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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
The Wizard of Oz
+6
as Mayor / Lollipop Guild Member (voice) (uncredited) 
Dumbo
+3
as Clown (voice) (uncredited) 
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
+3
as Headless Horseman (voice) 
Building a Building
as (voice) (uncredited) 
The Nutty Professor
+4
as Plumber (uncredited) 
Get a Horse!
+2
as Peg-Leg Pete (voice) 
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
+12
as Western Character (uncredited) 
Thru the Mirror
as Radio (voice) (uncredited) 
Calamity Jane
+3
as Prospector (uncredited) 
The Big Bad Wolf
as Big Bad Wolf (voice) (uncredited) 
Three Little Pigs
as Big Bad Wolf (voice) 
Babes in Toyland
+13
as Chief of Police (uncredited) 
A Knight for a Day
as Narrator (voice) 
Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip
as Pete 
Lonesome Ghosts
as Short Ghost (voice) (uncredited) 
She Done Him Wrong
+2
as Singing Waiter (uncredited) 
Three Blind Mouseketeers
as Captain Katt 
Show Girl in Hollywood
+2
as Sign Man Scraping Names off Doors 
Down to Earth
+3
as Conductor (uncredited) 
The Ape
+16
as Short Mustached Posse Man 
Casanova Brown
as Father in Waiting Room (uncredited) 
Ye Olden Days
as King (voice) (uncredited) 
Monkey Business
+3
as Man in Deck Chair 
Morning Glory
+4
as Actor (uncredited) 
Man on the Flying Trapeze
as Timekeeper (uncredited) 
Three Little Wolves
as Big Bad Wolf (voice) (uncredited) 
Road to Utopia
+1
as Bear (voice) (uncredited) 
Satan Met a Lady
+3
as Father of Sextuplets (uncredited) 
Double Wedding
+5
as Wedding Guest (uncredited) 
The Golden Touch
as King Midas (voice) (uncredited) 
Harlow
+2
as Policeman (uncredited) 
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
+2
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) 
Me and My Pal
as Police Dispatcher (voice) (uncredited) 
Zorro's Fighting Legion
+1
as Don Del Oro (voice) 
The Lone Ranger
as Lone Ranger (voice) 
The New Neighbor
as Pete (voice) (uncredited) 
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
+4
as Revolutionary (uncredited) 
The Midnight Patrol
as Radio dispatcher (voice) 
Maisie Goes to Reno
+2
as Public Address Announcer (Voice) (Uncredited) 
The Bear and the Bean
as Barney Bear (voice) 
God's Country and the Man
as Sandy Briggs 
Melody Ranch
+11
as Scarlet Shadow Radio Actor 
Dancing Sweeties
+2
as Bud (uncredited) 
Diplomaniacs
+2
as Schmerzenschmerzen (uncredited) 
Boss of Rawhide
+4
as Jed Bones