Jackson Beck
Birthday: Born in 1912-07-23 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Deathday: 2004-07-28
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.
TV Credits
Remington Steele
Character: Narrator
Laura Holt, a licensed private detective, opens a detective agency but finds that potential clients refuse to hire a woman, however qualified. To solve the problem, Laura invents a fictitious male superior whom she names Remington Steele. Through a series of events that unfold in the first episode, "License to Steele," a former thief and con man, whose real name is never revealed, assumes the identity of Remington Steele. Behind the scenes, Laura remains firmly in charge....
The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure
Character:
The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure is a Filmation animated series that aired on CBS from 1967 to 1968. Premiering on September 9, 1967, this 60-minute program included a series of six-minute adventures featuring various DC Comics superheroes....
Popeye the Sailor
Character: Brutus (voice)
Follows the adventures of the famed spinach-eating sailor man. Popeye is one of the most popular cartoon characters of all time. This spunky but loveable spinach-eating sailor continues to delight young and old with his comic adventures, and the entire gang is around to provide plenty of rousing fun and action: Olive Oyl, Swee'Pea, Wimpy and Bluto....
The New Adventures of Superman
Character:
The New Adventures of Superman is a series of six-minute animated Superman adventures produced by Filmation that were broadcast on CBS between 1966 and 1970. The 68 segments appeared as part of three different programs during that time, packaged with similar shorts featuring The Adventures of Superboy and other DC Comics superheroes....
Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales
Character:
Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales is a semi-educational animated cartoon TV series that originally aired on CBS from 1963 to 1966. It was produced by Total Television, the same company that produced the earlier King Leonardo and the later Underdog, and primarily sponsored by General Mills. The title is a play on “tuxedo and tails” formal wear....
The Adventures of Superboy
Character:
The Adventures of Superboy is a series of six-minute animated Superboy cartoons produced by Filmation that were broadcast on CBS between 1966 and 1969. The 34 segments appeared as part of three different programs during that time, packaged with similar shorts featuring The New Adventures of Superman other DC Comics superheroes. These adventures marked the animation debut of Superboy, as well as his teenage alter ego Clark Kent, who acted as the bespectacled, mild-mannered disguise for the young...
King Leonardo and His Short Subjects
Character: King Leonardo (voice)
King Leonardo and his Short Subjects is an animated cartoon series released in 1960 by Total Television, sponsored by General Mills....
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero
Character: Narrator (voice)
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero is a half-hour American animated television series based on the successful toyline from Hasbro and the comic book series from Marvel Comics. The cartoon had its beginnings with two five-part mini-series in 1983 and 1984, then became a regular series that ran in syndication from 1985 to 1986. Ron Friedman created the G.I. Joe animated series for television, and wrote all four miniseries. The fourth mini-series was intended to be a feature film, but due to production...
Steve Canyon
Character: Announcer (uncredited)
Steve Canyon is a commander for the U.S. air force. His assignment is to go to various bases to troubleshoot problems...
Movie Credits
Cookin' with Gags
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye, the proprietor of a gymnasium for women, has Olive Oyl as one of his pupils. Rival Bluto disguises himself as a coy flapper and joins the class. Believing Bluto to be a woman, Popeye is very annoyed when Bluto tries to show him up....
The Farmer and the Belle
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Olive Oyl's Farm is desparately in need of a farmhand. Fortunately, or unfortunately, the boys are driving by. They compete for the job. Chores: Getting water from a well, picking apples, shoeing a horse, gathering eggs. Popeye feeds a hen a little spinach, and she produces a mountain of eggs, which eventually end up all over Bluto. Bluto drops an anvil on Popeye, then goes after Olive against her wishes, chasing her into a succession of haystacks (where he finds a needle!). The chicken feeds Po...
Alpine for You
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye is climbing the Alps, and Olive is being hauled up behind him on a rope, taking pictures. Mountain guide Bluto spots them through binoculars, and goes crazy over Olive. He immediately intercepts them and tries to convince them they need a professional guide. Popeye resists, so Bluto uses a number of tricks: cutting the rope, burning a bridge they are crossing, using a magnet to break Popeye's climbing pick. Olive finally has had enough, and goes off with Bluto, who promptly gets her alone...
Firemen's Brawl
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto are manning a fire station when the alarm comes in: it's Olive's house....
Swimmer Take All
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto are in a swimming race across the English Channel. As usual, Bluto has a million ways to cheat, and Popeye overcomes all of them to win. Some of the bits: Popeye's suit is connected to a fish hook; the fish unravels it and Popeye knits it back together. Bluto is on a raft and blows sneezing powder at Popeye. Bluto attaches a magnet to Popeye which attracts a mine (which ends up blowing Popeye much closer to the line). Bluto dumps a load of cement on Popeye....
Wigwam Whoopee
Character: Chief (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye follows along behind the Mayflower in his own rowboat. He washes up on Plymouth Rock....
