Billy Bletcher
Acting
Biography
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.
Born: September 23, 1894
Place of Birth: Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
Known For
Tex Avery's Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection
Frederick "Tex" Avery directed some of the funniest cartoons ever made, but he relied primarily on situations and moving graphics, rather than on the personalities of familiar characters. Droopy, the phlegmatic basset hound, was one of the few characters Avery used regularly: His low-key presence was the perfect counter to the extreme takes, fast cuts, frenetic action, and general mayhem going on around him. Avery is also noted for "self-reflexive gags:" the characters know they're in a cartoon and often comment on the fact. In "Dumb-Hounded,"a sprinting wolf cuts a corner too sharply, skids past the sprocket holes at the edge of the film, and onto the blank screen. Droopy frequently turns to the camera and comments, "You now what? I'm happy."
Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.3
Three classic stories from the Disney team. 'Donald in Mathmagicland' is an award-winning short film, featuring everyone's favourite duck. 'Ben and Me' tells the story of how one little mouse helped Benjamin Franklin and changed the course of history. Finally, 'Modern Inventions' finds Donald Duck in a mueum where he gets more than he bargained for. From the Back Cover
Jane's Bashful Hero
Husbandless Jane has her eye set on Willie but he is too bashful to take the initiative. To make him jealous, she creates a scarecrowl who happens to resemble the notorious bank robber Banker Bill. The constable, sure she is harboring the fugitive, is out to make an arrest.
Get Smart
Get Smart is an American comedy television series that satirizes the secret agent genre. Created by Mel Brooks with Buck Henry, the show stars Don Adams, Barbara Feldon, and Edward Platt. Henry said they created the show by request of Daniel Melnick, who was a partner, along with Leonard Stern and David Susskind, of the show's production company, Talent Associates, to capitalize on "the two biggest things in the entertainment world today"—James Bond and Inspector Clouseau. Brooks said: "It's an insane combination of James Bond and Mel Brooks comedy." This is the only Mel Brooks production to feature a laugh track. The success of the show eventually spawned the follow-up films The Nude Bomb and Get Smart, Again!, as well as a 1995 revival series and a 2008 film remake. In 2010, TV Guide ranked Get Smart's opening title sequence at No. 2 on its list of TV's Top 10 Credits Sequences, as selected by readers.
Get a Horse!
Mickey, Minnie, Horace Horsecollar, and Clarabelle Cow go on a musical wagon ride until Peg-Leg Pete tries to run them off the road.
Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.5
Six more animated stories from the Disney studios. 'Three Blind Mousketeers' follows the misadventures of the outrageous trio. In 'Three Little Pigs', the Big Bad Wolf is doing his best to cunningly snare the guileless little pigs, while in 'Three Little Wolves' he goes one step further and decides to disguise and train his own offspring to lure them into his fold. 'Funny Little Bunnies' explores the mystery of the Easter Bunny. 'Lambert the Sheepish Lion' is a lovable, shy lion who plucks up the courage to protect his adopted family of ewes and rams. 'Ferdinand the Bull' gets in a scrape at a Madrid bullring when he gets stung by a bee and the crowd mistake him for a fighting bull.
The Wizard of Oz
Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives. The Wicked Witch of the West is the only thing that could stop them.
The Bodyguard
Spike the bulldog, grateful to Jerry for getting him out of the dogcatcher's van, offers to help the little mouse any time he whistles. Tom, Jerry's feline tormentor, seeks to overcome this new disadvantage.
Walt Disney Treasures - The Complete Goofy
This generous collection includes 46 of the 48 shorts that starred Goofy between 1939 and 1961 (but none of the great Mickey-Donald-Goofy films from the mid-'30s). The "How to Ride a Horse" sequence in The Reluctant Dragon (1941) set the pattern for many of these cartoons. An elegant narrator (artist John Ployardt) explains a sport that Goofy attempts to demonstrate. The character that animator Art Babbitt described in a 1935 lecture (quoted in the DVD bonus material) as an easygoing dimbulb gave way to an enthusiastic but spectacularly maladroit figure. One of the funniest entries in the series, "Hockey Homicide," contains several studio in-jokes: dueling stars Icebox Bertino and Fearless Ferguson, and referee Clean-Game Kinney are named for artists Al Bertino, Norm Ferguson, and director Jack Kinney.
Home on the Range
A cow and her calf are bedding down for the night. The calf is frightened by a shadow, until it's revealed to be a jackrabbit. He follows the rabbit deep into the woods. Neither of them notices the wolf following.
