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Jackson BeckJackson Beck (July 23, 1912 in Manhattan, New York - July 28, 2004 in Manhattan) was best known as the voice of Bluto in over 300 Popeye cartoons. His father, Max Blank, was a silent-film actor. Beck had a career in radio, television and animation dating from 1931 with Myrt and Marge. In 1943, he took over as narrator of radio's Superman; it was Beck who intoned the famous prologue "strange visitor from another planet..." Decades later, he portrayed Perry White, Clark Kent's boss in the animated film Superman. He also impersonated Joseph Stalin and other world leaders for the March of Time newsreels. In 1969, Beck used his deep, dramatic, modulated voice as the narrator of Woody Allen's Take the Money and Run. Beck also served as a pitchman for products from Combat Roach Killer to Little Caesars Pizza (he was Caesar, Jr.) Beck, Jackson Beck, Jackson Beck, Jackson
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