Jackson Beck
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jackson Beck 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.
Radio Days
as Radio Voice (voice)The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New...
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Power
as The Voice (voice)Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the...
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G.I. Joe: The Movie
as Narrator (voice)G.I. Joe faces a new enemy as an ancient society of snake people known as Cobra-La try to...
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Superman
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)After The Daily Planet receives a letter from a mad scientist threatening to wreak destruction...
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Take the Money and Run
as The NarratorVirgil Starkwell is intent on becoming a notorious bank robber. Unfortunately for Virgil and his...
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The Mummy Strikes
as Narrator / Professor (voice) (uncredited)Egyptologists are attacked by mummies, drawing the attention of Superman.
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G.I. Joe: The Revenge of Cobra
as Narrator (voice)G.I. Joe: The Revenge of Cobra is the second G.I. Joe miniseries based on the successful Hasbro...
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The Mechanical Monsters
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)Superman battles a criminal mastermind and his robot army.
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The Underground World
as Narrator / Henderson (voice) (uncredited)Superman has to save Lois Lane from a cult of hawk-people in an homage to Edgar Rice Burroughs's...
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The Magnetic Telescope
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)When police interfere with a reckless scientist's experiment, it creates a deadly meteor shower...
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Billion Dollar Limited
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)Robbers target a special train carrying a billion dollars worth of gold, and the only one who...
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Cry Uncle!
as Narrator (voice)Private detective Jack Masters takes on a case and gets mixed up in murder, sex and blackmail.
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Jungle Drums
as German Commander (voice) (uncredited)Superman discovers a secret Nazi base in the jungle.
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Private Eye Popeye
as Butler (voice) (uncredited)Private Eye Popeye gets a call from Olive Oyl to guard a precious gem. But no sooner does he get...
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Fright to the Finish
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)At Halloween, Olive Oyl is reading ghost stories to Popeye and Bluto. Popeye scoffs. Bluto...
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Destruction Inc.
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)Superman has to thwart wartime saboteurs tampering with things at the Metropolis Munitions...
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The Bulleteers
as Bulleteer (voice) (uncredited)Criminals with rocket powered car loot and extort the city, and only Superman can stop them!
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Volcano
as Narrator #2 / Officer / Professor (voice) (uncredited)Superman comes to the rescue when a volcano erupts.
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Eleventh Hour
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)Using Clark Kent as a cover, Superman travels to Japan as a saboteur during the war.
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Ancient Fistory
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)It's the middle ages (sort of); Popeye is working in Bluto's Beanery. Bluto is going to the ball...
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Showdown
as Boss (voice) (uncredited)Superman's reputation is tarnished when a crook begins committing crimes in a Superman costume.
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G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero
as Announcer (voice)A Real American Hero is the first G.I. Joe miniseries, in it the G.I. Joe Special Missions Force...
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Secret Agent
as Narrator / Police Chief / Saboteur (voice) (uncredited)A double agent trying to deliver information to Washington, D.C. is chased by Nazi operatives.
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The Fistic Mystic
as Bluto (voice)Popeye and Olive enter the city of Badgag and spot Bluto doing magic tricks. He hypnotizes Olive...
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The Arctic Giant
as Perry White (voice) (uncredited)A frozen Tyrannosaurus rex is found and put on display in a museum, but when he thaws out and...
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Electric Earthquake
as Perry White / Indian Scientist (voice) (uncredited)A scientist uses an earthquake machine to threaten the city, and only Superman can stop his...
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Japoteurs
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)Superman vs. Japanese spies hijacking a new super-bomber.
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Cheese Burglar
as Dog (voice)While cats and dogs are natural enemies, such is not the case in the house where Herman the...
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Assault and Flattery
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)In Judge Wimpy's courtroom, Bluto accuses Popeye of assault and battery; he claims to have been...
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Safari So Good
as Jungle Man (voice) (uncredited)Popeye and Olive are on an African safari, he with a rifle, she with a camera. Olive happens...
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Show-Business at War
as Self (voice)A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
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Base Brawl
as (voice) (uncredited)At the zoo, the animals have all gone to play baseball. Animals fill the stands as they watch...
