Billy Bletcher
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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1894-09-23
Place of birth
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
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Cast
A Knight for a Day
1946
6.53
Robot Wrecks
1941
6.30
Come Back, Miss Pipps
1941
6.00
Boy Meets Dog
1938
5.30
Dumbo
1941
6.99
The Pooch Parade
1940
0.00
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
1949
7.45
Uncle Tom's Bungalow
1937
4.60
Don't Look Now
1936
5.90
Sioux Me
1939
6.00
Der Fuehrer's Face
1943
6.90
Sweet Sioux
1937
5.30
Three Little Pigs
1933
6.90
She Done Him Wrong
1933
5.80
A Bear for Punishment
1951
6.90
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1947
6.80
Quiet Please!
1945
7.20
The Truce Hurts
1948
7.40
The Zoot Cat
1944
6.80
Turn to the Right
1922
0.00
The Man Hunter
1930
0.00
Daredevil's Reward
1928
0.00
Once Upon a Halloween
2005
6.20
The Hound and the Rabbit
1937
7.20
The Cowboy Kid
1928
0.00
Music in Your Hair
1934
0.00
The Lost City
1935
5.10
Little Boy Blue
1936
4.70
Sky Trooper
1942
6.30
The Old Army Game
1943
5.60
The Thrifty Pig
1941
5.10
The Vanishing Private
1942
6.30
The Midnight Patrol
1933
6.50
Heavenly Puss
1949
7.40
Solid Serenade
1946
7.40
The Bodyguard
1944
7.50
Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip
1940
6.49
Old Sequoia
1945
5.70
Pluto's Dream House
1940
5.60
Symphony Hour
1942
6.80
The New Neighbor
1953
6.80
Three Blind Mouseketeers
1936
6.40
Trombone Trouble
1944
5.90
Wide Open Spaces
1947
6.10
The Texas Ranger
1931
0.00
The Autograph Hound
1939
6.61
Canvas Back Duck
1953
6.30
Donald Gets Drafted
1942
6.30
Whistling in the Dark
1941
5.80
Whistling in Brooklyn
1943
6.30
I Love to Singa
1936
6.80
Duck Pimples
1945
6.20
Timber
1941
6.50
The Fella with a Fiddle
1937
5.70
Night World
1932
6.67
Officer Duck
1939
6.00
Runt Page
1932
5.20
A Lady's Profession
1933
0.00
Donald's Ostrich
1937
6.08
Modern Inventions
1937
6.72
The Golden Touch
1935
6.50
The Riveter
1940
6.70
The Lone Chipmunks
1954
6.80
Hold’er Cowboy
1928
0.00
Tom Turk and Daffy
1944
6.60
Little Red Riding Rabbit
1944
7.10
Porky's Road Race
1937
6.30
Rabbit Punch
1948
6.80
Porky's Romance
1937
5.80
Speaking of the Weather
1937
5.20
I Haven't Got a Hat
1935
5.90
Pigs Is Pigs
1937
6.00
Gas
1944
5.40
Private Snafu vs. Malaria Mike
1944
5.50
Bridge Wives
1932
6.00
The Mad Doctor
1933
7.16
Bear Feat
1949
6.78
Mississippi Hare
1949
7.00
Saps in Chaps
1942
5.50
We, the Animals - Squeak!
1941
5.80
Stand by for Action
1942
6.80
Bowery Bugs
1949
6.70
Dog Daze
1937
5.80
The Merry Old Soul
1935
5.50
Shanghaied Shipmates
1936
5.20
Boom Boom
1936
6.40
Bingo Crosbyana
1936
5.43
The Robber Kitten
1935
6.20
Make Mine Freedom
1948
4.50
Egghead Rides Again
1937
6.20
I Wanna Be a Sailor
1937
6.00
Porky in Wackyland
1938
7.04
Jane's Bashful Hero
1916
8.00
Incendiary Blonde
1945
4.63
You're an Education
1938
4.80
Balloon Land
1935
5.60
The Boiling Point
1932
4.00
Swing Shift Cinderella
1945
7.00
The Vanishing Vault
1915
0.00
Now That Summer Is Gone
1938
5.60
Milk and Money
1936
6.13
Little Beau Porky
1936
6.20
Gold Diggers of '49
1935
5.40
Hide and Shriek
1938
7.00
Shanghaied
1934
6.60
A Cartoonist's Nightmare
1935
6.60
The Case of the Stuttering Pig
1937
7.00
Branded Men
1931
5.00
A Slip at the Switch
1932
0.00
Get a Horse!
