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
- Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.3 as Robot Butler (segment "Modern Inventions") (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
- Everybody Loves Donald as (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)
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)
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow as Headless Horseman Laugh (voice)
- Heavenly Puss as Devil Dog (voice) (uncredited)
- The Bee-Deviled Bruin as Henry Bear (voice) (uncredited)
- Bowery Bugs as Steve Brody
- Mississippi Hare as Col. Shuffle
- Bear Feat as Pa Bear
1948
- The Truce Hurts as Spike (voice) (uncredited)
- What's Brewin', Bruin? as Papa Bear (voice) (uncredited)
- Rabbit Punch as The Champ (voice) (uncredited)
- The Bear and the Bean as Barney Bear (voice)
- Make Mine Freedom as Labor employee (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
- A Knight for a Day as Narrator (voice)
- Road to Utopia as Bear (voice) (uncredited)
- Solid Serenade as Evil Laugh (voice) (uncredited)
- Deadline at Dawn as Waiter (uncredited)
- Gallant Journey as Mahoney's Valet (uncredited)
1945
- Incendiary Blonde as Clown (uncredited)
- Quiet Please! as Spike (voice) (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
- Casanova Brown as Father in Waiting Room (uncredited)
- The Zoot Cat as Bit Part (voice) (uncredited)
- The Bodyguard as Spike / Tom (Voice)
- Polar Pest as Barney Bear (voice) (uncredited)
- And the Angels Sing as Club Patron (uncredited)
- Lost in a Harem as Bobo (voice) (uncredited)
- Gas as Gas Cloud (voice) (uncredited)
- Little Red Riding Rabbit as Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
- Maisie Goes to Reno as Public Address Announcer (Voice) (Uncredited)
- Bear Raid Warden as Barney Bear
- Private Snafu vs. Malaria Mike as Malaria Mike (voice) (uncredited)
- Tom Turk and Daffy as Tom Turk (voice) (uncredited)
- Trombone Trouble as Pegleg Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- The Inside Story as Officer
1943
- Yankee Doodle Daffy as Sleepy Lagoon (singing voice) (uncredited)
- Baby Puss as Butch (voice) (uncredited)
- Der Fuehrer's Face as Nazi (voice) (uncredited)
- True to Life as Radio Heavy (uncredited)
- Swing Shift Maisie as Workman (Uncredited)
- Crazy House as Policeman (uncredited)
- Best Foot Forward as Waxer
- Slightly Dangerous as Customer (uncredited)
- The Old Army Game as Sergeant Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- Who Killed Who? as Detective / Ghost (voice) (uncredited)
- Boss of Rawhide as Jed Bones
- War Dogs as Military General (voice) (uncredited)
- Whistling in Brooklyn as Announcer (uncredited)
- The Little Broadcast as Master of Ceremonies (voice) (uncredited)
- Chatterbox as Black Jake
1942
- I Married a Witch
- Symphony Hour as Pete - Sylvester Macaroni (voice) (uncredited)
- Dog Trouble as Spike (voice) (uncredited)
- Stand by for Action as Sailor (uncredited)
- The Vanishing Private as Sergeant Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- Sky Trooper as Sergeant Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
- Donald Gets Drafted as Sergeant Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- Joe Smith, American as Police Radio Broadcaster (voice) (uncredited)
- Daffy's Southern Exposure as Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
- The Wild and Woozy West as Angel Face Wolf (uncredited)
- Dog Meets Dog as Butch
- Saps in Chaps as Cactus Pete (voice) (uncredited)
1941
- Dumbo as Clown (voice) (uncredited)