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Dizzy Dinosaurs
as Narrator / CavemanThe cavemen go to the Paramountain Theater.
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A Haul in One
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Popeye and Bluto are, believe it or not, pals and partners in a moving company. (Maybe it's...
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Tops in the Big Top
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Bluto is the ringmaster; Popeye is the star attraction. Bluto covets Popeye's assistant Olive....
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The Crystal Brawl
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Bluto muscles out Popeye to take Olive to the fair. Popeye rushes ahead and poses as a fortune...
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Floor Flusher
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Popeye and Bluto stop by to see Olive and fix her leaky faucet. Popeye does it better, and Bluto...
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Klondike Casanova
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)At the Polar Bar & Grill in the Klondike, Popeye and Olive Oyl are the sole proprietors....
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Ghost of the Town
as Ghost Aircraft Leader / Walter Winchell (voice) (uncredited)In this pun-title cartoon (from Toast of the Town) Casper, the friendly ghost, is banished from...
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Lunch with a Punch
as Bluto / Frog (voice) (uncredited)Popeye and Olive take his nephews on a picnic. They don't want to eat their spinach, so Popeye...
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Popeye and the Giant
as Brutus (voice)Popeye is walking across the street, while Wimpy is practicing his hamburger-mooching talk....
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Popeye's Pizza Palace
as Brutus (voice)Popeye runs a pizza restaurant. Wimpy wants to pay him Tuesday for some hamburger pizzas, but...
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Swab the Duck
as FoxBaby Huey sees some little ducks playing pirate and wants to join in, but when he jumps on their...
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The Seapreme Court
as Judge (voice) (uncredited)Little Audrey, while fishing, falls to the bottom of the sea, where she encounters all types of...
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House Tricks?
as Bluto (voice)Olive is building a house when the boys happen by. They show off a bit to convince her to let...
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Leprechauns Gold
as Narrator / Leprechaun Leader (voice) (uncredited)A song-filled Noveltoon featuring the antics of the Irish Leprechauns during their annual...
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Puppet Love
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Bluto builds a Popeye puppet and manipulates it to treat Olive rudely. Then he comes in and...
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Taxi-Turvy
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Popeye and Bluto are taxi drivers; they are, of course, competing for fares - and Olive, in...
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Fit to Be Toyed
as J.G. (voice) (uncredited)Jonathan P. Grisley, the president of a toy company, is sent to a psychiatrist to find out why...
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Spooky Swabs
as Ghost (voice) (uncredited)Popeye and Olive board a run-down ship, which turns out to be haunted.
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Popeye's 20th Anniversary
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Popeye is being honored for his 20 years of films, in a dinner hosted by 'Bob Hope' (several...
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Popeye's Premiere
as Evil Vizier (voice)Popeye and Olive are at the premiere of Popeye's new movie. He gets a little too wrapped up in...
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Bargain Counter Attack
as Section Manager (voice)Lulu goes to a department store to exchange her doll for something else. While looking for a new...
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3-D Rarities
as King Luna/Moon People (archive footage)Selections include Kelley's Plasticon Pictures, the earliest extant 3-D demonstration film from...
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Big Bad Sindbad
as Sindbad (voice) (uncredited)Popeye is taking his nephews to the museum, and proves to them that he is the greatest sailor in...
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Red White and Boo
as Professor / Redcoat (screaming) (voice) (uncredited)Through the use of a Time Machine, Casper the Friendly Ghost gets transported back in time, In...
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The Island Fling
as Bluto / Friday (voice)Bluto is Robinson Crusoe; Popeye and Olive approach his island on a raft.
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The Stupidstitious Cat
as Buzzy (voice) (uncredited)Buzzy the Crow is under attack from a cat. But when he finds out that the cat is very...
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Jumping with Toy
as Fox (voice)A hungry fox disguises himself as Santa Claus, and arms himself with deadly gifts, hoping to...
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Alpine for You
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Popeye is climbing the Alps, and Olive is being hauled up behind him on a rope, taking pictures....
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Rocket to Mars
as Martian Leader (voice)Popeye and Olive are touring a museum when they accidentally launch a rocketship to Mars. Olive...
