
Billy Bletcher
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.
343 acting credits · 2 directing credits
Acting · 343

Get Smart
1965

The Red Skelton Show
1951

The Lone Ranger
1949

The Wizard of Oz
1939

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951

Dumbo
1941

The Nutty Professor
1963

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
1949

The Verdict
1946

Quiet Please!
1945

Hello, Dolly!
1969

The Chase
1966

Revlon Mirror Theatre
1953

The Lone Ranger
1938

Harlow
1965

I Married a Witch
1942

Get a Horse!
2013

Looney Tunes Golden Collection
1946

Thru the Mirror
1936

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1947

Three Little Pigs
1933

Babes in Toyland
1934

Destry Rides Again
1939

Calamity Jane
1953

The Big Bad Wolf
1934

Lonesome Ghosts
1937

Morning Glory
1933
Pete Kelly's Blues
1959

She Done Him Wrong
1933

Road to Utopia
1946

Three Little Wolves
1936

Donald's Ostrich
1937

Satan Met a Lady
1936

Man on the Flying Trapeze
1935

Three Blind Mouseketeers
1936

The Golden Touch
1935

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
1949

Rhythm on the Range
1936

Modern Inventions
1937

I Love to Singa
1936

The Rainmakers
1935

Early to Bed
1936

Edison, the Man
1940

Night World
1932

Baby Puss
1943

Dancing Co-Ed
1939

The Midnight Patrol
1933

Deadline at Dawn
1946

Once Upon a Halloween
2005

Der Fuehrer's Face
1943

Yankee Doodle Daffy
1943

Heavenly Puss
1949

Casanova Brown
1944

The Zoot Cat
1944

The Next Voice You Hear...
1950

Stand by for Action
1942

Symphony Hour
1942

Double Wedding
1937

Down to Earth
1947

Monkey Business
1931

Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip
1940

The Ape
1940

And the Angels Sing
1944

Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.3
2003

Can This Be Dixie?
1936

The Worm Turns
1937

Wives Never Know
1936

Everybody Loves Mickey
2001

Men with Wings
1938

Gallant Journey
1946

The Patent Leather Kid
1927

Gold Diggers of '49
1935

Melody Ranch
1940

Tex Avery's Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection
2007

Chatterbox
1943

Mickey's Service Station
1935
Next Week-End
1934

Solid Serenade
1946

The Autograph Hound
1939

The Big Broadcast of 1937
1936

The Bodyguard
1944

Donald Gets Drafted
1942

Joe Smith, American
1942

Slightly Dangerous
1943

Ye Olden Days
1933

Maisie Goes to Reno
1944

The Devil Is Driving
1932

The New Neighbor
1953

A Knight for a Day
1946

Show Girl in Hollywood
1930

The Vanishing Private
1942

Las Vegas Nights
1941

Farmyard Symphony
1938

The Practical Pig
1939

Zorro's Fighting Legion
1939

Bridge Wives
1932

Timber
1941

The Lone Ranger Rides Again
1939

By Whose Hand?
1932

True to Life
1943

Duck Pimples
1945

Two Gun Goofy
1952

Branded Men
1931

Little Boy Blue
1936

Officer Duck
1939

The Old Army Game
1943

Whistling in the Dark
1941

Diplomaniacs
1933

Tubby the Tuba
1947

One Hour of Love
1927

The Riveter
1940

Sky Trooper
1942

Lost in a Harem
1944

Disney's Halloween Treat
1982

The Secret Witness
1931

Who Killed Who?
1943

Speaking of the Weather
1937

Everybody Loves Donald
2003

Alias St. Nick
1935

Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
1942

Petunia Natural Park
1939

Divot Diggers
1936

Walt Disney Treasures - The Complete Goofy
2002

A Cartoonist's Nightmare
1935

Hit Parade of 1941
1940

Dancing Sweeties
1930

Loose Ankles
1930

Building a Building
1933

Two-Gun Mickey
1934

The Mad Doctor
1933

Trader Hound
1931

The Hound and the Rabbit
1937

Cracked Nuts
1941

The Old-Fashioned Way
1934

Come Back, Miss Pipps
1941

Crazy House
1943

Coronado
1935

The Bar-C Mystery
1926

Canvas Back Duck
1953

The Lost City
1935

Pigs Is Pigs
1937

Pluto's Judgement Day
1935

Maid in Hollywood
1934

Mickey's Man Friday
1935

Little Red Riding Rabbit
1944

Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.5
2004

Two Girls Wanted
1927

Robot Wrecks
1941

Now That Summer Is Gone
1938

Two-Fisted
1935

Swing Shift Maisie
1943

The Terrible People
1928

Home on the Range
1940

The Lone Chipmunks
1954

Incendiary Blonde
1945

Swing Shift Cinderella
1945

Teacher's Beau
1935

The Robber Kitten
1935

I Haven't Got a Hat
1935

The First Round-Up
1934

Cleaning House
1938
Disney’s Coyote Tales
1991

This Is Your Life Donald Duck
1960

Porky in Wackyland
1938

Playing the Ponies
