Jackson Beck
Birthday: 1912-07-23
Place of Birth: Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Biography: 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.
Movies
Cookin' with Gags
The boys are taking Olive on a picnic. It's April 1, and Bluto plays a series of "jokes" on Popeye, ...
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The Farmer and the Belle
Olive Oyl's Farm is desparately in need of a farmhand. Fortunately, or unfortunately, the boys are d...
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Alpine for You
Popeye is climbing the Alps, and Olive is being hauled up behind him on a rope, taking pictures. Mou...
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Firemen's Brawl
Popeye and Bluto are manning a fire station when the alarm comes in: it's Olive's house....
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Swimmer Take All
Popeye and Bluto are in a swimming race across the English Channel. As usual, Bluto has a million wa...
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Wigwam Whoopee
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
From Press Kit: Katnip's serenading of a girl cat is interrupted by a tough cat that runs him off an...
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The Boss Is Always Right
Wise guy Jeepers tries to "help" pal Creepers get a raise from his boss....
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Snooze Reel
Screen Song with spot gags about newsreels (including Paramount's own newsreel division)....
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Little Brown Jug
An animated short about various woodland creatures milling and drinking apple cider. Includes a sing...
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Philharmaniacs
Singalong about an all-animal orchestra, spoofing the musicians and various instruments of the orche...
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Trouble Date
Creepers tries to get Jeepers to get the courage to ask for a date with a bathing beauty that Jeeper...
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Gobs of Fun
The captain of a ship's crew, a mouse, goes to the bar to pick up his men. After forcing the initial...
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Drippy Mississippi
Singalong with spot gags about the Mississippi River as it runs from Minneapolis/St. Paul through Da...
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Land of Lost Watches
Little Billy and Isabel catch Red Lantern, the Magic Fish. He takes them to the Land Of The Lost to ...
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The Ski's the Limit
A combination cartoon/travelogue set in the Swiss Alps, with a tuneful sight-seeing tour of Switzerl...
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Stork Raving Mad
A far-fetched tale about a baby who doesn't want to be delivered and a stork who goes a little goofy...
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Big Bad Sindbad
Popeye is taking his nephews to the museum, and proves to them that he is the greatest sailor in the...
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Child Sockology
Olive invites the boys over for dinner. They play briefly with Swee'pea, but when the inevitable fig...
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Beaus Will Be Beaus
Popeye and Bluto both show up to take Olive to the beach. Olive agrees, but only on the condition th...
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Sing or Swim
The world famous Coney Island in New York City, which got it's start in the 1840's is here included ...
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Quick on the Vigor
Popeye takes Olive to the carnival; while he's busy winning candy at the "ring the bell" stand, stro...
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Popalong Popeye
Popeye is hosting three of his western-obsessed nephews on his ranch. To get them to eat their spina...
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Friend or Phony
To convince Popeye to throw away his spinach, Bluto fakes his death, after showing clips of "spinach...
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How Green Is My Spinach
To finally defeat Popeye, Bluto sets out to destroy the spinach crop....
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Lunch with a Punch
Popeye and Olive take his nephews on a picnic. They don't want to eat their spinach, so Popeye tells...
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Let's Stalk Spinach
Popeye's nephews don't want to eat their spinach, so Popeye tells them about his youth, before he li...
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Vacation with Play
Popeye and Olive are on vacation at Lake Narrowhead. Olive wants to take part in athletic activities...
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Jitterbug Jive
Olive has invited the boys over, but finds Popeye old-fashioned compared to the zoot-suited Bluto. P...
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Gym Jam
Popeye runs a gym; his only customer on ladies day is Olive. Bluto, seeing Olive go in, dresses in d...
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Snow Place Like Home
Popeye and Olive are relaxing in the water off Miami when a hurricane hits. It carries them to the N...
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Popeye Makes a Movie
Popeye and Olive prepare to make a movie while his nephews watch. The movie is a significant portion...
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Beach Peach
Popeye and Olive are having a day at the beach; the lifeguard (not drawn as Bluto, though he sounds ...