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Greek Mirthology
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Popeye is trying to get his nephews to eat their spinach, so he tells them about how Hercules...
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Stork Raving Mad
as Audience MemberA far-fetched tale about a baby who doesn't want to be delivered and a stork who goes a little...
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As the Crow Lies
as Buzzy (voice) (uncredited)Buzzy the Crow is about to be eaten by a cat but the cat has hiccoughs. Buzzy, of course, has a...
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Pitchin' Woo at the Zoo
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Popeye takes Olive to the zoo, where she's spotted by zookeeper Bluto, who tries various stunts...
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The Wee Men
as Narrator / Leprechauns (voice)A yarn about the mythical Leprechauns who reside in Ireland and their crock of gold. The legend...
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How Green Is My Spinach
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)To finally defeat Popeye, Bluto sets out to destroy the spinach crop.
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Popeye for President
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Popeye and Bluto are running for President. It's election day, the vote is tied, and Olive Oyl...
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One Quack Mind
as FoxDumb and overgrown Baby Huey finds himself left to the untender mercies of a fox disguised as a...
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The Enchanted Square
as Officer Flanagan (voice) (uncredited)Police Officer Flanagan gives a little blind girl, Billie, a Raggety-Ann doll, and she is told...
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Beach Peach
as Lifeguard (voice) (uncredited)Popeye and Olive are having a day at the beach; the lifeguard (not drawn as Bluto, though he...
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Boo Scout
as Scout Leader (voice)Casper the Friendly Ghost befriends a Boy Scout.
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Spree Lunch
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Popeye opens a diner; Bluto pulls one up right across the street. Wimpy comes along, and they...
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Tar with a Star
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Gunfights are diminishing the population (1864- for the time being) in the tough Western town of...
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Popeye Makes a Movie
as Abu Hassan (voice) (uncredited)Popeye and Olive prepare to make a movie while his nephews watch. The movie is a significant...
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Quick on the Vigor
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Popeye takes Olive to the carnival; while he's busy winning candy at the "ring the bell" stand,...
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Wigwam Whoopee
as Chief (voice) (uncredited)Popeye follows along behind the Mayflower in his own rowboat. He washes up on Plymouth Rock.
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A Bicep Built for Two
as Herman / Big Muscular CatFrom Press Kit: Katnip's serenading of a girl cat is interrupted by a tough cat that runs him...
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Shape Ahoy
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Bluto and Popeye are vacationing on a men's only island, when Olive happens by on a shipwreck...
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All's Fair at the Fair
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Bluto, the daring hot air balloon rider, catches the eye of Olive at a carnival, much to...
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Little Brown Jug
as Piggy (voice)An animated short about various woodland creatures milling and drinking apple cider. Includes a...
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The Deep Boo Sea
as Ghost Schoolmaster (voice) (uncredited)Little Billy wants to play pirates with two older friends. However, the big kids won't let him...
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Abusement Park
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Popeye and Bluto battle over Olive in an amusement park.
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Casper Comes to Clown
as Ringmaster (voice) (uncredited)Casper befriends a bear cub with a natural talent for juggling. Soon the cub is in the circus,...
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Penny Antics
as Bluto (voice)A virtual remake of Customers Wanted, with Popeye and Bluto running competing penny arcades...
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Robin Hood-Winked
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Popeye is Robin Hood; he's got a sidekick, Little John. Bluto is the tax collector, and Olive is...
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Popeye's Service Station
as Brutus (voice) (uncredited)Popeye is now the manager of a service station, he provides a good service with free extras....
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Spinach vs Hamburgers
as Bluto (voice)Popeye's nephews would rather have hamburgers than spinach, so Popeye recounts some of his past...
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Peep in the Deep
as Bluto / Popeye (voice)Olive has a map to a sunken treasure, but Bluto stowed away and is determined to beat Popeye to it.
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Scout Fellow
as FoxBaby Huey dreams of becoming a Cub Scout, but the patrol out on a camping trip considers him to...
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Gym Jam
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Popeye runs a gym; his only customer on ladies day is Olive. Bluto, seeing Olive go in, dresses...
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Cookin' with Gags
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Popeye, the proprietor of a gymnasium for women, has Olive Oyl as one of his pupils. Rival Bluto...
