Billy Bletcher
Born: 1894-09-23 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 1979-01-05
Known For: Acting
Biography
The diminutive (5 feet 2 inches/1.57 meters) Bletcher appeared on-screen in films and later television from the 1910s to the 1970s, including appearances in several Our Gang and Three Stooges comedies.Bletcher was also famous as a voice actor. Uncharacteristically for someone of his size, his voice was a deep and strong-sounding baritone. He provided the voices of various characters for Disney (Black Pete and the Big Bad Wolf in Three Little Pigs and its spin-offs), MGM (Spike the Bulldog and in some occasions even Tom, in Tom and Jerry), and Warner Bros. (many characters, most notably the Papa Bear of Chuck Jones' The Three Bears after Mel Blanc had performed the role in the initial entry). He appeared opposite Blanc in Little Red Riding Rabbit, where he played another famous wolf. Bletcher's booming voice can also be heard as "Dom Del Oro" the Yacqi Indian god in the 1939 Republic serial, Zorro's Fighting Legion. He also voiced Owl Jolson's disciplinarian violinist father in the 1936 short subject based on the song I Love to Singa and the menacing spider in Bingo Crosbyana. Both he and Mel Blanc did voice acting in the 1944 Private Snafu WWII training film "Gas", where Bletcher plays the villainous Gas Cloud (with Mel Blanc voicing Private Snafu and a cameo of Bugs Bunny) as an opponent of Snafu. Bletcher also played The Captain in Captain and the Kids with MGM cartoons.
Filmography
2013
- Get a Horse! as Peg-Leg Pete (voice)
2007
- Tex Avery's Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection as Spike (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
2005
- Once Upon a Halloween as Tiny Tom (Peg Leg Pete) (voice) (archive sound)
2004
- Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.5 as Big Bad Wolf / Captain Katt (voice) (archive sound)
- Tom & Jerry: Spotlight Collection
2003
- Everybody Loves Donald as (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
- Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.3 as Robot Butler (segment "Modern Inventions") (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
2002
- Walt Disney Treasures - The Complete Goofy as Al Muldoon (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
2001
- Everybody Loves Mickey as Short Ghost (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
- Walt Disney Treasures - Silly Symphonies as (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
1997
- The Story Behind Walt Disney's 'Fun and Fancy Free' as Self (archive footage)
1993
- MGM Cartoon Christmas as (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
1991
- Disney’s Coyote Tales as Young Bent-Tail the Coyote (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
1990
- Goofy's Guide to Success as Pete (archive footage)
1989
- Rootin' Tootin' Roundup as Pete (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
1987
- Here's Goofy! as Narrator (voice)
1985
- Walt Disney Cartoon Classics Limited Gold Edition II: An Officer and a Duck as (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
1982
- Disney's Halloween Treat as Cat Prosecutor (voice) (archive footage)
1969
- Hello, Dolly! as Man (uncredited)
1966
- The Chase as Mr. Vincent (uncredited)
1963
- The Nutty Professor as Plumber (uncredited)
1962
- Chun King Chow Mein Hour as Mr. Abramowitz
1960
- This Is Your Life Donald Duck as Pete (voice)
1959
1956
- Trailblazer Magoo as Various (voice)(uncredited)
1954
- The Lone Chipmunks as Pete (voice)
1953
- Calamity Jane as Prospector (uncredited)
- Revlon Mirror Theatre
- The New Neighbor as Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- Canvas Back Duck as Pete (voice) (uncredited)
1952
- Two Gun Goofy as Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- How to Be a Detective as Pete - Al Muldoon (voice)