1937

Mickey's Mellerdrammer
1933

I Wanna Be a Sailor
1937

How to Be a Detective
1952

Moving Day
1936

Trombone Trouble
1944

Daredevil's Reward
1928

The Californian
1937

The Fella with a Fiddle
1937

Professor Beware
1938

Who Killed Cock Robin?
1935

The Truce Hurts
1948

Life Begins at Forty
1935

Soup to Nuts
1930

Runt Page
1932

Meet John Doughboy
1941

The Story Behind Walt Disney's 'Fun and Fancy Free'
1997

Porky's Duck Hunt
1937

A Day at the Beach
1938

Father Takes the Air
1951

Buck Benny Rides Again
1940

Walt Disney Treasures - Silly Symphonies
2001

A Feud There Was
1938

Blue Monday
1938

Boss of Rawhide
1943

Dog Trouble
1942

Me and My Pal
1933

Seal Skinners
1939

Tom Turk and Daffy
1944

Whistling in Brooklyn
1943

Bear Raid Warden
1944

The Tin Man
1935

Buddy's Bearcats
1934

Porky's Romance
1937

Lash of the Penitentes
1936

Wide Open Spaces
1947

Pluto's Dream House
1940

Taxi Barons
1933

Old Sequoia
1945

The Dognapper
1934

What a Lion!
1938

Hide and Shriek
1938

Top Speed
1930

Shanghaied
1934

Kidding Katie
1923

Uncle Tom's Bungalow
1937
Cold Feet
1922

Rabbit Punch
1948

Pluto's Blue Note
1947

Punch Drunks
1934

Porky in the North Woods
1936

Make Mine Freedom
1948

Best Foot Forward
1943

The Case of the Stuttering Pig
1937

The Texas Ranger
1931

The Dentist
1932
The Hollywood Handicap
1932

Trailblazer Magoo
1956

California Frontier
1938

Polar Pest
1944

Mama's New Hat
1939

The Boiling Point
1932

The Tabasco Kid
1932

Sneak Easily
1932
The Rummy
1933
Tom & Jerry: Spotlight Collection
2004

A Bear for Punishment
1951

Canine Casanova
1945

Air Fright
1933

Egghead Rides Again
1937
Call the Wagon
1923

Balloon Land
1935

Bear Feat
1949

Gas
1944

The Mexicali Kid
1938

Dog Daze
1937

The Captain's Christmas
1938

Here's Goofy!
1987

The Noodle Nut
1921

Billboard Frolics
1935

MGM Cartoon Christmas
1993

Porky's Phoney Express
1938

Walt Disney's Academy Award Revue
1937

Three Chumps Ahead
1934

Poultry Pirates
1938
That's the Spirit
1924
Nellie the Sewing Machine Girl or Honest Hearts & Willing Hands
1938

The Winning Ticket
1938

Ain't We Got Fun
1937

Little Beau Porky
1936

Porky's Railroad
1937

The Captain's Pup
1938

How to Vote
1936

The Merry Old Soul
1935

You're an Education
1938

One Track Minds
1933

Porky's Road Race
1937

Milk and Money
1936

Turn to the Right
1922

A Lady's Profession
1933
The Vanishing Vault
1915
The Inside Story
1944

One Too Many
1916

The Man Hunter
1930

Mama's Little Pirate
1934

Porky's Building
1937

The Thrifty Pig
1941

Getting Gertie's Goat
1924
Red Riding Hood Rides Again
1941

Walt Disney Cartoon Classics Limited Gold Edition II: An Officer and a Duck
1985

We, the Animals - Squeak!
1941

Don't Look Now
1936

Mississippi Hare
1949

Bedtime Worries
1933
Rootin' Tootin' Roundup
1989

The Bee-Deviled Bruin
1949

The Lyin' Mouse
1937
One-Horse Farmers
1934
Mouse Meets Lion
1940
The Wild and Woozy West
1942

The Battle Royal
1916

Bingo Crosbyana
1936

Alpine Antics
1936

Sioux Me
1939

Old Smokey
1938

A Roman Scandal
1919
Taxi for Two
1932

Goofy Movies Number Two
1934

Porky's Tire Trouble
1939

Buddy's Garage
1934

The Film Fan
1939

The Little Broadcast
1943

New Shoes
1936

Billy Jim
1922

The Serenade
1916

Bowery Bugs
1949

Private Snafu vs. Malaria Mike
1944

Picador Porky
1937
Keg o' My Heart
1933
Never the Twins Shall Meet
1932
Chun King Chow Mein Hour
1962
An All American Toothache
1936

Shanghaied Shipmates
1936

The Lone Stranger and Porky
1939

What's Brewin', Bruin?
1948
War Dogs
1943

The Bear and the Bean
1948

Porky's Movie Mystery
1939

God's Country and the Man
1937

The Cowboy Kid
1928

Husbands' Reunion
1933
A Slip at the Switch
1932

Buddy of the Apes
1934
Music in Your Hair
1934

A Sunbonnet Blue
1937

Boy Meets Dog
1938
Mickey's Review
1937

Dry and Thirsty
1920

Jane's Bashful Hero
1916

Boom Boom
1936

A Haunting We Will Go
1939

Twin Triplets
1935
Moonlight and Monkey Business
1930

Daffy's Southern Exposure
1942

Polar Pals
1939

Saps in Chaps
1942

A Bashful Bigamist
1920
Dick Whittington's Cat
1936

Little Dutch Plate
1935

The Pooch Parade
1940

The Fresh Lobster
1928

Sweet Sioux
1937
Call Her Sausage
1933
Rhapsody in Brew
1933
Nellie the Indian Chief's Daughter
1938

The Fire Alarm
1936

The Dude Cowboy
1926
Hold’er Cowboy
1928
Dog Meets Dog
1942

