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)
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
- Revlon Mirror Theatre
- Calamity Jane as Prospector (uncredited)
- The New Neighbor as Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- Canvas Back Duck as Pete (voice) (uncredited)
1952
- How to Be a Detective as Pete - Al Muldoon (voice)
- Two Gun Goofy as Pete (voice) (uncredited)
1951
- The Red Skelton Show as Phony Warden
- The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok as Waiter
- Father Takes the Air as Haggarly
- A Bear for Punishment as Pa Bear (voice) (uncredited)
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)
- Bear Feat as Pa Bear
- Mississippi Hare as Col. Shuffle
- Bowery Bugs as Steve Brody
1948
- What's Brewin', Bruin? as Papa Bear (voice) (uncredited)
- The Truce Hurts as Spike (voice) (uncredited)
- The Bear and the Bean as Barney Bear (voice)
- Rabbit Punch as The Champ (voice) (uncredited)
- 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)
- Wide Open Spaces as Motel Proprietor (voice)
- Tubby the Tuba as Frog (voice)
1946
- A Knight for a Day as Narrator (voice)
- The Verdict as Gravedigger (uncredited)
- Solid Serenade as Evil Laugh (archive voice) (uncredited)
- Road to Utopia as Bear (voice) (uncredited)
- Deadline at Dawn as Waiter (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
- Lost in a Harem as Bobo (voice) (uncredited)
- And the Angels Sing as Club Patron (uncredited)
- The Bodyguard as Spike / Tom (Voice) (uncredited)
- Maisie Goes to Reno as Public Address Announcer (Voice) (Uncredited)
- Little Red Riding Rabbit as Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
- Casanova Brown as Father in Waiting Room (uncredited)
- Private Snafu vs. Malaria Mike as Malaria Mike (voice) (uncredited)
- Polar Pest as Barney Bear (voice) (uncredited)
- Tom Turk and Daffy as Tom Turk (voice) (uncredited)
- Gas as Gas Cloud (voice) (uncredited)
- Bear Raid Warden as Barney Bear
- Trombone Trouble as Pegleg Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- The Inside Story as Officer
1943
- Der Fuehrer's Face as Nazi (voice) (uncredited)
- True to Life as Radio Heavy (uncredited)
- Slightly Dangerous as Customer (uncredited)
- The Old Army Game as Sergeant Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- Who Killed Who? as Detective / Ghost (voice) (uncredited)
- Whistling in Brooklyn as Announcer (uncredited)
- Best Foot Forward as Waxer
- War Dogs as Military General (voice) (uncredited)
- Swing Shift Maisie as Workman (Uncredited)
- Crazy House as Policeman (uncredited)
- Boss of Rawhide as Jed Bones
- The Little Broadcast as Master of Ceremonies (voice) (uncredited)
- Chatterbox as Black Jake
1942
- I Married a Witch
- Dog Trouble as Spike (voice) (uncredited)
- Stand by for Action as Sailor (uncredited)
- Donald Gets Drafted as Sergeant Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
- Daffy's Southern Exposure as Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
- Joe Smith, American as Police Radio Broadcaster (voice) (uncredited)
- Sky Trooper as Sergeant Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- Symphony Hour as Pete - Sylvester Macaroni (voice) (uncredited)
- The Wild and Woozy West as Angel Face Wolf (uncredited)
- Even as IOU as Seabasket - the Horse (voice) (uncredited)
- The Vanishing Private as Sergeant Pete (voice) (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)
- We, the Animals - Squeak! as Irish Mouse (voice)
- Come Back, Miss Pipps as Froggy's Father (uncredited)
- Timber as Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- Meet John Doughboy as Short Soldier (voice) (uncredited)
- Las Vegas Nights as Horse (voice)
- The Thrifty Pig as Big Bad Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
- Cracked Nuts as Parachute Man
- Red Riding Hood Rides Again as Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
- Robot Wrecks as Froggy's Father (uncredited)
1940
- Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip as Pete
- Edison, the Man as Reporter
- Buck Benny Rides Again as Last Porter
- Home on the Range as Coyote Bark
- Hit Parade of 1941 as Radio Actor
- Pluto's Dream House as Magic Lamp (voice) (uncredited)
- The Riveter as Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- Melody Ranch as Scarlet Shadow Radio Actor
- The Ape as Short Mustached Posse Man
- Mouse Meets Lion as Lion (voice)
- The Pooch Parade as Various
1939
- The Wizard of Oz as Mayor / Lollipop Guild Member (voice) (uncredited)
- Destry Rides Again as Pianist (uncredited)
- The Lone Ranger Rides Again as The Masked Lone Ranger (voice)
