Editing Alan Reed

{{Short description|American actor (1907–1977)}}
{{otherpeople|Alan Reed}}
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{{Infobox person
| name           = Alan Reed
| image          = Alan Reed in Time Table (1956).jpg
| image_size     = 
| caption        = Reed in ''[[Time Table (film)|Time Table]]'' (1956)
| birth_name     = Herbert Theodore Bergman
| birth_date     = {{Birth date|1907|08|20|mf=yes}}
| birth_place    = New York City, U.S.
| death_date     = {{Death date and age|1977|06|14|1907|08|20|mf=yes}}
| death_place    = [[Los Angeles]], California, U.S.
| other_names    = Alan Reed Sr.<br>Teddy Bergman
| alma_mater     = [[American Academy of Dramatic Arts]]<br>[[Columbia University]]
| occupation     = Actor
| years_active   = 1930–1977
| spouse         = {{marriage|Finnette Walker|1932<!--As marriage ended by death of Reed, not by death of his spouse, the year 1977 is omitted here. See instructions on [[Template:Marriage]] for more info-->}}
| children       = 3
}}

'''Alan Reed''' (born '''Herbert Theodore Bergman'''; August 20, 1907 – June 14, 1977)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2ba1a6c80f |title=Alan Reed profile |website=[[British Film Institute]] |access-date=2020-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150927041006/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2ba1a6c80f |archive-date=2015-09-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref> was an American actor, best known as the original voice of [[Fred Flintstone]] on ''[[The Flintstones]]'' and various spinoff series. He also appeared in many films, including ''[[Days of Glory (1944 film)|Days of Glory]]'', ''[[The Tarnished Angels]]'', ''[[Breakfast at Tiffany's (film)|Breakfast at Tiffany's]]'', ''[[Viva Zapata!]]'' and ''[[Nob Hill (1945 film)|Nob Hill]]'', as well as several television and radio series.

==Early life==
Herbert Theodore Bergman was born on August 20, 1907, in [[New York City]] to Jewish parents.<ref name="alan"/> His father was a Lithuanian-Jewish immigrant and his mother was born in the United States to Ukrainian-Jewish parents from [[Galicia (Eastern Europe)|Galicia]].<ref name="alan">[http://www.jewishhumorcentral.com/2010/10/fred-flintstone-stone-age-star-with.html "Fred Flintstone: A Stone Age Star With A Jewish Voice."] ''Jewish Humor Central.com'', October 10, 2010. Retrieved August 19, 2014.</ref> He attended George Washington High School<ref name="bde042432">{{Cite news |last=Schmidt |first=Bill Jr. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3815177/the_brooklyn_daily_eagle |title=Airy Chats |date=April 24, 1932 |work=[[Brooklyn Eagle|Brooklyn Daily Eagle]] |access-date=December 12, 2015 |page=E9 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}{{Open access}}</ref> (now [[George Washington Educational Campus]]) and majored in [[journalism]] at [[Columbia University]].{{Citation needed |date=February 2022}} 

Between graduating from WHS and entering Columbia, he studied drama at the [[American Academy of Dramatic Arts]].<ref name="dj">{{Cite news |last=Witte |first=Lawrence |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3821613/denton_journal/ |title=Static |date=December 9, 1960 |work=Denton Journal |access-date=December 13, 2015 |page=10 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Open access}}</ref> He began his acting career in the city, eventually working on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]].

For several years, Reed toured in [[vaudeville]] with his cousin, Harry Green.<ref name="rs2">{{Cite book |last=Cox |first=Jim |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PGY5AQAAIAAJ&q=reed |title=Radio Speakers: Narrators, News Junkies, Sports Jockeys, Tattletales, Tipsters, Toastmasters and Coffee Klatch Couples Who Verbalized the Jargon of the Aural Ether from the 1920s to the 1980s{{snd}}A Biographical Dictionary |publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc. |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-7864-6086-1 |pages=234–235 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> He also had two other jobs—operating a wholesale candy factory and working at the Copake Country Club as "social director, entertainment producer and actor".<ref name=dj/>