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Barking Dogs Don't Fite
Olive asks Popeye to walk her dainty new poodle Reggie, to his intense embarrassment. Bluto comes by...
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Magica-Lulu
Lulu goes to see the magic show with the magician's act.Lulu wants to be part of the magic show but ...
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It's Nifty to Be Thrifty
In an attempt to prevent his daughter from spending her money needlessly on sweets, Mr. Moppet tells...
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Popeye's Pizza Palace
Popeye runs a pizza restaurant. Wimpy wants to pay him Tuesday for some hamburger pizzas, but Popeye...
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Popeye and the Giant
Popeye is walking across the street, while Wimpy is practicing his hamburger-mooching talk. Brutus n...
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Private Eye Popeye
Private Eye Popeye gets a call from Olive Oyl to guard a precious gem. But no sooner does he get the...
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G.I. Joe: The Revenge of Cobra
G.I. Joe: The Revenge of Cobra is the second G.I. Joe miniseries based on the successful Hasbro Toys...
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G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero
A Real American Hero is the first G.I. Joe miniseries, in it the G.I. Joe Special Missions Force mus...
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G.I. Joe: The Movie
G.I. Joe faces a new enemy as an ancient society of snake people known as Cobra-La try to forcefully...
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For Better or Nurse
The boys see lovely nurse Olive pass by and follow her to her hospital. She throws them out, so they...
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Mess Production
Olive Oyl, a regular Rosie the Riveter, receives a blow to the head from a swinging grappling hook, ...
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Shape Ahoy
Bluto and Popeye are vacationing on a men's only island, when Olive happens by on a shipwreck raft. ...
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Barbecue for Two
Popeye wants to have a barbecue for two -- namely him and Olive. But Brutus, Wimpy and Swee' Pea all...
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Man's Pest Friend
Little Lulu and her dog, Pal, are out walking and playing, but soon run into all manner of problems ...
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Superman
After The Daily Planet receives a letter from a mad scientist threatening to wreak destruction with ...
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Cry Uncle!
Private detective Jack Masters takes on a case and gets mixed up in murder, sex and blackmail....
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Is Everybody Listening?
A documentary about the 82% of US citizens that listen to the radio for their entertainment, news an...
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Mister and Mistletoe
It's Christmas Eve. Popeye's nephews are staying over with Olive, and Popeye is there helping decora...
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Tops in the Big Top
Bluto is the ringmaster; Popeye is the star attraction. Bluto covets Popeye's assistant Olive. Popey...
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I Don't Scare
Bluto sabotages Popeye's date with the superstitious Olive Oyl on Friday the 13th....
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Destruction Inc.
Superman has to thwart wartime saboteurs tampering with things at the Metropolis Munitions Plant...w...
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The Mummy Strikes
Egyptologists are attacked by mummies, drawing the attention of Superman....
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Showdown
Superman's reputation is tarnished when a crook begins committing crimes in a Superman costume....
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The Underground World
Superman has to save Lois Lane from a cult of hawk-people in an homage to Edgar Rice Burroughs's "At...
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Secret Agent
A double agent trying to deliver information to Washington, D.C. is chased by Nazi operatives....
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The Arctic Giant
A frozen Tyrannosaurus rex is found and put on display in a museum, but when he thaws out and revive...
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The Bulleteers
Criminals with rocket powered car loot and extort the city, and only Superman can stop them!...
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Inside Nazi Germany
Short documentary film in the newsreel series 'The March of Time'....
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Electric Earthquake
A scientist uses an earthquake machine to threaten the city, and only Superman can stop his extortio...
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A Haul in One
Popeye and Bluto are, believe it or not, pals and partners in a moving company. (Maybe it's because ...
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Assault and Flattery
In Judge Wimpy's courtroom, Bluto accuses Popeye of assault and battery; he claims to have been atta...
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Floor Flusher
Popeye and Bluto stop by to see Olive and fix her leaky faucet. Popeye does it better, and Bluto get...
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The Camps of Death
Human torture. Factories of death. War atrocities. The crimes that haunt the pagse of history are ch...
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A Job for a Gob
Olive's ranch needs a helper, and the boys just happen to be passing by. Bluto's convinced he's bett...
