Jonathan Reed was Davey Hansen's close friend in the Lutheran stop action animation cartoon Davey and Goliath

Davey and Goliath

Davey and Goliath is a 1960s stop-motion animated children's Christian television series. The programs, produced by the Lutheran Church in America , were produced by Art Clokey after the success of his Gumby series.Each 15-minute episode features the adventures of Davey Hansen and his "talking"...

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As an African-American he was perhaps the first African-American character to appear in a television cartoon, and one of the first African-American characters to appear as a friend of a television show's (white) lead character. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6693668/

His father was a pharmacist

Pharmacist

Pharmacists are allied health professionals who practice in pharmacy, the field of health sciences focusing on safe and effective medication use...

. Jonathan's race only became an issue in the episode, Different. http://www.daveyandgoliath.org/jonathan.html http://www.awn.com/heaven_and_hell/DG/DG6.htm His character was voiced by Hal Smith

Hal Smith (actor)

Harold John "Hal" Smith was an American character actor and voice actor. Smith is best known as Otis Campbell, the town drunk on The Andy Griffith Show, and was the voice of many characters on various animated cartoon shorts...

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