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Allen Swift, voice of Underdog’s archnemeses Simon Bar Sinister and Riff Raff, has died at the age of 86. Other voice roles included the voices for 1960s underwater puppet show Diver Dan, Twinkie The Kid, Captain Cupcake and Chief Big Wheel, among other talking treats from the 1970s Hostess commercials, and most of the voices for Rankin/Bass’s Mad Monster Party, kind of a Rudolph-the Red Eyed Demon Reindeer, including Dracula, the Invisible Man, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Most notably, he did most of the ancillary characters on The Howdy Doody Show, and is the only man to voice Howdy Doody other than the fiercely protective Buffalo Bob Smith, filling in for more than a year while Smith recovered from a heart attack, with no viewers being the wiser.