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Alan Reed (August 20, 1907 – June 14, 1977) was an American
United States

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 actor and voice artist, best known as the original voice of Fred Flintstone
Fred Flintstone

Frederick Joseph "Fred" Flintstone is a fictional character who originated in the animated cartoon sitcom The Flintstones on American Broadcasting Company....
 on The Flintstones
The Flintstones

The Flintstones is an animated American television sitcom that ran from 1960 to 1966 on American Broadcasting Company.Produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions , The Flintstones is about a working class Stone Age man's life with his family and his next door neighbor and best friend....
 and various spin-off series. He also appeared in The Tarnished Angels
The Tarnished Angels

The Tarnished Angels is a 1958 in film United States drama film directed by Douglas Sirk. The screenplay by George Zuckerman is based on the 1935 novel Pylon by William Faulkner....
, Breakfast at Tiffany's
Breakfast at Tiffany's

Breakfast at Tiffany's is a 1961 in film United States film starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard, and featuring Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, and Mickey Rooney....
, Viva Zapata!
Viva Zapata!

Viva Zapata! is a 1952 in film biographical film directed by Elia Kazan. The screenplay was written by John Steinbeck, using as a guide Edgcomb Pinchon's book, 'Zapata the Unconquerable', a fact that is not credited in the titles of the film....
, Nob Hill
Nob Hill (1945 film)

Nob Hill is a 1945 in film technicolor film about a Barbary Coast, San Francisco, California saloon keeper starring George Raft and Joan Bennett....
 and various other films, as well as a guest appearance on The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Dick Van Dyke Show

The Dick Van Dyke Show is an United States television situation comedy which initially aired on CBS from October 3, 1961 and ran until June 1, 1966....
.

Teddy Bergman in New York City
New York City

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, he majored in journalism
Journalism

Journalism is the craft of conveying news, descriptive material and editorial via a widening spectrum of Media . These include newspapers, magazines, radio and television, the internet and, more recently, the cellphone....
 at Columbia University
Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York , is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia's main campus lies in the Morningside Heights, Manhattan neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City....
, and then began his acting career in the city, eventually working on Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
.

a time, he continued to list himself either as Bergman or Alan Reed, depending on the role he was playing (Reed for more comedic roles, Bergman for more serious ones).






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Alan Reed (August 20, 1907 – June 14, 1977) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actor and voice artist, best known as the original voice of Fred Flintstone
Fred Flintstone

Frederick Joseph "Fred" Flintstone is a fictional character who originated in the animated cartoon sitcom The Flintstones on American Broadcasting Company....
 on The Flintstones
The Flintstones

The Flintstones is an animated American television sitcom that ran from 1960 to 1966 on American Broadcasting Company.Produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions , The Flintstones is about a working class Stone Age man's life with his family and his next door neighbor and best friend....
 and various spin-off series. He also appeared in The Tarnished Angels
The Tarnished Angels

The Tarnished Angels is a 1958 in film United States drama film directed by Douglas Sirk. The screenplay by George Zuckerman is based on the 1935 novel Pylon by William Faulkner....
, Breakfast at Tiffany's
Breakfast at Tiffany's

Breakfast at Tiffany's is a 1961 in film United States film starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard, and featuring Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, and Mickey Rooney....
, Viva Zapata!
Viva Zapata!

Viva Zapata! is a 1952 in film biographical film directed by Elia Kazan. The screenplay was written by John Steinbeck, using as a guide Edgcomb Pinchon's book, 'Zapata the Unconquerable', a fact that is not credited in the titles of the film....
, Nob Hill
Nob Hill (1945 film)

Nob Hill is a 1945 in film technicolor film about a Barbary Coast, San Francisco, California saloon keeper starring George Raft and Joan Bennett....
 and various other films, as well as a guest appearance on The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Dick Van Dyke Show

The Dick Van Dyke Show is an United States television situation comedy which initially aired on CBS from October 3, 1961 and ran until June 1, 1966....
.

Biography


Early life

Born Teddy Bergman in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
, he majored in journalism
Journalism

Journalism is the craft of conveying news, descriptive material and editorial via a widening spectrum of Media . These include newspapers, magazines, radio and television, the internet and, more recently, the cellphone....
 at Columbia University
Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York , is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia's main campus lies in the Morningside Heights, Manhattan neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City....
, and then began his acting career in the city, eventually working on Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
.