A Bicep Built for Two
Character: Herman / Big Muscular Cat
From Press Kit: Katnip's serenading of a girl cat is interrupted by a tough cat that runs him off and takes over.The love-lorn Katnip is determined to best the muscle-bound cat and enlists the aid of Herman. Herman, with bad-intentions, puts Katnip through a muscle-building course which consists of weight-lifting, bar-chinning and equipment rigged with high explosives....
Dizzy Dinosaurs
Character: Narrator / Caveman
The cavemen go to the Paramountain Theater....
Little Brown Jug
Character: Piggy (voice)
An animated short about various woodland creatures milling and drinking apple cider. Includes a sing-a-long of the title song....
Stork Raving Mad
Character: Audience Member
A far-fetched tale about a baby who doesn't want to be delivered and a stork who goes a little goofy in the process. The stork has a rush delivery, but the baby isn't ready to settle down yet....
Big Bad Sindbad
Character: Sindbad (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye is taking his nephews to the museum, and proves to them that he is the greatest sailor in the world by telling them of a time he bested Sindbad the Sailor when Sindbad tried to abduct Olive Oyl....
Child Sockology
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Olive invites the boys over for dinner. They play briefly with Swee'pea, but when the inevitable fight starts, they ignore him and he wanders off to a construction site. The boys alternate between fighting each other and rescuing the tot, with Bluto concentrating on fighting and Popeye on saving....
Beaus Will Be Beaus
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto both show up to take Olive to the beach. Olive agrees, but only on the condition they promise to stop fighting......
Quick on the Vigor
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye takes Olive to the carnival; while he's busy winning candy at the "ring the bell" stand, strongman Bluto muscles in on her. There follows the inevitable contest, invevitably rigged....
Popalong Popeye
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Friend or Phony
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
To convince Popeye to throw away his spinach, Bluto fakes his death, after showing clips of "spinach moments" from a couple earlier shows....
How Green Is My Spinach
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
To finally defeat Popeye, Bluto sets out to destroy the spinach crop....
Lunch with a Punch
Character: Bluto / Frog (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive take his nephews on a picnic. They don't want to eat their spinach, so Popeye tells them about his school days, when Bluto repeatedly got Popeye in trouble and eventually stole Olive away until Popeye had his spinach and saved her from an oncoming train. After his story, Bluto grabs Popeye and the nephews eat their spinach and save him....
Let's Stalk Spinach
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye's nephews don't want to eat their spinach, so Popeye tells them about his youth, before he liked spinach. In a Jack and the beanstalk scenario, he climbs a spinach-stalk and encounters a greedy giant. He ultimately vanquishes the giant with help from spinach that he accidentally eats from a giant can, and the nephews chow down on their sandwiches....
Vacation with Play
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive are on vacation at Lake Narrowhead. Olive wants to take part in athletic activities, while Popeye just wants to rest (particularly since he had to substitute for one wheel of their sad excuse of a car). Olive goes off for athletic instruction while Popeye sleeps until he sees that the instructor is Bluto, and he's taking a personal interest in Olive....
Jitterbug Jive
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Olive has invited the boys over, but finds Popeye old-fashioned compared to the zoot-suited Bluto. Popeye wants to dance a waltz, pull taffy, play pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey and croquet, and bob for apples, but Olive turns up her nose at all these as Bluto sabotages them. Finally, Bluto pours quick-drying cement in the apple water and drives off with Olive. Popeye, encased in cement, rolls downhill into a vegetable shop, right next to a bin of spinach. Good thing, because Bluto's getting fresh i...
Gym Jam
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye runs a gym; his only customer on ladies day is Olive. Bluto, seeing Olive go in, dresses in drag to get admittance. Popeye comes on to him; all the while, Bluto is beating up Popeye and pretending they are accidents, until his wig comes off....
Snow Place Like Home
Character: Pierre Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive are relaxing in the water off Miami when a hurricane hits. It carries them to the North Pole. Fortunately, a penguin comes by advertising Pierre's Trading Post; unfortunately, Pierre has eyes for Olive....
Popeye Makes a Movie
Character: Abu Hassan (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive prepare to make a movie while his nephews watch. The movie is a significant portion of Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves, which makes up over 80% of this release (beginning with Popeye, Olive, and Wimpy suffering in the desert), and despite admonitions, the nephews get involved a couple times, most notably tossing Popeye his can of spinach....
Beach Peach
Character: Lifeguard (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive are having a day at the beach; the lifeguard (not drawn as Bluto, though he sounds and acts like him) sees Olive and puts the moves on....
Barking Dogs Don't Fite
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Olive asks Popeye to walk her dainty new poodle Reggie, to his intense embarrassment. Bluto comes by with his bulldog, Killer, who tries to kill Reggie. The resourceful little pooch avoids Killer for a while, but is eventually caught, and when Popeye tries to help, Bluto takes him out of commission as well, until they both eat their spinach just before Bluto is ready to run them both over with a steam-roller....
