Known For
Acting
Born
Sep 23, 1894
Died
Jan 05, 1979
Place of Birth
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
Credits
345 titles
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 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.
Known For
Filmography
Get a Horse!
Peg-Leg Pete (voice)
Tex Avery's Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection
Spike (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
Once Upon a Halloween
Tiny Tom (Peg Leg Pete) (voice) (archive sound)
Tom & Jerry: Spotlight Collection
Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.5
Big Bad Wolf / Captain Katt (voice) (archive sound)
Everybody Loves Donald
(voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.3
Robot Butler (segment "Modern Inventions") (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
Walt Disney Treasures - The Complete Goofy
Al Muldoon (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
Walt Disney Treasures - Silly Symphonies
(voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
Everybody Loves Mickey
Short Ghost (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
The Story Behind Walt Disney's 'Fun and Fancy Free'
Self (archive footage)
MGM Cartoon Christmas
(voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
Disney’s Coyote Tales
Young Bent-Tail the Coyote (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
Goofy's Guide to Success
Pete (archive footage)
Rootin' Tootin' Roundup
Pete (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
Here's Goofy!
Narrator (voice)
Walt Disney Cartoon Classics Limited Gold Edition II: An Officer and a Duck
(voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
Disney's Halloween Treat
Cat Prosecutor (voice) (archive footage)
Hello, Dolly!
Man (uncredited)
The Chase
Mr. Vincent (uncredited)
Get Smart
Frank Ogg
Harlow
Policeman (uncredited)
The Nutty Professor
Plumber (uncredited)
Chun King Chow Mein Hour
Mr. Abramowitz
This Is Your Life Donald Duck
Pete (voice)
Pete Kelly's Blues
Trailblazer Magoo
Various (voice)(uncredited)
The Lone Chipmunks
Pete (voice)
Canvas Back Duck
Pete (voice) (uncredited)
Calamity Jane
Prospector (uncredited)
The New Neighbor
Pete (voice) (uncredited)
Revlon Mirror Theatre
How to Be a Detective
Pete - Al Muldoon (voice)
Two Gun Goofy
Pete (voice) (uncredited)
A Bear for Punishment
Pa Bear (voice) (uncredited)
The Red Skelton Show
Phony Warden
Father Takes the Air
Haggarly
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Waiter
The Next Voice You Hear...
Newspaper Subscriber (uncredited)
Bear Feat
Pa Bear
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Headless Horseman Laugh (voice)
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
Headless Horseman (voice)
The Lone Ranger
Horseface
Heavenly Puss
Devil Dog (voice) (uncredited)
Bowery Bugs
Steve Brody
The Bee-Deviled Bruin
Henry Bear (voice) (uncredited)
Mississippi Hare
Col. Shuffle
The Truce Hurts
Spike (voice) (uncredited)
Rabbit Punch
The Champ (voice) (uncredited)
Make Mine Freedom
Labor employee (voice)