==Career==
===Radio===
As early as 1930, Reed (billed as Teddy Bergman) co-starred with Herbert Polesie in ''Henry and George'', a [[CBS]] program that featured "minute dramas, popular laughmakers ... interspersed with dance music selections".<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3814878/the_lincoln_star/ |title=Henry and George In Lincoln |date=August 3, 1930 |work=[[Lincoln Journal Star|The Lincoln Star]] |access-date=December 12, 2015 |page=D5 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Open access}}</ref>

Reed's radio work included having two roles in ''[[Valiant Lady (radio program)|Valiant Lady]]'',<ref name="buxton">Buxton, Frank and Owen, Bill (1972). ''The Big Broadcast: 1920&ndash;1950''. The Viking Press. {{ISBN?}} p. 249.</ref> the role of Solomon Levy on ''[[Abie's Irish Rose]]'', as the "[[Allen's Alley]]" resident poet Falstaff Openshaw on [[Fred Allen]]'s [[National Broadcasting Company|NBC]] radio show, and later on his own five-minute show, ''Falstaff's Fables'', on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]], as Officer Clancey and other occasional roles on the NBC radio show ''[[Duffy's Tavern]]'', as Shrevey the driver on several years of ''[[The Shadow]]'', as Chester Riley's boss on the NBC radio show ''[[The Life of Riley]]'', as Italian immigrant Pasquale in ''[[Life with Luigi]]'' on CBS radio, various supporting roles on ''[[Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar]]'' and ''[[The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show]]'', and as Lt. Walter Levinson in several episodes of ''[[Richard Diamond, Private Detective]]''.

Reed was "heard regularly on the ''[[Crime Doctor (radio program)|Crime Doctor]]'' series,"<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3821782/belvidere_daily_republican/ |title=Fanny Brice on the Air Tonight |date=September 26, 1940 |work=Belvidere Daily Republican |access-date=December 13, 2015 |page=8 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Open access}}</ref> and "was the original Daddy to [[Fanny Brice]] on ''[[The Baby Snooks Show|Baby Snooks]]''".<ref name="rs">{{Cite book |last=DeLong |first=Thomas A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iu8aAQAAIAAJ&q=reed |title=Radio Stars: An Illustrated Biographical Dictionary of 953 Performers, 1920 through 1960 |publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc. |year=1996 |isbn=978-0-7864-2834-2 |page=223 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> Billed as Teddy Bergman, he had the title role on ''[[Joe Palooka#Radio series|Joe Palooka]]''.<ref name=rs/>

===Stage===
Billed as Teddy Bergman, Reed appeared on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] in ''Double Dummy'' (1936), and ''A House in the Country'' (1937),<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/50726/Teddy-Bergman |title=Teddy Bergman |website=Playbill Vault |access-date=14 December 2015}}</ref> and ''Love's Old Sweet Song'' (1940).<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3821925/el_paso_heraldpost/ |title=CBS Actor Has Head Shaved for Summer |date=May 31, 1940 |work=[[El Paso Herald-Post]] |access-date=December 13, 2015 |page=2 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Open access}}</ref>

===Television===
From 1957 to 1958, Reed appeared in a recurring role as J.B. Hafter, a studio boss, on the CBS [[sitcom]] ''[[Mr. Adams and Eve]]''. He also played the same character in ''[[The Bob Cummings Show]]''. In 1963, he appeared as Councilman Jack Gramby in episode 8 of the CBS sitcom ''[[My Favorite Martian]]''. In 1964–65, he had a recurring role as Mr. Swidler in the ABC sitcom ''[[Mickey (TV series)|Mickey]]''.

