He wasn’t just the Lucky Charms Leprechaun, of course. He had a career that spanned nearly the entire history of broadcast media, beginning with an appearance on radio as a ukelele-playing orphan on a show called Tony and Gus on NBC in 1935, at the tender age of 12. He had television and movie roles in things like Car 64, Where Are You? and Law and Order, Zelig and Midnight Cowboy, and kept working in voice over the entire way through. Most recently he was the voice of Eustace Bagge in Courage the Cowardly Dog.
[krvod url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgOBmAR9xM0] He was cast in 1963 for the voice of the famous animated leprechaun, and felt able enough after that to chart his own destiny that he proposed to his sweetheart, a casting director named Alice Middleton (she died last year). “I never got free cereal,” he told ABC News in 2005. “But they gave me lots of green money. And it was a fun character to play. Hardly a day goes by when somebody doesn’t ask me to sing the Lucky Charms jingle, and I’m proud of that.”
He is survived by their daughter, Amy Anderson.
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