Magica-Lulu
Character: Magician (voice) (uncredited)
Lulu goes to see the magic show with the magician's act.Lulu wants to be part of the magic show but she finds trouble. Watch for the gag when Lulu is mistaken as a rabbit in the magician's hat....
Popeye's Pizza Palace
Character: Brutus (voice)
Popeye runs a pizza restaurant. Wimpy wants to pay him Tuesday for some hamburger pizzas, but Popeye says "No money, no pizzas! Cash on the line!" Wimpy would pay Brutus Tuesday if he gave him money for pizzas, but Popeye yells "No money, no pizzas!" Brutus tells Popeye to fix Wimpy some pizzas. Popeye makes a pizza making machine, and asks Brutus what kind of pizzas he wants. Brutus wants a tamale pizza, but Popeye says he never serves tamale pizzas. Brutus then rolls Popeye into some pizza dou...
Popeye and the Giant
Character: Brutus (voice)
Popeye is walking across the street, while Wimpy is practicing his hamburger-mooching talk. Brutus notices him and puts growth pills on a hamburger. Wimpy then eats it, and it causes him to grow very big. Brutus takes the towering moocher to the circus, but they refuse to hire him. Wimpy seeks help from the Sea Hag, who puts him in a baby carriage. Popeye sees his friend's large size and tries to shrink him down by feeding him spinach, but it only makes him grow bigger. He gives Wimpy a hamburge...
Private Eye Popeye
Character: Butler (voice) (uncredited)
Private Eye Popeye gets a call from Olive Oyl to guard a precious gem. But no sooner does he get the gem than the butler takes it....
G.I. Joe: The Revenge of Cobra
Character: Narrator (voice)
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 ...
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero
Character: Announcer (voice)
A Real American Hero is the first G.I. Joe miniseries, in it the G.I. Joe Special Missions Force must contend with COBRA who, after the successful theft of a special broadcast satellite now threaten the world with a teleportation machine called the M.A.S.S. Device. G.I. Joe tracks down the original designer who advises that the only way to counter the weapon is to build a M.A.S.S. Device of their own. However to power the device properly three rare catalytic elements are needed. Now it's a race ...
G.I. Joe: The Movie
Character: Narrator (voice)
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....
For Better or Nurse
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
The boys see lovely nurse Olive pass by and follow her to her hospital. She throws them out, so they scheme to hurt themselves enough to get hospitalized, with no luck. Bluto gets a wall to fall on him, but stands in the window. Popeye tries to get run over by a steam-roller, but a street cleaner saves him. Bluto dives off a skyscraper - into a huge pile of mattresses. Popeye stands in a naval gunnery range, but the gunners miss the target. Bluto taunts a bull, but stands next to a billboard of ...
Mess Production
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Olive Oyl, a regular Rosie the Riveter, receives a blow to the head from a swinging grappling hook, sending her into a sleepwalking state. Popeye and Bluto, two rival factory workers, fight each other for privilege of saving her life....
Shape Ahoy
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Bluto and Popeye are vacationing on a men's only island, when Olive happens by on a shipwreck raft. They both pretend to ignore her, but woo her behind each other's back....
Barbecue for Two
Character: Brutus
Popeye wants to have a barbecue for two -- namely him and Olive. But Brutus, Wimpy and Swee' Pea all try to muscle in....
Superman
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
After The Daily Planet receives a letter from a mad scientist threatening to wreak destruction with his Electrothanasia Ray, Lois Lane heads out in the hopes of getting more information for a news story....
Cry Uncle!
Character: Narrator (voice)
Private detective Jack Masters takes on a case and gets mixed up in murder, sex and blackmail....
Mister and Mistletoe
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
It's Christmas Eve. Popeye's nephews are staying over with Olive, and Popeye is there helping decorate. Bluto disguises himself as Santa and horns in on Olive....
Tops in the Big Top
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Bluto is the ringmaster; Popeye is the star attraction. Bluto covets Popeye's assistant Olive. Popeye sticks his head in a lion's mouth, but Bluto has put a steak on Popeye's head. When he gets out of that, he does his high wire act: carrying a piano, and Olive, blindfolded. Bluto sabotages this with a banana peel and tosses Popeye to the monkey cage, while he has his way with Olive - until Popeye eats his spinach....
I Don't Scare
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Bluto sabotages Popeye's date with the superstitious Olive Oyl on Friday the 13th....
Destruction Inc.
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Superman has to thwart wartime saboteurs tampering with things at the Metropolis Munitions Plant...who have captured Lois Lane and loaded her into a torpedo!...
The Mummy Strikes
Character: Narrator / Professor (voice) (uncredited)
Egyptologists are attacked by mummies, drawing the attention of Superman....
