Billy Bletcher
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.
Movies
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)
MGM Cartoon Christmas
(voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
Disney’s Coyote Tales
Young Bent-Tail the Coyote (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
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)
Harlow
Policeman
The Nutty Professor
Plumber (uncredited)
Chun King Chow Mein Hour
Mr. Abramowitz
This Is Your Life Donald Duck
Pete (voice)
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)
How to Be a Detective
Pete - Al Muldoon (voice)
Two Gun Goofy
Pete (voice) (uncredited)
A Bear for Punishment
Pa Bear (voice) (uncredited)
Father Takes the Air
Haggarly
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)
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)
What's Brewin', Bruin?
Papa Bear (voice) (uncredited)
Make Mine Freedom
Labor employee (voice)
The Bear and the Bean
Barney Bear (voice)
Pluto's Blue Note
Music Store Proprietor (voice) (uncredited)
Wide Open Spaces
Motel Proprietor (voice)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Western Character (uncredited)
Down to Earth
Conductor (uncredited)
Tubby the Tuba
Frog (voice)
The Verdict
Gravedigger
Gallant Journey
Mahoney's Valet (uncredited)
Solid Serenade
Evil Laugh (voice) (uncredited)
Deadline at Dawn
Waiter (uncredited)
A Knight for a Day
Narrator (voice)
Road to Utopia
Bear (uncredited) (voice)
Quiet Please!
Spike (voice) (uncredited)
Old Sequoia
Donald's Boss (voice) (uncredited)
Swing Shift Cinderella
Wolf's Evil Laugh (voice) (uncredited)
Duck Pimples
Detective Hennessey (voice) (uncredited)
Canine Casanova
Dogcatcher (voice) (uncredited)
Incendiary Blonde
Clown (uncredited)
Polar Pest
Barney Bear (voice) (uncredited)
Lost in a Harem
Bobo (voice) (uncredited)
The Inside Story
Officer
Casanova Brown
Father in Waiting Room (uncredited)
Maisie Goes to Reno
Public Address Announcer (Voice) (Uncredited)
Bear Raid Warden
Barney Bear
The Bodyguard
Spike / Tom (Voice)
Gas
Gas Cloud (voice) (uncredited)
And the Angels Sing
Club Patron (uncredited)
Private Snafu vs. Malaria Mike
Malaria Mike (voice) (uncredited)
The Zoot Cat
Bit Part (voice) (uncredited)
Trombone Trouble
Pegleg Pete (voice) (uncredited)
Tom Turk and Daffy
Tom Turk (voice) (uncredited)
Little Red Riding Rabbit
Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
Baby Puss
Butch (voice) (uncredited)
True to Life
Radio Heavy (uncredited)
Whistling in Brooklyn
Announcer (uncredited)
Boss of Rawhide
Jed Bones
The Old Army Game
Sergeant Pete (voice) (uncredited)
Best Foot Forward
Waxer
Crazy House
Policeman (uncredited)
War Dogs
Military General (voice) (uncredited)
Swing Shift Maisie
Workman (Uncredited)
The Little Broadcast
Master of Ceremonies (voice) (uncredited)
Who Killed Who?
Detective / Ghost (voice) (uncredited)
Yankee Doodle Daffy
Sleepy Lagoon (singing voice) (uncredited)
Chatterbox
Black Jake
Slightly Dangerous
Customer (uncredited)
Der Fuehrer's Face
Nazi (voice) (uncredited)
Stand by for Action
Sailor (uncredited)
Sky Trooper
Sergeant Pete (voice) (uncredited)
I Married a Witch
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
The Vanishing Private
Sergeant Pete (voice) (uncredited)
Donald Gets Drafted
Sergeant Pete (voice) (uncredited)
Daffy's Southern Exposure
Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
The Wild and Woozy West
Angel Face Wolf (uncredited)
Dog Trouble
Spike (voice) (uncredited)
Saps in Chaps
Cactus Pete (voice) (uncredited)
Dog Meets Dog
Butch
Symphony Hour
Pete - Sylvester Macaroni (voice) (uncredited)
Joe Smith, American
Police Radio Broadcaster (voice) (uncredited)
Red Riding Hood Rides Again
Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
The Thrifty Pig
Big Bad Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
Dumbo
Clown (voice) (uncredited)
Come Back, Miss Pipps
Froggy's Father (uncredited)
Whistling in the Dark
Radio Effects Man (uncredited)
We, the Animals - Squeak!
