Billy Bletcher
Known for: Acting
Born: September 23, 1894
Died: January 5, 1979
Place of birth: Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
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.
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Filmography
339 movies · 7 TV shows, newest first
7.6
Get a Horse!
2013
9.2
Tex Avery's Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection
2007
6.0
Once Upon a Halloween
2005NR
Tom & Jerry: Spotlight Collection
2004
7.6
Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.5
2004
7.2
Everybody Loves Donald
2003
8.6
Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.3
2003
7.5
Walt Disney Treasures - The Complete Goofy
2002
7.0
Walt Disney Treasures - Silly Symphonies
2001
5.9
Everybody Loves Mickey
2001
7.3
The Story Behind Walt Disney's 'Fun and Fancy Free'
1997
NR
MGM Cartoon Christmas
19936.0
Disney’s Coyote Tales
1991
6.0
Goofy's Guide to Success
19906.5
Rootin' Tootin' Roundup
1989
6.7
Here's Goofy!
1987
9.0
Walt Disney Cartoon Classics Limited Gold Edition II: An Officer and a Duck
1985
6.5
Disney's Halloween Treat
1982
7.0
Hello, Dolly!
1969
7.1
The Chase
1966
8.0
Get Smart
1965
5.6
Harlow
1965
6.5
The Nutty Professor
1963NR
Chun King Chow Mein Hour
1962
6.4
This Is Your Life Donald Duck
19608.0
Pete Kelly's Blues
1959
8.0
Trailblazer Magoo
1956
6.8
The Lone Chipmunks
1954
6.3
Canvas Back Duck
1953
7.0
Calamity Jane
1953
6.9
The New Neighbor
1953
NR
Revlon Mirror Theatre
1953
6.7
How to Be a Detective
1952
6.8
Two Gun Goofy
1952
6.9
A Bear for Punishment
1951
7.4
The Red Skelton Show
1951
6.5
Father Takes the Air
1951
5.3
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951
5.8
The Next Voice You Hear...
1950
7.0
Bear Feat
1949
7.4
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
1949
6.5
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
1949
6.8
The Lone Ranger
1949
7.5
Heavenly Puss
1949
6.7
Bowery Bugs
1949
6.9
The Bee-Deviled Bruin
1949
7.0
Mississippi Hare
1949
7.5
The Truce Hurts
1948
6.9
Rabbit Punch
1948
4.6
Make Mine Freedom
1948
6.4
What's Brewin', Bruin?
1948
6.3
The Bear and the Bean
1948
7.1
Pluto's Blue Note
1947
6.2
Wide Open Spaces
1947
6.8
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1947
6.0
Down to Earth
1947
6.6
Tubby the Tuba
1947
6.5
The Verdict
1946
6.5
Gallant Journey
1946
7.5
Solid Serenade
1946
6.2
Deadline at Dawn
1946
6.6
A Knight for a Day
1946
6.7
Road to Utopia
1946
7.3
Quiet Please!
1945
5.8
Old Sequoia
1945
7.0
Swing Shift Cinderella
1945
6.2
Duck Pimples
1945
6.2
Canine Casanova
1945
5.1
Incendiary Blonde
1945
6.8
Polar Pest
1944
5.6
Lost in a Harem
1944NR
The Inside Story
1944
6.4
Casanova Brown
1944
6.6
Maisie Goes to Reno
1944
6.3
Bear Raid Warden
1944
7.5
The Bodyguard
1944
5.7
Gas
1944
7.3
And the Angels Sing
1944
6.1
Private Snafu vs. Malaria Mike
1944
6.8
The Zoot Cat
1944
6.0
Trombone Trouble
1944
6.6
Tom Turk and Daffy
1944
7.1
Little Red Riding Rabbit
1944
6.7
Baby Puss
1943
8.0
True to Life
1943
7.0
Whistling in Brooklyn
1943
6.7
Boss of Rawhide
1943
5.8
The Old Army Game
1943
6.8
Best Foot Forward
1943
6.0
Crazy House
19436.6
War Dogs
1943
6.8
Swing Shift Maisie
1943
9.0
The Little Broadcast
1943
7.1
Who Killed Who?
1943
6.5
Yankee Doodle Daffy
1943
10.0
Chatterbox
1943
6.0
Slightly Dangerous
1943
6.9
Der Fuehrer's Face
1943
7.0
Stand by for Action
1942
6.3
Sky Trooper
1942
6.9
I Married a Witch
1942
6.0
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
1942
6.4
The Vanishing Private
1942
6.4
Donald Gets Drafted
1942
6.0
Daffy's Southern Exposure
19429.0
The Wild and Woozy West
1942
7.1
Dog Trouble
1942
6.1
Saps in Chaps
19427.0
Dog Meets Dog
1942
6.9
Symphony Hour
1942
6.5
Joe Smith, American
19429.0
Red Riding Hood Rides Again
1941
5.2
The Thrifty Pig
1941
7.0
Dumbo
1941
7.7
Come Back, Miss Pipps
1941
5.9
Whistling in the Dark
1941
5.9
We, the Animals - Squeak!
