Billy Bletcher

Known for Acting

Billy Bletcher's portrait

Details

Birthday: September 23, 1894

Deathday: January 05, 1979

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.

Actor

2013

Get a Horse!

2007

Tex Avery's Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection

2005

Once Upon a Halloween

2004

Tom & Jerry: Spotlight Collection

2004

Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.5

2003

Everybody Loves Donald

2003

Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.3

2002

Walt Disney Treasures - The Complete Goofy

2001

Walt Disney Treasures - Silly Symphonies

2001

Everybody Loves Mickey

1997

The Story Behind Walt Disney's 'Fun and Fancy Free'

1993

MGM Cartoon Christmas

1991

Disney’s Coyote Tales

1989

Rootin' Tootin' Roundup

1987

Here's Goofy!

1985

Walt Disney Cartoon Classics Limited Gold Edition II: An Officer and a Duck

1982

Disney's Halloween Treat

1969

Hello, Dolly!

1966

The Chase

1965

Harlow

1963

The Nutty Professor

1962

Chun King Chow Mein Hour

1960

This Is Your Life Donald Duck

1956

Trailblazer Magoo

1954

The Lone Chipmunks

1953

The New Neighbor

1953

Canvas Back Duck

1953

Calamity Jane

1952

How to Be a Detective

1952

Two Gun Goofy

1951

A Bear for Punishment

1951

Father Takes the Air

1950

The Next Voice You Hear...

1949

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

1949

Heavenly Puss

1949

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad

1949

Mississippi Hare

1949

Bear Feat

1949

Bowery Bugs

1949

The Bee-Deviled Bruin

1948

The Truce Hurts

1948

Rabbit Punch

1948

Make Mine Freedom

1948

What's Brewin', Bruin?

1948

The Bear and the Bean

1947

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

1947

Wide Open Spaces

1947

Down to Earth

1947

Pluto's Blue Note

1947

Tubby the Tuba

1946

A Knight for a Day

1946

Solid Serenade

1946

Deadline at Dawn

1946

The Verdict

1946

Road to Utopia

1946

Gallant Journey

1945

Quiet Please!

1945

Old Sequoia

1945

Duck Pimples

1945

Incendiary Blonde

1945

Swing Shift Cinderella

1945

Canine Casanova

1944

The Zoot Cat

1944

The Bodyguard

1944

Trombone Trouble

1944

Tom Turk and Daffy

1944

Little Red Riding Rabbit

1944

Gas

1944

Private Snafu vs. Malaria Mike

1944

Casanova Brown

1944

And the Angels Sing

1944

Bear Raid Warden

1944

Polar Pest

1944

Lost in a Harem

1944

Maisie Goes to Reno

1944

The Inside Story

1943

Der Fuehrer's Face

1943

The Old Army Game

1943

Whistling in Brooklyn

1943

Who Killed Who?

1943

Yankee Doodle Daffy

1943

Boss of Rawhide

1943

Chatterbox

1943

The Little Broadcast

1943

Baby Puss

1943

Slightly Dangerous

1943

Best Foot Forward

1943

Crazy House

1943

True to Life

1943

Swing Shift Maisie

1943

War Dogs

1942

Sky Trooper

1942

The Vanishing Private

1942

Symphony Hour

1942

Donald Gets Drafted

1942

Saps in Chaps

1942

Stand by for Action

1942

The Wild and Woozy West

1942

I Married a Witch

1942

Daffy's Southern Exposure

1942

Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6

1942

Joe Smith, American

1942

Dog Meets Dog

1942

Dog Trouble

1941

Robot Wrecks

1941

Come Back, Miss Pipps

1941

Dumbo

1941

The Thrifty Pig

1941

Whistling in the Dark

1941

Timber

1941

We, the Animals - Squeak!

1941

Meet John Doughboy

1941

Cracked Nuts

1941

Red Riding Hood Rides Again

1941

Las Vegas Nights

1940

The Pooch Parade

1940

Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip

1940

Pluto's Dream House

1940

The Riveter

1940

Edison, the Man

1940

Buck Benny Rides Again

1940

The Ape

1940

Melody Ranch

1940

Hit Parade of 1941

1940

Mouse Meets Lion

1940

Home on the Range

1939

Sioux Me

1939

The Autograph Hound

1939

Officer Duck

1939

Polar Pals

1939

Porky's Tire Trouble

1939

A Haunting We Will Go

1939

The Lone Ranger Rides Again

1939

Mama's New Hat

1939

Zorro's Fighting Legion

1939

Seal Skinners

1939

The Practical Pig

1939

Destry Rides Again

1939

Porky's Movie Mystery

1939

Dancing Co-Ed

1939

The Film Fan

1939

The Lone Stranger and Porky

1939

Petunia Natural Park

1939

The Wizard of Oz

1938

Boy Meets Dog

1938

Porky in Wackyland

1938

You're an Education

1938

Now That Summer Is Gone

1938

Hide and Shriek

1938

The Winning Ticket

1938

The Lone Ranger

1938

A Feud There Was

1938

Nellie the Indian Chief's Daughter

1938

Nellie the Sewing Machine Girl or Honest Hearts & Willing Hands

1938

The Mexicali Kid

1938

Men with Wings

1938

A Day at the Beach

1938

Poultry Pirates

1938

Professor Beware

1938

Farmyard Symphony

1938

The Captain's Pup

1938

The Captain's Christmas

1938

Porky's Phoney Express

1938

What a Lion!