- Zorro's Fighting Legion as Don Del Oro (voice)
- Polar Pals as I. Killem (voice) (uncredited)
- Officer Duck as Tiny Tom (voice) (uncredited)
- The Lone Stranger and Porky as Narrator / Lone Stranger / Villain (voice)
- Mama's New Hat as Captain (voice) (uncredited)
- Dancing Co-Ed as Radio Man (voice) (uncredited)
- The Autograph Hound as Security Guard (voice) (uncredited)
- The Film Fan as Narrator / Masked Marvel (voice) (uncredited)
- Porky's Movie Mystery as Invisible Man
- Porky's Tire Trouble as Boss
- Sioux Me as Indian chorus (voice)
- A Haunting We Will Go as Ghost (voice)
- The Practical Pig as Big Bad Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
- Seal Skinners as Captain (voice) (uncredited)
- Petunia Natural Park as The Captain (voice) (uncredited)
1938
- A Feud There Was as Weaver from Audience / McCoy at Cellar Door (voice)
- The Captain's Christmas as The Captain (voice) (uncredited)
- Porky's Phoney Express as Porky's boss (voice) (uncredited)
- You're an Education as Singing Tibetan / Thief of Baghdad (voice)
- Poultry Pirates as Captain
- Now That Summer Is Gone as Pop (voice) (uncredited)
- Men with Wings as Red Cross Man
- Nellie the Indian Chief's Daughter as Vocal Talents (voice) (uncredited)
- The Mexicali Kid as Stagecoach Driver
- A Day at the Beach as Captain
- The Lone Ranger as Lone Ranger (voice)
- Porky in Wackyland as Roaring Goon (voice) (uncredited)
- Farmyard Symphony as Bull (voice) (uncredited)
- The Captain's Pup as Captain (voice)
- Professor Beware as Shoeshine Customer
- What a Lion! as Captain (voice) (uncredited)
- Nellie the Sewing Machine Girl or Honest Hearts & Willing Hands as Rudolf Ratbone (voice)
- The Winning Ticket as The Captain (voice) (uncredited)
- Hide and Shriek as Haunted House Ghouls (voice)
- Blue Monday as Captain (voice) (uncredited)
- California Frontier as Bellhop
- Old Smokey as Captain (voice) (uncredited)
- Cleaning House as Captain (voice) (uncredited)
- Boy Meets Dog as Voice
1937
- Lonesome Ghosts as Short Ghost (voice) (uncredited)
- I Wanna Be a Sailor as Papa Parrot (voice) (uncredited)
- Uncle Tom's Bungalow as Simon Simon Legree (voice)
- Double Wedding as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
- Modern Inventions as Robot Butler (voice) (uncredited)
- Picador Porky as Bull (uncredited)
- Dog Daze as St. Bernard (voice)
- Ain't We Got Fun as Mouse in Checkered Cap (voice) (uncredited)
- Speaking of the Weather as Public Enemy #1 / Judge (voice) (uncredited)
- Porky's Road Race as Borax Karoff (voice) (uncredited)
- The Fella with a Fiddle as Grandpa Mouse (voice)
- The Case of the Stuttering Pig as Lawyer Goodwill (voice) (uncredited)
- Porky's Duck Hunt as The Guy Upstairs / Bass Fish (voice) (uncredited)
- God's Country and the Man as Sandy Briggs
- Walt Disney's Academy Award Revue as Big Bad Wolf (voice)
- Sweet Sioux as Native American (voice)
- Porky's Romance as Time Munches On Narrator
- Egghead Rides Again as Boarding Room Clerk / Egghead (voice) (uncredited)
- Donald's Ostrich as Bass Singer / Villain on Radio (voice) (uncredited)
- The Hound and the Rabbit as Fox (voice) (uncredited)
- A Sunbonnet Blue as Villain Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
- The Worm Turns as Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- Porky's Building as Dirty Digg (voice) (uncredited)
- Pigs Is Pigs as Evil Scientist (voice) (uncredited)
- The Lyin' Mouse as Lion - Cat Humming (voice) (uncredited)
- Playing the Ponies as Announcer (uncredited)
- Porky's Railroad as Silver Fish engineer (voice) (uncredited)
- The Californian as Tax Collector
- Mickey's Review as Dog Catcher (voice)
1936
- Thru the Mirror as Radio (voice) (uncredited)
- Three Little Wolves as Big Bad Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
- Satan Met a Lady as Father of Sextuplets (uncredited)
- I Love to Singa as Professor Fritz Owl (voice)
- The Big Broadcast of 1937 as Property Man
- Rhythm on the Range as Buck's Friend
- Three Blind Mouseketeers as Captain Katt
- Can This Be Dixie? as John P. Smith Peachtree
- An All American Toothache as Plumber #1 (uncredited)
- Early to Bed as Office Boy (uncredited)
- Porky in the North Woods as Jean-Baptiste (voice) (uncredited)
- Little Boy Blue as Wolf (voice)
- Wives Never Know as Drunk (uncredited)
- Lash of the Penitentes as Narrating Missionary
- Don't Look Now as Devil Cuckoo (voice) (uncredited)
- Milk and Money as Mr. Viper (voice / uncredited)
- How to Vote as Man on Platform (uncredited)
- Little Beau Porky as Ali-Mode, Commandant
- New Shoes as Boy's Shoes (voice)
