Billy Blecher Voices

[dougc]

I hope I have spelled his name correctly -- Does anyone have a list of WB cartoons on which he provided voices? I believe he was Henry (Papa) Bear in the Three Bears series (except maybe "Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears," which sounds like Mel Blanc) and the Papa Owl on "I Love to Singa." I'm sure he did quite a few more.
Also, did he work on any MGM cartoons? It sure sounds like him as the voice of the dog in the Tom and Jerry cartoon, "Quiet Please!"
dougc

[lislebartman]

I can't really supply a listing of Billy Bletcher's voice credits, but he was a freelance voice artist who did work for almost all the major studios' cartoons. He also worked for Hal Roach and appeared in a few Our Gang comedies during the early 1930s (he was Wally's father in "The Last Round-up") He was a very short man, but man, he sure had a commanding voice.

[Jon Cooke]

Some of Bletcher's other WB voices: Porky's boss in "Porky's Tire Trouble", the Big Bad Wolf in "Little Red Riding Rabbit", the mean trapper in "Porky in the North Woods", Colonel Shuffle in "Mississippi Hare", and many more. Here's his filmography from the Internet Movie Database (http://us.imdb.com/Name?Bletcher,+Billy)


-Jon

[Pietro]

Didn't Bletcher voice Pete for awhile at Disney?

-Pietro

[PorkyandDaffy]

Didn't he also voice Steve Brody in BOWERY BUGS.

[Nelson]

You can also add to Bletcher's voice credits:

The Pin Cushin Man

The Captain (from the Captain And The Kids)

Spike

Peg Leg Pete

Henrey Bear

The Big Bad Wolf

[Rob]

I'm assuming you mean H-B's Spike, and not Avery's Spike. Wasn't Avery's Spike voiced by Paul Frees?

As Joe Adamson once observed, in cartoons "all bulldogs are named Spike." Of course that's not ENTIRELY true, but a funny quote nonetheless...

[PlopKat]

Though it's not of his WB work, there's an entertaining clip of Billy Bletcher & Walt Disney doing Pete's and Mickey's voices for the short Mr. Mouse Takes A Trip. It used to pop up with some frequency duing the overnight Vault Disney block on the Disney Channel.

It would be a good extra for the upcoming Mickey Mouse DVD, even more so if Mr. Mouse Takes A Trip was going to be on the disc.

-PlopKat

[Vdubdavid]

I heard him in Warner's "Little Dutch Plate", where he voiced a vinegar bottle pestering a little girl salt shaker!