Filmography
as Peg-Leg Pete (voice)
as Spike (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
as Tiny Tom (Peg Leg Pete) (voice) (archive sound)
as Big Bad Wolf / Captain Katt (voice) (archive sound)
as (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
as Robot Butler (segment "Modern Inventions") (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
as Al Muldoon (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
as (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
as Short Ghost (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
as Self (archive footage)
as (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
as Narrator (voice)
as (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
as Cat Prosecutor (voice) (archive footage)
as Man (uncredited)
as Mr. Vincent (uncredited)
as Policeman
as Plumber (uncredited)
as Pete (voice)
as Various (voice)(uncredited)
as Pete (voice)
as Pete (voice) (uncredited)
as Prospector (uncredited)
as Pete (voice) (uncredited)
as Pete - Al Muldoon (voice)
as Pete (voice) (uncredited)
as Pa Bear (voice) (uncredited)
as Phony Warden
as Haggarly
as Waiter
as Newspaper Subscriber (uncredited)
as Pa Bear
as Headless Horseman Laugh (voice)
as Headless Horseman (voice)
as Horseface
as Devil Dog (voice) (uncredited)
as Steve Brody
as Henry Bear (voice) (uncredited)
as Col. Shuffle
as Spike (voice) (uncredited)
as The Champ (voice) (uncredited)
as Papa Bear (voice) (uncredited)
as Labor employee (voice)
as Barney Bear (voice)
as Music Store Proprietor (voice) (uncredited)
as Motel Proprietor (voice)
as Western Character (uncredited)
as Conductor (uncredited)
as Frog (voice)
as Gravedigger
as Mahoney's Valet (uncredited)
as Evil Laugh (voice) (uncredited)
as Waiter (uncredited)
as Narrator (voice)
as Bear (uncredited) (voice)
as Spike (voice) (uncredited)
as Donald's Boss (voice) (uncredited)
as Wolf's Evil Laugh (voice) (uncredited)
as Detective Hennessey (voice) (uncredited)
as Dogcatcher (voice) (uncredited)
as Clown (uncredited)
as Barney Bear (voice) (uncredited)
as Bobo (voice) (uncredited)
as Father in Waiting Room (uncredited)
as Public Address Announcer (Voice) (Uncredited)
as Barney Bear
as Spike / Tom (Voice)
as Gas Cloud (voice) (uncredited)
as Club Patron (uncredited)
as Malaria Mike (voice) (uncredited)
as Bit Part (voice) (uncredited)
as Pegleg Pete (voice) (uncredited)
as Tom Turk (voice) (uncredited)
as Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
as Butch (voice) (uncredited)
as Radio Heavy (uncredited)
as Announcer (uncredited)
as Jed Bones
as Sergeant Pete (voice) (uncredited)
as Waxer
as Policeman (uncredited)
as Workman (Uncredited)
as Master of Ceremonies (voice) (uncredited)
as Detective / Ghost (voice) (uncredited)
as Sleepy Lagoon (singing voice) (uncredited)
as Black Jake
as Customer (uncredited)
as Nazi (voice) (uncredited)
as Sailor (uncredited)
as Sergeant Pete (voice) (uncredited)
as Sergeant Pete (voice) (uncredited)
as Sergeant Pete (voice) (uncredited)
as Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
as Spike (voice) (uncredited)
as Cactus Pete (voice) (uncredited)
as Pete - Sylvester Macaroni (voice) (uncredited)
as Police Radio Broadcaster (voice) (uncredited)
as Big Bad Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
as Clown (voice) (uncredited)
as Froggy's Father (uncredited)
as Radio Effects Man (uncredited)
as Irish Mouse (voice)
as Froggy's Father (uncredited)
as Short Soldier (voice) (uncredited)
as Parachute Man
as Horse (voice)
as Pete (voice) (uncredited)
as Pete
as Radio Actor
as Short Mustached Posse Man
as Scarlet Shadow Radio Actor
as Magic Lamp (voice) (uncredited)
as Various
as Last Porter
as Reporter
as Coyote Bark
as Pete (voice) (uncredited)
as Spike (voice)
as Narrator / Masked Marvel (voice) (uncredited)
as Don Del Oro (voice)
as Pianist (uncredited)
as Tiny Tom (voice) (uncredited)
as Radio Man (voice) (uncredited)
as Indian chorus (voice)
as Security Guard (voice) (uncredited)
as Ghost (voice)
as Mayor / Lollipop Guild Member (voice) (uncredited)
as I. Killem (voice) (uncredited)
as Invisible Man
as The Masked Lone Ranger (voice)
as Big Bad Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
as Boss
as Captain (voice) (uncredited)
as Captain (voice) (uncredited)
as Narrator / Lone Stranger / Villain (voice)
as The Captain (voice) (uncredited)
as The Captain (voice) (uncredited)
as Bellhop
as Singing Tibetan / Thief of Baghdad (voice)
as Bull (voice) (uncredited)
as The Captain (voice) (uncredited)
as Roaring Goon (voice) (uncredited)