Irish Mouse (voice)
Robot Wrecks
Froggy's Father (uncredited)
Meet John Doughboy
Short Soldier (voice) (uncredited)
Cracked Nuts
Parachute Man
Las Vegas Nights
Horse (voice)
Timber
Pete (voice) (uncredited)
Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip
Pete
Mouse Meets Lion
Lion (voice)
Hit Parade of 1941
Radio Actor
The Ape
Short Mustached Posse Man
Melody Ranch
Scarlet Shadow Radio Actor
Pluto's Dream House
Magic Lamp (voice) (uncredited)
The Pooch Parade
Various
Buck Benny Rides Again
Last Porter
Edison, the Man
Reporter
Home on the Range
Coyote Bark
The Riveter
Pete (voice) (uncredited)
Zorro's Fighting Legion
Don Del Oro (voice)
The Film Fan
Narrator / Masked Marvel (voice) (uncredited)
Destry Rides Again
Pianist (uncredited)
Officer Duck
Tiny Tom (voice) (uncredited)
Dancing Co-Ed
Radio Man (voice) (uncredited)
Sioux Me
Indian chorus (voice)
The Autograph Hound
Security Guard (voice) (uncredited)
A Haunting We Will Go
Ghost (voice)
The Wizard of Oz
Mayor / Lollipop Guild Member (voice) (uncredited)
Polar Pals
I. Killem (voice) (uncredited)
Porky's Movie Mystery
Invisible Man
The Lone Ranger Rides Again
The Masked Lone Ranger (voice)
The Practical Pig
Big Bad Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
Porky's Tire Trouble
Boss
Mama's New Hat
Captain (voice) (uncredited)
Seal Skinners
Captain (voice) (uncredited)
The Lone Stranger and Porky
Narrator / Lone Stranger / Villain (voice)
Petunia Natural Park
The Captain (voice) (uncredited)
The Captain's Christmas
The Captain (voice) (uncredited)
California Frontier
Bellhop
You're an Education
Singing Tibetan / Thief of Baghdad (voice)
Farmyard Symphony
Bull (voice) (uncredited)
The Winning Ticket
The Captain (voice) (uncredited)
Porky in Wackyland
Roaring Goon (voice) (uncredited)
A Feud There Was
Weaver from Audience / McCoy at Cellar Door (voice)
The Mexicali Kid
Stagecoach Driver
Old Smokey
Captain (voice) (uncredited)
Professor Beware
Shoeshine Customer
Men with Wings
Red Cross Man
What a Lion!
Captain (voice) (uncredited)
A Day at the Beach
Captain
Hide and Shriek
Haunted House Ghouls (voice)
Nellie the Indian Chief's Daughter
Vocal Talents (voice) (uncredited)
Now That Summer Is Gone
Pop (voice) (uncredited)
The Captain's Pup
Captain (voice)
Poultry Pirates
Captain
Nellie the Sewing Machine Girl or Honest Hearts & Willing Hands
Rudolf Ratbone (voice)
Blue Monday
Captain (voice) (uncredited)
Porky's Phoney Express
Porky's boss (voice) (uncredited)
Boy Meets Dog
Voice
Cleaning House
Captain (voice) (uncredited)
The Lone Ranger
Lone Ranger (voice)
Lonesome Ghosts
Short Ghost (voice) (uncredited)
Donald's Ostrich
Bass Singer / Villain on Radio (voice) (uncredited)
The Case of the Stuttering Pig
Lawyer Goodwill (voice) (uncredited)
The Lyin' Mouse
Lion - Cat Humming (voice) (uncredited)
Playing the Ponies
Announcer (uncredited)
Double Wedding