Showdown
Character: Boss (voice) (uncredited)
Superman's reputation is tarnished when a crook begins committing crimes in a Superman costume....
Jungle Drums
Character: German Commander (voice) (uncredited)
Superman discovers a secret Nazi base in the jungle....
The Underground World
Character: Narrator / Henderson (voice) (uncredited)
Superman has to save Lois Lane from a cult of hawk-people in an homage to Edgar Rice Burroughs's "At the Earth's Core"....
Secret Agent
Character: Narrator / Police Chief / Saboteur (voice) (uncredited)
A double agent trying to deliver information to Washington, D.C. is chased by Nazi operatives....
The Arctic Giant
Character: Perry White (voice) (uncredited)
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 Bulleteers
Character: Bulleteer (voice) (uncredited)
Criminals with rocket powered car loot and extort the city, and only Superman can stop them!...
Inside Nazi Germany
Character: Narrator (voice)
Short documentary film in the newsreel series 'The March of Time'....
Volcano
Character: Narrator #2 / Officer / Professor (voice) (uncredited)
Superman comes to the rescue when a volcano erupts....
Electric Earthquake
Character: Perry White / Indian Scientist (voice) (uncredited)
A scientist uses an earthquake machine to threaten the city, and only Superman can stop his extortion plan!...
A Haul in One
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto are, believe it or not, pals and partners in a moving company. (Maybe it's because Popeye isn't squinting here.) Anyhow, Olive has made the mistake of hiring them. She hasn't finished packing yet, so the boys, smitten as soon as she answers the door, compete to help her. Once packed, they compete to move more impressive piles of her belongings. Popeye easily wins these contests, even though Bluto locks him in the van at one point. At the end, Bluto socks Popeye into the piano, t...
Assault and Flattery
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
In Judge Wimpy's courtroom, Bluto accuses Popeye of assault and battery; he claims to have been attacked by him on several occasions, without provocation. Popeye then tells his side....
Floor Flusher
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
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....
The Camps of Death
Character: 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 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 rei...
A Job for a Gob
Character: Bluto (voice)
Olive's ranch needs a helper, and the boys just happen to be passing by. Bluto's convinced he's better, but Popeye wins at all of Olive's tests: riding a bronco and branding. As Popeye wins the job, Bluto starts a stampede and a fire simultaneously. With some spinach help, Popeye gets Bluto out of the way, douses the fire, and saves Olive from the stampede....
The Enchanted Square
Character: Officer Flanagan (voice) (uncredited)
Police Officer Flanagan gives a little blind girl, Billie, a Raggety-Ann doll, and she is told she can see it if she uses her imagination; she does so and the slum neighborhood is transformed into an enchanted fairyland, alive with beautiful colors and music....
Penny Antics
Character: Bluto (voice)
A virtual remake of Customers Wanted, with Popeye and Bluto running competing penny arcades showing customer Wimpy clips from past shorts, though in this case, rather than each arcade owner showing clips from the same story, they show different stories....
Spooky Swabs
Character: Ghost (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive board a run-down ship, which turns out to be haunted....
Starting from Hatch
Character: Fox
The birth of Baby Huey! The headlines in "Barnyard Eggstra" read: "Duck Lays Huge Egg. Mother Eggcited. Egg To Be Named Huey." A fox steals the giant egg and escapes with it. When he uses a hammer to crack the egg, Baby Huey is hatched. The fox tries to cook the king-size duckling. Huey mistakes the fox for his mommy and thinks that he's just trying to give him a bath. He chases the fox, thinking that the fox is his mother and trying to escape him. In tears, his mother shows up with a milk bottl...
Scout Fellow
Character: Fox
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 patr...
One Quack Mind
Character: Fox
Dumb and overgrown Baby Huey finds himself left to the untender mercies of a fox disguised as a baby sitter. Hue also turns out to be one tough duck when he discovers his new baby sitter likes to play rough. So does Huey, who proceeds to beat the stuffing out of the fox....
Git Along Lil' Duckie
Character: Fox
The over-sized Baby Huey wants to join the little ducks in their cowboy game but they don't want him. A fox comes along and the ducklings flee and leave Huey to fight the enemy. The fox uses an exploding-cigar, a shotgun and dynamite against him but Huey is too tough and the fox winds up being the pursued....
Huey's Ducky Daddy
Character: Gilbert
Hubert Duck is forced by his wife to take his son, Baby Huey, on his fishing trip. Huey causes all kinds of trouble and ends up catching a whale....
Popeye's Service Station
Character: Brutus (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye is now the manager of a service station, he provides a good service with free extras. Brutus comes along only wanting the free extras, including free access to another customer, Olive Oyl....
To Boo or Not to Boo
Character: Narrator / Little Boy / Clown (voice) (uncredited)
Mild-and-meek Casper, the Friendly Ghost, is depressed and glum because people will have nothing to do with him despite the fact that he has read "How To Win Friends, and Influence People"....