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The Enchanted Square
Police Officer Flanagan gives a little blind girl, Billie, a Raggety-Ann doll, and she is told she c...
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Penny Antics
A virtual remake of Customers Wanted, with Popeye and Bluto running competing penny arcades showing ...
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Fright from Wrong
The Ghostly Trio give Casper the Friendly Ghost a pill to make him as mean as they are....
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Cat O' Nine Ails
Buzzy the Crow pretends to be a doctor checking on Sam the hypochondriac cat. Negative exists at UCL...
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Starting from Hatch
The birth of Baby Huey! The headlines in "Barnyard Eggstra" read: "Duck Lays Huge Egg. Mother Eggcit...
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Scout Fellow
Baby Huey dreams of becoming a Cub Scout, but the patrol out on a camping trip considers him to be t...
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One Quack Mind
Dumb and overgrown Baby Huey finds himself left to the untender mercies of a fox disguised as a baby...
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Git Along Lil' Duckie
The over-sized Baby Huey wants to join the little ducks in their cowboy game but they don't want him...
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Huey's Ducky Daddy
Hubert Duck is forced by his wife to take his son, Baby Huey, on his fishing trip. Huey causes all k...
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Party Smarty
In this outing, Huey goes to a birthday party, causes his usual havoc and the baby ducks blindfold H...
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Popeye's Service Station
Popeye is now the manager of a service station, he provides a good service with free extras. Brutus ...
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To Boo or Not to Boo
Mild-and-meek Casper, the Friendly Ghost, is depressed and glum because people will have nothing to ...
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The Deep Boo Sea
Little Billy wants to play pirates with two older friends. However, the big kids won't let him play....
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Ghost of the Town
In this pun-title cartoon (from Toast of the Town) Casper, the friendly ghost, is banished from Ghos...
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The Seapreme Court
Little Audrey, while fishing, falls to the bottom of the sea, where she encounters all types of sea-...
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Jumping with Toy
A hungry fox disguises himself as Santa Claus, and arms himself with deadly gifts, hoping to make a ...
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Gabriel Churchkitten
This cartoon concerns the efforts of a kitten, Gabriel, and a mouse, Peter, who apparently live in p...
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A Wolf in Sheik's Clothing
Popeye and Olive are riding a camel in Arabia. They stop to fill the camel with water and freshen up...
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Spinach vs Hamburgers
Popeye's nephews would rather have hamburgers than spinach, so Popeye recounts some of his past expl...
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Baby Wants a Battle
Popeye and Bluto fight over taking Olive out; she decides they'll all stay home together. While look...
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Silly Hillbilly
Popeye's traveling department store comes to hillbilly country. He gets upset as Bluto, mistaking a ...
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Pop-Pie a la Mode
Popeye, adrift at sea on a raft, eventually comes to an island which, it turns out, is inhabited by ...
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Swab the Duck
Baby Huey sees some little ducks playing pirate and wants to join in, but when he jumps on their raf...
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Base Brawl
At the zoo, the animals have all gone to play baseball. Animals fill the stands as they watch the an...
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Taxi-Turvy
Popeye and Bluto are taxi drivers; they are, of course, competing for fares - and Olive, in particul...
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Popeye's 20th Anniversary
Popeye is being honored for his 20 years of films, in a dinner hosted by 'Bob Hope' (several other c...
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Toreadorable
Popeye and Olive are at a bullfight selling snacks. When toreador Bluto throws the bull, Olive falls...
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Operation Ice-Tickle
Olive tells Popeye and Brutus she'll go out with the first one who brings her back the North Pole --...
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Boo Moon
Casper the Friendly Ghost comes to the aid of King Luna and his people after being attacked by invad...
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3-D Rarities
Selections include Kelley's Plasticon Pictures, the earliest extant 3-D demonstration film from 1922...
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Nearlyweds
Popeye and Bluto both plan to marry Olive Oyl, but Popeye proposes first. When Olive says, "Yes!" to...
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Spree Lunch
Popeye opens a diner; Bluto pulls one up right across the street. Wimpy comes along, and they compet...
