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