The Deep Boo Sea
Character: Ghost Schoolmaster (voice) (uncredited)
Little Billy wants to play pirates with two older friends. However, the big kids won't let him play. He meets up with Casper, and the two build a raft together and sail out to to sea to search for pirate treasure... and find it....
Ghost of the Town
Character: Ghost Aircraft Leader / Walter Winchell (voice) (uncredited)
In this pun-title cartoon (from Toast of the Town) Casper, the friendly ghost, is banished from Ghost Town/Heaven/Territory, because he refuses to frighten living people....
The Seapreme Court
Character: Judge (voice) (uncredited)
Little Audrey, while fishing, falls to the bottom of the sea, where she encounters all types of sea-life and then is arrested by the local fish-constable. She is tried by a jury of sardines who find her guilty, and she is sentenced to the 'eelectric chair." She makes an escape attempt, and wakes up to find it has all been a dream. She has a nibble on her fishing line and reels in a small fish, which she quickly returns to the water....
Jumping with Toy
Character: Fox (voice)
A hungry fox disguises himself as Santa Claus, and arms himself with deadly gifts, hoping to make a duck dinner out of Baby Huey....
A Wolf in Sheik's Clothing
Character: Sheik (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive are riding a camel in Arabia. They stop to fill the camel with water and freshen up a bit; Olive muses aloud that she'd like to kiss a sheik. A sheik, looking a lot like Bluto, happens to overhear this and sets up a kissing booth. He carries her away to his luxurious tent. Popeye finally finishes up and notices Olive is gone; he chases after her, but his camel suffers a blowout. Meanwhile, the sheik has been wooing Olive. Popeye arrives, and after briefly sharing the hookah with...
Spinach vs Hamburgers
Character: Bluto (voice)
Popeye's nephews would rather have hamburgers than spinach, so Popeye recounts some of his past exploits where spinach saved the day....
Baby Wants a Battle
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto fight over taking Olive out; she decides they'll all stay home together. While looking over a family album, Popeye tells the story of a day-long fight he and Bluto had as infants....
Silly Hillbilly
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye's traveling department store comes to hillbilly country. He gets upset as Bluto, mistaking a radiator for an accordion, cuckoo clocks for a shooting gallery, and a girdle for a hammock, does violence to his store. But Olive arrives, looking for a makeover, and that distracts Popeye a while. Bluto sees the "new" Olive and gets jealous, and the feud is on....
Pop-Pie a la Mode
Character: Cannibal Leader (voice)
Popeye, adrift at sea on a raft, eventually comes to an island which, it turns out, is inhabited by cannibals....
Swab the Duck
Character: Fox
Baby Huey sees some little ducks playing pirate and wants to join in, but when he jumps on their raft, he sends them flying into the hungry fox's frying pan. Huey accidentally frees them when he jumps onto the fox in his enthusiasm to join them. The fox decides he'd rather pursue the gigantic Huey than the tiny ducklings, and when he overhears Huey wishing he could play pirate, the fox dresses as a pirate aboard a convenient nearby replica pirate ship....
Base Brawl
Character: (voice) (uncredited)
At the zoo, the animals have all gone to play baseball. Animals fill the stands as they watch the antics that can only come about from exotic animals who play baseball....
Taxi-Turvy
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto are taxi drivers; they are, of course, competing for fares - and Olive, in particular....
Popeye's 20th Anniversary
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye is being honored for his 20 years of films, in a dinner hosted by 'Bob Hope' (several other celebrities are present, like Jimmy Durante, Bing Crosby, 'Jerry Lewis' and 'Dean Martin')....
Toreadorable
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive are at a bullfight selling snacks. When toreador Bluto throws the bull, Olive falls for him....
Operation Ice-Tickle
Character: Brutus / Admiral Peary (voice) (uncredited)
Olive tells Popeye and Brutus she'll go out with the first one who brings her back the North Pole -- which turns out to be an actual pole with red and white stripes....
Boo Moon
Character: King Luna/Moon People
Casper the Friendly Ghost comes to the aid of King Luna and his people after being attacked by invading Tree Men. On the 3D Bluray 3-D Rarities Volume 1, this appears as an extra in 3D....
3-D Rarities
Character: King Luna/Moon People (archive footage)
Selections include Kelley's Plasticon Pictures, the earliest extant 3-D demonstration film from 1922 with incredible footage of Washington and New York City; New Dimensions, the first domestic full color 3-D film originally shown at the World’s Fair in 1940; Thrills for You, a promotional film for the Pennsylvania Railroad; Stardust in Your Eyes, a hilarious standup routine by Slick Slavin; trailer for The Maze, with fantastic production design by William Cameron Menzies; Doom Town, a controvers...