1941
5.8
Robot Wrecks
1941
5.8
Meet John Doughboy
1941
7.0
Cracked Nuts
1941
6.4
Las Vegas Nights
1941
6.6
Timber
1941
6.5
Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip
19407.0
Mouse Meets Lion
1940
6.2
Hit Parade of 1941
1940
4.8
The Ape
1940
6.2
Melody Ranch
1940
5.9
Pluto's Dream House
1940
10.0
The Pooch Parade
1940
5.0
Buck Benny Rides Again
1940
6.8
Edison, the Man
1940
7.4
Home on the Range
1940
6.7
The Riveter
1940
5.4
Zorro's Fighting Legion
1939
6.5
The Film Fan
1939
7.2
Destry Rides Again
1939
6.0
Officer Duck
1939
6.6
Dancing Co-Ed
1939
7.3
Sioux Me
1939
6.7
The Autograph Hound
1939
6.7
A Haunting We Will Go
1939
7.6
The Wizard of Oz
1939
6.7
Polar Pals
1939
7.3
Porky's Movie Mystery
1939
7.3
The Lone Ranger Rides Again
1939
6.6
The Practical Pig
1939
6.4
Porky's Tire Trouble
1939
5.9
Mama's New Hat
1939
6.4
Seal Skinners
1939
6.3
The Lone Stranger and Porky
1939
6.0
Petunia Natural Park
1939
5.6
The Captain's Christmas
1938
9.0
California Frontier
1938
5.1
You're an Education
1938
6.5
Farmyard Symphony
1938
6.0
The Winning Ticket
1938
7.0
Porky in Wackyland
1938
6.6
A Feud There Was
1938
5.8
The Mexicali Kid
1938
5.7
Old Smokey
1938
6.0
Professor Beware
1938
5.4
Men with Wings
1938
7.5
What a Lion!
1938
6.3
A Day at the Beach
1938
6.9
Hide and Shriek
19389.0
Nellie the Indian Chief's Daughter
1938
6.1
Now That Summer Is Gone
1938
6.3
The Captain's Pup
1938
6.3
Poultry Pirates
19387.0
Nellie the Sewing Machine Girl or Honest Hearts & Willing Hands
1938
7.5
Blue Monday
1938
7.0
Porky's Phoney Express
1938
5.4
Boy Meets Dog
1938
6.0
Cleaning House
1938
7.0
The Lone Ranger
1938
6.9
Lonesome Ghosts
1937
6.1
Donald's Ostrich
1937
7.1
The Case of the Stuttering Pig
1937
5.7
The Lyin' Mouse
1937
6.3
Playing the Ponies
1937
6.4
Double Wedding
1937
6.2
I Wanna Be a Sailor
1937
6.1
Dog Daze
1937NR
Mickey's Review
1937
5.5
Speaking of the Weather
1937
7.5
God's Country and the Man
1937
5.3
A Sunbonnet Blue
1937
6.4
Porky's Railroad
1937
7.0
The Californian
1937
6.5
Egghead Rides Again
1937
5.1
Sweet Sioux
1937
6.6
Porky's Building
1937
4.8
Uncle Tom's Bungalow
1937
6.9
The Hound and the Rabbit
1937
6.8
Modern Inventions
1937
6.7
Walt Disney's Academy Award Revue
1937
6.5
Ain't We Got Fun
1937
6.7
Porky's Duck Hunt
1937
5.9
Porky's Romance
1937
5.7
The Fella with a Fiddle
1937
6.5
Picador Porky
1937
6.7
Porky's Road Race
1937
6.3
Pigs Is Pigs
1937
6.0
The Worm Turns
1937
6.7
Porky in the North Woods
1936
7.0
Can This Be Dixie?