1951
- The Red Skelton Show as Phony Warden
- The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok as Waiter
- A Bear for Punishment as Pa Bear (voice) (uncredited)
- Father Takes the Air as Haggarly
1950
- The Next Voice You Hear... as Newspaper Subscriber (uncredited)
1949
- The Lone Ranger as Horseface
- The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad as Headless Horseman (voice)
- Heavenly Puss as Devil Dog (voice) (uncredited)
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow as Headless Horseman Laugh (voice)
- Bowery Bugs as Steve Brody
- The Bee-Deviled Bruin as Henry Bear (voice) (uncredited)
- Bear Feat as Pa Bear
- Mississippi Hare as Col. Shuffle
1948
- The Truce Hurts as Spike (voice) (uncredited)
- Rabbit Punch as The Champ (voice) (uncredited)
- What's Brewin', Bruin? as Papa Bear (voice) (uncredited)
- Make Mine Freedom as Labor employee (voice)
- The Bear and the Bean as Barney Bear (voice)
1947
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty as Western Character (uncredited)
- Down to Earth as Conductor (uncredited)
- Pluto's Blue Note as Music Store Proprietor (voice) (uncredited)
- Tubby the Tuba as Frog (voice)
- Wide Open Spaces as Motel Proprietor (voice)
1946
- The Verdict as Gravedigger (uncredited)
- A Knight for a Day as Narrator (voice)
- Road to Utopia as Bear (voice) (uncredited)
- Deadline at Dawn as Waiter (uncredited)
- Solid Serenade as Evil Laugh (voice) (uncredited)
- Gallant Journey as Mahoney's Valet (uncredited)
1945
- Quiet Please! as Spike (voice) (uncredited)
- Incendiary Blonde as Clown (uncredited)
- Duck Pimples as Detective Hennessey (voice) (uncredited)
- Swing Shift Cinderella as Wolf's Evil Laugh (voice) (uncredited)
- Canine Casanova as Dogcatcher (voice) (uncredited)
- Old Sequoia as Donald's Boss (voice) (uncredited)
1944
- The Bodyguard as Spike / Tom (Voice)
- Casanova Brown as Father in Waiting Room (uncredited)
- Gas as Gas Cloud (voice) (uncredited)
- The Zoot Cat as Bit Part (voice) (uncredited)
- Maisie Goes to Reno as Public Address Announcer (Voice) (Uncredited)
- Lost in a Harem as Bobo (voice) (uncredited)
- Polar Pest as Barney Bear (voice) (uncredited)
- And the Angels Sing as Club Patron (uncredited)
- Tom Turk and Daffy as Tom Turk (voice) (uncredited)
- Bear Raid Warden as Barney Bear
- Little Red Riding Rabbit as Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
- Private Snafu vs. Malaria Mike as Malaria Mike (voice) (uncredited)
- Trombone Trouble as Pegleg Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- The Inside Story as Officer
1943
- Baby Puss as Butch (voice) (uncredited)
- Der Fuehrer's Face as Nazi (voice) (uncredited)
- Crazy House as Policeman (uncredited)
- True to Life as Radio Heavy (uncredited)
- Swing Shift Maisie as Workman (Uncredited)
- Who Killed Who? as Detective / Ghost (voice) (uncredited)
- Whistling in Brooklyn as Announcer (uncredited)
- Yankee Doodle Daffy as Sleepy Lagoon (singing voice) (uncredited)
- Slightly Dangerous as Customer (uncredited)
- Best Foot Forward as Waxer
- War Dogs as Military General (voice) (uncredited)
- The Old Army Game as Sergeant Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- Boss of Rawhide as Jed Bones
- Chatterbox as Black Jake
- The Little Broadcast as Master of Ceremonies (voice) (uncredited)
1942
- I Married a Witch
- Stand by for Action as Sailor (uncredited)
- Dog Trouble as Spike (voice) (uncredited)
- Joe Smith, American as Police Radio Broadcaster (voice) (uncredited)
- Sky Trooper as Sergeant Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
- Symphony Hour as Pete - Sylvester Macaroni (voice) (uncredited)
- Daffy's Southern Exposure as Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
- Donald Gets Drafted as Sergeant Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- The Wild and Woozy West as Angel Face Wolf (uncredited)
