Billy Bletcher
- Professione
- Recitazione
- Nascita
- 23 settembre 1894
- Luogo di nascita
- Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
- Morte
- 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.
Film con Billy Bletcher
- Il mago di Oz 1939 · ★ 7.6
- Dumbo 1941 · ★ 7.0
- Le avventure di Ichabod e Mr. Toad 1949 · ★ 6.5
- Le folli notti del dottor Jerryll 1963 · ★ 6.5
- I tre porcellini 1933 · ★ 6.9
- Hello, Dolly! 1969 · ★ 7.0
- La caccia 1966 · ★ 7.1
- La leggenda della Valle Addormentata 1949 · ★ 7.4
- Tutti in scena! 2013 · ★ 7.6
- Ho sposato una strega 1942 · ★ 6.9
- Monkey Business - Quattro folli in alto mare 1931 · ★ 6.9
- Partita d'azzardo 1939 · ★ 7.2
- Non sparare, baciami! 1953 · ★ 7.0
- Lo specchio magico 1936 · ★ 7.2
- Der Fuehrer's Face 1943 · ★ 7.0
- Topolino e i fantasmi 1937 · ★ 6.9
- Nel paese delle meraviglie 1934 · ★ 6.3
- Sogni proibiti 1947 · ★ 6.8
- Lady Lou 1933 · ★ 5.9
- Cappuccetto Rosso 1934 · ★ 6.5
- Re Mida 1935 · ★ 6.5
- I tre lupetti 1936 · ★ 6.6
- Laggiù nel Medioevo 1933 · ★ 6.4
- Topolino e lo scienziato pazzo 1933 · ★ 7.2
- Nato per cantare 1936 · ★ 6.8
- Porky in Strambilandia 1938 · ★ 7.0
- Topolino costruttore 1933 · ★ 6.7
- I tre moschettieri ciechi 1936 · ★ 6.5
- Topolino va in vacanza 1940 · ★ 6.5
- Silenzio, prego! 1945 · ★ 7.3
- Il coniglietto rosso 1944 · ★ 7.1
- Cavaliere per un giorno 1946 · ★ 6.6
- L'uomo meccanico, con Paperino 1937 · ★ 6.8
- L'espresso celeste 1949 · ★ 7.5
- Pluto e il Giorno del Giudizio 1935 · ★ 6.7
- Un problema da cane 1942 · ★ 7.1
- La gloria del mattino 1933 · ★ 6.2
- Il nuovo vicino 1953 · ★ 6.9
- La guardia del corpo 1944 · ★ 7.4
- Trasloco 1936 · ★ 6.4
Film diretti da Billy Bletcher
- The Wild Girl 1925 · ★ 7.0
- The Silent Guardian 1925 · ★ 7.0