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