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Billy Bletcher
Actor
Died January 5, 1979 (84 years)
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) |
| 2009 | Walt Disney Animation Collection: Classic Short Films - Three Little Pigs · as Big Bad Wolf / Captain Katt (voice) |
| 2007 | |
| 2005 | The Great Man: W.C. Fields · as Mr. Foliage (clip from The Dentist (1933)) |
| 2004 | Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.5 · as Big Bad Wolf / Captain Katt (voice) |
| 2003 | Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.3 · as Robot Butler (Modern Inventions) |
| 2001 | Everybody Loves Mickey · as Short Ghost |
| 1996 | Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders · as Pincushion Man |
| 1991 | Coyote Tales · as Young Bent-Tail the Coyote (voice) |
| 1990 | Rootin' Tootin' Roundup · as Pete |
| 1986 | Laurel & Hardy (TV Series) · as Recruit |
| 1982 | Disney's Halloween Treat · as Cat Prosecutor (voice) (archive footage) |
| 1981 | The Fox and the Hound · as Squeeks |
| 1973 | Walt Disney's 50th Anniversary Show · as Captain Katt |
| 1969 | Hello, Dolly! · as Minor Role |
| 1969 | Sesame Street (TV Series) · as Zero |
| 1967 | Off to See the Wizard (TV Series) · as Zookeeper |
| 1966 | The Chase · as Mr. Vincent (uncredited) |
| 1965 | Harlow · as Policeman (uncredited) |
| 1965 | Get Smart (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1964 | The Patsy · as Table Captain #3 at Italian Café |
| 1963 | The Nutty Professor · as Plumber |
| 1960 | The Bugs Bunny Show (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1959 | Dennis the Menace (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1957 | The Real McCoys (TV Series) · as Willis Butterfield |
| 1954 | Destry · as Townsman |
| 1954 | Disneyland (TV Series) · as Big Pete |
| 1954 | The Mickey Rooney Show (TV Series) · as J.R. Hercules Sr. |
| 1953 | Calamity Jane · as Prospector (uncredited) |
| 1953 | Houdini · as Italian Basso |
| 1953 | The New Neighbor · as Pete (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1952 | I Married Joan (TV Series) · as Mr. Lewis |
| 1951 | The Red Skelton Show (TV Series) · as Supporting Player |
| 1950 | The Next Voice You Hear... · as Newspaper Subscriber |
| 1949 | The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad · as Headless Horseman |
| 1949 | The Lone Ranger (TV Series) · as Horseface Jackson |
| 1948 | Make Mine Freedom · as Labor employee (voice) |
| 1947 | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty · as Western Character (uncredited) |
| 1947 | Sinbad, the Sailor · as Crier at Auction |
| 1947 | Down to Earth · as Conductor |
| 1946 | People Are Funny · as Singer - 'Alouette' |
| 1946 | A Knight for a Day · as Narrator (voice) |
| 1946 | The Kid from Brooklyn · as News Photographer |
| 1946 | Gay Blades · as Lumberjack |
| 1945 | Road to Utopia · as Bear (uncredited) (voice) |
| 1945 | Swing Shift Cinderella · as Wolf's Evil Laugh (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1944 | The Canterville Ghost · as Window cleaner |
| 1944 | Mrs. Parkington · as Quartet Member |
| 1944 | Lost in a Harem · as Bobo (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1944 | How to Play Football · as Narrator |
| 1944 | Casanova Brown · as Father in Waiting Room (uncredited) |
| 1944 | Private Snafu vs. Malaria Mike · as Malaria Mike (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1944 | Gas · as Gas Cloud (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1944 | Maisie Goes to Reno · as Public Address Announcer (Voice) (Uncredited) |
| 1944 | Tom Turk and Daffy · as Tom Turk |
| 1943 | Two Weeks to Live · as Classified Ad Agency Collector |
| 1943 | Best Foot Forward · as Waxer |
| 1943 | Whistling in Brooklyn · as Announcer (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Yankee Doodle Daffy · as Sleepy Lagoon (singing voice) (uncredited) |
| 1943 | The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins · as King |
| 1943 | Boss of Rawhide · as Jed Bones |
| 1943 | Boss of Rawhide (Remaster) · as Jed Bones |
| 1942 | I Married a Witch · as Wedding Photographer |
| 1942 | Stand by for Action · as Sailor |
| 1942 | Daffy's Southern Exposure · as Wolf (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Dumbo · as Clown (voice) |
| 1941 | The Thrifty Pig · as Big Bad Wolf (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1941 | We, the Animals - Squeak! · as Irish Mouse (voice) |
| 1941 | Rookie Revue · as General's Last Line |
| 1941 | Meet John Doughboy · as Short Soldier (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Sullivan's Travels · as Entertainer in Hospital |
