Billy Bletcher

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1894-09-23 (85 years old)

Deathday

1979-01-05

Place of Birth

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA

Billy Bletcher

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 B...

Acting

1946

A Knight for a Day

as Narrator (voice)

1941

Robot Wrecks

as Froggy's Father (uncredited)

1941

Come Back, Miss Pipps

as Froggy's Father (uncredited)

1938

1941

Dumbo

as Clown (voice) (uncredited)

1940

1949

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

as Headless Horseman Laugh (voice)

1937

Uncle Tom's Bungalow

as Simon Simon Legree (voice)

1936

Don't Look Now

as Devil Cuckoo (voice) (uncredited)

1939

Sioux Me

as Indian chorus (voice)

1943

Der Fuehrer's Face

as Nazi (voice) (uncredited)

1937

Sweet Sioux

as Native American (voice)

1933

Three Little Pigs

as Big Bad Wolf (voice)

1933

She Done Him Wrong

as Singing Waiter (uncredited)

1951

A Bear for Punishment

as Pa Bear (voice) (uncredited)

1947

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

as Western Character (uncredited)

1945

Quiet Please!

as Spike (voice) (uncredited)

1948

The Truce Hurts

as Spike (voice) (uncredited)

1944

The Zoot Cat

as Bit Part (voice) (uncredited)

1922

Turn to the Right

as Sammy Martin (as William Bletcher)

1930

2005

Once Upon a Halloween

as Tiny Tom (Peg Leg Pete)

1937

The Hound and the Rabbit

as Fox (voice) (uncredited)

1928

The Cowboy Kid

as Deputy Sheriff

1934

Music in Your Hair

as Schmaltz's Friendly Neighbor

1935

1936

Little Boy Blue

as Wolf (voice)

1942

Sky Trooper

as Sergeant Pete (voice) (uncredited)

1943

The Old Army Game

as Sergeant Pete (voice) (uncredited)

1941

The Thrifty Pig

as Big Bad Wolf (voice) (uncredited)

1942

The Vanishing Private

as Sergeant Pete (voice) (uncredited)

1933

The Midnight Patrol

as Radio dispatcher (voice)

1949

Heavenly Puss

as Devil Dog (voice) (uncredited)

1946

Solid Serenade

as Evil Laugh (voice) (uncredited)

1944

The Bodyguard

as Spike / Tom (Voice)

1945

Old Sequoia

as Donald's Boss (voice) (uncredited)

1940

Pluto's Dream House

as Magic Lamp (voice) (uncredited)

1942

Symphony Hour

as Pete - Sylvester Macaroni (voice) (uncredited)

1953

The New Neighbor

as Pete (voice) (uncredited)

1936

1944

Trombone Trouble

as Pegleg Pete (voice) (uncredited)

1947

Wide Open Spaces

as Motel proprietor

1931

1949

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad

as Headless Horseman (voice)

1939

The Autograph Hound

as Security Guard (voice) (uncredited)

1953

Canvas Back Duck

as Pete (voice) (uncredited)

1942

Donald Gets Drafted

as Sergeant Pete (voice) (uncredited)

1941

Whistling in the Dark

as Radio Effects Man (uncredited)

1943

Whistling in Brooklyn

as Announcer (uncredited)

1936

I Love to Singa

as Father (voice)

1945

Duck Pimples

as Detective Hennessey (voice) (uncredited)

1941

Timber

as Pete (voice) (uncredited)

1937

The Fella with a Fiddle

as Grandpa Mouse (voice)

1932

Night World

as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

1939

Officer Duck

as Tiny Tom (voice) (uncredited)

1932

Runt Page

as Bears Bugs (voice) (uncredited)

1933

A Lady's Profession

as Keyhole McKluskey

1937

Donald's Ostrich

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

1937

Modern Inventions

as Robot Butler (voice) (uncredited)

1935

The Golden Touch

as King Midas (voice) (uncredited)

