Billy Bletcher
Acting
- Born:
- 1894-09-23
- Died:
- 1979-01-05
- Place of birth:
- Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
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.
Known For
Filmography
Get a Horse!
Tex Avery's Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection
Once Upon a Halloween
Tom & Jerry: Spotlight Collection
Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.5
Everybody Loves Donald
Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.3
Walt Disney Treasures - The Complete Goofy
Walt Disney Treasures - Silly Symphonies
Everybody Loves Mickey
The Story Behind Walt Disney's 'Fun and Fancy Free'
MGM Cartoon Christmas
Disney’s Coyote Tales
Goofy's Guide to Success
Rootin' Tootin' Roundup
Here's Goofy!
Walt Disney Cartoon Classics Limited Gold Edition II: An Officer and a Duck
Disney's Halloween Treat
Hello, Dolly!
The Chase
Get Smart
Harlow
The Nutty Professor
Chun King Chow Mein Hour
This Is Your Life Donald Duck
Pete Kelly's Blues
Trailblazer Magoo
The Lone Chipmunks
Canvas Back Duck
Calamity Jane
The New Neighbor
Revlon Mirror Theatre
How to Be a Detective
Two Gun Goofy
A Bear for Punishment
The Red Skelton Show
Father Takes the Air
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
The Next Voice You Hear...
Bear Feat
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
The Lone Ranger
Heavenly Puss
Bowery Bugs
The Bee-Deviled Bruin
Mississippi Hare
The Truce Hurts
Rabbit Punch
Make Mine Freedom
What's Brewin', Bruin?
The Bear and the Bean
Pluto's Blue Note
Wide Open Spaces
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Down to Earth
Tubby the Tuba
The Verdict
Gallant Journey
Solid Serenade
Deadline at Dawn
A Knight for a Day
Road to Utopia
Quiet Please!
Old Sequoia
Swing Shift Cinderella
Duck Pimples
Canine Casanova
Incendiary Blonde
Polar Pest
Lost in a Harem
The Inside Story
Casanova Brown
Maisie Goes to Reno
Bear Raid Warden
The Bodyguard
Gas
And the Angels Sing
Private Snafu vs. Malaria Mike
Trombone Trouble
Tom Turk and Daffy
Little Red Riding Rabbit
True to Life
Whistling in Brooklyn
Boss of Rawhide
The Old Army Game
Best Foot Forward
Crazy House
War Dogs
Swing Shift Maisie
The Little Broadcast
Who Killed Who?
Chatterbox
Slightly Dangerous
Der Fuehrer's Face
Stand by for Action
Sky Trooper
I Married a Witch
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
The Vanishing Private
Even as IOU
Donald Gets Drafted
Daffy's Southern Exposure
The Wild and Woozy West
Dog Trouble
Saps in Chaps
Dog Meets Dog
Symphony Hour
Joe Smith, American
Red Riding Hood Rides Again
The Thrifty Pig
Dumbo
Come Back, Miss Pipps
Whistling in the Dark
We, the Animals - Squeak!
Robot Wrecks
Meet John Doughboy
Cracked Nuts
Las Vegas Nights
Timber
Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip
Mouse Meets Lion
Hit Parade of 1941
The Ape
Melody Ranch
Pluto's Dream House
The Pooch Parade
Buck Benny Rides Again
Edison, the Man
Home on the Range
The Riveter
Zorro's Fighting Legion
The Film Fan
Destry Rides Again
Officer Duck
Dancing Co-Ed
Sioux Me
The Autograph Hound
A Haunting We Will Go
The Wizard of Oz
Polar Pals
Porky's Movie Mystery
The Lone Ranger Rides Again
The Practical Pig
Porky's Tire Trouble
Mama's New Hat
Seal Skinners
The Lone Stranger and Porky
Petunia Natural Park
The Captain's Christmas
California Frontier
You're an Education
Farmyard Symphony
The Winning Ticket
Porky in Wackyland
A Feud There Was
The Mexicali Kid
Old Smokey
Professor Beware
Men with Wings
What a Lion!