as Weaver from Audience / McCoy at Cellar Door (voice)
as Stagecoach Driver
as Captain (voice) (uncredited)
as Shoeshine Customer
as Red Cross Man
as Captain (voice) (uncredited)
as Captain
as Haunted House Ghouls (voice)
as Pop (voice) (uncredited)
as Captain (voice)
as Captain
as Captain (voice) (uncredited)
as Porky's boss (voice) (uncredited)
as Voice
as Captain (voice) (uncredited)
as Lone Ranger (voice)
as Short Ghost (voice) (uncredited)
as Bass Singer / Villain on Radio (voice) (uncredited)
as Lawyer Goodwill (voice) (uncredited)
as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
as Announcer (uncredited)
as Lion - Cat Humming (voice) (uncredited)
as Papa Parrot (voice) (uncredited)
as St. Bernard (voice)
as Public Enemy #1 / Judge
as Sandy Briggs
as Villain Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
as Silver Fish engineer (voice) (uncredited)
as Tax Collector
as Boarding Room Clerk / Egghead (voice) (uncredited)
as Native American (voice)
as Dirty Digg (voice) (uncredited)
as Simon Simon Legree (voice)
as Robot Butler (voice) (uncredited)
as Fox (voice) (uncredited)
as Big Bad Wolf (voice)
as Mouse in Checkered Cap (voice) (uncredited)
as The Guy Upstairs / Bass Fish (voice) (uncredited)
as Time Munches On Narrator
as Grandpa Mouse (voice)
as Bull (uncredited)
as Borax Karoff (voice) (uncredited)
as Evil Scientist (voice) (uncredited)
as Pete - Dog Catcher (voice) (uncredited)
as Jean-Baptiste (voice) (uncredited)
as John P. Smith Peachtree
as Devil Cuckoo (voice) (uncredited)
as Ali-Mode, Commandant
as Property Man
as Mr. Viper (voice / uncredited)
as Captain Katt
as Drunk (uncredited)
as Boy's Shoes (voice)
as Man on Platform (uncredited)
as Wolf (voice)
as Father of Sextuplets (uncredited)
as Father (voice)
as Buck's Friend
as Pete (voice) (uncredited)
as Ship's Captain - Shipmate (voice)
as Office Boy
as Radio (voice) (uncredited)
as Spider (voice)
as Big Bad Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
as Narrating Missionary
as Beans (voice) (uncredited)
as General Hardtack / General / Soldiers (voice)
as Golfer
as Bully (voice) (uncredited)
as Waiter (uncredited)
as Cat / Fake Santa Claus (voice) (uncredited)
as Dave Rub-Em-Off
as Beans (voice) (uncredited)
as Townsman
as Vinegar Bottle (voice) (uncredited)
as Merchant (uncredited)
as Cop
as Pincushion Man (voice)
as Cat Prosecutor (voice) (uncredited)
as Demon Beast / Old Man / Villains (voice) (uncredited)
as Old King Cole (voice)
as Timekeeper (uncredited)
as Judge Oliver Owl (voice) (uncredited)
as Chairman of the Board
as Dirty Bill
as The Tin Man (voice)
as King Midas (voice) (uncredited)
as Hog Caller
as Gorzo
as Beans / Ex (voice) (uncredited)
as Pete (voice) (uncredited)
as Friday (voice) (uncredited)
as Pegleg Pete (voice) (uncredited)
as Chief of Police (uncredited)
as Pete (voice) (uncredited)
as Voice of Giant
as Subway Passenger (uncredited)
as Second Waiter (uncredited)
as Tomato Thrower (uncredited)
as Fight Announcer (uncredited)
as Hot Dog Man / Customer / Mustached Baseball Player (voice) (uncredited)
as Tribal Chief (voice) (uncredited)
as Information Clerk (uncredited)
as Wally's Father
as Big Bad Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
as Gruff Guy (voice) (uncredited)
as Christopher Columbus (uncredited)
as Pegleg Pete (voice) (uncredited)
as Stunt Aviator
as Radio Voice
as Actor (uncredited)
as Radio dispatcher (voice)
as Judge
as Big Bad Wolf (voice)
as Passenger with Whiskers (uncredited)
as Schmerzenschmerzen (uncredited)
as Police Dispatcher (voice) (uncredited)
as King (voice) (uncredited)
as Host - Jenna's Father
as Horace Horsecollar (voice) (uncredited)
as Keyhole McKluskey
as Singing Waiter (uncredited)
as Dr. XXX (voice) (uncredited)
as (voice) (uncredited)
as Police Radio Announcer (uncredited)
as Mr. Foliage - Bearded Patient
as Musician at First Wedding (uncredited)
as Feeny
as Stubby - Kirk Hand
as Police Radio Dispatcher (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
as Bears Bugs (voice) (uncredited)
as Radio announcer
as Susie (voice)
as Radio Announcer's Voice
as Half-A-Rod
as Man in Deck Chair
as Tubby
as Trader Hound / Native King (voice) (uncredited)
as Revolutionary (uncredited)
as Ipps
as Bud (uncredited)
as Buggs
as Sign Man Scraping Names off Doors
as Mr. Berry from Logan
as Proody
as Deputy Sheriff
as Slim
as Johnny
as Fight Fan
as 'Half Pint' Walker
as Shorty O'Day
as Mr Smith
as The Butler
as Jimmy
as Sammy Martin (as William Bletcher)
as Mr. Smith
as Horace Radish
as Stage Director
as Grandpa Runt
as Schmitte
as Unhappy Boarder
as Louie