buzzy The Crow, who was a foil for Katnip the cat in a number of cartoons. Beck used a black dialect for the voice of Buzzy. He was also the voice of King Leonardo in the 1960s TV cartoon series of the same name. He narrated the 1980s G.I. Joe animated TV series. His other voice work included network TV promos (he did a series of promos for NBC's NFL coverage for much of the 1980s), narration for sketches on Saturday Night Live, movie trailers, and commercials for everything from toys to shampoo.

Events

1965, Fifth day of filming on TOS: "Where No Man Has Gone Before". During shooting a swarm of wasps appears on the set, causing panic among the cast and crew, and stinging William Shatner and Sally Kellerman.