 jackson beck (july 23, 1912 â july 28, 2004) was an american 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. ==career== beck's father, max beck, was a silent film actor. beck had a career in radio, television, and animation dating from 1931 with myrt and marge, among other roles. in 1934, he was the announcer for the adventures of babe ruth on the radio. 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 to 1945 and sleuth philo vance in a syndicated series from 1948 to 1950, and served as narrator for the radio adventures of tom corbett, space cadet.mclellan, dennis. "jackson beck, 92; radio, tv voice performer for 70 years," los angeles times, july 31, 2004. in 1969, beck used his deep, dramatic, modulated voice as the narrator of woody allen's take the money and run. three years earlier, he dubbed the english voice of the judge listing tuco's many crimes before sentencing him to death by hanging in the good, the bad and the ugly. beck was one of the players in national lampoon's first comedy album radio dinner in 1972. he was prominent as well in allen's 1987 film radio days, dubbing the voice of the on-the-spot newsman. beck also co-starred in several episodes of the cbs radio mystery theater (cbsrmt). ==animation== 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 voi
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