- The Vanishing Private as Sergeant Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- Saps in Chaps as Cactus Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- Dog Meets Dog as Butch
1941
- Dumbo as Clown (voice) (uncredited)
- Cracked Nuts as Parachute Man
- Whistling in the Dark as Radio Effects Man (uncredited)
- Timber as Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- We, the Animals - Squeak! as Irish Mouse (voice)
- Las Vegas Nights as Horse (voice)
- Meet John Doughboy as Short Soldier (voice) (uncredited)
- The Thrifty Pig as Big Bad Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
- Come Back, Miss Pipps as Froggy's Father (uncredited)
- Robot Wrecks as Froggy's Father (uncredited)
- Red Riding Hood Rides Again as Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
1940
- Edison, the Man as Reporter
- Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip as Pete
- The Ape as Short Mustached Posse Man
- Melody Ranch as Scarlet Shadow Radio Actor
- Buck Benny Rides Again as Last Porter
- Home on the Range as Coyote Bark
- The Riveter as Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- Hit Parade of 1941 as Radio Actor
- Pluto's Dream House as Magic Lamp (voice) (uncredited)
- The Pooch Parade as Various
- Mouse Meets Lion as Lion (voice)
1939
- The Wizard of Oz as Mayor / Lollipop Guild Member (voice) (uncredited)
- Destry Rides Again as Pianist (uncredited)
- Officer Duck as Tiny Tom (voice) (uncredited)
- The Practical Pig as Big Bad Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
- Polar Pals as I. Killem (voice) (uncredited)
- The Lone Ranger Rides Again as The Masked Lone Ranger (voice)
- Zorro's Fighting Legion as Don Del Oro (voice)
- The Film Fan as Narrator / Masked Marvel (voice) (uncredited)
- Dancing Co-Ed as Radio Man (voice) (uncredited)
- Sioux Me as Indian chorus (voice)
- The Autograph Hound as Security Guard (voice) (uncredited)
- Seal Skinners as Captain (voice) (uncredited)
- Mama's New Hat as Captain (voice) (uncredited)
- Porky's Movie Mystery as Invisible Man
- Petunia Natural Park as The Captain (voice) (uncredited)
- The Lone Stranger and Porky as Narrator / Lone Stranger / Villain (voice)
- Porky's Tire Trouble as Boss
- A Haunting We Will Go as Ghost (voice)
1938
- Men with Wings as Red Cross Man
- Porky in Wackyland as Roaring Goon (voice) (uncredited)
- The Lone Ranger as Lone Ranger (voice)
- California Frontier as Bellhop
- Poultry Pirates as Captain
- A Feud There Was as Weaver from Audience / McCoy at Cellar Door (voice)
- A Day at the Beach as Captain
- Professor Beware as Shoeshine Customer
- Farmyard Symphony as Bull (voice) (uncredited)
- What a Lion! as Captain (voice) (uncredited)
- Now That Summer Is Gone as Pop (voice) (uncredited)
- Cleaning House as Captain (voice) (uncredited)
- The Mexicali Kid as Stagecoach Driver
- Old Smokey as Captain (voice) (uncredited)
- Porky's Phoney Express as Porky's boss (voice) (uncredited)
- Blue Monday as Captain (voice) (uncredited)
- The Captain's Christmas as The Captain (voice) (uncredited)
- Hide and Shriek as Haunted House Ghouls (voice)
- You're an Education as Singing Tibetan / Thief of Baghdad (voice)
- The Captain's Pup as Captain (voice)
- Boy Meets Dog as Voice
- Nellie the Indian Chief's Daughter as Vocal Talents (voice) (uncredited)
- Nellie the Sewing Machine Girl or Honest Hearts & Willing Hands as Rudolf Ratbone (voice)
- The Winning Ticket as The Captain (voice) (uncredited)
1937
- Lonesome Ghosts as Short Ghost (voice) (uncredited)
- Uncle Tom's Bungalow as Simon Simon Legree (voice)
- Modern Inventions as Robot Butler (voice) (uncredited)
- Double Wedding as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
- Dog Daze as St. Bernard (voice)
- Donald's Ostrich as Bass Singer / Villain on Radio (voice) (uncredited)