===Voice acting===
In animation, Reed provided the voice of Boris the [[Borzoi|Russian Wolfhound]] in [[Walt Disney]]'s ''[[Lady and the Tramp]]'' in 1955. In 1960, he began the voice role for [[Fred Flintstone]], the lead character of [[Hanna-Barbera]]'s prime-time animated series ''[[The Flintstones]]''. Reed provided Fred's voice for the entire six-season run of the show, as well as in several spin-off series (''[[The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show]]'', ''[[The Flintstone Comedy Hour]]'') and specials. His final performance as Fred Flintstone was a cameo guest role on an episode of ''[[Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics]].'' Afterwards, Fred would be voiced by [[Henry Corden]] (who had previously done voice work for Hanna-Barbera and bore a resemblance to Reed). Reed's other voice roles for Hanna-Barbera was [[Touché Turtle and Dum Dum|Touché Turtle]]'s sidekick, Dum Dum.

Radio playwright and director [[Norman Corwin]] cast Reed as [[Santa Claus]] in the 1969 [[KCET]] television reading of his 1938 play ''[[The Plot to Overthrow Christmas]]''.

In television commercials Reed was the voice over for [[Keebler Company#Keebler Elves|J.J. Keebler]], a creation of the [[Leo Burnett Worldwide|Leo Burnett Agency]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Cerny |first=JoBe |date=May 11, 2015 |title=Icons of Advertising |url=http://screenmag.com/story/2015/may/11/11262/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150607070242/http://screenmag.com/story/2015/may/11/11262/ |archive-date=June 7, 2015 |access-date=August 17, 2019 |magazine=[[Screen (magazine)|Screen]] |url-status=live}}</ref>

==Personal life==
In May 1932, Reed married Finette Walker<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/32-OCR/1932-05-01-BC-OCR-Page-0019.pdf |title=Behind the Microphone |date=May 1, 1932 |work=[[Broadcasting & Cable|Broadcasting]] |access-date=14 December 2015 |page=19}}</ref> (1909–2005), a Broadway actress whom he met at television station W2XAB (later [[WCBS-TV]]) in New York City.<ref name=bde042432/> She appeared on stage in the early 1930s and was a [[chorus line|chorus]] member in the original 1934 Broadway production of ''[[Anything Goes]]'' with [[Ethel Merman]].<ref name="ethel">[http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/81525/Finette-Walker "Finette Walker: Performer."] ''[[Playbill]] Vault'' Retrieved August 19, 2014.</ref> They had three sons, including actor [[Alan Reed, Jr.]] (born 1936).<ref name="Spectrum" />

==Death==
Reed, a heavy [[Tobacco smoking|smoker]], was diagnosed with [[bladder cancer]] in 1967. The cancer was treated surgically,<ref name="Spectrum" /> but he later developed [[emphysema]]. On June 14, 1977, he died at [[St. Vincent Medical Center (Los Angeles)]] after having a [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]], two months before his 70th birthday.<ref name="Spectrum">{{cite news| url=http://www.thespectrum.com/story/entertainment/2015/09/24/alan-reed-jr-remembers-flintstones/72626720/| title=Alan Reed Jr. remembers 'The Flintstones' at 55| first=Nick| last=Thomas| newspaper=[[USA Today]]| date=September 23, 2015| access-date=November 1, 2017}}</ref>

