Jackson Beck

Acting

Jackson Beck

Born 1912-07-23 · Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

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.

Acting credits

Radio Days poster
7.0

The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and urban legends of the radio stars.

Radio Days

1987

G.I. Joe: The Movie poster
6.6

G.I. Joe faces a new enemy as an ancient society of snake people known as Cobra-La try to forcefully take back the earth from those who drove them underground eons ago.

G.I. Joe: The Movie

1987

The Mechanical Monsters poster
7.0

Superman battles a criminal mastermind and his robot army.

The Mechanical Monsters

1941

No artwork available
8.0

Little Lulu's daddy gives her a blue posey to exhibit at a flower show. She loses it on the way and a bulldog prevents her from reacquiring it, but she outwits him and proceeds to the show. There she breaks the stalk when she uses her bean-shooter at a hummingbird. She tosses the flower in a barrel of Vigaro and the flower suddenly bursts into bloom again.

Daffydilly Daddy

1945

Take the Money and Run poster
7.1

Virgil Starkwell is intent on becoming a notorious bank robber. Unfortunately for Virgil and his not-so-budding career, he is completely incompetent.

Take the Money and Run

1969

Crazytown poster
7.5

The story of a town where everything is topsy-turvy.

Crazytown

1954

Power poster
5.9

Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the country. When his long-time friend and client Ohio senator Sam Hastings decides to quit politics, he is rapidly drafted to help with the campaign of the man destined to succeed him, unknown and mysterious businessman Jerome Cade...

Power

1986

Abusement Park poster
6.5

Popeye and Bluto battle over Olive in an amusement park.

Abusement Park

1947

Electric Earthquake poster
6.5

A scientist uses an earthquake machine to threaten the city, and only Superman can stop his extortion plan!

Electric Earthquake

1942

Robin Rodenthood poster
10.0

Herman battles Katnip in a costume epic satirizing the Robin Hood story. Katnip is the offical tax collector. Taxes have gone up 100%. The first place that Katnip hits is Povertyville. No money there... only Robin Hood Herman. Herman follows Katnip back to the castle and recovers the money for the mice after a battle. Katnip gets sliced clean down the middle with a fancy medieval executioner's axe!

Robin Rodenthood

1955

Billion Dollar Limited poster
7.0

Robbers target a special train carrying a billion dollars worth of gold, and the only one who can stop them is Superman!

Billion Dollar Limited

1942

Floor Flusher poster
6.2

Popeye and Bluto stop by to see Olive and fix her leaky faucet. Popeye does it better, and Bluto gets jealous, so he starts rerouting Olive's plumbing and causing all sorts of leaks.

Floor Flusher

1954

House Tricks? poster
7.0

Olive is building a house when the boys happen by. They show off a bit to convince her to let them build her house for her. She decides to split the job in half by splitting the blueprints in half and having each build one side of the house. Of course, "cooperation" isn't in their vocabulary. Bluto does an extremely sloppy job on his half, and also takes every opportunity to either sabotage Popeye or trick him into doing more work. Meanwhile, Popeye's making enough of his own mistakes, many of which seem to involve wedging Olive into small bent pipes. Eventually, Popeye has his spinach and finishes the house, but the house collapses as they are celebrating with a kiss.

House Tricks?

1946

Wigwam Whoopee poster
10.0

Popeye follows along behind the Mayflower in his own rowboat. He washes up on Plymouth Rock.

Wigwam Whoopee

1948

The Arctic Giant poster
6.9

A frozen Tyrannosaurus rex is found and put on display in a museum, but when he thaws out and revives, Superman has to stop his rampage!

The Arctic Giant

1942

The Camps of Death poster
8.3

Human torture. Factories of death. War atrocities. The crimes that haunt the pagse of history are chronicled in the piercing documentary Camps of Death. Following Hitler's murderous career, the film traces his rise to power, his ultimate demise, and the subsequent nuremberg trials that publicized the horrors of Hitler's regime. Concentration camp footage combines with chilling POW interviews to graphically create the nazi nightmare that few could hope to survive. A powerful look at the third reich adn the horrifying fate of its enemies.

The Camps of Death

1983

Boo Scout poster
6.5

Casper the Friendly Ghost befriends a Boy Scout.

Boo Scout

1951

Popalong Popeye poster
7.3

Popeye is hosting three of his western-obsessed nephews on his ranch. To get them to eat their spinach, he tells about how he arrived at the ranch and was humiliated by foreman Bluto until, of course, he ate his spinach.

Popalong Popeye

1952

G.I. Joe: The Revenge of Cobra poster
8.1

G.I. Joe: The Revenge of Cobra is the second G.I. Joe miniseries based on the successful Hasbro Toys and Marvel Comics property. Using a laser core stolen from G.I.Joe, Cobra activates the Weather Dominator, an incredible weapon which controls the forces of Nature itself, Cobra Commander targets Washington for destruction, but the Joe team repels the attack and the Weather Dominator explodes into three parts setting off a chain reaction of natural disasters around the world. Can G.I.Joe recover the Weather Dominator in time to beat Cobra and save the world. It aired in 1984 and most of the 1984 and even some 1985 products are given plenty of screen time. Like the first miniseries, A Real American Hero, The Revenge of Cobra was written by Ron Friedman who created the series for television, and wrote all four miniseries.

G.I. Joe: The Revenge of Cobra

1984

No artwork available
10.0

Katnip has a cold and reads that eating a fresh crow is a sure cure. Cros didn't come any fresher than Buzzy, and when Katnip spies him ice-skating, he decides to eat him. But Buzzy has no intentions of becoming cat food and he tells the cat he has an ever better cure for colds. Buzzy brews up a concoction of pepper, tabasco sauce and mustard, which turn the cat into a fireworks display, and a blazing sun-lamp sets him on fire. The burning cat rushes out into the snow, which melts...and then freezes over him. Buzzy resumes his ice skating.

Cat-Choo

1951

Puppet Love poster
5.4

Bluto builds a Popeye puppet and manipulates it to treat Olive rudely. Then he comes in and takes Olive away. When Popeye discovers the ruse, knocks Bluto out and ties puppet strings to him.

Puppet Love

1944

Spooky Swabs poster
6.5

Popeye and Olive board a run-down ship, which turns out to be haunted.

Spooky Swabs

1957

Scout Fellow poster
9.0

Baby Huey dreams of becoming a Cub Scout, but the patrol out on a camping trip considers him to be too big and stupid to join. When a wolf shows up all the other ducks run away but Huey mistakes him for the scout master, and asks for his help. The wolf gives him several tasks to perform, all designed with Huey ending up on the wolf's dinner table, but dumb Huey turns the situations and the wolf is rendered harmless. The scouts make Huey an honorary member, and the battered wolf is used as a patrol flag.

Scout Fellow

1951

Taxi-Turvy poster
6.7

Popeye and Bluto are taxi drivers; they are, of course, competing for fares - and Olive, in particular.

Taxi-Turvy

1954