BURBANK, CALIF. — Jimmy Weldon, a voice actor, ventriloquist, television host and movie actor, died here July 6. He was best known as the voice of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon character Yakky Doodle and the host and ventriloquist in the locally produced television series The Webster Webfoot Show. He was 99.

As a young man he was in the U.S. Army, serving with the combat engineers under U.S. Gen. George S. Patton. Weldon’s squad liberated the Buchenwald death camp. He has discussed his experience as a motivational speaker.

You can read an extensive interview with him here.

MSTies will remember him as Lt. Webb in the movie in episode 902- THE PHANTOM PLANET.

Thanks to Gordon for the heads up.