==Filmography==
===Film===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Year
!Title
!Role
!class="unsortable"|Notes
|-
| rowspan="2"| 1937
| ''[[Porky's Romance]]''
| Opening announcer (voice)
| rowspan="2"|Short film
|-
| ''Teddy Bergman's Bar-B-Q''
| Teddy Bergman
|-
| 1944
| ''[[Days of Glory (1944 film)|Days of Glory]]''
| Sasha
|
|-
| 1945
| ''[[Nob Hill (film)|Nob Hill]]''
| Dapper Jack Harrigan
|
|-
| 1946
| ''[[The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946 film)|The Postman Always Rings Twice]]''
| Ezra Liam Kennedy
|
|-
| rowspan="2"| 1950
| ''[[Perfect Strangers (1950 film)|Perfect Strangers]]''
| Harry Patullo
|
|-
| ''[[Emergency Wedding]]''
|Barber
|
|-
| rowspan="2"| 1951
| ''[[The Redhead and the Cowboy]]''
| Colonel Lamartine
|
|-
| ''[[Here Comes the Groom (1951 film)|Here Comes the Groom]]''
| Walter Godfrey
|
|-
| rowspan="2"| 1952
| ''[[Viva Zapata!]]''
| [[Pancho Villa]]
|
|-
| ''[[Actor's and Sin]]''
| J.B. Cobb
| Segment "Woman of Sin"
|-
| rowspan="3"| 1953
|''[[Pickup on South Street]]''
| Detective
| Uncredited
|-
| ''[[I, the Jury (1953 film)|I, the Jury]]''
| George Kalecki
|
|-
| ''[[Geraldine (1953 film)|Geraldine]]''
| Frederick Sterling
|
|-
| 1954
| ''[[Woman's World (1954 film)|Woman's World]]''
| Tomaso
|
|-
| rowspan="4"| 1955
| ''[[The Far Horizons]]''
| Charboneau
|
|-
| ''[[Lady and the Tramp]]''
| Boris (voice)
|
|-
| ''[[Kiss of Fire (film)|Kiss of Fire]]''
| Sergeant Diego
|
|-
| ''[[The Desperate Hours (1955 film)|The Desperate Hours]]''
| Detective
|
|-
| rowspan="3"| 1956
| ''[[Time Table (film)|Time Table]]''
| Al Wolfe
|
|-
| ''[[The Revolt of Mamie Stover (film)|The Revolt of Mamie Stover]]''
| Captain Gorecki
|
|-
| ''[[He Laughed Last]]''
| Big Dan Hennessy
|
|-
| 1957
| ''[[The Tarnished Angels]]''
| Colonel Fineman
|
|-
| 1958
| ''[[Marjorie Morningstar (film)|Marjorie Morningstar]]''
| Puddles Podell
|
|-
| 1959
| ''[[1001 Arabian Nights (1959 film)|1001 Arabian Nights]]''
| The Sultan (voice)
|
|-
| 1960
| ''[[Stop! Look! and Laugh]]''
| Prince (voice) 
| Uncredited
|-
| 1961
| ''[[Breakfast at Tiffany's (film)|Breakfast at Tiffany's]]''
| Sally Tomato
|
|-
| 1965
| ''[[Printed Poison]]''
| Unnamed Judge (uncredited)
| Anti-pornography documentary film produced by the "Center for Decent Literature"
|-
| 1966
| ''[[The Man Called Flintstone]]''
| Fred Flintstone (voice)
| 
|-
| 1969
| ''[[A Dream of Kings (film)|A Dream of Kings]]''
| Fig King
|
|-
| 1971
| ''[[Shinbone Alley (film)|Shinbone Alley]]''
| Big Bill (voice)
|
|-
| 1975
| ''[[Heidi, Girl of the Alps|The Story of Heidi]]''
| Sebastian, Mr. Usher
| Final role, 1979 English dub
|-
| 1978
| ''[[The Seniors]]''
| Professor Heigner
| Final role, posthumous release
|-
| 2005
|''[[Son of the Mask]]''
| Fred Flintstone 
| Archival footage
|}

