Billy Bletcher

Billy Bletcher

Known For: Acting

Gender: Male

Date of Birth: September 23, 1894

Day of Death: January 5, 1979 (84 years old)

Place of Birth: Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA

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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.

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Uncle Tom's Bungalow

Actor Simon Simon Legree (voice)

Uncle Tom's Bungalow

Sweet Sioux

Actor Native American (voice)

Sweet Sioux

The Hound and the Rabbit

Actor Fox (voice) (uncredited)

The Hound and the Rabbit

The Fella with a Fiddle

Actor Grandpa Mouse (voice)

The Fella with a Fiddle

Donald's Ostrich

Actor Bass Singer / Villain on Radio (voice) (uncredited)

Donald's Ostrich

Modern Inventions

Actor Robot Butler (voice) (uncredited)

Modern Inventions

Porky's Road Race

Actor Borax Karoff (voice) (uncredited)

Porky's Road Race

Porky's Romance

Actor Time Munches On Narrator

Porky's Romance

Speaking of the Weather

Actor Public Enemy #1 / Judge

Speaking of the Weather

Pigs Is Pigs

Actor Evil Scientist (voice) (uncredited)

Pigs Is Pigs

Dog Daze

Actor St. Bernard (voice)

Dog Daze

Egghead Rides Again

Actor Boarding Room Clerk / Egghead (voice) (uncredited)

Egghead Rides Again

I Wanna Be a Sailor

Actor Papa Parrot (voice) (uncredited)

I Wanna Be a Sailor

The Case of the Stuttering Pig

Actor Lawyer Goodwill (voice) (uncredited)

The Case of the Stuttering Pig

Porky's Railroad

Actor Silver Fish engineer (voice) (uncredited)

Porky's Railroad

The Worm Turns

Actor Pete - Dog Catcher (voice) (uncredited)

The Worm Turns

Lonesome Ghosts

Actor Short Ghost (voice) (uncredited)

Lonesome Ghosts

Walt Disney's Academy Award Revue

Actor Big bad wolf (voice)

Walt Disney's Academy Award Revue

The Californian

Actor Tax Collector

The Californian

The Lyin' Mouse

Actor Lion - Cat Humming (voice) (uncredited)

The Lyin' Mouse

Playing the Ponies

Actor Announcer (uncredited)

Playing the Ponies

Porky's Building

Actor Dirty Digg (voice) (uncredited)

Porky's Building

Double Wedding

Actor Wedding Guest (uncredited)

Double Wedding

Ain't We Got Fun

Actor Mouse in Checkered Cap (voice) (uncredited)

Ain't We Got Fun

Porky's Duck Hunt

Actor The Guy Upstairs / Bass Fish (voice) (uncredited)

Porky's Duck Hunt

God's Country and the Man

Actor Sandy Briggs

God's Country and the Man

Picador Porky

Actor Bull (uncredited)

Picador Porky

A Sunbonnet Blue

Actor Villain Mouse (voice) (uncredited)

A Sunbonnet Blue

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