- Whistling in the Dark as Radio Effects Man (uncredited)
- Cracked Nuts as Parachute Man
- Robot Wrecks as Froggy's Father (uncredited)
- We, the Animals - Squeak! as Irish Mouse (voice)
- Timber as Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- The Thrifty Pig as Big Bad Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
- Las Vegas Nights as Horse (voice)
- Come Back, Miss Pipps as Froggy's Father (uncredited)
- Meet John Doughboy as Short Soldier (voice) (uncredited)
- Red Riding Hood Rides Again as Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
1940
- The Riveter as Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- Edison, the Man as Reporter
- The Ape as Short Mustached Posse Man
- Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip as Pete
- Melody Ranch as Scarlet Shadow Radio Actor
- Pluto's Dream House as Magic Lamp (voice) (uncredited)
- Hit Parade of 1941 as Radio Actor
- Buck Benny Rides Again as Last Porter
- Mouse Meets Lion as Lion (voice)
- Home on the Range as Coyote Bark
- The Pooch Parade as Various
1939
- The Wizard of Oz as Mayor / Lollipop Guild Member (voice) (uncredited)
- Destry Rides Again as Pianist (uncredited)
- The Practical Pig as Big Bad Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
- Polar Pals as I. Killem (voice) (uncredited)
- Seal Skinners as Captain (voice) (uncredited)
- Officer Duck as Tiny Tom (voice) (uncredited)
- Zorro's Fighting Legion as Don Del Oro (voice)
- Porky's Movie Mystery as Invisible Man
- Dancing Co-Ed as Radio Man (voice) (uncredited)
- The Lone Ranger Rides Again as The Masked Lone Ranger (voice)
- The Film Fan as Narrator / Masked Marvel (voice) (uncredited)
- The Autograph Hound as Security Guard (voice) (uncredited)
- Sioux Me as Indian chorus (voice)
- Petunia Natural Park as The Captain (voice) (uncredited)
- Porky's Tire Trouble as Boss
- The Lone Stranger and Porky as Narrator / Lone Stranger / Villain (voice)
- A Haunting We Will Go as Ghost (voice)
- Mama's New Hat as Captain (voice) (uncredited)
1938
- The Lone Ranger as Lone Ranger (voice)
- Porky in Wackyland as Roaring Goon (voice) (uncredited)
- Professor Beware as Shoeshine Customer
- Men with Wings as Red Cross Man
- California Frontier as Bellhop
- Farmyard Symphony as Bull (voice) (uncredited)
- A Feud There Was as Weaver from Audience / McCoy at Cellar Door (voice)
- Poultry Pirates as Captain
- The Captain's Pup as Captain (voice)
- The Mexicali Kid as Stagecoach Driver
- Porky's Phoney Express as Porky's boss (voice) (uncredited)
- Old Smokey as Captain (voice) (uncredited)
- The Captain's Christmas as The Captain (voice) (uncredited)
- The Winning Ticket as The Captain (voice) (uncredited)
- What a Lion! as Captain (voice) (uncredited)
- You're an Education as Singing Tibetan / Thief of Baghdad (voice)
- Nellie the Indian Chief's Daughter as Vocal Talents (voice) (uncredited)
- Hide and Shriek as Haunted House Ghouls (voice)
- Cleaning House as Captain (voice) (uncredited)
- A Day at the Beach as Captain
- Now That Summer Is Gone as Pop (voice) (uncredited)
- Blue Monday as Captain (voice) (uncredited)
- Nellie the Sewing Machine Girl or Honest Hearts & Willing Hands as Rudolf Ratbone (voice)
- Boy Meets Dog as Voice
1937
- A Sunbonnet Blue as Villain Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
- Egghead Rides Again as Boarding Room Clerk / Egghead (voice) (uncredited)
- Double Wedding as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
- Modern Inventions as Robot Butler (voice) (uncredited)
- Lonesome Ghosts as Short Ghost (voice) (uncredited)