===Television===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Year
!Title
!Role
!class="unsortable"|Notes
|-
| 1956
| ''[[Alfred Hitchcock Presents]]''
| Uncle Leo
| Season 2 Episode 7: "Alibi Me"
|-
| 1957–1958
| ''[[Mr. Adams and Eve]]''
| J. B. Hafter
| Regular cast
|-
| 1958
| ''[[The Danny Thomas Show|Make Room for Daddy]]''
| Joe Ferbus
| Episode: "The Reunion"
|-
| 1959
| ''[[Have Gun – Will Travel]]''
| Dirks the Clamjumper
| Episode: "Gold and Brimstone"
|-
| rowspan="2"| 1960
| ''[[Peter Gunn]]''
| Garson
| Episode: "The Maître d"
|-
| ''[[The Danny Thomas Show|Make Room for Daddy]]''
| Howard Sloan
| Episode: "The Apple Polishers"
|-
| 1960–1966
| ''[[The Flintstones]]''
| [[Fred Flintstone]], Professor Von Messerschmidt, J.L. Gothrocks, The Prowler, Grandpa Rocky Flintstone (voices)
| 166 episodes
|-
| rowspan="2"| 1962–1963
| ''[[The Hanna-Barbera New Cartoon Series]]''
| rowspan="2"| Dum Dum (voice)
| rowspan="2"| 52 episodes
|-
|''[[Touché Turtle and Dum Dum]]''
|-
| rowspan="3"| 1963
| ''[[Don't Call Me Charlie!]]''
| Private Winthrop Fairchild
| Episode: "Raise Your Right Hand"
|-
| ''[[The Dick Van Dyke Show]]''
| Auctioneer
| Episode: "The Masterpiece"
|-
| ''[[My Favorite Martian]]''
| Councilman Jack Gramby
| Episode: "The Awful Truth"
|-
| 1964
| ''[[Hoppity Hooper]]''
| [[Filmore Bear]], Additional voices
| Episode: "Ring-A-Ding Spring"
|-
| 1964–1965
| ''[[Jonny Quest]]''
| various characters
| various episodes
|-
| 1964, 1968
| ''[[The Beverly Hillbillies]]''
| Gene Booth
| Episodes: "Teenage Idol", "The Great Tag-Team Match"
|-
| 1965
| ''[[The Addams Family]]''
| Parks Commissioner Fiske (Uncredited)
| Episode: "Cousin Itt Visits the Addams Family"
|-
| rowspan="3"| 1966
| ''[[Space Ghost (TV series)|Space Ghost]]''
| Glasstor
| Episode: "Glasstor"
|-
| ''[[Alice in Wonderland or What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This?]]''
| Fred Flintstone (voice)
| Television film
|-
| ''[[The Impossibles (TV series)|The Impossibles]]''
| Smogula
| 1 episode
|-
| 1967
| ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]''
| General MacGruder
| Episode: "Penguin Sets a Trend"
|-
| 1968
| ''[[Petticoat Junction]]''
| The Bandit
| Episode: "Bad Day at Shady Rest"
|-
| 1969
| ''[[Get Smart (1965)|Get Smart]]''
| Little girl (voice) 
| Uncredited
|-
| 1970
| ''[[Where's Huddles?]]''
| Mad Dog Mahoney (voice)
| 10 episodes
|-
| 1971
| ''[[The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show]]''
| Fred Flintstone (voice)
| 16 episodes
|-
| 1972&ndash;1974
| ''[[The Flintstone Comedy Hour]]''
| Fred Flintstone (voice)
| 18 episodes
|-
| 1973
| ''[[The Flintstones on Ice]]''
| Fred Flintstone (voice)
| Television film
|-
| 1975
| ''[[Heidi, Girl of the Alps|The Story of Heidi]]''
| Sebastian, Mr. Usher (voices)
| English version
|-
| rowspan="2"| 1977
| ''[[Laff-A-Lympics]]''
| rowspan="2"| Fred Flintstone (voice)
|
|-
| ''[[Energy: A National Issue]]''
| Television film
|-
| 1977–1980
| ''[[Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels]]''
| Additional voices
| 39 episodes<br>Final television role
|-
|}