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Service with a Guile
as Bluto (voice)Olive runs a service station. The admiral pulls in and asks Olive to put some air in his tire,...
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Jeep Tale
as BrutusPopeye tells Swee'Pea the story of how Eugene the Jeep got his special powers. He tells a fairy...
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Out to Punch
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Popeye's training for his boxing match with Bluto by jumping rope with a massive chain. Bluto,...
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Inside Nazi Germany
as Narrator (voice)Short documentary film in the newsreel series 'The March of Time'.
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A Wolf in Sheik's Clothing
as Sheik (voice) (uncredited)Popeye and Olive are riding a camel in Arabia. They stop to fill the camel with water and...
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Mess Production
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Olive Oyl, a regular Rosie the Riveter, receives a blow to the head from a swinging grappling...
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Nearlyweds
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Popeye and Bluto both plan to marry Olive Oyl, but Popeye proposes first. When Olive says,...
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The Farmer and the Belle
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Olive Oyl's Farm is desparately in need of a farmhand. Fortunately, or unfortunately, the boys...
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The Royal Four-Flusher
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Popeye and Olive are feeding squirrels in the park when the rich and elegant Count Marvo...
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Popeye and the Pirates
as Pierre (voice) (uncredited)Popeye is taking Olive on a boat ride when she spots a pirate ship. They are soon captured, and...
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Cad and Caddy
as Golfer (voice)Lulu plans her revenge against a distressed golfer who refuses to give her a lollipop after he...
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For Better or Nurse
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)The boys see lovely nurse Olive pass by and follow her to her hospital. She throws them out, so...
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Boo Moon
as King Luna/Moon PeopleCasper the Friendly Ghost comes to the aid of King Luna and his people after being attacked by...
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Friend or Phony
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)To convince Popeye to throw away his spinach, Bluto fakes his death, after showing clips of...
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Better Bait Than Never
as BuzzyKatnip is trying to catch a really big fish, but is having no success.
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Jitterbug Jive
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Olive has invited the boys over, but finds Popeye old-fashioned compared to the zoot-suited...
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She-Sick Sailors
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Bluto disguises himself as Superman in order to impress the comic book hero's biggest fan, Olive...
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I Don't Scare
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Bluto sabotages Popeye's date with the superstitious Olive Oyl on Friday the 13th.
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Pop-Pie a la Mode
as Cannibal Leader (voice)Popeye, adrift at sea on a raft, eventually comes to an island which, it turns out, is inhabited...
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Mister and Mistletoe
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)It's Christmas Eve. Popeye's nephews are staying over with Olive, and Popeye is there helping...
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A Balmy Swami
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Popeye and Olive are taking in a variety show. Popeye enjoys the juggling seal very much, but...
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To Boo or Not to Boo
as Narrator / Little Boy / Clown (voice) (uncredited)Mild-and-meek Casper, the Friendly Ghost, is depressed and glum because people will have nothing...
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The Camps of Death
as Narrator (segment "Death: A Nazi War Criminal Pays for His Crime") (voice) (archive footage)Human torture. Factories of death. War atrocities. The crimes that haunt the pagse of history...
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Lumberjack and Jill
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Popeye and Bluto are lumberjacks who compete for the affections of their new cook, Olive Oyl.
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Parlez Vous Woo
as Bluto / The International (voice) (uncredited)Olive is so captived by "The International", a radio personality with a French accent, that...
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Barbecue for Two
as BrutusPopeye wants to have a barbecue for two -- namely him and Olive. But Brutus, Wimpy and Swee' Pea...
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Operation Ice-Tickle
as Brutus / Admiral Peary (voice) (uncredited)Olive tells Popeye and Brutus she'll go out with the first one who brings her back the North...
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Rodeo Romeo
as Bluto (voice)Popeye and Olive are at the rodeo, starring Badlands Bluto. Olive is impressed by Bluto's...
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Silly Hillbilly
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Popeye's traveling department store comes to hillbilly country. He gets upset as Bluto,...
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Symphony in Spinach
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Singer Olive Oyl needs an accompanist, and both Popeye and Bluto apply for the job.