1940

The Riveter

as Pete (voice) (uncredited)

1954

The Lone Chipmunks

as Pete (voice)

1944

Tom Turk and Daffy

as Tom Turk (voice) (uncredited)

1944

Little Red Riding Rabbit

as Wolf (voice) (uncredited)

1937

Porky's Road Race

as Borax Karoff (voice) (uncredited)

1948

Rabbit Punch

as The Champ (voice) (uncredited)

1937

Porky's Romance

as Time Munches On Narrator

1937

Speaking of the Weather

as Public Enemy #1 / Judge

1935

I Haven't Got a Hat

as Beans / Ex (voice) (uncredited)

1937

Pigs Is Pigs

as Evil Scientist (voice) (uncredited)

1944

Gas

as Gas Cloud (voice) (uncredited)

1944

Private Snafu vs. Malaria Mike

as Malaria Mike (voice) (uncredited)

1932

Bridge Wives

as Radio announcer

1933

The Mad Doctor

as Dr. XXX (voice) (uncredited)

1949

Bear Feat

as Pa Bear

1949

Mississippi Hare

as Col. Shuffle

1942

Saps in Chaps

as Cactus Pete (voice) (uncredited)

1941

We, the Animals - Squeak!

as Irish Mouse (voice)

1942

Stand by for Action

as Sailor (uncredited)

1949

Bowery Bugs

as Steve Brody

1937

Dog Daze

as St. Bernard (voice)

1935

The Merry Old Soul

as Old King Cole (voice)

1936

Shanghaied Shipmates

as Ship's Captain - Shipmate (voice)

1936

Boom Boom

as General Hardtack / General / Soldiers (voice)

1936

Bingo Crosbyana

as Spider (voice)

1935

The Robber Kitten

as Dirty Bill

1948

Make Mine Freedom

as Labor employee (voice)

1937

Egghead Rides Again

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

1937

I Wanna Be a Sailor

as Papa Parrot (voice) (uncredited)

1938

Porky in Wackyland

as Roaring Goon (voice) (uncredited)

1945

Incendiary Blonde

as Clown (uncredited)

1938

You're an Education

as Singing Tibetan / Thief of Baghdad (voice)

1935

Balloon Land

as Pincushion Man (voice)

1932

The Boiling Point

as Stubby - Kirk Hand

1945

Swing Shift Cinderella

as Wolf's Evil Laugh (voice) (uncredited)

1938

Now That Summer Is Gone

as Pop (voice) (uncredited)

1936

Milk and Money

as Mr. Viper (voice / uncredited)

1936

Little Beau Porky

as Ali-Mode, Commandant

1935

Gold Diggers of '49

as Beans (voice) (uncredited)

1938

Hide and Shriek

as Haunted House Ghouls (voice)

1934

Shanghaied

as Pegleg Pete (voice) (uncredited)

1935

A Cartoonist's Nightmare

as Demon Beast / Old Man / Villains (voice) (uncredited)

1937

The Case of the Stuttering Pig

as Lawyer Goodwill (voice) (uncredited)

1931

Branded Men

as Half-A-Rod

2013

Get a Horse!

as Peg-Leg Pete (voice)

1930

Dancing Sweeties

as Bud (uncredited)

1935

1939

Polar Pals

as I. Killem (voice) (uncredited)

1941

Meet John Doughboy

as Short Soldier (voice) (uncredited)

1993

MGM Cartoon Christmas

as (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)

1920

Dry and Thirsty

as Horace Radish

1937

Porky's Railroad

as Silver Fish engineer (voice) (uncredited)

1938

The Winning Ticket

as The Captain (voice) (uncredited)

1933

1944

Casanova Brown

as Father in Waiting Room (uncredited)

1938

The Lone Ranger

as Lone Ranger (voice)

1938

A Feud There Was

as Weaver from Audience / McCoy at Cellar Door (voice)