- Moving Day as Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- The Fire Alarm as Beans (voice) (uncredited)
- Dick Whittington's Cat as Cook
- Divot Diggers as Golfer
- Shanghaied Shipmates as Ship's Captain - Shipmate (voice)
- Alpine Antics as Bully (voice) (uncredited)
- Bingo Crosbyana as Spider (voice)
- Boom Boom as General Hardtack / General / Soldiers (voice)
1935
- The Merry Old Soul as Old King Cole (voice)
- Life Begins at Forty as Hog Caller
- Man on the Flying Trapeze as Timekeeper (uncredited)
- Who Killed Cock Robin? as Judge Oliver Owl (voice) (uncredited)
- Mickey's Service Station as Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- The Golden Touch as King Midas (voice) (uncredited)
- Pluto's Judgement Day as Cat Prosecutor (voice) (uncredited)
- I Haven't Got a Hat as Beans / Ex (voice) (uncredited)
- The Lost City as Gorzo
- Gold Diggers of '49 as Beans (voice) (uncredited)
- A Cartoonist's Nightmare as Demon Beast / Old Man / Villains (voice) (uncredited)
- Mickey's Man Friday as Friday (voice) (uncredited)
- Billboard Frolics as Dave Rub-Em-Off
- Teacher's Beau as Chairman of the Board
- Coronado as Waiter (uncredited)
- The Rainmakers as Townsman
- Two-Fisted as Cop
- The Tin Man as The Tin Man (voice)
- The Robber Kitten as Dirty Bill
- Balloon Land as Pincushion Man (voice)
- Alias St. Nick as Cat / Fake Santa Claus (voice) (uncredited)
- Little Dutch Plate as Vinegar Bottle (voice) (uncredited)
- Twin Triplets as Merchant (uncredited)
1934
- The Big Bad Wolf as Big Bad Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
- Babes in Toyland as Chief of Police (uncredited)
- Shanghaied as Pegleg Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- The Old-Fashioned Way as Tomato Thrower (uncredited)
- Mama's Little Pirate as Voice of Giant
- The First Round-Up as Wally's Father
- Buddy of the Apes as Tribal Chief (voice) (uncredited)
- The Dognapper as Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- Maid in Hollywood as Information Clerk (uncredited)
- Punch Drunks as Fight Announcer (uncredited)
- Music in Your Hair as Schmaltz's Friendly Neighbor
- Next Week-End
- Two-Gun Mickey as Pegleg Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- Three Chumps Ahead as Second Waiter (uncredited)
- Goofy Movies Number Two as Christopher Columbus (uncredited)
- Buddy's Bearcats as Hot Dog Man / Customer / Mustached Baseball Player (voice) (uncredited)
- One-Horse Farmers as Subway Passenger (uncredited)
- Buddy's Garage as Gruff Guy (voice) (uncredited)
1933
- Three Little Pigs as Big Bad Wolf (voice)
- She Done Him Wrong as Singing Waiter (uncredited)
- Morning Glory as Actor (uncredited)
- A Lady's Profession as Keyhole McKluskey
- Building a Building as (voice) (uncredited)
- Me and My Pal as Police Dispatcher (voice) (uncredited)
- Ye Olden Days as King (voice) (uncredited)
- Taxi Barons as Host - Jenna's Father
- Keg o' My Heart as Meyer Schmaltz
- The Midnight Patrol as Radio dispatcher (voice)
- The Mad Doctor as Dr. XXX (voice) (uncredited)
- Diplomaniacs as Schmerzenschmerzen (uncredited)
- The Rummy as Taxicab Company Mechanic (uncredited)
- Mickey's Mellerdrammer as Horace Horsecollar (voice) (uncredited)
- One Track Minds as Passenger with Whiskers (uncredited)
- Bedtime Worries as Radio Voice
- Rhapsody in Brew as Meyer Schmaltz
- Husbands' Reunion as Judge
- Air Fright as Stunt Aviator
- Call Her Sausage as Meyer (uncredited)
1932
- 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
- Night World as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
- The Hollywood Handicap
- By Whose Hand? as Police Radio Dispatcher (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
- The Dentist as Mr. Foliage - Bearded Patient
- The Boiling Point as Stubby - Kirk Hand
- Sneak Easily as Police Radio Announcer (uncredited)
- Taxi for Two as The District Attorney
- The Tabasco Kid as Susie (voice)
- 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
- Show Girl in Hollywood as Sign Man Scraping Names off Doors
- Dancing Sweeties as Bud (uncredited)
- Moonlight and Monkey Business as Honeymooner
- Soup to Nuts as Revolutionary (uncredited)
- Loose Ankles as Mr. Berry from Logan
- Top Speed as Ipps
- The Man Hunter as Buggs
1929
- Looney Tunes as Papa Bear, Spike, Wolf, various others
1928
- The Terrible People as Proody
- The Cowboy Kid as Deputy Sheriff
- Daredevil's Reward as Slim
- The Fresh Lobster
- Hold’er Cowboy
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 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
- Jane's Bashful Hero as Louie
- One Too Many as Unhappy Boarder
- The Battle Royal as Grandpa Runt