- The Hound and the Rabbit as Fox (voice) (uncredited)
- Picador Porky as Bull (uncredited)
- Porky's Duck Hunt as The Guy Upstairs / Bass Fish (voice) (uncredited)
- The Worm Turns as Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- Speaking of the Weather as Public Enemy #1 / Judge (voice) (uncredited)
- Porky's Romance as Time Munches On Narrator
- Mickey's Review as Dog Catcher (voice)
- Egghead Rides Again as Boarding Room Clerk / Egghead (voice) (uncredited)
- The Californian as Tax Collector
- I Wanna Be a Sailor as Papa Parrot (voice) (uncredited)
- The Fella with a Fiddle as Grandpa Mouse (voice)
- Walt Disney's Academy Award Revue as Big Bad Wolf (voice)
- Ain't We Got Fun as Mouse in Checkered Cap (voice) (uncredited)
- Sweet Sioux as Native American (voice)
- Pigs Is Pigs as Evil Scientist (voice) (uncredited)
- Playing the Ponies as Announcer (uncredited)
- A Sunbonnet Blue as Villain Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
- God's Country and the Man as Sandy Briggs
- Porky's Road Race as Borax Karoff (voice) (uncredited)
- Porky's Railroad as Silver Fish engineer (voice) (uncredited)
- The Lyin' Mouse as Lion - Cat Humming (voice) (uncredited)
- The Case of the Stuttering Pig as Lawyer Goodwill (voice) (uncredited)
- Porky's Building as Dirty Digg (voice) (uncredited)
1936
- Thru the Mirror as Radio (voice) (uncredited)
- Three Blind Mouseketeers as Captain Katt
- Three Little Wolves as Big Bad Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
- Satan Met a Lady as Father of Sextuplets (uncredited)
- Early to Bed as Office Boy (uncredited)
- Rhythm on the Range as Buck's Friend
- Moving Day as Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- Lash of the Penitentes as Narrating Missionary
- Wives Never Know as Drunk (uncredited)
- I Love to Singa as Professor Fritz Owl (voice)
- Milk and Money as Mr. Viper (voice / uncredited)
- Don't Look Now as Devil Cuckoo (voice) (uncredited)
- Little Boy Blue as Wolf (voice)
- Can This Be Dixie? as John P. Smith Peachtree
- Porky in the North Woods as Jean-Baptiste (voice) (uncredited)
- The Big Broadcast of 1937 as Property Man
- New Shoes as Boy's Shoes (voice)
- How to Vote as Man on Platform (uncredited)
- Bingo Crosbyana as Spider (voice)
- Little Beau Porky as Ali-Mode, Commandant
- Alpine Antics as Bully (voice) (uncredited)
- Divot Diggers as Golfer
- An All American Toothache as Plumber #1 (uncredited)
- Dick Whittington's Cat as Cook
- Shanghaied Shipmates as Ship's Captain - Shipmate (voice)
- The Fire Alarm as Beans (voice) (uncredited)
- Boom Boom as General Hardtack / General / Soldiers (voice)
1935
- The Golden Touch as King Midas (voice) (uncredited)
- Who Killed Cock Robin? as Judge Oliver Owl (voice) (uncredited)
- The Robber Kitten as Dirty Bill
- Life Begins at Forty as Hog Caller
- Gold Diggers of '49 as Beans (voice) (uncredited)
- Pluto's Judgement Day as Cat Prosecutor (voice) (uncredited)
- The Rainmakers as Townsman
- Mickey's Service Station as Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- Balloon Land as Pincushion Man (voice)
- Billboard Frolics as Dave Rub-Em-Off
- Teacher's Beau as Chairman of the Board
- The Tin Man as The Tin Man (voice)
- A Cartoonist's Nightmare as Demon Beast / Old Man / Villains (voice) (uncredited)
- Man on the Flying Trapeze as Timekeeper (uncredited)
- The Lost City as Gorzo
- Coronado as Waiter (uncredited)
- I Haven't Got a Hat as Beans / Ex (voice) (uncredited)
- Two-Fisted as Cop
- The Merry Old Soul as Old King Cole (voice)
- Mickey's Man Friday as Friday (voice) (uncredited)
- Alias St. Nick as Cat / Fake Santa Claus (voice) (uncredited)
- Little Dutch Plate as Vinegar Bottle (voice) (uncredited)
- Twin Triplets as Merchant (uncredited)
1934
- Babes in Toyland as Chief of Police (uncredited)
- The Big Bad Wolf as Big Bad Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