1938

Nellie the Indian Chief's Daughter

as Vocal Talents (voice) (uncredited)

1944

And the Angels Sing

as Club Patron (uncredited)

1919

A Roman Scandal

as Stage Director

1916

One Too Many

as Unhappy Boarder

1930

Show Girl in Hollywood

as Sign Man Scraping Names off Doors

1947

Down to Earth

as Conductor (uncredited)

1920

A Bashful Bigamist

as Mr. Smith

1934

One-Horse Farmers

as Subway Passenger (uncredited)

1936

Lash of the Penitentes

as Narrating Missionary

1936

How to Vote

as Man on Platform (uncredited)

1930

Top Speed

as Ipps

1932

The Dentist

as Mr. Foliage - Bearded Patient

1969

Hello, Dolly!

as Man (uncredited)

1936

Alpine Antics

as Bully (voice) (uncredited)

1936

Porky in the North Woods

as Jean-Baptiste (voice) (uncredited)

1935

The Tin Man

as The Tin Man (voice)

1934

Two-Gun Mickey

as Pegleg Pete (voice) (uncredited)

1936

Moving Day

as Pete (voice) (uncredited)

1937

The Worm Turns

as Pete - Dog Catcher (voice) (uncredited)

1939

A Haunting We Will Go

as Ghost (voice)

1938

The Mexicali Kid

as Stagecoach Driver

1922

Cold Feet

as Pride of the Mounted

1935

Twin Triplets

as Merchant (uncredited)

1934

Three Chumps Ahead

as Second Waiter (uncredited)

1932

Sneak Easily

as Police Radio Announcer (uncredited)

1933

Air Fright

as Stunt Aviator

1933

One Track Minds

as Passenger with Whiskers (uncredited)

1934

Maid in Hollywood

as Information Clerk (uncredited)

1936

An All American Toothache

as Plumber #1 (uncredited)

1937

Lonesome Ghosts

as Short Ghost (voice) (uncredited)

1939

The Lone Ranger Rides Again

as The Masked Lone Ranger (voice)

1933

Mickey's Mellerdrammer

as Horace Horsecollar (voice) (uncredited)

1931

The Secret Witness

as Radio Announcer's Voice

1931

Trader Hound

as Trader Hound / Native King (voice) (uncredited)

1938

Men with Wings

as Red Cross Man

1939

Mama's New Hat

as Captain (voice) (uncredited)

1933

Me and My Pal

as Police Dispatcher (voice) (uncredited)

1939

Zorro's Fighting Legion

as Don Del Oro (voice)

1939

Seal Skinners

as Captain (voice) (uncredited)

1933

Building a Building

as (voice) (uncredited)

1939

The Practical Pig

as Big Bad Wolf (voice) (uncredited)

1938

1938

Poultry Pirates

as Captain

1938

Professor Beware

as Shoeshine Customer

1939

Destry Rides Again

as Pianist (uncredited)

1939

Porky's Movie Mystery

as Invisible Man

1934

The Dognapper

as Pete (voice) (uncredited)

1939

Dancing Co-Ed

as Radio Man (voice) (uncredited)

1942

The Wild and Woozy West

as Angel Face Wolf (uncredited)

1935

Pluto's Judgement Day

as Cat Prosecutor (voice) (uncredited)

1935

Who Killed Cock Robin?

as Judge Oliver Owl (voice) (uncredited)

1936

Three Little Wolves

as Big Bad Wolf (voice) (uncredited)

1933

Ye Olden Days

as King (voice) (uncredited)

1934

The Big Bad Wolf

as Big Bad Wolf (voice) (uncredited)

1935

Mickey's Service Station

as Pete (voice) (uncredited)

1947

Pluto's Blue Note

as Music Store Proprietor (voice) (uncredited)

1963

The Nutty Professor

as Plumber (uncredited)

1966

The Chase

as Mr. Vincent (uncredited)