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
I Wanna Be a Sailor
Papa Parrot (voice) (uncredited)
Dog Daze
St. Bernard (voice)
Mickey's Review
Dog Catcher (voice)
Speaking of the Weather
Public Enemy #1 / Judge
God's Country and the Man
Sandy Briggs
A Sunbonnet Blue
Villain Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
Porky's Railroad
Silver Fish engineer (voice) (uncredited)
The Californian
Tax Collector
Egghead Rides Again
Boarding Room Clerk / Egghead (voice) (uncredited)
Sweet Sioux
Native American (voice)
Porky's Building
Dirty Digg (voice) (uncredited)
Uncle Tom's Bungalow
Simon Simon Legree (voice)
The Hound and the Rabbit
Fox (voice) (uncredited)
Modern Inventions
Robot Butler (voice) (uncredited)
Walt Disney's Academy Award Revue
Big Bad Wolf (voice)
Ain't We Got Fun
Mouse in Checkered Cap (voice) (uncredited)
Porky's Duck Hunt
The Guy Upstairs / Bass Fish (voice) (uncredited)
Porky's Romance
Time Munches On Narrator
The Fella with a Fiddle
Grandpa Mouse (voice)
Picador Porky
Bull (uncredited)
Porky's Road Race
Borax Karoff (voice) (uncredited)
Pigs Is Pigs
Evil Scientist (voice) (uncredited)
The Worm Turns
Pete - Dog Catcher (voice) (uncredited)
Porky in the North Woods
Jean-Baptiste (voice) (uncredited)
Can This Be Dixie?
John P. Smith Peachtree
Don't Look Now
Devil Cuckoo (voice) (uncredited)
Little Beau Porky
Ali-Mode, Commandant
The Big Broadcast of 1937
Property Man
Milk and Money
Mr. Viper (voice / uncredited)
Three Blind Mouseketeers
Captain Katt
Wives Never Know
Drunk (uncredited)
New Shoes
Boy's Shoes (voice)
How to Vote
Man on Platform (uncredited)
Little Boy Blue
Wolf (voice)
Satan Met a Lady
Father of Sextuplets (uncredited)
I Love to Singa
Father (voice)
Rhythm on the Range
Buck's Friend
Moving Day
Pete (voice) (uncredited)
Shanghaied Shipmates
Ship's Captain - Shipmate (voice)
Early to Bed
Office Boy
Bingo Crosbyana
Spider (voice)
Dick Whittington's Cat
Cook
Thru the Mirror
Radio (voice) (uncredited)
Three Little Wolves
Big Bad Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
Lash of the Penitentes
Narrating Missionary
The Fire Alarm
Beans (voice) (uncredited)
Boom Boom
General Hardtack / General / Soldiers (voice)
Divot Diggers
Golfer
An All American Toothache
Plumber #1 (uncredited)
Alpine Antics
Bully (voice) (uncredited)
Coronado
Waiter (uncredited)
Alias St. Nick
Cat / Fake Santa Claus (voice) (uncredited)
Billboard Frolics
Dave Rub-Em-Off
Gold Diggers of '49
Beans (voice) (uncredited)
The Rainmakers
Townsman
Little Dutch Plate
Vinegar Bottle (voice) (uncredited)
Twin Triplets
Merchant (uncredited)
Two-Fisted
Cop
Balloon Land
Pincushion Man (voice)
Pluto's Judgement Day
Cat Prosecutor (voice) (uncredited)
A Cartoonist's Nightmare
Demon Beast / Old Man / Villains (voice) (uncredited)
The Merry Old Soul
Old King Cole (voice)
Man on the Flying Trapeze
Timekeeper (uncredited)
Who Killed Cock Robin?