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Crazytown
as Boxer (uncredited)The story of a town where everything is topsy-turvy.
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Beaus Will Be Beaus
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Popeye and Bluto both show up to take Olive to the beach. Olive agrees, but only on the...
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A Job for a Gob
as Bluto (voice)Olive's ranch needs a helper, and the boys just happen to be passing by. Bluto's convinced he's...
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Hot Air Aces
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Despite the title, the vehicles here are airplanes, not balloons. Bluto and Popeye are racing...
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Magica-Lulu
as Magician (voice) (uncredited)Lulu goes to see the magic show with the magician's act.Lulu wants to be part of the magic show...
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I'll Be Skiing Ya
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Popeye and Olive are on a winter vacation in Lake Plastered, NY. Popeye is teaching Olive to ice...
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Barking Dogs Don't Fite
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Olive asks Popeye to walk her dainty new poodle Reggie, to his intense embarrassment. Bluto...
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Swimmer Take All
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Popeye and Bluto are in a swimming race across the English Channel. As usual, Bluto has a...
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Firemen's Brawl
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Popeye and Bluto are manning a fire station when the alarm comes in: it's Olive's house.
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Let's Stalk Spinach
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Popeye's nephews don't want to eat their spinach, so Popeye tells them about his youth, before...
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Gift of Gag
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Popeye's nephews try to sneak a birthday present for their Uncle Popeye into his house.
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Popalong Popeye
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Popeye is hosting three of his western-obsessed nephews on his ranch. To get them to eat their...
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Snow Place Like Home
as Pierre Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Popeye and Olive are relaxing in the water off Miami when a hurricane hits. It carries them to...
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Git Along Lil' Duckie
as FoxThe over-sized Baby Huey wants to join the little ducks in their cowboy game but they don't want...
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Starting from Hatch
as FoxThe birth of Baby Huey! The headlines in "Barnyard Eggstra" read: "Duck Lays Huge Egg. Mother...
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Super Lulu
as Lulu's Father / Giant (voice) (uncredited)Lulu's dream combines "Jack and the Beanstalk" and her favorite superhero comic books.
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Baby Wants a Battle
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Popeye and Bluto fight over taking Olive out; she decides they'll all stay home together. While...
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Toreadorable
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Popeye and Olive are at a bullfight selling snacks. When toreador Bluto throws the bull, Olive...
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Wotta Knight
as Bluto (voice)Popeye and Bluto are knights, jousting for the honor of Sleeping Beauty (Olive, with long blonde...
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Matinee Idol Popeye
as Brutus (Voice)Brutus is an egotistical French director making a film about Antony and Cleopatra, starring...
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Vacation with Play
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Popeye and Olive are on vacation at Lake Narrowhead. Olive wants to take part in athletic...
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Huey's Ducky Daddy
as GilbertHubert Duck is forced by his wife to take his son, Baby Huey, on his fishing trip. Huey causes...
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Child Sockology
as Bluto (voice) (uncredited)Olive invites the boys over for dinner. They play briefly with Swee'pea, but when the inevitable...
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Tiger Burger
as Native Policeman / Turtle (voice) (uncredited)Popeye and Wimpy are in India where the natives are terrified of a man-eating tiger.
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Popeye the Sailor
as Brutus (voice)Follows the adventures of the famed spinach-eating sailor man. Popeye is one of the most...
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Remington Steele
as NarratorLaura Holt, a licensed private detective, opens a detective agency but finds that potential...
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G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero
as Narrator (voice)G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero is a half-hour American animated television series based on the...
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The New Adventures of Superman
as uncreditedThe New Adventures of Superman is a series of six-minute animated Superman adventures produced...
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Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales
as uncreditedTennessee Tuxedo and His Tales is a semi-educational animated cartoon TV series that originally...
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The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure
as uncreditedThe Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure is a Filmation animated series that aired on CBS from...
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The Adventures of Superboy
as uncreditedThe Adventures of Superboy is a series of six-minute animated Superboy cartoons produced by...
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King Leonardo and His Short Subjects
as King Leonardo (voice)King Leonardo and his Short Subjects is an animated cartoon series released in 1960 by Total...
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