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Billy Bletcher
Known for: ActingThe 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.
Filmography 55
Troldmanden fra Oz
Hr. Tudse og søvnigdalens legende
Dumbo
Building a Building
Jerry som den skøre professor
En vild tur!
as Peg-Leg Pete (voice)
Thru the Mirror
Vestens vildkat
The Big Bad Wolf
De tre små grise
Alle tiders helt
as Western Character (uncredited)
Bange for Bussemænd
Ridderturneringen
Dobbeltbryllup
as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip
Ensomme spøgelser..
She Done Him Wrong
as Singing Waiter (uncredited)
Tre blinde musketerer
Show Girl in Hollywood
as Sign Man Scraping Names off Doors
Down to Earth
as Conductor (uncredited)
The Ape
Casanova Brown
as Father in Waiting Room (uncredited)
De gamle dage
Fulde af fup
as Man in Deck Chair
Morning Glory
as Actor (uncredited)
Hvad er et hjem uden en fader
as Timekeeper (uncredited)
Three Little Wolves
Road to Utopia
as Bear (voice) (uncredited)
Satan Met a Lady
as Father of Sextuplets (uncredited)
The Golden Touch
Harlow
Get Rich Quick Porky
as Driver (voice) (uncredited)
Deadline at Dawn
as Waiter (uncredited)
I Wanna Be a Sailor
as Papa Parrot (voice) (uncredited)
Whistling in Brooklyn
as Announcer (uncredited)
Whistling in the Dark
as Radio Effects Man (uncredited)
The Lone Ranger Rides Again
as The Masked Lone Ranger (voice)
Little Red Riding Rabbit
as Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
Den forsinkede brudgom
as Police Dispatcher (voice) (uncredited)
Zorro's Fighting Legion
The Lone Ranger
as Lone Ranger (voice)
Den Nye Nabo
The Old-Fashioned Way
as Tomato Thrower (uncredited)
Polar Pest
as Barney Bear (voice) (uncredited)
We, the Animals - Squeak!
as Irish Mouse (voice)
Incendiary Blonde
as Clown (uncredited)
Soup to Nuts
as Revolutionary (uncredited)
Gøg og Gokke: I Politiets tjeneste
as Radio dispatcher (voice)
Maisie Goes to Reno
as Public Address Announcer (Voice) (Uncredited)
The Bear and the Bean
as Barney Bear (voice)
God's Country and the Man
as Sandy Briggs
Dancing Sweeties
as Bud (uncredited)
Melody Ranch
as Scarlet Shadow Radio Actor
Diplomaniacs
as Schmerzenschmerzen (uncredited)
Boss of Rawhide
as Jed Bones