1938

Farmyard Symphony

as Bull (voice) (uncredited)

1946

Deadline at Dawn

as Waiter (uncredited)

1934

Babes in Toyland

as Chief of Police (uncredited)

1962

Chun King Chow Mein Hour

as Mr. Abramowitz

1952

How to Be a Detective

as Pete - Al Muldoon (voice)

1937

Walt Disney's Academy Award Revue

as Big bad wolf (voice)

1943

Who Killed Who?

as Detective / Ghost (voice) (uncredited)

1940

Edison, the Man

as Reporter

1943

Yankee Doodle Daffy

as Sleepy Lagoon (singing voice) (uncredited)

1949

The Bee-Deviled Bruin

as Henry Bear (voice) (uncredited)

1948

What's Brewin', Bruin?

as Papa Bear (voice) (uncredited)

1934

Goofy Movies Number Two

as Christopher Columbus (uncredited)

1942

Daffy's Southern Exposure

as Wolf (voice) (uncredited)

1989

Rootin' Tootin' Roundup

as Pete(archive sound)

1935

Billboard Frolics

as Dave Rub-Em-Off

1940

1937

The Californian

as Tax Collector

1926

The Dude Cowboy

as Shorty O'Day

1933

Rhapsody in Brew

as Meyer Schmaltz

1933

Call Her Sausage

as Meyer (uncredited)

1935

Coronado

as Waiter (uncredited)

1933

Taxi Barons

as Host - Jenna's Father

1933

The Rummy

as Taxicab Company Mechanic (uncredited)

1934

Punch Drunks

as Fight Announcer (uncredited)

1933

Keg o' My Heart

as Meyer Schmaltz

1940

The Ape

as Short Mustached Posse Man

1940

Melody Ranch

as Scarlet Shadow Radio Actor

1933

Diplomaniacs

as Schmerzenschmerzen (uncredited)

1936

Rhythm on the Range

as Buck's Friend

1965

Harlow

as Policeman

1936

1934

The Old-Fashioned Way

as Tomato Thrower (uncredited)

1935

Man on the Flying Trapeze

as Timekeeper (uncredited)

1935

1916

The Serenade

as Schmitte

1937

The Lyin' Mouse

as Lion - Cat Humming (voice) (uncredited)

1939

The Film Fan

as Narrator / Masked Marvel (voice) (uncredited)

1936

Satan Met a Lady

as Father of Sextuplets (uncredited)

1924

That's the Spirit

as The Crooked Scientist

1941

Cracked Nuts

as Parachute Man

1932

The Tabasco Kid

as Susie (voice)

1943

Boss of Rawhide

as Jed Bones

1938

The Captain's Pup

as Captain (voice)

1937

Playing the Ponies

as Announcer (uncredited)

1933

Bedtime Worries

as Radio Voice

1934

The First Round-Up

as Wally's Father

1946

The Verdict

as Gravedigger

1936

Early to Bed

as Office Boy

1930

Soup to Nuts

as Revolutionary (uncredited)

1943

Chatterbox

as Black Jake

1944

Bear Raid Warden

as Barney Bear

1935

Mickey's Man Friday

as Friday (voice) (uncredited)

1943

The Little Broadcast

as Master of Ceremonies (voice) (uncredited)

1943

Baby Puss

as Butch (voice) (uncredited)

1938

The Captain's Christmas

as The Captain (voice) (uncredited)

1936

New Shoes

as Boy's Shoes (voice)

1953

Calamity Jane

as Prospector (uncredited)

1943

Slightly Dangerous

as Customer (uncredited)

1937

Porky's Building

as Dirty Digg (voice) (uncredited)

1916

The Battle Royal

as Grandpa Runt

1938

Porky's Phoney Express

as Porky's boss (voice) (uncredited)

1939

The Lone Stranger and Porky

as Narrator / Lone Stranger / Villain (voice)

