Billy Bletcher

Known for ActingBorn 1894-09-23Died 1979-01-05Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Chatterbox

The Pooch Parade

Life Begins at Forty

Three Chumps Ahead

Never the Twins Shall Meet

Hold’er Cowboy

The Terrible People

Tex Avery's Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection

Call the Wagon

Turn to the Right

Cold Feet

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

Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.3

The Little Broadcast

The Wild and Woozy West

Red Riding Hood Rides Again

Nellie the Indian Chief's Daughter

California Frontier

Wives Never Know

Maid in Hollywood

Next Week-End

Rhapsody in Brew

The Rummy

The Texas Ranger

The Fresh Lobster

Two Girls Wanted

One Hour of Love

Two-Fisted

Get a Horse!

Jane's Bashful Hero

Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.5

Pete Kelly's Blues

Trailblazer Magoo

Get Smart

Walt Disney Treasures - The Complete Goofy

True to Life

Come Back, Miss Pipps

An All American Toothache

Early to Bed

Twin Triplets

One-Horse Farmers

Taxi Barons

Sneak Easily

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

The Man Hunter

Daredevil's Reward

The Cowboy Kid

The Dude Cowboy