Billy Bletcher
- Recitazione
- 23 settembre 1894 · Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
- 5 gennaio 1979
Biografia
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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Filmografia
- Tutti in scena! · Peg-Leg Pete (Voce)
- Tex Avery's Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection · Spike (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
- C'era una volta Halloween · Tiny Tom (Peg Leg Pete) (voice) (archive sound)
- Tom & Jerry: Spotlight Collection
- Le Fiabe Disney Vol. 5 - I Tre Porcellini e altre storie · Big Bad Wolf / Captain Katt (voice) (archive sound)
- Tutti amano Paperino · (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
- Le Fiabe Disney Vol. 3 - Paperino nel mondo della matemagica / Il mio amico Ben · Robot Butler (segment "Modern Inventions") (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
- Walt Disney Treasures - Pippo, la collezione completa · Al Muldoon (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
- Walt Disney Treasures - Silly Symphonies · (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
- Il mio eroe Topolino · Short Ghost (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
- The Story Behind Walt Disney's 'Fun and Fancy Free' · In persona
- MGM Cartoon Christmas · (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
- Disney’s Coyote Tales · Young Bent-Tail the Coyote (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
- Goofy's Guide to Success · Pete (archive footage)
- Disneys Desperados · Pete (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
- Here's Goofy! · Narrator (Voce)
- 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)
- La caccia · Mr. Vincent (uncredited)
- Get Smart · Frank Ogg
- Jean Harlow, la donna che non sapeva amare · Policeman (uncredited)
- Le folli notti del dottor Jerryll · Plumber (uncredited)
- Chun King Chow Mein Hour · Mr. Abramowitz
- This Is Your Life Donald Duck · Pete (Voce)
- Pete Kelly's Blues
- Trailblazer Magoo · Various (voice)(uncredited)
- Il bandito dell'albero solitario · Pete (Voce)
- Il grande scontro · Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- Non sparare, baciami! · Prospector (uncredited)
- Il nuovo vicino · Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- Revlon Mirror Theatre
- Pippo superdetective · Pete - Al Muldoon (Voce)
- Pippo pistolero · Pete (voice) (uncredited)
- La festa di papà Orso · Pa Bear (voice) (uncredited)
- The Red Skelton Show · Phony Warden
- Father Takes the Air · Haggarly
- The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok · Waiter
- La prossima voce · Newspaper Subscriber (uncredited)
- Che fine ha fatto, povero piccolo? · Pa Bear
- La leggenda della Valle Addormentata · Headless Horseman Laugh (Voce)
- Le avventure di Ichabod e Mr. Toad · Headless Horseman (Voce)
- Il cavaliere solitario · Horseface
- L'espresso celeste · Devil Dog (voice) (uncredited)
- Il coniglio chiromante · Steve Brody
- L'orso sfortunato · Henry Bear (voice) (uncredited)
- Viaggiando sul Mississippi · Col. Shuffle
- L'armistizio · Spike (voice) (uncredited)
- Un coniglio alle corde · The Champ (voice) (uncredited)
- Make Mine Freedom · Labor employee (Voce)
- What's Brewin', Bruin? · Papa Bear (voice) (uncredited)
- The Bear and the Bean · Barney Bear (Voce)
- Pluto canterino · Music Store Proprietor (voice) (uncredited)
- Riposo, dolce riposo · Motel Proprietor (Voce)
- Sogni proibiti · Western Character (uncredited)
- Bellezze in cielo · Conductor (uncredited)
- Tubby the Tuba · Frog (Voce)
- La morte viene da Scotland Yard · Gravedigger (uncredited)
- L'ultimo orizzonte · Mahoney's Valet (uncredited)
- Solid Serenade · Evil Laugh (archive voice) (uncredited)
- Il nome dell'amore · Waiter (uncredited)
- Cavaliere per un giorno · Narrator (Voce)
- I cercatori d'oro · Bear (voice) (uncredited)
- Silenzio, prego! · Spike (voice) (uncredited)
- Paperino e la sequoia · Donald's Boss (voice) (uncredited)
- Swing Shift Cinderella · Wolf's Evil Laugh (voice) (uncredited)
- I brividi della lettura · Detective Hennessey (voice) (uncredited)
- Pluto il casanova · Dogcatcher (voice) (uncredited)
- Incendiary Blonde · Clown (uncredited)
- Polar Pest · Barney Bear (voice) (uncredited)
- Sperduti nell'harem · Bobo (voice) (uncredited)
- The Inside Story · Officer
- Le tre donne di Casanova · Father in Waiting Room (uncredited)
- Maisie Goes to Reno · Public Address Announcer (Voice) (Uncredited)
- Bear Raid Warden · Barney Bear
- La guardia del corpo · Spike / Tom (Voice) (uncredited)
- Gas · Gas Cloud (voice) (uncredited)
- Un fidanzato per due · Club Patron (uncredited)
- Private Snafu vs. Malaria Mike · Malaria Mike (voice) (uncredited)
- Guai al trombone · Pegleg Pete (voice) (uncredited)