- Shanghaied as Pegleg Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- Mama's Little Pirate as Voice of Giant
- Maid in Hollywood as Information Clerk (uncredited)
- Two-Gun Mickey as Pegleg Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- The Dognapper as Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- Punch Drunks as Fight Announcer (uncredited)
- The Old-Fashioned Way as Tomato Thrower (uncredited)
- The First Round-Up as Wally's Father
- Buddy of the Apes as Tribal Chief (voice) (uncredited)
- Three Chumps Ahead as Second Waiter (uncredited)
- Buddy's Garage as Gruff Guy (voice) (uncredited)
- Buddy's Bearcats as Hot Dog Man / Customer / Mustached Baseball Player (voice) (uncredited)
- Next Week-End
- One-Horse Farmers as Subway Passenger (uncredited)
- Goofy Movies Number Two as Christopher Columbus (uncredited)
- Music in Your Hair as Schmaltz's Friendly Neighbor
1933
- Three Little Pigs as Big Bad Wolf (voice)
- Ye Olden Days as King (voice) (uncredited)
- Morning Glory as Actor (uncredited)
- She Done Him Wrong as Singing Waiter (uncredited)
- Taxi Barons as Host - Jenna's Father
- Building a Building as (voice) (uncredited)
- Mickey's Mellerdrammer as Horace Horsecollar (voice) (uncredited)
- The Mad Doctor as Dr. XXX (voice) (uncredited)
- The Midnight Patrol as Radio dispatcher (voice)
- A Lady's Profession as Keyhole McKluskey
- Diplomaniacs as Schmerzenschmerzen (uncredited)
- The Rummy as Taxicab Company Mechanic (uncredited)
- Bedtime Worries as Radio Voice
- One Track Minds as Passenger with Whiskers (uncredited)
- Keg o' My Heart as Meyer Schmaltz
- Air Fright as Stunt Aviator
- Me and My Pal as Police Dispatcher (voice) (uncredited)
- Call Her Sausage as Meyer (uncredited)
- Rhapsody in Brew as Meyer Schmaltz
- Husbands' Reunion as Judge
1932
- Bridge Wives as Radio announcer
- The Devil Is Driving as Musician at First Wedding (uncredited)
- Night World as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
- The Hollywood Handicap
- A Slip at the Switch as Feeny
- The Tabasco Kid as Susie (voice)
- Never the Twins Shall Meet as Installment Man
- By Whose Hand? as Police Radio Dispatcher (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
- The Boiling Point as Stubby - Kirk Hand
- Taxi for Two as The District Attorney
- The Dentist as Mr. Foliage - Bearded Patient
- Sneak Easily as Police Radio Announcer (uncredited)
- Runt Page as Bears Bugs (voice) (uncredited)
1931
- Monkey Business as Man in Deck Chair
- The Secret Witness as Radio Announcer's Voice
- Trader Hound as Trader Hound / Native King (voice) (uncredited)
- Branded Men as Half-A-Rod
- The Texas Ranger as Tubby
1930
- Dancing Sweeties as Bud (uncredited)
- Top Speed as Ipps
- Moonlight and Monkey Business as Honeymooner
- Show Girl in Hollywood as Sign Man Scraping Names off Doors
- Soup to Nuts as Revolutionary (uncredited)
- Loose Ankles as Mr. Berry from Logan
- The Man Hunter as Buggs
1928
- The Terrible People as Proody
- The Fresh Lobster
- Daredevil's Reward as Slim
- The Cowboy Kid as Deputy Sheriff
- Hold’er Cowboy
1927
- Two Girls Wanted as Johnny
- One Hour of Love as 'Half Pint' Walker
- The Patent Leather Kid as Fight Fan
1926
- The Bar-C Mystery
- The Dude Cowboy as Shorty O'Day
1925
- The Wild Girl ... (Director)
- The Silent Guardian ... (Director)
1924
- Getting Gertie's Goat as Mr Smith
- That's the Spirit as The Crooked Scientist
1923
- Kidding Katie as The Butler
- Call the Wagon
1922
- Turn to the Right as Sammy Martin (as William Bletcher)
- Cold Feet as Pride of the Mounted
- Billy Jim as Jimmy
1921
1920
- A Bashful Bigamist as Mr. Smith
- Dry and Thirsty as Horace Radish
1919
- A Roman Scandal as Stage Director
1916
- The Serenade as Schmitte
- The Battle Royal as Grandpa Runt
- One Too Many as Unhappy Boarder
- Jane's Bashful Hero as Louie