 and Jack Edwards voicing both Sam Noonan and Tom Mercer. I'm Greg Bell, and at the time of that broadcast, Dick Beals, who played Yorkie, was actually 26 years old. With a permanent pre-adolescent voice, he was an in-demand radio actor, playing young boy characters for decades. Beals was also a top cartoon voice actor. He also played Speedy in the Alka-Seltzer commercials, and Davey in the Davey and Goliath religious-themed animated series broadcast in the 1960s.