- Donald's Ostrich as Bass Singer / Villain on Radio (voice) (uncredited)
- Sweet Sioux as Native American (voice)
- Porky's Romance as Time Munches On Narrator
- Dog Daze as St. Bernard (voice)
- The Worm Turns as Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- I Wanna Be a Sailor as Papa Parrot (voice) (uncredited)
- The Californian as Tax Collector
- Porky's Duck Hunt as The Guy Upstairs / Bass Fish (voice) (uncredited)
- Ain't We Got Fun as Mouse in Checkered Cap (voice) (uncredited)
- The Hound and the Rabbit as Fox (voice) (uncredited)
- Uncle Tom's Bungalow as Simon Simon Legree (voice)
- The Fella with a Fiddle as Grandpa Mouse (voice)
- The Case of the Stuttering Pig as Lawyer Goodwill (voice) (uncredited)
- Picador Porky as Bull (uncredited)
- Pigs Is Pigs as Evil Scientist (voice) (uncredited)
- Playing the Ponies as Announcer (uncredited)
- God's Country and the Man as Sandy Briggs
- Porky's Road Race as Borax Karoff (voice) (uncredited)
- Walt Disney's Academy Award Revue as Big Bad Wolf (voice)
- Mickey's Review as Dog Catcher (voice)
- Porky's Railroad as Silver Fish engineer (voice) (uncredited)
- The Lyin' Mouse as Lion - Cat Humming (voice) (uncredited)
- Porky's Building as Dirty Digg (voice) (uncredited)
- Speaking of the Weather as Public Enemy #1 / Judge
1936
- New Shoes as Boy's Shoes (voice)
- Thru the Mirror as Radio (voice) (uncredited)
- I Love to Singa as Professor Fritz Owl (voice)
- Three Blind Mouseketeers as Captain Katt
- Three Little Wolves as Big Bad Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
- Early to Bed as Office Boy (uncredited)
- Wives Never Know as Drunk (uncredited)
- The Big Broadcast of 1937 as Property Man
- Satan Met a Lady as Father of Sextuplets (uncredited)
- Moving Day as Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- Can This Be Dixie? as John P. Smith Peachtree
- Rhythm on the Range as Buck's Friend
- Alpine Antics as Bully (voice) (uncredited)
- Little Boy Blue as Wolf (voice)
- Divot Diggers as Golfer
- An All American Toothache as Plumber #1 (uncredited)
- How to Vote as Man on Platform (uncredited)
- Milk and Money as Mr. Viper (voice / uncredited)
- Porky in the North Woods as Jean-Baptiste (voice) (uncredited)
- Lash of the Penitentes as Narrating Missionary
- Little Beau Porky as Ali-Mode, Commandant
- Don't Look Now as Devil Cuckoo (voice) (uncredited)
- The Fire Alarm as Beans (voice) (uncredited)
- Shanghaied Shipmates as Ship's Captain - Shipmate (voice)
- Dick Whittington's Cat as Cook
- Boom Boom as General Hardtack / General / Soldiers (voice)
- Bingo Crosbyana as Spider (voice)
1935
- Who Killed Cock Robin? as Judge Oliver Owl (voice) (uncredited)
- The Rainmakers as Townsman
- Man on the Flying Trapeze as Timekeeper (uncredited)
- Mickey's Service Station as Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- Teacher's Beau as Chairman of the Board
- Coronado as Waiter (uncredited)
- The Robber Kitten as Dirty Bill
- Balloon Land as Pincushion Man (voice)
- Pluto's Judgement Day as Cat Prosecutor (voice) (uncredited)
- The Golden Touch as King Midas (voice) (uncredited)
- The Tin Man as The Tin Man (voice)
- Life Begins at Forty as Hog Caller
- I Haven't Got a Hat as Beans / Ex (voice) (uncredited)
- The Lost City as Gorzo
- Gold Diggers of '49 as Beans (voice) (uncredited)
- Two-Fisted as Cop
- A Cartoonist's Nightmare as Demon Beast / Old Man / Villains (voice) (uncredited)
- Billboard Frolics as Dave Rub-Em-Off
- Mickey's Man Friday as Friday (voice) (uncredited)
- Alias St. Nick as Cat / Fake Santa Claus (voice) (uncredited)