2013
7.59
Dancing Sweeties
1930
5.50
Two-Fisted
1935
7.00
Polar Pals
1939
6.40
Meet John Doughboy
1941
5.70
MGM Cartoon Christmas
1993
0.00
Dry and Thirsty
1920
4.00
Porky's Railroad
1937
6.40
The Winning Ticket
1938
5.50
Husbands' Reunion
1933
1.00
Porky's Tire Trouble
1939
5.60
Casanova Brown
1944
6.40
The Lone Ranger
1938
6.00
A Feud There Was
1938
6.80
And the Angels Sing
1944
7.00
A Roman Scandal
1919
6.00
One Too Many
1916
4.60
Show Girl in Hollywood
1930
5.39
Down to Earth
1947
5.90
A Bashful Bigamist
1920
5.50
One-Horse Farmers
1934
0.00
Moonlight and Monkey Business
1930
0.00
Everybody Loves Donald
2003
7.20
Lash of the Penitentes
1936
5.50
Dick Whittington's Cat
1936
6.70
How to Vote
1936
7.00
Top Speed
1930
6.00
The Dentist
1932
5.85
Hello, Dolly!
1969
6.98
Alpine Antics
1936
6.00
Porky in the North Woods
1936
6.50
The Tin Man
1935
7.00
Two-Gun Mickey
1934
6.10
Moving Day
1936
6.19
The Worm Turns
1937
5.90
A Haunting We Will Go
1939
6.20
The Mexicali Kid
1938
5.00
Cold Feet
1922
0.00
Twin Triplets
1935
0.00
Three Chumps Ahead
1934
0.00
Sneak Easily
1932
0.00
Air Fright
1933
5.50
One Track Minds
1933
0.00
Maid in Hollywood
1934
0.00
An All American Toothache
1936
0.00
Lonesome Ghosts
1937
6.88
The Lone Ranger Rides Again
1939
6.00
Mickey's Mellerdrammer
1933
5.80
The Secret Witness
1931
2.30
Trader Hound
1931
6.00
Men with Wings
1938
5.00
Mama's New Hat
1939
5.70
Me and My Pal
1933
6.40
Zorro's Fighting Legion
1939
5.20
Seal Skinners
1939
6.00
Building a Building
1933
6.70
The Practical Pig
1939
6.40
A Day at the Beach
1938
5.90
Poultry Pirates
1938
6.10
Professor Beware
1938
6.10
Destry Rides Again
1939
7.17
Porky's Movie Mystery
1939
6.00
The Dognapper
1934
6.70
Dancing Co-Ed
1939
6.20
The Wild and Woozy West
1942
0.00
Pluto's Judgement Day
1935
6.60
Who Killed Cock Robin?
1935
6.80
Three Little Wolves
1936
6.51
Ye Olden Days
1933
6.30
The Big Bad Wolf
1934
6.48
Mickey's Service Station
1935
6.70
Pluto's Blue Note
1947
7.20
I Married a Witch
1942
6.80
The Nutty Professor
1963
6.50
The Chase
1966
7.10
Call the Wagon
1923
0.00
Farmyard Symphony
1938
6.42
Deadline at Dawn
1946
6.20
Babes in Toyland
1934
6.28
Chun King Chow Mein Hour
1962
0.00
How to Be a Detective
1952
6.70
Who Killed Who?
1943
7.20
Edison, the Man
1940
6.80
Yankee Doodle Daffy
1943
6.40
The Bee-Deviled Bruin
1949
6.30
What's Brewin', Bruin?
