Billy Bletcher
1894-09-23 ( 130 years old ) in 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 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.

Movies

Get a Horse! 2013-11-27
Here's Goofy! 1987-05-19
Hello, Dolly! 1969-12-12
The Chase 1966-02-18
Harlow 1965-06-23
Calamity Jane 1953-11-04
Two Gun Goofy 1952-05-16
Bear Feat 1949-12-10
Heavenly Puss 1949-07-09
Bowery Bugs 1949-06-04
Rabbit Punch 1948-04-10
Down to Earth 1947-08-21
Tubby the Tuba 1947-07-11
The Verdict 1946-11-23
Solid Serenade 1946-08-31
Road to Utopia 1946-02-27
Quiet Please! 1945-12-22
Old Sequoia 1945-12-21
Duck Pimples 1945-08-10
Polar Pest 1944-12-30
Casanova Brown 1944-08-23
The Bodyguard 1944-07-22
Gas 1944-05-15
The Zoot Cat 1944-02-26
Baby Puss 1943-12-25
True to Life 1943-12-24
Crazy House 1943-10-08
Chatterbox 1943-04-27
Sky Trooper 1942-11-06
Dog Trouble 1942-04-18
Saps in Chaps 1942-04-10
Dog Meets Dog 1942-03-26
Symphony Hour 1942-03-20
Dumbo 1941-10-31
Robot Wrecks 1941-07-12
Cracked Nuts 1941-07-02
Timber 1941-01-10
The Ape 1940-09-30
Melody Ranch 1940-09-15
The Riveter 1940-03-15
The Film Fan 1939-12-16
Officer Duck 1939-10-10
Dancing Co-Ed 1939-09-29
Sioux Me 1939-09-08
Polar Pals 1939-06-03
Mama's New Hat 1939-02-10
Seal Skinners 1939-01-28
Old Smokey 1938-09-03
Men with Wings 1938-07-16
What a Lion! 1938-07-06
Blue Monday 1938-04-02
Boy Meets Dog 1938-03-10
Cleaning House 1938-02-19
Double Wedding 1937-10-15
Dog Daze 1937-09-18
Sweet Sioux 1937-06-25
Picador Porky 1937-02-26
Pigs Is Pigs 1937-01-08
The Worm Turns 1937-01-02
Don't Look Now 1936-11-07
Milk and Money 1936-10-03
New Shoes 1936-09-05
How to Vote 1936-09-04
Moving Day 1936-06-20
Early to Bed 1936-06-05
The Fire Alarm 1936-03-09
Boom Boom 1936-02-28
Divot Diggers 1936-02-08
Alpine Antics 1936-01-18
Coronado 1935-11-27
Alias St. Nick 1935-11-16
The Rainmakers 1935-10-25
Twin Triplets 1935-10-12
Two-Fisted 1935-10-03
Balloon Land 1935-09-30
Teacher's Beau 1935-04-27
The Tin Man 1935-03-30
The Lost City 1935-03-06
Two-Gun Mickey 1934-12-15
The Dognapper 1934-11-17
Punch Drunks 1934-07-13
Shanghaied 1934-01-13
Air Fright 1933-12-23
Morning Glory 1933-08-18
The Rummy 1933-06-09
Diplomaniacs 1933-04-28
Me and My Pal 1933-04-22
Ye Olden Days 1933-04-08
Taxi Barons 1933-03-31
The Mad Doctor 1933-01-21
Sneak Easily 1932-12-10
The Dentist 1932-12-09
Taxi for Two 1932-12-03
By Whose Hand? 1932-07-06
Night World 1932-05-04
Runt Page 1932-04-11
Bridge Wives 1932-02-21
Branded Men 1931-11-07
Trader Hound 1931-04-08
Soup to Nuts 1930-09-28
Top Speed 1930-08-24
The Man Hunter 1930-05-02
Loose Ankles 1930-02-02
The Cowboy Kid 1928-07-14
Call the Wagon 1923-12-30
Kidding Katie 1923-12-02
Cold Feet 1922-05-21
Billy Jim 1922-01-29
The Noodle Nut 1921-01-01
The Serenade 1916-03-02
One Too Many 1916-02-16