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Red White and Boo
Through the use of a Time Machine, Casper the Friendly Ghost gets transported back in time, In the s...
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Ancient Fistory
It's the middle ages (sort of); Popeye is working in Bluto's Beanery. Bluto is going to the ball whe...
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Cheese Burglar
While cats and dogs are natural enemies, such is not the case in the house where Herman the mouse li...
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Bargain Counter Attack
Lulu goes to a department store to exchange her doll for something else. While looking for a new ite...
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The Wee Men
A yarn about the mythical Leprechauns who reside in Ireland and their crock of gold. The legend says...
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Cad and Caddy
Lulu plans her revenge against a distressed golfer who refuses to give her a lollipop after he promi...
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Tiger Burger
Popeye and Wimpy are in India where the natives are terrified of a man-eating tiger....
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Law and Audrey
Audrey plays baseball with Pal, but she hurts and angers a police man several times, that he chases ...
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Germany - Handle with Care!
This "March of Time" entry examines the many problems, both human and economic, that faced the Allie...
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Super Lulu
Lulu's dream combines "Jack and the Beanstalk" and her favorite superhero comic books....
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The Stupidstitious Cat
Buzzy the Crow is under attack from a cat. But when he finds out that the cat is very superstitious,...
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Leprechauns Gold
A song-filled Noveltoon featuring the antics of the Irish Leprechauns during their annual gold-washi...
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Fright to the Finish
At Halloween, Olive Oyl is reading ghost stories to Popeye and Bluto. Popeye scoffs. Bluto decides t...
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All's Fair at the Fair
Bluto, the daring hot air balloon rider, catches the eye of Olive at a carnival, much to Popeye's ch...
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Daffydilly Daddy
Little Lulu's daddy gives her a blue posey to exhibit at a flower show. She loses it on the way and ...
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Is Everybody Happy?
Part of The March of Time series, this episode (Volume 13, Number 1) deals with the question of whet...
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She-Sick Sailors
Bluto disguises himself as Superman in order to impress the comic book hero's biggest fan, Olive Oyl...
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Out to Punch
Popeye's training for his boxing match with Bluto by jumping rope with a massive chain. Bluto, who's...
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Popeye for President
Popeye and Bluto are running for President. It's election day, the vote is tied, and Olive Oyl is th...
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Parlez Vous Woo
Olive is so captived by "The International", a radio personality with a French accent, that she'd ra...
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Greek Mirthology
Popeye is trying to get his nephews to eat their spinach, so he tells them about how Hercules (Popey...
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Take the Money and Run
Virgil Starkwell is intent on becoming a notorious bank robber. Unfortunately for Virgil and his not...
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Show-Business at War
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort....
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Puppet Love
Bluto builds a Popeye puppet and manipulates it to treat Olive rudely. Then he comes in and takes Ol...
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Casper Comes to Clown
Casper befriends a bear cub with a natural talent for juggling. Soon the cub is in the circus, but a...
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Candy Cabaret
Set in a nightclub in Sugarland---not the one in Texas---the bon-bons, lollipops, taffy and other sw...
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Gift of Gag
Popeye's nephews try to sneak a birthday present for their Uncle Popeye into his house....
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House Tricks?
Olive is building a house when the boys happen by. They show off a bit to convince her to let them b...
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The Movies March On
A "March of Time" presentation of the evolution of movies compiled primarily from film clips of sile...
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The Magnetic Telescope
When police interfere with a reckless scientist's experiment, it creates a deadly meteor shower only...
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Billion Dollar Limited
Robbers target a special train carrying a billion dollars worth of gold, and the only one who can st...
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Eleventh Hour
Using Clark Kent as a cover, Superman travels to Japan as a saboteur during the war....
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Land of the Lost Jewels
Two children are fishing when they catch a talking fish named Red Lantern. He takes them underwater ...
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Radio Days
The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York ...
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The Crystal Brawl
Bluto muscles out Popeye to take Olive to the fair. Popeye rushes ahead and poses as a fortune telle...
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Fit to Be Toyed
Jonathan P. Grisley, the president of a toy company, is sent to a psychiatrist to find out why he pl...