1948
6.20
Goofy Movies Number Two
1934
6.30
Daffy's Southern Exposure
1942
5.90
Rootin' Tootin' Roundup
1989
6.50
Billboard Frolics
1935
5.50
Buck Benny Rides Again
1940
0.00
The Californian
1937
0.00
The Dude Cowboy
1926
0.00
Rhapsody in Brew
1933
0.00
Call Her Sausage
1933
2.50
Coronado
1935
3.00
Taxi Barons
1933
0.00
The Rummy
1933
0.00
Punch Drunks
1934
6.90
Keg o' My Heart
1933
0.00
The Ape
1940
4.80
Melody Ranch
1940
5.80
Diplomaniacs
1933
7.00
Rhythm on the Range
1936
4.00
Harlow
1965
5.40
The Big Broadcast of 1937
1936
5.40
The Old-Fashioned Way
1934
7.10
Man on the Flying Trapeze
1935
6.00
This Is Your Life Donald Duck
1960
6.30
Life Begins at Forty
1935
0.00
The Serenade
1916
4.90
The Lyin' Mouse
1937
5.60
The Film Fan
1939
6.70
Satan Met a Lady
1936
5.66
That's the Spirit
1924
0.00
Cracked Nuts
1941
0.00
The Tabasco Kid
1932
0.00
Boss of Rawhide
1943
5.50
The Captain's Pup
1938
0.00
Playing the Ponies
1937
5.92
Bedtime Worries
1933
6.80
The First Round-Up
1934
6.40
The Verdict
1946
6.46
Early to Bed
1936
7.00
Soup to Nuts
1930
5.70
Chatterbox
1943
0.00
Bear Raid Warden
1944
5.50
Mickey's Man Friday
1935
5.80
The Little Broadcast
1943
0.00
Baby Puss
1943
6.70
The Captain's Christmas
1938
5.40
New Shoes
1936
6.00
Calamity Jane
1953
7.01
Slightly Dangerous
1943
6.00
Porky's Building
1937
6.60
The Battle Royal
1916
5.70
The Fresh Lobster
1928
0.00
Porky's Phoney Express
1938
6.00
The Lone Stranger and Porky
1939
5.50
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
1942
6.00
Joe Smith, American
1942
5.80
Alias St. Nick
1935
6.20
The Bear and the Bean
1948
6.00
Polar Pest
1944
5.70
Best Foot Forward
1943
6.00
What a Lion!
1938
5.00
Cleaning House
1938
5.50
Blue Monday
1938
6.00
The Rainmakers
1935
6.00
Crazy House
1943
5.00
Loose Ankles
1930
3.83
Father Takes the Air
1951
5.00
True to Life
1943
6.00
Everybody Loves Mickey
2001
7.40
Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.3
2003
8.60
Petunia Natural Park
1939
5.00
Trailblazer Magoo
1956
0.00
Billy Jim
1922
0.00
Two Girls Wanted
1927
0.00
Here's Goofy!
1987
6.70
Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.5
2004
7.60
Old Smokey
1938
5.00
Taxi for Two
1932
4.00
Road to Utopia
1946
6.70
Lost in a Harem
1944
5.40
Double Wedding
1937
6.37
Ain't We Got Fun
1937
6.30
Canine Casanova
1945
6.30
Porky's Duck Hunt
1937
6.50
Monkey Business
1931
6.94
The Noodle Nut
1921
0.00
The Patent Leather Kid
1927
5.90
Two Gun Goofy
1952
6.80
The Wizard of Oz
1939
7.60
Little Dutch Plate
1935
5.36
Disney's Halloween Treat
1982
5.90
Red Riding Hood Rides Again
1941
0.00
California Frontier
1938
0.00
God's Country and the Man
1937
6.00
The Fire Alarm
1936
4.80
Hit Parade of 1941
1940
5.50
Disney’s Coyote Tales
1991
6.00
Maisie Goes to Reno
1944
6.20
Swing Shift Maisie
1943
6.50
Picador Porky
1937
5.90
Mouse Meets Lion
1940
0.00
Dog Meets Dog
1942
0.00
Kidding Katie
1923
5.00
A Sunbonnet Blue
1937
5.00
Dog Trouble
1942
7.10
Getting Gertie's Goat
1924
5.00
Thru the Mirror
1936
7.16
By Whose Hand?
1932
6.00
Can This Be Dixie?
1936
0.00
Mama's Little Pirate
1934
7.20
Teacher's Beau
1935
7.00
Divot Diggers
1936
6.50
The Terrible People
1928
0.00
The Inside Story
1944
0.00
Home on the Range
1940
7.50
Tubby the Tuba
1947
6.30
Morning Glory
1933
6.11
Mickey's Review
1937
0.00
Wives Never Know
1936
0.00
Gallant Journey
1946
6.10
Las Vegas Nights
1941
5.50
The Hollywood Handicap
1932
0.00
The Devil Is Driving
1932
4.90
War Dogs
1943
5.70
Buddy's Garage
1934
3.43
Buddy of the Apes
1934
3.29
Buddy's Bearcats
1934
3.83
The Bar-C Mystery
1926
0.00
One Hour of Love
1927
0.00
The Next Voice You Hear...
1950
5.20