Nearlyweds
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto both plan to marry Olive Oyl, but Popeye proposes first. When Olive says, "Yes!" to Popeye, Bluto sets out to make Popeye look bad, break up the wedding, and win Olive over....
Spree Lunch
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye opens a diner; Bluto pulls one up right across the street. Wimpy comes along, and they compete for his business. The competition escalates, until finally they are throwing things at each other; Wimpy stands between them and snags a complete meal from the stream of objects passing overhead. Another spinach-free Popeye....
Red White and Boo
Character: Professor / Redcoat (screaming) (voice) (uncredited)
Through the use of a Time Machine, Casper the Friendly Ghost gets transported back in time, In the stone-age, Casper frightens cave-men and women. Robert Fulton's steamboat makes a successful first trip when Casper's ghostly form frightens it into action. Casper assists Paul Revere on his famous ride when Revere's horse, frightened by Casper, ceases to balk and breaks into a gallop. George Washington, crossing the Delaware River, is sped up by Casper's appearance, and Casper becomes a hero by be...
Ancient Fistory
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
It's the middle ages (sort of); Popeye is working in Bluto's Beanery. Bluto is going to the ball where Princess Olive will choose her mate. Popeye's fairy godpappy appears and it's a reverse Cinderella story, with a car created from a can of spinach....
Cheese Burglar
Character: Dog (voice)
While cats and dogs are natural enemies, such is not the case in the house where Herman the mouse lives. They are very good friends indeed, are work together to make Herman's life a hard life. Herman tries to break up their friendship, and divert their attention from guarding the cheese in the refrigerator, and almost succeeds but they make up in time to prevent Herman getting the cheese. They give chase and Herman takes refuge in a jug of wine....
Bargain Counter Attack
Character: Section Manager (voice)
Lulu goes to a department store to exchange her doll for something else. While looking for a new item Lulu manages to terrorize the section manager, ski down the escalators, and cause a noahic flood in the store....
The Wee Men
Character: Narrator / Leprechauns (voice)
A yarn about the mythical Leprechauns who reside in Ireland and their crock of gold. The legend says that if anyone succeeds in capturing one of the wee men, the little person must then lead them to where the gold is hidden. Young Patrick, on his 121st birthday---that is correct, his 121st birthday---is permitted to do a good deed, and delivers new shoes to the homes of the poor. But, alas, the town miser spots him and succeeds in capturing him. Patrick leads the miser to the spot of the gold, a...
Cad and Caddy
Character: Golfer (voice)
Lulu plans her revenge against a distressed golfer who refuses to give her a lollipop after he promised her one for caddying for him....
Tiger Burger
Character: Native Policeman / Turtle (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Wimpy are in India where the natives are terrified of a man-eating tiger....
Super Lulu
Character: Lulu's Father / Giant (voice) (uncredited)
Lulu's dream combines "Jack and the Beanstalk" and her favorite superhero comic books....
The Stupidstitious Cat
Character: Buzzy (voice) (uncredited)
Buzzy the Crow is under attack from a cat. But when he finds out that the cat is very superstitious, he uses that against him in all sorts of clever ways....
Leprechauns Gold
Character: Narrator / Leprechaun Leader (voice) (uncredited)
A song-filled Noveltoon featuring the antics of the Irish Leprechauns during their annual gold-washing ceremony. It depicts the wee people of Ireland who flavor its traditions with laughs and legend....
Crazytown
Character: Boxer (uncredited)
The story of a town where everything is topsy-turvy....
Fright to the Finish
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
At Halloween, Olive Oyl is reading ghost stories to Popeye and Bluto. Popeye scoffs. Bluto decides to take advantage of this by pretending to go home, then staging various pranks....
All's Fair at the Fair
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Bluto, the daring hot air balloon rider, catches the eye of Olive at a carnival, much to Popeye's chagrin. Bluto manages to make Popeye look bad several times, eventually winning a ring at the ball toss and taking her up in his balloon. Of course, he tries to get fresh with her, and Popeye comes to the rescue with the help of some fireworks. The hot air balloon gets a bit too hot, putting Olive in even more danger....
She-Sick Sailors
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Bluto disguises himself as Superman in order to impress the comic book hero's biggest fan, Olive Oyl. A jealous Popeye becomes a real superhero by eating his spinach....
Out to Punch
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye's training for his boxing match with Bluto by jumping rope with a massive chain. Bluto, who's lazy about everything except sabotage, decides he needs to stop Popeye....
Popeye for President
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto are running for President. It's election day, the vote is tied, and Olive Oyl is the only remaining voter. However, she won't vote, and the election outcome be decided, until her chores are done. Popeye and Bluto compete to complete them....
Parlez Vous Woo
Character: Bluto / The International (voice) (uncredited)
Olive is so captived by "The International", a radio personality with a French accent, that she'd rather stay home than go out on a date with Popeye. Bluto, overhearing this, comes to the door as the character....