===Radio===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Year
!Title
!Role
!class="unsortable"|Notes
|-
| 1930
| ''Henry and George''
|
|
|-
| 1932
| ''[[Joe Palooka]]''
| Joe Palooka
|
|-
| 1938
| ''[[Valiant Lady (radio series)|Valiant Lady]]''
| Various roles
|
|-
| 1939
| [[The Campbell Playhouse (radio series)|The Campbell Playhouse]]: ''[[Twentieth Century (play)|Twentieth Century]]''
| 
| <ref>
*[[The Campbell Playhouse (radio series)|The Campbell Playhouse]]. March 24, 1939. CBS radio. "Twentieth Century". Sponsored by: [[Campbell's Soup]]. The comedy by [[Ben Hecht]] and [[Charles MacArthur]], set in a cross-country train. A Hollywood producer and a star clash on rails. Guest is [[Richard Maney]],<!-- https://books.google.com/books?id=gIw4AAAAIAAJ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1941/10/11/the-customer-is-always-wrong https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,763185,00.html https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1946-al-hirschfeld-cartoon-drawing-497119707 
https://emuseum.nyhistory.org/objects/95936/a-night-at-the-21-club
 https://www.nytimes.com/1968/07/02/archives/richard-maney-theatrical-press-agent-dies-at-77.html  --> a real-life press agent who was satirized in the story. [[Charles MacArthur]] (author), [[Bernard Herrmann]] (composer, conductor), [[Edgar Kent]], [[Elissa Landi]], [[Ernest Chappell]] (announcer), [[Everett Sloane]], [[Gus Schilling]], [[Howard Teichmann]] (editor), [[Orson Welles]] (host), [[Ray Collins (actor)|Ray Collins]] (narrator), Richard Maney (guest), [[Sam Levene]], [[Ben Hecht]] (author), Alan Reed (billed as Teddy Bergman). 58:53.
*https://orsonwelles.indiana.edu/items/show/1983
*https://web.archive.org/web/20180506035555/https://orsonwelles.indiana.edu/wowza4/welles/_definist_/mp4:122.high.mp4/122.high.m3u8
*https://archive.org/details/otr_campbellplayhouse
</ref>
|-
| 1940
| ''[[The Baby Snooks Show]]''
| Daddy
|
|-
| 1940–1947
| ''[[Crime Doctor (radio program)|Crime Doctor]]''
|
|
|-
| 1942
| ''[[Abie's Irish Rose]]''
| Solomon Levy
|
|-
| rowspan="2"| 1944–1951
| ''[[Duffy's Tavern]]''
| Officer Clancy, various characters
|
|-
| ''[[The Life of Riley]]''
| Chester Riley's boss
|
|-
| 1948–1953
| ''[[Life with Luigi]]''
| Pasquale
|
|-
| 1948–1954
| ''[[The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show]]''
| rowspan="2"| Various roles
|
|-
| 1949–1962
| ''[[Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar]]''
|
|-
| 1949–1953
| ''[[Richard Diamond, Private Detective]]''
| Lieutenant Walter Levinson
|
|}

===Stage===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Year
!Title
!Role
!class="unsortable"|Notes
|-
| 1936
| ''Dounle Dummy''
| rowspan="3"| Various characters
| rowspan="3"| Broadway
|-
| 1937
| ''A House in the Country''
|-
| 1940
| ''Love old Sweet Song''
|}

==Further reading==
*{{cite book |last1=Reed |first1=Alan |last2=Ohmart |first2=Ben |title=Yabba Dabba Doo!: The Alan Reed Story |date=2009 |publisher=BearManor Media |location=[[Albany, Georgia]] |isbn=978-1-59393-313-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_IQYBAAAQBAJ |quote=Ben Ohmart is president of BearManor Media, the publisher |language=en}} 
*{{cite book |last1=Terrace |first1=Vincent |title=Radio Programs, 1924–1984: A Catalog of More Than 1800 Shows |date= 2015 |publisher=[[McFarland & Company]] |location=[[Jefferson, NC]] |isbn=978-1-4766-0528-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EhOBCgAAQBAJ |language=en}} 

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category}}
{{Portal|Biography}}
*https://www.nytimes.com/1977/06/16/archives/alan-reed-a-film-and-tv-actor-69.html
* http://www.whenradiowas.com/alan_reed_august12.asp
*https://fredericksburg.com/lifestyles/tinseltown-talks-actors-son-remembers-the-voice-of-yabba-dabba-do-as-toon-turns-55/article_e4b6e4cf-8856-5de3-8b81-616b656802b8.html
*https://www.metv.com/stories/alan-reed-and-mel-blancs-real-friendship-deepened-as-fred-and-barneys-bond-grew

'''Papers'''
*[https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8x34zzk/ Reed (Alan) Papers] - Online Archive of California
'''[[Metadata]]'''
*{{IBDB name|495381}} (billed as Teddy Bergman)
*[https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/159092%7C8899/Alan-Reed/ Turner Classic Movies]
*{{IMDb name|715284|Alan Reed}}

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