Billy Bletcher

Billy Bletcher

Né le 23 septembre 1894 à Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, mort le 5 janvier 1979.

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.

Le Magicien d'Oz (7.6) The Wizard of Oz Film · 1939 dans le rôle de Mayor / Lollipop Guild Member (voice) (uncredited)
Amour, amour (7.5) Solid Serenade Film · 1946 dans le rôle de Evil Laugh (archive voice) (uncredited)
Dumbo (7.0) Film · 1941 dans le rôle de Clown (voice) (uncredited)
Fou de jazz (6.8) I Love to Singa Film · 1936 dans le rôle de Professor Fritz Owl (voice)
Bâtissons (6.7) Building a Building Film · 1933 dans le rôle de (voice) (uncredited)
Le Roi Midas (6.5) The Golden Touch Film · 1935 dans le rôle de King Midas (voice) (uncredited)
Boom Boom (6.5) Film · 1936 dans le rôle de General Hardtack / General / Soldiers (voice)
Le Cinéphile (6.5) The Film Fan Film · 1939 dans le rôle de Narrator / Masked Marvel (voice) (uncredited)
Porky Cheminot (6.4) Porky's Railroad Film · 1937 dans le rôle de Silver Fish engineer (voice) (uncredited)
Even as IOU (6.0) Film · 1942 dans le rôle de Seabasket - the Horse (voice) (uncredited)
Lady Lou (5.9) She Done Him Wrong Film · 1933 dans le rôle de Singing Waiter (uncredited)
Gas (5.7) Film · 1944 dans le rôle de Gas Cloud (voice) (uncredited)
A propos du temps (5.5) Speaking of the Weather Film · 1937 dans le rôle de Public Enemy #1 / Judge (voice) (uncredited)
Le Grand Voyage (5.1) You're an Education Film · 1938 dans le rôle de Singing Tibetan / Thief of Baghdad (voice)
Buddy's Bearcats (4.4) Film · 1934 dans le rôle de Hot Dog Man / Customer / Mustached Baseball Player (voice) (uncredited)