Greek Mirthology
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye is trying to get his nephews to eat their spinach, so he tells them about how Hercules (Popeye) defeated a bully (Bluto)....
Take the Money and Run
Character: The Narrator
Virgil Starkwell is intent on becoming a notorious bank robber. Unfortunately for Virgil and his not-so-budding career, he is completely incompetent....
Show-Business at War
Character: Self (voice)
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort....
Puppet Love
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Casper Comes to Clown
Character: Ringmaster (voice) (uncredited)
Casper befriends a bear cub with a natural talent for juggling. Soon the cub is in the circus, but a gorilla proves to be much scarier than any ghost....
Boo Scout
Character: Scout Leader (voice)
Casper the Friendly Ghost befriends a Boy Scout....
Gift of Gag
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye's nephews try to sneak a birthday present for their Uncle Popeye into his house....
House Tricks?
Character: Bluto (voice)
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 w...
The Movies March On
Character: Narrator
A "March of Time" presentation of the evolution of movies compiled primarily from film clips of silent movies through the early sound pictures to the present (1939) date. Industry executives such as Jack and Harry Warner, Walt Disney, Cecil B. DeMille, et al are seen taking bows in the live (non-archive) footage....
Japoteurs
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Superman vs. Japanese spies hijacking a new super-bomber....
The Magnetic Telescope
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
When police interfere with a reckless scientist's experiment, it creates a deadly meteor shower only Superman can stop....
Billion Dollar Limited
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Robbers target a special train carrying a billion dollars worth of gold, and the only one who can stop them is Superman!...
The Mechanical Monsters
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Superman battles a criminal mastermind and his robot army....
Eleventh Hour
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Using Clark Kent as a cover, Superman travels to Japan as a saboteur during the war....
Radio Days
Character: Radio Voice (voice)
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....
The Crystal Brawl
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Bluto muscles out Popeye to take Olive to the fair. Popeye rushes ahead and poses as a fortune teller, luring Olive in. He shows Olive her future (actually, her past) in the crystal ball....
Fit to Be Toyed
Character: J.G. (voice) (uncredited)
Jonathan P. Grisley, the president of a toy company, is sent to a psychiatrist to find out why he plays with toys. He goes back to childhood and thinks that he's got "toy phobia"....
I'll Be Skiing Ya
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive are on a winter vacation in Lake Plastered, NY. Popeye is teaching Olive to ice skate (but not doing a very good job); she catches the eye of skating instructor Bluto. But when Bluto takes her up a ski lift and puts the moves on, she calls for Popeye to save her, and soon, everyone is skiing down that hill....
Symphony in Spinach
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Singer Olive Oyl needs an accompanist, and both Popeye and Bluto apply for the job....
Hot Air Aces
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Despite the title, the vehicles here are airplanes, not balloons. Bluto and Popeye are racing around the world; Bluto's got a sort of rocket plane, and Popeye's got a sad old prop model that has to be hand-started. He gets off to a bad start, as Bluto spins the prop, getting Popeye tangled up in it. This knocks him out; Olive puts him into his plane and gives him a push, and Popeye wakes up in the nick of time. Bluto stops off at the Eiffel Tower to woo a maiden; Popeye, with help from a lightni...
Tar with a Star
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Gunfights are diminishing the population (1864- for the time being) in the tough Western town of Cactus Corners....
Robin Hood-Winked
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye is Robin Hood; he's got a sidekick, Little John. Bluto is the tax collector, and Olive is the owner/barmaid at the local pub. Bluto comes to the pub to collect taxes and falls for Olive....
A Balmy Swami
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive are taking in a variety show. Popeye enjoys the juggling seal very much, but he's followed by magician/hypnotist Bluto. Bluto spots Olive in her luxury box and immediate makes plans. First, he humiliates Popeye with a series of magic tricks. Next, he hypnotizes Olive, but while she's walking toward Bluto in a trance, Popeye points her the other way and goes after Bluto himself. Meanwhile, Olive has walked out the stage door and onto a construction site, and the boys race to save...
Lumberjack and Jill
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto are lumberjacks who compete for the affections of their new cook, Olive Oyl....
Abusement Park
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto battle over Olive in an amusement park....
The Royal Four-Flusher
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive are feeding squirrels in the park when the rich and elegant Count Marvo (Bluto), the magician (and practical joker), rides up on his horse and steals Olive away, while tricking Popeye with an exploding cigar and other gimmicks....
Popeye and the Pirates
Character: Pierre (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye is taking Olive on a boat ride when she spots a pirate ship. They are soon captured, and Popeye has to rescue Olive from the (initially charming) pirate captain. He tries tricks, like dressing in drag, but until the spinach, no luck. Fortunately, a passing swordfish reading a Popeye comic book recognizes him and feeds him the spinach on the comic cover....
Peep in the Deep
Character: Bluto / Popeye (voice)
Olive has a map to a sunken treasure, but Bluto stowed away and is determined to beat Popeye to it....