1942

Joe Smith, American

as Police Radio Broadcaster (voice) (uncredited)

2007

Tex Avery's Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection

as Spike (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)

1935

Alias St. Nick

as Cat / Fake Santa Claus (voice) (uncredited)

1948

The Bear and the Bean

as Barney Bear (voice)

1944

Polar Pest

as Barney Bear (voice) (uncredited)

1943

1938

What a Lion!

as Captain (voice) (uncredited)

1938

Cleaning House

as Captain (voice) (uncredited)

1938

Blue Monday

as Captain (voice) (uncredited)

1935

The Rainmakers

as Townsman

1943

Crazy House

as Policeman

1930

Loose Ankles

as Mr. Berry from Logan

1951

1943

True to Life

as Radio Heavy (uncredited)

2001

2003

Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.3

as Robot Butler (segment "Modern Inventions") (archive sound)

1939

Petunia Natural Park

as The Captain (voice) (uncredited)

1956

Trailblazer Magoo

as Various (voice)(uncredited)

1922

Billy Jim

as Jimmy

1927

1987

Here's Goofy!

as Narrator (voice)

2004

Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.5

as Big Bad Wolf / Captain Katt (voice) (archive sound)

1938

Old Smokey

as Captain (voice) (uncredited)

1932

Taxi for Two

as The District Attorney

1946

Road to Utopia

as Bear (uncredited) (voice)

1944

Lost in a Harem

as Bobo (voice) (uncredited)

1937

Double Wedding

as Wedding Guest (uncredited)

1937

Ain't We Got Fun

as Mouse in Checkered Cap (voice) (uncredited)

1945

Canine Casanova

as Dogcatcher (voice) (uncredited)

1937

Porky's Duck Hunt

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

1931

Monkey Business

as Man in Deck Chair

1927

1952

Two Gun Goofy

as Pete (voice) (uncredited)

1939

The Wizard of Oz

as Mayor / Lollipop Guild Member (voice) (uncredited)

1935

Little Dutch Plate

as Vinegar Bottle (voice) (uncredited)

1982

Disney's Halloween Treat

as Cat Prosecutor (voice) (archive footage)

1941

Red Riding Hood Rides Again

as Wolf (voice) (uncredited)

1938

1937

1936

The Fire Alarm

as Beans (voice) (uncredited)

1940

Hit Parade of 1941

as Radio Actor

1991

Disney’s Coyote Tales

as Young Bent-Tail the Coyote (voice)

1944

Maisie Goes to Reno

as Public Address Announcer (Voice) (Uncredited)

1943

Swing Shift Maisie

as Workman (Uncredited)

1937

Picador Porky

as Bull (uncredited)

1940

Mouse Meets Lion

as Lion (voice)

1942

1923

Kidding Katie

as The Butler

1937

A Sunbonnet Blue

as Villain Mouse (voice) (uncredited)

1942

Dog Trouble

as Spike (voice) (uncredited)

1924

1936

Thru the Mirror

as Radio (voice) (uncredited)

1932

By Whose Hand?

as Police Radio Dispatcher (uncredited) (unconfirmed)

1936

Can This Be Dixie?

as John P. Smith Peachtree

1934

Mama's Little Pirate

as Voice of Giant

1935

Teacher's Beau

as Chairman of the Board

1936

Divot Diggers

as Golfer

1928

1944

1940

Home on the Range

as Coyote Bark

1947

Tubby the Tuba

as Frog (voice)

1933

Morning Glory

as Actor (uncredited)

1937

Mickey's Review

as Dog Catcher (voice)

1936

Wives Never Know

as Drunk (uncredited)

1946

Gallant Journey

as Mahoney's Valet (uncredited)

1941

Las Vegas Nights

as Horse (voice)

1932

The Devil Is Driving

as Musician at First Wedding (uncredited)

Production

1925

The Wild Girl

as Director

1925

1920

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