Dickson Beall

American actor Dickson Beall has numerous voice-over and on-camera television commercial credits. Beall worked television production jobs as a young man - at "Captain Kangaroo" and "Candid Camera" - as well as working as an off-Broadway actor, radio DJ, photographer and newspaper columnist. After graduating from the University of Missouri with a degree in art history, he pursued studies in comparative religion and archetypal psychology - receiving a Masters Degree and Doctorate in counseling from Eden Theological Seminary in St. Louis. Dickson Hugh Beall was born in Winston Salem, North Carolina, to Mildred Warfield Beall and Edward Leyburn Beall Sr, a Presbyterian minister. He has Irish, Scottish and English ancestry. His first acting roles were in Kansas City summer stock (Petruchio - "Taming of the Shrew", Ernest - "The Importance of Being Earnest"). In New York, he appeared in the Equity Library Theatre production of "Dead End" with Dustin Hoffman. He played bit parts in "Dr. Faustus", directed by Word Baker, and worked in the APA-Phoenix Repertory Company, directed by Ellis Rabb. Beall continues to play a variety of character roles in life: campus minister, Jungian-based psychoanalyst, art critic, father and grandfather. He knows that all the world may not be a stage, but it's difficult to specify whether life or acting is the better school for learning behaviors.