
Billy Bletcher
Born: 1894-09-23
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.
Known For

The Wizard of Oz

Dumbo

Deadline at Dawn

Saps in Chaps

The Chase

Whistling in the Dark

Soup to Nuts

Edison, the Man

A Bear for Punishment

Symphony Hour

Hello, Dolly!

California Frontier

Calamity Jane

Maisie Goes to Reno

Slightly Dangerous

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad

Dancing Sweeties

Night World

Twin Triplets

Top Speed

Harlow

Trailblazer Magoo

Lonesome Ghosts

The Winning Ticket

The Californian

Mickey's Mellerdrammer

Punch Drunks

Bedtime Worries

Air Fright

Bowery Bugs

The Dognapper

The Rainmakers

Casanova Brown

Road to Utopia

Loose Ankles

New Shoes

Morning Glory

Wide Open Spaces

Mississippi Hare

Thru the Mirror

Bear Feat

Boom Boom

Monkey Business

Heavenly Puss

Babes in Toyland

Cracked Nuts

Rabbit Punch

Trombone Trouble

Lost in a Harem

The Nutty Professor

Sky Trooper

Playing the Ponies

Officer Duck

Old Sequoia

Diplomaniacs

Divot Diggers

Rhythm on the Range

Branded Men

Chatterbox

The Dentist

Sneak Easily

Everybody Loves Mickey

Boss of Rawhide

Canine Casanova

The Captain's Christmas

The Film Fan

Duck Pimples

Gas

Modern Inventions

The First Round-Up

Pluto's Judgement Day

Timber

Alpine Antics

Home on the Range

Runt Page

Walt Disney's Academy Award Revue

I Married a Witch

Petunia Natural Park

Three Little Pigs

The Terrible People

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Shanghaied

Incendiary Blonde

Whistling in Brooklyn

The Secret Witness

Buddy's Bearcats

Kidding Katie

Dog Trouble

Sioux Me

Baby Puss

Get a Horse!

I Love to Singa

The Robber Kitten

The Practical Pig

Picador Porky

Yankee Doodle Daffy

Dog Daze

Dancing Co-Ed

The Bar-C Mystery

Once Upon a Halloween

Gold Diggers of '49

I Wanna Be a Sailor

The Riveter

Wives Never Know

The Vanishing Private

Mama's Little Pirate

Everybody Loves Donald

The Lyin' Mouse

Three Blind Mouseketeers

How to Be a Detective

Porky's Tire Trouble

Destry Rides Again

The Lone Stranger and Porky

Solid Serenade

Quiet Please!

The Big Bad Wolf

Porky's Building

The Hound and the Rabbit

How to Vote

A Feud There Was

Pigs Is Pigs

Old Smokey

The Mad Doctor

Disney's Halloween Treat

The Bodyguard

Goofy Movies Number Two

Las Vegas Nights

Who Killed Cock Robin?

Ye Olden Days

Two Girls Wanted

And the Angels Sing

Little Beau Porky

Porky in Wackyland

One Track Minds

Tubby the Tuba

Who Killed Who?

The Noodle Nut

Polar Pals

The Man Hunter

Down to Earth

Two Gun Goofy

Dry and Thirsty

Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.5

Taxi Barons

Trader Hound

The Boiling Point

The Patent Leather Kid

Tom Turk and Daffy

The Zoot Cat

Maid in Hollywood

The Fella with a Fiddle

Polar Pest

Donald's Ostrich

Speaking of the Weather

Walt Disney Treasures - Silly Symphonies

You're an Education

The Golden Touch

Der Fuehrer's Face

Little Red Riding Rabbit

Meet John Doughboy

Bridge Wives

The Fire Alarm

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Zorro's Fighting Legion

Joe Smith, American

A Cartoonist's Nightmare

The Merry Old Soul

Uncle Tom's Bungalow

A Knight for a Day

The Autograph Hound

Me and My Pal

Milk and Money

Tex Avery's Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection

The Dude Cowboy

Seal Skinners

The Lost City

Satan Met a Lady

Here's Goofy!

Two-Gun Mickey

Stand by for Action

Pluto's Dream House

Show Girl in Hollywood

Man on the Flying Trapeze

Buddy's Garage

Don't Look Now

Double Wedding

Alias St. Nick

Three Little Wolves

The Truce Hurts

True to Life

The Lone Chipmunks

The Pooch Parade

Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip

Teacher's Beau

Jane's Bashful Hero

Daredevil's Reward

The Bee-Deviled Bruin

She Done Him Wrong

Building a Building

Swing Shift Maisie

Little Dutch Plate

By Whose Hand?

Walt Disney Treasures - The Complete Goofy

Moving Day

The Midnight Patrol

Porky's Duck Hunt

The Little Broadcast

A Sunbonnet Blue

Men with Wings

Lash of the Penitentes

Porky's Phoney Express

Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.3

The Lone Ranger Rides Again

Turn to the Right

Porky's Romance

Little Boy Blue

We, the Animals - Squeak!

Best Foot Forward

The Texas Ranger

The Next Voice You Hear...

The Cowboy Kid

The Ape

The Battle Royal

The New Neighbor

Buddy of the Apes

A Roman Scandal

What's Brewin', Bruin?

Poultry Pirates

Hide and Shriek

The Devil Is Driving

The Tin Man

The Verdict

Ain't We Got Fun

Swing Shift Cinderella

I Haven't Got a Hat

Professor Beware

Coronado

Gallant Journey

The Worm Turns

Daffy's Southern Exposure

The Old-Fashioned Way

Billboard Frolics

A Lady's Profession

The Thrifty Pig

The Lone Ranger

Melody Ranch

Mickey's Service Station

Farmyard Symphony

Blue Monday

Private Snafu vs. Malaria Mike

Egghead Rides Again

Shanghaied Shipmates

Robot Wrecks

Porky's Railroad

Crazy House

Bear Raid Warden

Life Begins at Forty

Sweet Sioux

Early to Bed

Bingo Crosbyana

Mickey's Man Friday

The Tabasco Kid

A Bashful Bigamist

A Day at the Beach

Donald Gets Drafted

Make Mine Freedom

The Big Broadcast of 1937

The Old Army Game

Boy Meets Dog

Cleaning House

This Is Your Life Donald Duck

Hit Parade of 1941

The Serenade

The Bear and the Bean

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

Canvas Back Duck

Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6

The Case of the Stuttering Pig

Mama's New Hat

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

Buck Benny Rides Again

Porky in the North Woods

What a Lion!

Now That Summer Is Gone

Getting Gertie's Goat

Two-Fisted

Can This Be Dixie?

The Mexicali Kid

God's Country and the Man

Pluto's Blue Note

MGM Cartoon Christmas

Father Takes the Air

One Too Many

Balloon Land

Porky's Movie Mystery

Porky's Road Race

Three Chumps Ahead

A Haunting We Will Go

Husbands' Reunion

The Captain's Pup

The Fresh Lobster

Billy Jim

One Hour of Love