The Island Fling
Character: Bluto / Friday (voice)
Bluto is Robinson Crusoe; Popeye and Olive approach his island on a raft....
Safari So Good
Character: Jungle Man (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive are on an African safari, he with a rifle, she with a camera. Olive happens across a Tarzan-like man (Bluto), and she and he are immediately smitten with one another. Popeye catches wind of this and isn't about to stand for the jungle hunk muscling in on his girl. Let the fighting and one-upmanship begin....
Wotta Knight
Character: Bluto (voice)
Popeye and Bluto are knights, jousting for the honor of Sleeping Beauty (Olive, with long blonde hair). Of course, Bluto plays dirty, squirting grease on the field in front of Popeye's horse, and using an extra-long lance. But Popeye wins anyhow, and climbs SB's tower with Bluto right behind him. They fight over her, playing tug-of-war with her pigtails....
The Fistic Mystic
Character: Bluto (voice)
Popeye and Olive enter the city of Badgag and spot Bluto doing magic tricks. He hypnotizes Olive like a snake charmer. Bluto introduces himself as the Great Bourgeois and gives Olive a fancy dress, turns Popeye into a donkey, and sits on a bed of nails. Popeye pounces on the bed and turns it into springs. The boys next compete in snake charming; Popeye blows a hornpipe on his pipe. Bluto next turns Popeye into a parrot. Bluto then locks Olive in a basket and does the sword trick; Olive escapes a...
Rocket to Mars
Character: Martian Leader (voice)
Popeye and Olive are touring a museum when they accidentally launch a rocketship to Mars. Olive escapes, but Popeye gets to Mars, where he is attacked (by a group led by Bluto) that was preparing to invade Earth. Fortunately, Popeye has a can of spinach handy, so he can save the Earth (turning most of the Martian war apparatus into amusement park rides)....
Service with a Guile
Character: Bluto (voice)
Olive runs a service station. The admiral pulls in and asks Olive to put some air in his tire, as he heads off to a cigar store. Meanwhile, the boys stop by on a 24-hour leave, and start to be "helpful" - which of course means that the tire, then the entire car, are in serious trouble. Not that Popeye doesn't do some amazing things to save the car; he carries it, atop a hoist, to the top of a very tall building under construction, then outruns it as it falls, and catches it, unscathed; the car i...
Rodeo Romeo
Character: Bluto (voice)
Popeye and Olive are at the rodeo, starring Badlands Bluto. Olive is impressed by Bluto's stunts, many of them designed to make Popeye look bad. Dynamite, the bronco that's never been ridden busts out and Popeye, seeing his chance, downs some spinach and manages an impressive series of tricks, culminating in firing a bullet at Bluto and lassoing it just in time. Bluto's had enough, and he substitutes loco weed for Popeye's spinach, then challenges him to throw the bull. Popeye's fried brain sees...
Klondike Casanova
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
At the Polar Bar & Grill in the Klondike, Popeye and Olive Oyl are the sole proprietors. Dangerous Dan McBluto, the owner of a fur farm, walks in and kidnaps Olive....
Popeye's Premiere
Character: Evil Vizier (voice)
Popeye and Olive are at the premiere of Popeye's new movie. He gets a little too wrapped up in the movie, interacting with it at various points, and even handing the screen version of himself a can of spinach. The movie itself is the story of Aladdin, minus the songs and about half the footage of the short it's cut from....
Pitchin' Woo at the Zoo
Character: Bluto (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye takes Olive to the zoo, where she's spotted by zookeeper Bluto, who tries various stunts to impress her and/or get rid of Popeye....
Matinee Idol Popeye
Character: Brutus (Voice)
Brutus is an egotistical French director making a film about Antony and Cleopatra, starring Popeye and Olive Oyl. But Popeye may not survive the production....
Better Bait Than Never
Character: Buzzy
Katnip is trying to catch a really big fish, but is having no success....
Jeep Tale
Character: Brutus
Popeye tells Swee'Pea the story of how Eugene the Jeep got his special powers. He tells a fairy tale about a mama jeep and her four children- three good girls and a mischievous boy named Jeepers. One day, they go to eat spinach in the good farmer's garden. Jeepers goes into the bad farmer's garden and eats weeds. The farmer catches Jeepers and locks him up, but mama rescues him that night. The next day, the bad farmer tries to chop down the jeep tree, but mama jeep foils him completely. Afterwar...
Power
Character: The Voice (voice)
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......
As the Crow Lies
Character: Buzzy (voice) (uncredited)
Buzzy the Crow is about to be eaten by a cat but the cat has hiccoughs. Buzzy, of course, has a few home remedies he graciously shares with the cat but none of them cures the cat's problems. In fact, all of them add to the problem. So much so, that all nine lives of the cat goes to heaven...one life at a time....