Billy Bletcher
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.
Acting
Movie
The Wizard of Oz
as Mayor / Lollipop Guild Member (voice) (uncredited)
1939
Movie
Dumbo
as Clown (voice) (uncredited)
1941
Movie
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
as Headless Horseman (voice)
1949
Movie
The Nutty Professor
as Plumber (uncredited)
1963
TV
Get Smart
as Frank Ogg
1965
Movie
Three Little Pigs
as Big Bad Wolf (voice)
1933
Movie
Hello, Dolly!
as Man (uncredited)
1969
Movie
The Chase
as Mr. Vincent (uncredited)
1966
Movie
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
as Headless Horseman Laugh (voice)
1949
Movie
Get a Horse!
as Peg-Leg Pete (voice)
2013
Movie
I Married a Witch
1942
Movie
Monkey Business
as Man in Deck Chair
1931
Movie
Destry Rides Again
as Pianist (uncredited)
1939
Movie
Calamity Jane
as Prospector (uncredited)
1953
Movie
Thru the Mirror
as Radio (voice) (uncredited)
1936
Movie
Der Fuehrer's Face
as Nazi (voice) (uncredited)
1943
Movie
Lonesome Ghosts
as Short Ghost (voice) (uncredited)
1937
Movie
Babes in Toyland
as Chief of Police (uncredited)
1934
Movie
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
as Western Character (uncredited)
1947
Movie
She Done Him Wrong
as Singing Waiter (uncredited)
1933
Movie
The Big Bad Wolf
as Big Bad Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
1934
Movie
The Golden Touch
as King Midas (voice) (uncredited)
1935
Movie
The Mad Doctor
as Dr. XXX (voice) (uncredited)
1933
Movie
Three Little Wolves
as Big Bad Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
1936
