Billy Bletcher
- Schauspiel
- 23. September 1894 · Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
- 5. Januar 1979
Biografie
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.
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Filmografie
- Get a Horse! · Peg-Leg Pete (Stimme)
- 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
- Zauberhafte Märchenwelt 5 · Big Bad Wolf / Captain Katt (voice) (archive sound)
- Alle lieben Donald · (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
- Zauberhafte Märchenwelt 3 · Robot Butler (segment "Modern Inventions") (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
- Walt Disney Kostbarkeiten: Goofys gesammelte Geschichten · Al Muldoon (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
- Walt Disney Kostbarkeiten - Lustige Welt der Melodien · (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
- Alle lieben Micky · Short Ghost (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
- The Story Behind Walt Disney's 'Fun and Fancy Free' · Selbst
- MGM Cartoon Christmas · (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
- Disneys Kojoten wie wir · Young Bent-Tail the Coyote (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
- Goofys Weg zum Erfolg · Pete (archive footage)
- Disneys Desperados · Pete (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
- Here's Goofy! · Narrator (Stimme)
- Walt Disney Cartoon Classics Limited Gold Edition II: An Officer and a Duck · (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
- Disneys fantastisches Halloween-Fest · Cat Prosecutor (voice) (archive footage)
- Hello, Dolly! · Man (uncredited)
- Ein Mann wird gejagt · Mr. Vincent (uncredited)
- Mini-Max · Frank Ogg
- Jean Harlow - Glanz und Glorie Hollywoods · Policeman (uncredited)
- Der verrückte Professor · Plumber (uncredited)
- Chun King Chow Mein Hour · Mr. Abramowitz
- This Is Your Life Donald Duck · Pete (Stimme)
- Pete Kelly's Blues
- Trailblazer Magoo · Various (voice)(uncredited)
- The Lone Chipmunks · Pete (Stimme)
- Canvas Back Duck · Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- Schwere Colts in zarter Hand · Prospector (uncredited)
- Der neue Nachbar · Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- Revlon Mirror Theatre
- Wie arbeitet man als Detektiv · Pete - Al Muldoon (Stimme)
- Goofy, der Sheriff · Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- Papa Bär hat's mächtig schwer · Pa Bear (voice) (uncredited)
- The Red Skelton Show · Phony Warden
- Father Takes the Air · Haggarly
- The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok · Waiter
- The Next Voice You Hear... · Newspaper Subscriber (uncredited)
- Bear Feat · Pa Bear
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow · Headless Horseman Laugh (Stimme)
- Die Abenteuer von Ichabod und Taddäus Kröte · Headless Horseman (Stimme)
- Der Lone Ranger · Horseface
- Zur Hölle mit Tom · Devil Dog (voice) (uncredited)
- Brooklyn Bridge Bunny · Steve Brody
- The Bee-Deviled Bruin · Henry Bear (voice) (uncredited)
- Mississippi Hare · Col. Shuffle
- Friede mit Tom · Spike (voice) (uncredited)
- Bugs, der Boxer · The Champ (voice) (uncredited)
- Make Mine Freedom · Labor employee (Stimme)
- What's Brewin', Bruin? · Papa Bear (voice) (uncredited)
- The Bear and the Bean · Barney Bear (Stimme)
- Pluto singt den Blues · Music Store Proprietor (voice) (uncredited)
- Donalds Notquartier · Motel Proprietor (Stimme)
- Das Doppelleben des Herrn Mitty · Western Character (uncredited)
- Eine Göttin auf Erden · Conductor (uncredited)
- Tubby the Tuba · Frog (Stimme)
- Hier irrte Scotland Yard · Gravedigger (uncredited)
- Gallant Journey · Mahoney's Valet (uncredited)
- Tom als Troubadour · Evil Laugh (archive voice) (uncredited)
- Deadline at Dawn · Waiter (uncredited)
- Ein Ritter für einen Tag · Narrator (Stimme)
- Der Weg nach Utopia · Bear (voice) (uncredited)
- Tom der Nachtwächter · Spike (voice) (uncredited)
- Donald und die Riesentanne · Donald's Boss (voice) (uncredited)
- Swing Shift Cinderella · Wolf's Evil Laugh (voice) (uncredited)
- Donald und das mysteriöse Buch · Detective Hennessey (voice) (uncredited)
- Pluto, der Casanova · Dogcatcher (voice) (uncredited)
- Incendiary Blonde · Clown (uncredited)
- Polar Pest · Barney Bear (voice) (uncredited)
- Abenteuer im Harem · Bobo (voice) (uncredited)
- The Inside Story · Officer
- So ein Papa · Father in Waiting Room (uncredited)
- Maisie Goes to Reno · Public Address Announcer (Voice) (Uncredited)
- Bear Raid Warden · Barney Bear
- Hundstage für Tom · Spike / Tom (Voice) (uncredited)
- Gas · Gas Cloud (voice) (uncredited)
- And the Angels Sing · Club Patron (uncredited)
- Private Snafu vs. Malaria Mike · Malaria Mike (voice) (uncredited)
- Posaunen-Ärger · Pegleg Pete (voice) (uncredited)