The voice of Gumby and Speedy Alka-Seltzer, Dick Beals...

... dead at age 85.

“I’m the voice of little babies to 15-year-olds,” Mr. Beals told The Los Angeles Times in 1992. “In cartoons, I have also been the voice of all kinds of animals — parrots, chipmunks, birds, rabbits, you name it.”...

In commercials, he was a Campbell Soup kid, and he sang, “Oh, I’d love to be an Oscar Meyer wiener.”.

“Once directors found there was a college graduate who could do children’s voices, they didn’t have to call those nutty mothers anymore and ask them to get Junior to do the part,” Mr. Beals told The Lansing State Journal in Michigan in 2007. “I could do any voice, boy or girl.”