Dallas McKennon, an exuberant character actor and voice actor who helped enliven Gumby, Archie Andrews, Buzz Buzzard and many other animated characters, has died. He was 89.

McKennon, who played the tavern keeper Cincinnatus on the 1960s TV series “Daniel Boone” and dozens of other codgers on film and television, died Tuesday of age-related causes at the Willapa Harbor Care Center in Raymond, Wash., according to his daughter Barbara Porter.

A tall, gangly actor with an unruly beard, McKennon was easily identifiable on screen, but he could bend his voice in endless variations to bring personality to a host of sound roles.

Stop-motion pioneer Art Clokey used him for the high-pitched tones of the animated clay figure Gumby, and Woody Woodpecker cartoon creator Walter Lantz chose him for Woody’s nemesis Buzz Buzzard. McKennon also provided the typical teenager voice for Archie Andrews and recorded characters for Walt Disney in “Lady and the Tramp,” “Mary Poppins” and “101 Dalmatians,” among others.

At Disney theme parks, McKennon’s distinctive voice warns riders on the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad to hang on to their hats and glasses: “This here’s the wildest ride in the wilderness!” And at Disney’s Epcot, when the animatronic Ben Franklin in the American Adventure exhibit Epcot speaks, it’s McKennon doing the talking.

“He was an entertainer,” Will Ryan, a friend and fellow voice actor, told the Los Angeles Times. “There was something of the 6-year-old in him, no matter what his age was.”

“He had a gift for mimicry, but there’s that spirit behind it. … It wasn’t so much that he could do different voices, but that he could enthusiastically do different personalities.”

McKennon had been imitating sounds since he was a youngster growing up in rural northeast Oregon.

He was born July 19, 1919, in La Grande. When he was a child, his mother died unexpectedly and he was sent to live with an aunt and uncle on a farm. He became fascinated by the animals there.

“Besides doing the chores,” he told the Lake Oswego Review a number of years ago, “I’d go out in the barnyard and see if I could imitate the animals.”

McKennon’s wife of 66 years survives him, as do his children: daughters Dalene Lackaff, of Woolwich, Maine; Barbara Porter and Linda Strozyk, both of Raymond, Wash.; Gayle McKennon, of Hyannis, Mass.; Tamara Rock, of South Bend, Wash.; and Wendy McKennon, of North Bend; and sons Jerald McKennon, of Tualatin; and Steven McKennon, of Newberg. He is also survived by 21 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren.