Billy Bletcher
Acting
Born September 23, 1894 · 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.
Directed (2)
Acting (336)
Get a Horse!
2013
Tex Avery's Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection
2007
Once Upon a Halloween
2005
Tom & Jerry: Spotlight Collection
2004
Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.5
2004
Everybody Loves Donald
2003
Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.3
2003
Walt Disney Treasures - The Complete Goofy
2002
Walt Disney Treasures - Silly Symphonies
2001
Everybody Loves Mickey
2001
The Story Behind Walt Disney's 'Fun and Fancy Free'
1997
MGM Cartoon Christmas
1993
Disney’s Coyote Tales
1991
Rootin' Tootin' Roundup
1989
Here's Goofy!
1987
Walt Disney Cartoon Classics Limited Gold Edition II: An Officer and a Duck
1985
Disney's Halloween Treat
1982
Hello, Dolly!
1969
The Chase
1966
Harlow
1965
The Nutty Professor
1963
Chun King Chow Mein Hour
1962
This Is Your Life Donald Duck
1960
Trailblazer Magoo
1956
The Lone Chipmunks
1954
Canvas Back Duck
1953
Calamity Jane
1953
The New Neighbor
1953
How to Be a Detective
1952
Two Gun Goofy
1952
A Bear for Punishment
1951
Father Takes the Air
1951
The Next Voice You Hear...
1950
Bear Feat
1949
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
1949
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
1949
Heavenly Puss
1949
Bowery Bugs
1949
The Bee-Deviled Bruin
1949
Mississippi Hare
1949
The Truce Hurts
1948
Rabbit Punch
1948
What's Brewin', Bruin?
1948
Make Mine Freedom
1948
The Bear and the Bean
1948
Pluto's Blue Note
1947
Wide Open Spaces
1947
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1947
Down to Earth
1947
Tubby the Tuba
1947
The Verdict
1946
Gallant Journey
1946
Solid Serenade
1946
Deadline at Dawn
1946
A Knight for a Day
1946
Road to Utopia
1946
Quiet Please!
1945
Old Sequoia
1945
Swing Shift Cinderella
1945
Duck Pimples
1945
Canine Casanova
1945
Incendiary Blonde
1945
Polar Pest
1944
Lost in a Harem
1944
The Inside Story
1944
Casanova Brown
1944
Maisie Goes to Reno
1944
Bear Raid Warden
1944
The Bodyguard
1944
Gas
1944
And the Angels Sing
1944
Private Snafu vs. Malaria Mike
1944
The Zoot Cat
1944
Trombone Trouble
1944
Tom Turk and Daffy
1944
Little Red Riding Rabbit
1944
Baby Puss
1943
True to Life
1943
Whistling in Brooklyn
1943
Boss of Rawhide
1943
The Old Army Game
1943
Best Foot Forward
1943
Crazy House
1943
War Dogs
1943
Swing Shift Maisie
1943
The Little Broadcast
1943
Who Killed Who?
1943
Yankee Doodle Daffy
1943
Chatterbox
1943
Slightly Dangerous
1943
Der Fuehrer's Face
1943
Stand by for Action
1942
Sky Trooper
1942
I Married a Witch
1942
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
1942
The Vanishing Private
1942
Donald Gets Drafted
1942
Daffy's Southern Exposure
1942
The Wild and Woozy West
1942
Dog Trouble
1942
Saps in Chaps
1942
Dog Meets Dog
1942
Symphony Hour
1942
Joe Smith, American
1942
Red Riding Hood Rides Again
1941
The Thrifty Pig
1941
Dumbo
1941
Come Back, Miss Pipps
1941
Whistling in the Dark
1941
We, the Animals - Squeak!
1941
Robot Wrecks
1941
Meet John Doughboy
1941
Cracked Nuts
1941
Las Vegas Nights
1941
Timber
1941
Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip
1940
Mouse Meets Lion
1940
Hit Parade of 1941
1940
The Ape
1940
Melody Ranch
1940
Pluto's Dream House
1940
The Pooch Parade
1940
Buck Benny Rides Again
1940
Edison, the Man
1940
Home on the Range
1940
The Riveter
1940
Zorro's Fighting Legion
1939
The Film Fan
1939
Destry Rides Again
1939
Officer Duck
1939
Dancing Co-Ed
1939
Sioux Me
1939
The Autograph Hound
1939
A Haunting We Will Go
1939
The Wizard of Oz
1939
Polar Pals
1939
Porky's Movie Mystery
1939
The Lone Ranger Rides Again
1939
The Practical Pig
1939
Porky's Tire Trouble
1939
Mama's New Hat
1939
Seal Skinners
1939
The Lone Stranger and Porky
1939
Petunia Natural Park
1939
The Captain's Christmas
1938
California Frontier
1938
You're an Education
1938
Farmyard Symphony
1938
The Winning Ticket
1938
Porky in Wackyland
1938
A Feud There Was
1938
The Mexicali Kid
1938
Old Smokey
1938
Professor Beware
1938
Men with Wings
1938
What a Lion!
1938
A Day at the Beach
1938
Hide and Shriek
1938
Nellie the Indian Chief's Daughter
1938
Now That Summer Is Gone
1938
The Captain's Pup
1938
Poultry Pirates
1938
Nellie the Sewing Machine Girl or Honest Hearts & Willing Hands
1938
Blue Monday
1938
Porky's Phoney Express
1938
Boy Meets Dog
1938
Cleaning House
1938
The Lone Ranger
1938
Lonesome Ghosts
1937
Donald's Ostrich
1937
The Case of the Stuttering Pig
1937
The Lyin' Mouse
1937
Playing the Ponies
1937
Double Wedding
1937
I Wanna Be a Sailor
1937
Dog Daze
1937
Mickey's Review
1937
Speaking of the Weather
1937
God's Country and the Man
1937
A Sunbonnet Blue
1937
Porky's Railroad
1937
The Californian
1937
Egghead Rides Again
1937
Sweet Sioux
1937
Porky's Building
1937
Uncle Tom's Bungalow
1937
The Hound and the Rabbit
1937
Modern Inventions
1937
Walt Disney's Academy Award Revue
1937
Ain't We Got Fun
1937
Porky's Duck Hunt
1937
Porky's Romance
1937
The Fella with a Fiddle
1937
Picador Porky
1937
Porky's Road Race
1937
Pigs Is Pigs
1937
The Worm Turns
1937
Porky in the North Woods
1936
Can This Be Dixie?
1936
Don't Look Now
1936
Little Beau Porky
1936
The Big Broadcast of 1937
1936
Milk and Money
1936
Three Blind Mouseketeers
1936
Wives Never Know
1936
New Shoes
1936
How to Vote
1936
Little Boy Blue
1936
Satan Met a Lady
1936
I Love to Singa
1936
Rhythm on the Range
1936
Moving Day
1936
Shanghaied Shipmates
1936
Early to Bed
1936
Bingo Crosbyana
1936
Dick Whittington's Cat
1936
Thru the Mirror
1936
Three Little Wolves
1936
Lash of the Penitentes
1936
The Fire Alarm
1936
Boom Boom
1936
Divot Diggers
1936
An All American Toothache
1936
Alpine Antics
1936
Coronado
1935
Alias St. Nick
1935
Billboard Frolics
1935
Gold Diggers of '49
1935
The Rainmakers
1935
Little Dutch Plate
1935
Twin Triplets
1935
Two-Fisted
1935
Balloon Land
1935
Pluto's Judgement Day
1935
A Cartoonist's Nightmare
1935
The Merry Old Soul
1935
Man on the Flying Trapeze
1935
Who Killed Cock Robin?
1935
Teacher's Beau
1935
The Robber Kitten
1935
The Tin Man
1935
The Golden Touch
1935
Life Begins at Forty
1935
The Lost City
1935
I Haven't Got a Hat
1935
Mickey's Service Station
1935
Mickey's Man Friday
1935
Two-Gun Mickey
1934
Babes in Toyland
1934
The Dognapper
1934
Mama's Little Pirate
1934
One-Horse Farmers
1934
Three Chumps Ahead
1934
Punch Drunks
1934
The Old-Fashioned Way
1934
Buddy's Bearcats
1934
Music in Your Hair
1934
Buddy of the Apes
1934
Maid in Hollywood
1934
The First Round-Up
1934
The Big Bad Wolf
1934
Buddy's Garage
1934
Goofy Movies Number Two
1934
Next Week-End
1934
Shanghaied
1934
Air Fright
1933
Keg o' My Heart
1933
Rhapsody in Brew
1933
Bedtime Worries
1933
Morning Glory
1933
The Midnight Patrol
1933
Husbands' Reunion
1933
The Rummy
1933
Three Little Pigs
1933
One Track Minds
1933
Call Her Sausage
1933
Diplomaniacs
1933
Me and My Pal
1933
Ye Olden Days
1933
Taxi Barons
1933
Mickey's Mellerdrammer
1933
A Lady's Profession
1933
She Done Him Wrong
1933
The Mad Doctor
1933
Building a Building
1933
Sneak Easily
1932
The Dentist
1932
The Devil Is Driving
1932
Taxi for Two
1932
The Hollywood Handicap
1932
A Slip at the Switch
1932
The Boiling Point
1932
By Whose Hand?
1932
Night World
1932
Runt Page
1932
Bridge Wives
1932
Never the Twins Shall Meet
1932
The Tabasco Kid
1932
The Secret Witness
1931
Branded Men
1931
Monkey Business
1931
The Texas Ranger
1931
Trader Hound
1931
Moonlight and Monkey Business
1930
Soup to Nuts
1930
Top Speed
1930
Dancing Sweeties
1930
The Man Hunter
1930
Show Girl in Hollywood
1930
Loose Ankles
1930
The Terrible People
1928
The Cowboy Kid
1928
Hold’er Cowboy
1928
Daredevil's Reward
1928
The Fresh Lobster
1928
Two Girls Wanted
1927
The Patent Leather Kid
1927
One Hour of Love
1927
The Dude Cowboy
1926
The Bar-C Mystery
1926
That's the Spirit
1924
Getting Gertie's Goat
1924
Call the Wagon
1923
Kidding Katie
1923
Cold Feet
1922
Billy Jim
1922
Turn to the Right
1922
The Noodle Nut
1921
A Bashful Bigamist
1920
Dry and Thirsty
1920
A Roman Scandal
1919
The Battle Royal
1916
The Serenade
1916
One Too Many
1916
Jane's Bashful Hero
1916
The Vanishing Vault
1915