Judge Oliver Owl (voice) (uncredited)
Teacher's Beau
Chairman of the Board
The Robber Kitten
Dirty Bill
The Tin Man
The Tin Man (voice)
The Golden Touch
King Midas (voice) (uncredited)
Life Begins at Forty
Hog Caller
The Lost City
Gorzo
I Haven't Got a Hat
Beans / Ex (voice) (uncredited)
Mickey's Service Station
Pete (voice) (uncredited)
Mickey's Man Friday
Friday (voice) (uncredited)
Two-Gun Mickey
Pegleg Pete (voice) (uncredited)
Babes in Toyland
Chief of Police (uncredited)
The Dognapper
Pete (voice) (uncredited)
Mama's Little Pirate
Voice of Giant
One-Horse Farmers
Subway Passenger (uncredited)
Three Chumps Ahead
Second Waiter (uncredited)
Punch Drunks
Fight Announcer (uncredited)
The Old-Fashioned Way
Tomato Thrower (uncredited)
Buddy's Bearcats
Hot Dog Man / Customer / Mustached Baseball Player (voice) (uncredited)
Music in Your Hair
Schmaltz's Friendly Neighbor
Buddy of the Apes
Tribal Chief (voice) (uncredited)
Maid in Hollywood
Information Clerk (uncredited)
The First Round-Up
Wally's Father
The Big Bad Wolf
Big Bad Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
Buddy's Garage
Gruff Guy (voice) (uncredited)
Goofy Movies Number Two
Christopher Columbus (uncredited)
Shanghaied
Pegleg Pete (voice) (uncredited)
Air Fright
Stunt Aviator
Keg o' My Heart
Meyer Schmaltz
Rhapsody in Brew
Meyer Schmaltz
Bedtime Worries
Radio Voice
Morning Glory
Actor (uncredited)
The Midnight Patrol
Radio dispatcher (voice)
Husbands' Reunion
Judge
The Rummy
Taxicab Company Mechanic (uncredited)
Three Little Pigs
Big Bad Wolf (voice)
One Track Minds
Passenger with Whiskers (uncredited)
Call Her Sausage
Meyer (uncredited)
Diplomaniacs
Schmerzenschmerzen (uncredited)
Me and My Pal
Police Dispatcher (voice) (uncredited)
Ye Olden Days
King (voice) (uncredited)
Taxi Barons
Host - Jenna's Father
Mickey's Mellerdrammer
Horace Horsecollar (voice) (uncredited)
A Lady's Profession
Keyhole McKluskey
She Done Him Wrong
Singing Waiter (uncredited)
The Mad Doctor
Dr. XXX (voice) (uncredited)
Building a Building
(voice) (uncredited)
Sneak Easily
Police Radio Announcer (uncredited)
The Dentist
Mr. Foliage - Bearded Patient
The Devil Is Driving
Musician at First Wedding (uncredited)
Taxi for Two
The District Attorney
The Hollywood Handicap
A Slip at the Switch
Feeny
The Boiling Point
Stubby - Kirk Hand
By Whose Hand?
Police Radio Dispatcher (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
Night World
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Runt Page
Bears Bugs (voice) (uncredited)
Bridge Wives
Radio announcer
The Tabasco Kid
Susie (voice)
The Secret Witness
Radio Announcer's Voice
Branded Men
Half-A-Rod
Monkey Business
Man in Deck Chair
The Texas Ranger
Tubby
Trader Hound
Trader Hound / Native King (voice) (uncredited)
Moonlight and Monkey Business
Honeymooner
Soup to Nuts
Revolutionary (uncredited)
Top Speed
Ipps
Dancing Sweeties
Bud (uncredited)
The Man Hunter
Buggs
Show Girl in Hollywood
Sign Man Scraping Names off Doors
Loose Ankles
Mr. Berry from Logan
The Terrible People
Proody
The Cowboy Kid
Deputy Sheriff
Hold’er Cowboy
Daredevil's Reward
Slim
The Fresh Lobster
Two Girls Wanted
Johnny
The Patent Leather Kid
Fight Fan
One Hour of Love
'Half Pint' Walker
The Dude Cowboy
Shorty O'Day
The Bar-C Mystery
That's the Spirit
The Crooked Scientist
Getting Gertie's Goat
Mr Smith
Call the Wagon
Kidding Katie
The Butler
Cold Feet
Pride of the Mounted
Billy Jim
Jimmy
Turn to the Right
Sammy Martin (as William Bletcher)
The Noodle Nut
A Bashful Bigamist
Mr. Smith
Dry and Thirsty
Horace Radish
A Roman Scandal
Stage Director
The Battle Royal
Grandpa Runt
The Serenade
Schmitte
One Too Many
Unhappy Boarder
Jane's Bashful Hero
Louie
The Vanishing Vault