Acting career

For a time, he continued to list himself either as Bergman or Alan Reed, depending on the role he was playing (Reed for more comedic roles, Bergman for more serious ones). He was able to act in 22 foreign dialects, and made a career as a successful radio
Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals, by modulation of electromagnetic radiation with frequency below those of visible light.Electromagnetic radiation radio propagation by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space....
 announcer
Announcer

An announcer is a voice actor who works in television, radio or film, usually providing narrations, news updates, station identification, or an introduction of a product in television commercials or a guest on a talk show....
 and stage actor before entering television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 and movie
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
s. In 1964-1965, he had a recurring role as Mr. Swidler in the ABC sitcom Mickey
Mickey (TV series)

Mickey is a 17-episode situation comedy starring Mickey Rooney as Mickey Grady, the owner of the luxury Newport Arms Hotel in Newport Beach, California, California, which aired on American Broadcasting Company from September 16, 1964, to January 13, 1965....
 starring Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooney

Mickey Rooney is an United States film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and theatre appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. During his career he has won multiple awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award....
 as the owner of a resort hotel
Hotel

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 in Newport Beach
Newport Beach, California

Newport Beach, incorporated in 1906, is a city in Orange County, California, United States south of downtown Santa Ana, California. As of 2008, the population was 84,554....
, California
California

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.

Radio work
His radio work included the role of Solomon Levy on Abie's Irish Rose
Abie's Irish Rose

Abie's Irish Rose is a Broadway theatre comedy Play by Anne Nichols about an Irish people Roman Catholic Church girl who marries a young Jewish man, over the objections of both of their families....
; as the "Allen's Alley" resident poet Falstaff Openshaw on Fred Allen
Fred Allen

Fred Allen was an United States comedian whose absurdist, pointed radio show made him one of the most popular and forward-looking humorists in the so-called classic era of American radio....
's NBCRadio show, and later on his own five-minute show, "Falstaff's Fables", on the American Broadcasting Company
American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company is an United States television network. Created in 1943 from the former National Broadcasting Company Blue Network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group....
; as Officer Clancey and other occasional roles on the NBC Radio show Duffy's Tavern
Duffy's Tavern

Duffy's Tavern, an United Statesn radio programming situation comedy , often featured top-name stage and film guest stars but always hooked those around the misadventures, get-rich-quick-scheming, and romantic missteps of the title establishment's malaprop-prone, metaphor-mixing manager, Archie, played by the writer/actor who co-created...
; as Chester Riley's boss on the NBC Radio show The Life of Riley
The Life of Riley

The Life of Riley, with William Bendix in the title role, was a popular American radio situation comedy series of the 1940s that was adapted into a 1949 feature film and continued as a long-running television series during the 1950s, originally with Jackie Gleason playing Bendix's role....
, and as Italian immigrant Pasquale in Life with Luigi
Life with Luigi

Life with Luigi was a radio comedy-drama series which began September 21, 1948 on CBS. The story concerned Italian immigrant Luigi Basco, and his experiences as an immigrant in Chicago....
 on CBS Radio.

Death

Reed died of a heart attack
Myocardial infarction

Myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when the Blood flow to part of the heart is interrupted. This is most commonly due to occlusion of a coronary artery following the rupture of a Vulnerable plaque, which is an unstable collection of lipids and white blood cells in the wall of an artery....
 in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
, shortly before his 70th birthday; his final performance of Fred Flintstone
Fred Flintstone

Frederick Joseph "Fred" Flintstone is a fictional character who originated in the animated cartoon sitcom The Flintstones on American Broadcasting Company....
 was for the latter's cameo guest shot in an episode of Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics
Laff-A-Lympics

Laff-A-Lympics was the co-headlining segment, with Scooby-Doo, of the package Saturday morning cartoon series Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics, produced by Hanna-Barbera....
.

His body was donated for medical research to the Loma Linda University
Loma Linda University

Founded in 1905, Loma Linda University is a private school, Christian, coeducational, health sciences university located in Southern California east of Los Angeles, California close to San Bernardino, California....
 School of Medicine.

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