| 1940 | The Ape · as Short Mustached Posse Man |
| 1940 | Edison, the Man · as Reporter |
| 1940 | Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip · as Pete |
| 1940 | Melody Ranch · as Scarlet Shadow Radio Actor |
| 1940 | Hi-Yo Silver · as Lone Ranger |
| 1940 | Pinocchio · as Donkeys |
| 1940 | City of Lost Men · as Gorzo |
| 1940 | Tom and Jerry (TV Series) · as Spike |
| 1939 | The Wizard of Oz · as Mayor / Lollipop Guild Member (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Zorro's Fighting Legion · as Don Del Oro (voice) |
| 1939 | Destry Rides Again · as Pianist (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Society Dog Show · as Judge |
| 1939 | The Film Fan · as Narrator / Masked Marvel (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1939 | A Haunting We Will Go · as Ghost (voice) |
| 1939 | The Lone Ranger Rides Again · as The Masked Lone Ranger (voice) |
| 1939 | Barney Bear (TV Series) · as actor |
| 1939 | Krazy's Bear Tale · as Papa Bear |
| 1938 | Block-Heads · as Midget |
| 1938 | Hide and Shriek · as Haunted House Ghouls (voice) |
| 1938 | The Purple Vigilantes · as Leader of the Purple Vigilantes |
| 1938 | The Lone Ranger · as Lone Ranger (voice) |
| 1938 | Kangaroo Kid · as The Champ |
| 1937 | Double Wedding · as Wedding Guest (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Lonesome Ghosts · as Short Ghost (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1937 | I Wanna Be a Sailor · as Papa Parrot (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Get Rich Quick Porky · as Driver |
| 1937 | Uncle Tom's Bungalow · as Simon Simon Legree (voice) |
| 1937 | Porky's Railroad · as Silver Fish engineer (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Picador Porky · as Bull (uncredited) |
| 1937 | The Californian · as Tax Collector |
| 1936 | Dick Whittington's Cat · as Cook |
| 1936 | Satan Met a Lady · as Father of Sextuplets (uncredited) |
| 1936 | Three Blind Mouseketeers · as Captain Katt |
| 1936 | Thru the Mirror · as Radio (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1936 | Three Little Wolves · as Big Bad Wolf (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1936 | Boom Boom · as General Hardtack / General / Soldiers (voice) |
| 1936 | Porky's Pet · as Train Conductor |
| 1936 | Shanghaied Shipmates · as Ship's Captain - Shipmate (voice) |
| 1936 | Divot Diggers · as Bill - Third Golfer |
| 1936 | Westward Whoa · as Beans |
| 1936 | Don't Look Now · as Devil Cuckoo (voice) |
| 1936 | Desert Gold · as Bob - a Wedding Guest |
| 1936 | Puppet Show · as Jack in the box |
| 1936 | New Shoes · as Boy's Shoes (voice) |
| 1935 | The Lost City · as Gorzo |
| 1935 | The Golden Touch · as King Midas |
| 1935 | The Rainmakers · as Townsman |
| 1935 | Hollywood Capers · as Studio Guard |
| 1935 | I Haven't Got a Hat · as Beans / Ex (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1935 | Balloon Land · as Pincushion Man (voice) |
| 1935 | Gold Diggers of '49 · as Beans (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1935 | Buddy's Lost World · as Bozo |
| 1935 | The Lost City · as Gorzo |
| 1934 | March of the Wooden Soldiers · as Chief of Police (uncredited) |
| 1934 | The Cat's-Paw · as Reporter |
| 1934 | The Big Bad Wolf · as Big Bad Wolf (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1934 | Beauty and the Beast · as Beast |
| 1934 | Hollywood Party · as Big Bad Wolf |
| 1934 | Burn 'Em Up Barnes · as Race Commentator [Ch. 1] |
| 1933 | Morning Glory · as Actor |
| 1933 | Three Little Pigs · as Big Bad Wolf (voice) |
| 1933 | She Done Him Wrong · as Singing Waiter |
| 1933 | The Midnight Patrol · as Radio dispatcher (voice) |
| 1933 | Me and My Pal · as Police Dispatcher (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1933 | Ye Olden Days · as King |
| 1933 | Diplomaniacs · as Schmerzenschmerzen (uncredited) |
| 1933 | The Mad Doctor · as Dr. XXX |
| 1933 | Soda Squirt · as Mr. Hyde |
| 1932 | The Dentist · as Mr. Foliage - Bearded Patient |
| 1932 | Flesh · as Man in Cafe |
| 1932 | Exposure · as Society Editor |
| 1932 | Never the Twins Shall Meet · as Installment Man |
| 1932 | The Hollywood Handicap · as Character |
| 1931 | Beau Hunks · as New Recruit #11 |
| 1931 | Branded Men · as Half-A-Rod |
| 1931 | Monkey Business · as Man in Deck Chair |
| 1931 | Dance Hall Marge · as Cigar Stand Operator |
| 1931 | The Gland Parade · as actor |
| 1930 | Soup to Nuts · as Revolutionary (uncredited) |
| 1919 | The Love Hunger · as Jakey |
| 1916 | One Too Many · as Unhappy Boarder |