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I'll Be Skiing Ya
Popeye and Olive are on a winter vacation in Lake Plastered, NY. Popeye is teaching Olive to ice ska...
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Symphony in Spinach
Singer Olive Oyl needs an accompanist, and both Popeye and Bluto apply for the job....
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Hot Air Aces
Despite the title, the vehicles here are airplanes, not balloons. Bluto and Popeye are racing around...
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Tar with a Star
Gunfights are diminishing the population (1864- for the time being) in the tough Western town of Cac...
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Robin Hood-Winked
Popeye is Robin Hood; he's got a sidekick, Little John. Bluto is the tax collector, and Olive is the...
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A Balmy Swami
Popeye and Olive are taking in a variety show. Popeye enjoys the juggling seal very much, but he's f...
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Lumberjack and Jill
Popeye and Bluto are lumberjacks who compete for the affections of their new cook, Olive Oyl....
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The Royal Four-Flusher
Popeye and Olive are feeding squirrels in the park when the rich and elegant Count Marvo (Bluto), th...
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Popeye and the Pirates
Popeye is taking Olive on a boat ride when she spots a pirate ship. They are soon captured, and Pope...
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Peep in the Deep
Olive has a map to a sunken treasure, but Bluto stowed away and is determined to beat Popeye to it....
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The Island Fling
Bluto is Robinson Crusoe; Popeye and Olive approach his island on a raft....
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Safari So Good
Popeye and Olive are on an African safari, he with a rifle, she with a camera. Olive happens across ...
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Wotta Knight
Popeye and Bluto are knights, jousting for the honor of Sleeping Beauty (Olive, with long blonde hai...
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The Fistic Mystic
Popeye and Olive enter the city of Badgag and spot Bluto doing magic tricks. He hypnotizes Olive lik...
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Rocket to Mars
Popeye and Olive are touring a museum when they accidentally launch a rocketship to Mars. Olive esca...
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Service with a Guile
Olive runs a service station. The admiral pulls in and asks Olive to put some air in his tire, as he...
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Rodeo Romeo
Popeye and Olive are at the rodeo, starring Badlands Bluto. Olive is impressed by Bluto's stunts, ma...
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Klondike Casanova
At the Polar Bar & Grill in the Klondike, Popeye and Olive Oyl are the sole proprietors. Dangerous D...
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Popeye's Premiere
Popeye and Olive are at the premiere of Popeye's new movie. He gets a little too wrapped up in the m...
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Pitchin' Woo at the Zoo
Popeye takes Olive to the zoo, where she's spotted by zookeeper Bluto, who tries various stunts to i...
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Matinee Idol Popeye
Brutus is an egotistical French director making a film about Antony and Cleopatra, starring Popeye a...
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Better Bait Than Never
Katnip is trying to catch a really big fish, but is having no success....
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Jeep Tale
Popeye tells Swee'Pea the story of how Eugene the Jeep got his special powers. He tells a fairy tale...
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Power
Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the coun...
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As the Crow Lies
Buzzy the Crow is about to be eaten by a cat but the cat has hiccoughs. Buzzy, of course, has a few ...
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Lion in the Roar
In the African jungle, King Louis, is telling his son, the future King Louie, that someday he will i...
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Herman the Catoonist
When the cartoonist takes a coffee break and leaves the office for a spell, Katnip and "Hoiman" brea...
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Cat-Choo
Katnip has a cold and reads that eating a fresh crow is a sure cure. Cros didn't come any fresher th...
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Casper's Spree Under the Sea
Casper is kicked out of the Society of Ghosts when he admits he does not like scaring people....
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Chick and Double Chick
Little Lulu and her dog are charged with protecting the baby chicks from a sly and hungry cat. The c...
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Noveltoons: Original Classics
When Paramount removed Max Fleischer (Betty Boop, Popeye) from control of the Fleischer cartoon stud...
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A Dopey Hacienda
Toro and Pancho encounter a hungry cat who has a special taste for frogs....
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Popeye, the Ace of Space
Popeye is abducted by Martians who conduct a series of hideous experiments on him, but thanks to his...
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