1936
6.1
Don't Look Now
1936
6.4
Little Beau Porky
1936
6.2
The Big Broadcast of 1937
1936
6.1
Milk and Money
1936
6.5
Three Blind Mouseketeers
1936
9.0
Wives Never Know
1936
5.7
New Shoes
1936
6.8
How to Vote
1936
5.1
Little Boy Blue
1936
5.8
Satan Met a Lady
1936
6.8
I Love to Singa
1936
5.5
Rhythm on the Range
1936
6.4
Moving Day
1936
5.6
Shanghaied Shipmates
1936
8.0
Early to Bed
1936
5.6
Bingo Crosbyana
1936
7.2
Dick Whittington's Cat
1936
7.2
Thru the Mirror
1936
6.6
Three Little Wolves
1936
5.7
Lash of the Penitentes
1936
5.2
The Fire Alarm
1936
6.5
Boom Boom
1936
6.4
Divot Diggers
19368.0
An All American Toothache
1936
6.2
Alpine Antics
1936
5.0
Coronado
1935
6.4
Alias St. Nick
1935
5.8
Billboard Frolics
1935
5.6
Gold Diggers of '49
1935
7.0
The Rainmakers
1935
5.9
Little Dutch Plate
1935
8.0
Twin Triplets
1935
8.5
Two-Fisted
1935
5.8
Balloon Land
1935
6.7
Pluto's Judgement Day
1935
6.9
A Cartoonist's Nightmare
1935
5.7
The Merry Old Soul
1935
6.2
Man on the Flying Trapeze
1935
6.8
Who Killed Cock Robin?
1935
7.0
Teacher's Beau
1935
6.2
The Robber Kitten
1935
7.2
The Tin Man
1935
6.5
The Golden Touch
1935
10.0
Life Begins at Forty
1935
5.8
The Lost City
1935
5.9
I Haven't Got a Hat
1935
6.6
Mickey's Service Station
1935
5.9
Mickey's Man Friday
1935
6.2
Two-Gun Mickey
1934
6.3
Babes in Toyland
1934
6.8
The Dognapper
1934
7.3
Mama's Little Pirate
19348.0
One-Horse Farmers
1934
10.0
Three Chumps Ahead
1934
7.0
Punch Drunks
1934
7.2
The Old-Fashioned Way
1934
4.4
Buddy's Bearcats
1934NR
Music in Your Hair
1934
3.8
Buddy of the Apes
1934
9.0
Maid in Hollywood
1934
7.0
The First Round-Up
1934
6.5
The Big Bad Wolf
1934
4.0
Buddy's Garage
1934
6.6
Goofy Movies Number Two
19349.0
Next Week-End
1934
6.6
Shanghaied
1934
6.3
Air Fright
1933NR
Keg o' My Heart
19339.0
Rhapsody in Brew
1933
6.8
Bedtime Worries
1933
6.2
Morning Glory
1933
6.6
The Midnight Patrol
1933
4.0
Husbands' Reunion
19339.0
The Rummy
1933
6.9
Three Little Pigs
1933
7.0
One Track Minds
19334.7
Call Her Sausage
1933
7.5
Diplomaniacs
1933
6.5
Me and My Pal
1933
6.4
Ye Olden Days
1933
8.0
Taxi Barons
1933
6.0
Mickey's Mellerdrammer
1933
7.0
A Lady's Profession
1933
5.9
She Done Him Wrong
1933
7.2
The Mad Doctor
1933
6.7
Building a Building
1933
8.0
Sneak Easily
1932
6.0
The Dentist
1932
5.3
The Devil Is Driving
19325.5
Taxi for Two
19327.0
The Hollywood Handicap
1932NR
A Slip at the Switch
1932
7.0
The Boiling Point
1932
6.6
By Whose Hand?
1932
6.8
Night World
1932
5.9
Runt Page
1932
6.7
Bridge Wives
193210.0
Never the Twins Shall Meet
1932
7.0
The Tabasco Kid
1932
4.3
The Secret Witness
1931
6.0
Branded Men
1931
6.9
Monkey Business
1931
9.0
The Texas Ranger
1931
6.0
Trader Hound
1931NR
Moonlight and Monkey Business
1930
5.9
Soup to Nuts
1930
6.0
Top Speed
1930
6.2
Dancing Sweeties
1930
8.0
The Man Hunter
1930
5.8
Show Girl in Hollywood
1930
4.3
Loose Ankles
1930
NR
Looney Tunes
1929
10.0
The Terrible People
1928
8.0
The Cowboy Kid
192810.0
Hold’er Cowboy
1928
8.0
Daredevil's Reward
1928
9.0
The Fresh Lobster
1928
9.0
Two Girls Wanted
1927
6.1
The Patent Leather Kid
1927
9.0
One Hour of Love
1927
8.0
The Dude Cowboy
1926
8.0
The Bar-C Mystery
1926
7.0
The Silent Guardian
1925
7.0
The Wild Girl
19258.0
That's the Spirit
1924
6.3
Getting Gertie's Goat
192410.0
Call the Wagon
1923
6.0
Kidding Katie
192310.0
Cold Feet
1922
8.0
Billy Jim
1922
10.0
Turn to the Right
1922
NR
The Noodle Nut
1921
5.5
A Bashful Bigamist
1920
5.0
Dry and Thirsty
1920
6.5
A Roman Scandal
1919
6.5
The Battle Royal
1916
5.3
The Serenade
1916
5.1
One Too Many
1916
8.5
Jane's Bashful Hero
1916NR
The Vanishing Vault
1915