- The Merry Old Soul as Old King Cole (voice)
- Twin Triplets as Merchant (uncredited)
- Little Dutch Plate as Vinegar Bottle (voice) (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)
- The Old-Fashioned Way as Tomato Thrower (uncredited)
- Punch Drunks as Fight Announcer (uncredited)
- Two-Gun Mickey as Pegleg Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- The First Round-Up as Wally's Father
- Mama's Little Pirate as Voice of Giant
- Maid in Hollywood as Information Clerk (uncredited)
- Next Week-End
- The Dognapper as Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- Goofy Movies Number Two as Christopher Columbus (uncredited)
- Buddy's Garage as Gruff Guy (voice) (uncredited)
- Buddy of the Apes as Tribal Chief (voice) (uncredited)
- One-Horse Farmers as Subway Passenger (uncredited)
- Three Chumps Ahead as Second Waiter (uncredited)
- Music in Your Hair as Schmaltz's Friendly Neighbor
- Buddy's Bearcats as Hot Dog Man / Customer / Mustached Baseball Player (voice) (uncredited)
1933
- Three Little Pigs as Big Bad Wolf (voice)
- Morning Glory as Actor (uncredited)
- She Done Him Wrong as Singing Waiter (uncredited)
- Diplomaniacs as Schmerzenschmerzen (uncredited)
- The Midnight Patrol as Radio dispatcher (voice)
- Ye Olden Days as King (voice) (uncredited)
- Mickey's Mellerdrammer as Horace Horsecollar (voice) (uncredited)
- Building a Building as (voice) (uncredited)
- Me and My Pal as Police Dispatcher (voice) (uncredited)
- The Mad Doctor as Dr. XXX (voice) (uncredited)
- The Rummy as Taxicab Company Mechanic (uncredited)
- Taxi Barons as Host - Jenna's Father
- A Lady's Profession as Keyhole McKluskey
- Bedtime Worries as Radio Voice
- Air Fright as Stunt Aviator
- Call Her Sausage as Meyer (uncredited)
- Rhapsody in Brew as Meyer Schmaltz
- Keg o' My Heart as Meyer Schmaltz
- One Track Minds as Passenger with Whiskers (uncredited)
- Husbands' Reunion as Judge
1932
- Night World as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
- By Whose Hand? as Police Radio Dispatcher (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
- The Hollywood Handicap
- Bridge Wives as Radio announcer
- The Devil Is Driving as Musician at First Wedding (uncredited)
- Never the Twins Shall Meet as Installment Man
- A Slip at the Switch as Feeny
- The Dentist as Mr. Foliage - Bearded Patient
- Taxi for Two as The District Attorney
- The Boiling Point as Stubby - Kirk Hand
- Runt Page as Bears Bugs (voice) (uncredited)
- The Tabasco Kid as Susie (voice)
- Sneak Easily as Police Radio Announcer (uncredited)
1931
- Monkey Business as Man in Deck Chair
- Trader Hound as Trader Hound / Native King (voice) (uncredited)
- Branded Men as Half-A-Rod
- The Secret Witness as Radio Announcer's Voice
- The Texas Ranger as Tubby
1930
- Soup to Nuts as Revolutionary (uncredited)
- Show Girl in Hollywood as Sign Man Scraping Names off Doors
- Loose Ankles as Mr. Berry from Logan
- Dancing Sweeties as Bud (uncredited)
- Moonlight and Monkey Business as Honeymooner
- Top Speed as Ipps
- The Man Hunter as Buggs
1928
- The Terrible People as Proody
- Daredevil's Reward as Slim
- The Cowboy Kid as Deputy Sheriff
- Hold’er Cowboy
- The Fresh Lobster
1927
- One Hour of Love as 'Half Pint' Walker
- The Patent Leather Kid as Fight Fan
- Two Girls Wanted as Johnny
1926
- The Bar-C Mystery
- The Dude Cowboy as Shorty O'Day
1925
- The Silent Guardian ... (Director)
- The Wild Girl ... (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
- One Too Many as Unhappy Boarder
- Jane's Bashful Hero as Louie
- The Battle Royal as Grandpa Runt