Billy Bletcher
Acting
1894-09-23 · 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.
movieGet a Horse!
as Peg-Leg Pete (voice) · 2013 · 7.6
movieTex Avery's Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection
as Spike (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited) · 2007 · 9.2
movieOnce Upon a Halloween
as Tiny Tom (Peg Leg Pete) (voice) (archive sound) · 2005 · 6.2
movieTom & Jerry: Spotlight Collection
as · 2004 · 0.0
movieWalt Disney's Fables - Vol.5
as Big Bad Wolf / Captain Katt (voice) (archive sound) · 2004 · 7.6
movieEverybody Loves Donald
as (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited) · 2003 · 7.2
movieWalt Disney's Fables - Vol.3
as Robot Butler (segment "Modern Inventions") (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited) · 2003 · 8.6
movieWalt Disney Treasures - The Complete Goofy
as Al Muldoon (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited) · 2002 · 7.5
movieWalt Disney Treasures - Silly Symphonies
as (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited) · 2001 · 7.0
movieEverybody Loves Mickey
as Short Ghost (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited) · 2001 · 5.9
movieThe Story Behind Walt Disney's 'Fun and Fancy Free'
as Self (archive footage) · 1997 · 7.3
movieMGM Cartoon Christmas
as (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited) · 1993 · 0.0
movieDisney’s Coyote Tales
as Young Bent-Tail the Coyote (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited) · 1991 · 6.0
movieRootin' Tootin' Roundup
as Pete (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited) · 1989 · 6.5
movieHere's Goofy!
as Narrator (voice) · 1987 · 6.7
movieWalt Disney Cartoon Classics Limited Gold Edition II: An Officer and a Duck
as (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited) · 1985 · 9.0
movieDisney's Halloween Treat
as Cat Prosecutor (voice) (archive footage) · 1982 · 6.5
movieHello, Dolly!
as Man (uncredited) · 1969 · 7.0
movieThe Chase
as Mr. Vincent (uncredited) · 1966 · 7.1
tvGet Smart
as Frank Ogg · 1965 · 7.9
movieHarlow
as Policeman · 1965 · 5.6
movieThe Nutty Professor
as Plumber (uncredited) · 1963 · 6.5
movieChun King Chow Mein Hour
as Mr. Abramowitz · 1962 · 0.0
movieThis Is Your Life Donald Duck
as Pete (voice) · 1960 · 6.2