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Billy Bletcher
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
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 T…
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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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2013
Get a Horse!
Movie Peg-Leg Pete (voice)
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2007
Tex Avery's Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection
Movie Spike (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
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2005
Once Upon a Halloween
Movie Tiny Tom (Peg Leg Pete) (voice) (archive sound)
- 2004
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2004
Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.5
Movie Big Bad Wolf / Captain Katt (voice) (archive sound)
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2003
Everybody Loves Donald
Movie (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
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2003
Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.3
Movie Robot Butler (segment "Modern Inventions") (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
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2002
Walt Disney Treasures - The Complete Goofy
Movie Al Muldoon (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
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2001
Walt Disney Treasures - Silly Symphonies
Movie (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
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2001
Everybody Loves Mickey
Movie Short Ghost (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
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1997
The Story Behind Walt Disney's 'Fun and Fancy Free'
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1993
MGM Cartoon Christmas
Movie (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
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1991
Disney’s Coyote Tales
Movie Young Bent-Tail the Coyote (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
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1990
Goofy's Guide to Success
Movie Pete (archive footage)
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1989
Rootin' Tootin' Roundup
Movie Pete (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
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1987
Here's Goofy!
Movie Narrator (voice)
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1985
Walt Disney Cartoon Classics Limited Gold Edition II: An Officer and a Duck
Movie (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
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1982
Disney's Halloween Treat
Movie Cat Prosecutor (voice) (archive footage)
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1969
Hello, Dolly!
Movie Man (uncredited)
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1966
The Chase
Movie Mr. Vincent (uncredited)
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1965
Get Smart
TV show Frank Ogg
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1965
Harlow
Movie Policeman (uncredited)
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1963
The Nutty Professor
Movie Plumber (uncredited)
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1962
Chun King Chow Mein Hour
Movie Mr. Abramowitz
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1960
This Is Your Life Donald Duck
Movie Pete (voice)
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1959
Pete Kelly's Blues
TV show
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1956
Trailblazer Magoo
Movie Various (voice)(uncredited)
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1954
The Lone Chipmunks
Movie Pete (voice)
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1953
Canvas Back Duck
Movie Pete (voice) (uncredited)
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1953
Calamity Jane
Movie Prospector (uncredited)
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1953
The New Neighbor
Movie Pete (voice) (uncredited)
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1953
Revlon Mirror Theatre
TV show
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1952
How to Be a Detective
Movie Pete - Al Muldoon (voice)
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1952
Two Gun Goofy
Movie Pete (voice) (uncredited)
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1951
A Bear for Punishment
Movie Pa Bear (voice) (uncredited)
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1951
The Red Skelton Show
TV show Phony Warden
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1951
Father Takes the Air
Movie Haggarly
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1951
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
TV show Waiter
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1950
The Next Voice You Hear...
Movie Newspaper Subscriber (uncredited)
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1949
Bear Feat
Movie Pa Bear