1938

Blue Monday

1938

Cleaning House

1938

Old Smokey

1938

California Frontier

1937

Uncle Tom's Bungalow

1937

Sweet Sioux

1937

The Hound and the Rabbit

1937

The Fella with a Fiddle

1937

Donald's Ostrich

1937

Modern Inventions

1937

Pigs Is Pigs

1937

Porky's Road Race

1937

Porky's Romance

1937

Speaking of the Weather

1937

Dog Daze

1937

Egghead Rides Again

1937

I Wanna Be a Sailor

1937

The Case of the Stuttering Pig

1937

Porky's Railroad

1937

The Worm Turns

1937

Lonesome Ghosts

1937

Walt Disney's Academy Award Revue

1937

The Californian

1937

The Lyin' Mouse

1937

Playing the Ponies

1937

Porky's Building

1937

Double Wedding

1937

Ain't We Got Fun

1937

Porky's Duck Hunt

1937

God's Country and the Man

1937

Picador Porky

1937

A Sunbonnet Blue

1937

Mickey's Review

1936

Don't Look Now

1936

Little Boy Blue

1936

Three Blind Mouseketeers

1936

I Love to Singa

1936

Boom Boom

1936

Bingo Crosbyana

1936

Shanghaied Shipmates

1936

Milk and Money

1936

Little Beau Porky

1936

Lash of the Penitentes

1936

Dick Whittington's Cat

1936

How to Vote

1936

Alpine Antics

1936

Porky in the North Woods

1936

Moving Day

1936

An All American Toothache

1936

Three Little Wolves

1936

Rhythm on the Range

1936

The Big Broadcast of 1937

1936

Satan Met a Lady

1936

Early to Bed

1936

New Shoes

1936

The Fire Alarm

1936

Thru the Mirror

1936

Can This Be Dixie?

1936

Divot Diggers

1936

Wives Never Know

1935

The Lost City

1935

The Golden Touch

1935

I Haven't Got a Hat

1935

The Merry Old Soul

1935

The Robber Kitten

1935

Balloon Land

1935

Gold Diggers of '49

1935

A Cartoonist's Nightmare

1935

Two-Fisted

1935

The Tin Man

1935

Twin Triplets

1935

Pluto's Judgement Day

1935

Who Killed Cock Robin?

1935

Mickey's Service Station

1935

Billboard Frolics

1935

Coronado

1935

Man on the Flying Trapeze

1935

Life Begins at Forty

1935

Mickey's Man Friday

1935

Alias St. Nick

1935

The Rainmakers

1935

Little Dutch Plate

1935

Teacher's Beau

1934

Music in Your Hair

1934

Shanghaied

1934

One-Horse Farmers

1934

Two-Gun Mickey

1934

Three Chumps Ahead

1934

Maid in Hollywood

1934

The Dognapper

1934

The Big Bad Wolf

1934

Babes in Toyland

1934

Goofy Movies Number Two

1934

Punch Drunks

1934

The Old-Fashioned Way

1934

The First Round-Up

1934

Mama's Little Pirate

1934

Buddy's Garage

1934

Buddy of the Apes

1934

Buddy's Bearcats

1934

Next Week-End

1933

Three Little Pigs

1933

She Done Him Wrong

1933

The Midnight Patrol

1933

A Lady's Profession

1933

The Mad Doctor

1933

Husbands' Reunion

1933

One Track Minds

1933

Air Fright

1933

Mickey's Mellerdrammer

1933

Me and My Pal

1933

Building a Building

1933

Ye Olden Days

1933

Rhapsody in Brew

1933

Call Her Sausage

1933

Taxi Barons

1933

The Rummy

1933

Keg o' My Heart

1933

Diplomaniacs

1933

Bedtime Worries

1933

Morning Glory

1932

Night World

1932

Runt Page

1932

Bridge Wives

1932

The Boiling Point

1932

A Slip at the Switch

1932

The Dentist

1932

Sneak Easily

1932

The Tabasco Kid

1932

Taxi for Two

1932

By Whose Hand?

1932

The Hollywood Handicap

1932

The Devil Is Driving

1932

Never the Twins Shall Meet

1931

The Texas Ranger

1931

Branded Men

1931

The Secret Witness

1931

Trader Hound

1931

Monkey Business

1930

The Man Hunter

1930

Dancing Sweeties

1930

Show Girl in Hollywood

1930

Moonlight and Monkey Business

1930

Top Speed

1930

Soup to Nuts

1930

Loose Ankles

1928

Daredevil's Reward

1928

The Cowboy Kid

1928

Hold’er Cowboy

1928

The Fresh Lobster

1928

The Terrible People

1927

Two Girls Wanted

1927

The Patent Leather Kid

1927

One Hour of Love

1926

The Dude Cowboy

1926

The Bar-C Mystery

1924

That's the Spirit

1924

Getting Gertie's Goat

1923

Call the Wagon

1923

Kidding Katie

1922

Turn to the Right

1922

Cold Feet

1922

Billy Jim

1921

The Noodle Nut

1920

Dry and Thirsty

1920

A Bashful Bigamist

1919

A Roman Scandal

1916

Jane's Bashful Hero

1916

One Too Many

1916

The Serenade

1916

The Battle Royal

1915

The Vanishing Vault

Director

1925

The Wild Girl

1925

The Silent Guardian

Writer

1920

Dry and Thirsty