Have You Got Any Castles
A Day at the Beach
Hide and Shriek
Nellie the Indian Chief's Daughter
Now That Summer Is Gone
The Captain's Pup
Poultry Pirates
Nellie the Sewing Machine Girl or Honest Hearts & Willing Hands
Blue Monday
Porky's Phoney Express
Boy Meets Dog
Cleaning House
The Lone Ranger
Lonesome Ghosts
Donald's Ostrich
The Case of the Stuttering Pig
The Lyin' Mouse
Playing the Ponies
Double Wedding
I Wanna Be a Sailor
Dog Daze
Mickey's Review
Speaking of the Weather
God's Country and the Man
Get Rich Quick Porky
A Sunbonnet Blue
Porky's Railroad
The Californian
Egghead Rides Again
Sweet Sioux
Porky's Building
Uncle Tom's Bungalow
The Hound and the Rabbit
Modern Inventions
Walt Disney's Academy Award Revue
Ain't We Got Fun
Porky's Duck Hunt
Porky's Romance
The Fella with a Fiddle
Picador Porky
Porky's Road Race
Pigs Is Pigs
The Worm Turns
Porky in the North Woods
Can This Be Dixie?
Don't Look Now
Little Beau Porky
The Big Broadcast of 1937
Milk and Money
Three Blind Mouseketeers
Wives Never Know
New Shoes
How to Vote
Little Boy Blue
Satan Met a Lady
I Love to Singa
Rhythm on the Range
Moving Day
Shanghaied Shipmates
Early to Bed
Bingo Crosbyana
Dick Whittington's Cat
Thru the Mirror
Three Little Wolves
Lash of the Penitentes
The Fire Alarm
Boom Boom
Divot Diggers
An All American Toothache
Alpine Antics
Coronado
Alias St. Nick
Billboard Frolics
Gold Diggers of '49
The Rainmakers
Little Dutch Plate
Twin Triplets
Two-Fisted
Balloon Land
Pluto's Judgement Day
A Cartoonist's Nightmare
The Merry Old Soul
Man on the Flying Trapeze
Who Killed Cock Robin?
Teacher's Beau
The Robber Kitten
The Tin Man
The Golden Touch
Life Begins at Forty
The Lost City
I Haven't Got a Hat
Mickey's Service Station
Mickey's Man Friday
Two-Gun Mickey
Babes in Toyland
The Dognapper
Mama's Little Pirate
One-Horse Farmers
Three Chumps Ahead
Punch Drunks
The Old-Fashioned Way
Buddy's Bearcats
Music in Your Hair
Buddy of the Apes
Maid in Hollywood
The First Round-Up
The Big Bad Wolf
Buddy's Garage
Goofy Movies Number Two
Next Week-End
Shanghaied
Air Fright
Keg o' My Heart
Rhapsody in Brew
Bedtime Worries
Morning Glory
The Midnight Patrol
Husbands' Reunion
The Rummy
Three Little Pigs
One Track Minds
Call Her Sausage
Diplomaniacs
Me and My Pal
Ye Olden Days
Taxi Barons
Mickey's Mellerdrammer
A Lady's Profession
She Done Him Wrong
The Mad Doctor
Building a Building
Sneak Easily
The Dentist
The Devil Is Driving
Taxi for Two
The Hollywood Handicap
A Slip at the Switch
The Boiling Point
By Whose Hand?
Night World
Runt Page
Bridge Wives
Never the Twins Shall Meet
The Tabasco Kid
The Secret Witness
Branded Men
Monkey Business
The Texas Ranger
Trader Hound
Moonlight and Monkey Business
Soup to Nuts
Top Speed
Dancing Sweeties
The Man Hunter
Show Girl in Hollywood
Loose Ankles
Looney Tunes
Mickey Mouse Cartoons
The Terrible People
The Cowboy Kid
Hold’er Cowboy
Daredevil's Reward
The Fresh Lobster
Two Girls Wanted
The Patent Leather Kid
One Hour of Love
The Dude Cowboy
The Bar-C Mystery
That's the Spirit
Getting Gertie's Goat
Call the Wagon
Kidding Katie
Cold Feet
Billy Jim
Turn to the Right
The Noodle Nut
A Bashful Bigamist
Dry and Thirsty
A Roman Scandal
The Battle Royal
The Serenade
One Too Many
Jane's Bashful Hero
The Vanishing Vault