MORRISTOWN, N.J., May 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Bayer Consumer Care announced that Frank Garske of California is the grand prize winner of the Alka-Seltzer® Said/Heard Mishaps Contest on Facebook. One ...

The Elkhart County Historical Museum in Bristol is raffling off this Alka-Seltzer “Speedy” jacket, with a drawing on Dec. 15, 2023. BRISTOL — The Elkhart County Historical Museum is holding a free ...

A glandular condition gave Dick Beals his small stature and youthful voice. That voice was used in more than 3,000 commercials. Beals played a wide range of roles: babies, teenagers and chipmunks.

For a long time, they were gone but not forgotten. No more. Martha Teichner has a blast from the past: Speedy Alka Seltzer ... Of course he'd never heard of him. Speedy's television career ended in ...

Speedy Alka-Seltzer--the baby-faced mascot sketched out by Bob Watkins for the Wade Agency back in 1951--has made a somewhat surreptitious return. Working quietly with BBDO, Alka-Seltzer owner Bayer ...

LOS ANGELES – Dick Beals, a voice actor best known for injecting youthful enthusiasm into the character of Speedy Alka-Seltzer in mid-20th century television commercials for the pain remedy, has died.

Speedy Alka-Seltzer, an animated puppet who sang and danced in television commercials for the popular antacid from 1954 to 1964, became one of the best-known product personifications in advertising ...

The recent launch of Captain Zantac as the new face of Boehringer Ingelheim Consumer Health Care’s Zantac brand, marks the return of animated mascots for promoting Pharma products, after Speedy ...

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Dick Beals, a voice actor best known for injecting youthful enthusiasm into the character of Speedy Alka-Seltzer in mid-20th century television commercials for the pain remedy, has died. He was 85.

(CBS/AP) The radio and television voice-over star whose work included the animated characters Gumby and Speedy Alka-Seltzer has died in Southern California at 85. Dick Beals was 85. A friend, Peter ...