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
A Knight for a Day Narrator (voice)
Robot Wrecks Froggy's Father (uncredited)
Come Back, Miss Pipps Froggy's Father (uncredited)
Boy Meets Dog Voice
Dumbo Clown (voice) (uncredited)
The Pooch Parade Various
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Headless Horseman Laugh (voice)
Uncle Tom's Bungalow Simon Simon Legree (voice)
Don't Look Now Devil Cuckoo (voice) (uncredited)
Sioux Me Indian chorus (voice)
Der Fuehrer's Face Nazi (voice) (uncredited)
Sweet Sioux Native American (voice)
Three Little Pigs Big Bad Wolf (voice)
She Done Him Wrong Singing Waiter (uncredited)
A Bear for Punishment Pa Bear (voice) (uncredited)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Western Character (uncredited)
Quiet Please! Spike (voice) (uncredited)
The Truce Hurts Spike (voice) (uncredited)
The Zoot Cat Bit Part (voice) (uncredited)
Turn to the Right Sammy Martin (as William Bletcher)
The Man Hunter Buggs
Daredevil's Reward Slim
Once Upon a Halloween Tiny Tom (Peg Leg Pete)
The Hound and the Rabbit Fox (voice) (uncredited)
The Cowboy Kid Deputy Sheriff
Music in Your Hair Schmaltz's Friendly Neighbor
The Lost City Gorzo
Little Boy Blue Wolf (voice)
Sky Trooper Sergeant Pete (voice) (uncredited)
The Old Army Game Sergeant Pete (voice) (uncredited)
The Thrifty Pig Big Bad Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
The Vanishing Private Sergeant Pete (voice) (uncredited)
The Midnight Patrol Radio dispatcher (voice)
Heavenly Puss Devil Dog (voice) (uncredited)
Solid Serenade Evil Laugh (voice) (uncredited)
The Bodyguard Spike / Tom (Voice)
Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip Pete
Old Sequoia Donald's Boss (voice) (uncredited)
Pluto's Dream House Magic Lamp (voice) (uncredited)
Symphony Hour Pete - Sylvester Macaroni (voice) (uncredited)
The New Neighbor Pete (voice) (uncredited)
Three Blind Mouseketeers Captain Katt
Trombone Trouble Pegleg Pete (voice) (uncredited)
Wide Open Spaces Motel proprietor
The Texas Ranger Tubby
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad Headless Horseman (voice)
The Autograph Hound Security Guard (voice) (uncredited)
Canvas Back Duck Pete (voice) (uncredited)
Donald Gets Drafted Sergeant Pete (voice) (uncredited)
Whistling in the Dark Radio Effects Man (uncredited)
Whistling in Brooklyn Announcer (uncredited)
I Love to Singa Father (voice)
Duck Pimples Detective Hennessey (voice) (uncredited)
Timber Pete (voice) (uncredited)
The Fella with a Fiddle Grandpa Mouse (voice)
Officer Duck Tiny Tom (voice) (uncredited)
Night World Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Runt Page Bears Bugs (voice) (uncredited)
A Lady's Profession Keyhole McKluskey
Donald's Ostrich Bass Singer / Villain on Radio (voice) (uncredited)
Modern Inventions Robot Butler (voice) (uncredited)
The Golden Touch King Midas (voice) (uncredited)
The Riveter Pete (voice) (uncredited)
The Lone Chipmunks Pete (voice)
Hold’er Cowboy
Tom Turk and Daffy Tom Turk (voice) (uncredited)
I Haven't Got a Hat Beans / Ex (voice) (uncredited)
Little Red Riding Rabbit Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
Pigs Is Pigs Evil Scientist (voice) (uncredited)
Porky's Road Race Borax Karoff (voice) (uncredited)
Porky's Romance Time Munches On Narrator
Rabbit Punch The Champ (voice) (uncredited)
Speaking of the Weather Public Enemy #1 / Judge
Gas Gas Cloud (voice) (uncredited)
Private Snafu vs. Malaria Mike Malaria Mike (voice) (uncredited)
The Mad Doctor Dr. XXX (voice) (uncredited)
Bridge Wives Radio announcer
Mississippi Hare Col. Shuffle
Bear Feat Pa Bear
Saps in Chaps Cactus Pete (voice) (uncredited)
We, the Animals - Squeak! Irish Mouse (voice)
Stand by for Action Sailor (uncredited)
Bowery Bugs Steve Brody
The Merry Old Soul Old King Cole (voice)
Boom Boom General Hardtack / General / Soldiers (voice)
Bingo Crosbyana Spider (voice)
Dog Daze St. Bernard (voice)
Shanghaied Shipmates Ship's Captain - Shipmate (voice)
The Robber Kitten Dirty Bill
Make Mine Freedom Labor employee (voice)
Egghead Rides Again Boarding Room Clerk / Egghead (voice) (uncredited)
I Wanna Be a Sailor Papa Parrot (voice) (uncredited)
Porky in Wackyland Roaring Goon (voice) (uncredited)
Jane's Bashful Hero Louie
Incendiary Blonde Clown (uncredited)
You're an Education Singing Tibetan / Thief of Baghdad (voice)
Balloon Land Pincushion Man (voice)
The Boiling Point Stubby - Kirk Hand
Swing Shift Cinderella Wolf's Evil Laugh (voice) (uncredited)
The Vanishing Vault
Now That Summer Is Gone Pop (voice) (uncredited)
Walt Disney Cartoon Classics Limited Gold Edition II: An Officer and a Duck
Milk and Money Mr. Viper (voice / uncredited)
Little Beau Porky Ali-Mode, Commandant
Gold Diggers of '49 Beans (voice) (uncredited)
Hide and Shriek Haunted House Ghouls (voice)
Shanghaied Pegleg Pete (voice) (uncredited)
A Cartoonist's Nightmare Demon Beast / Old Man / Villains (voice) (uncredited)
The Case of the Stuttering Pig Lawyer Goodwill (voice) (uncredited)
Branded Men Half-A-Rod
A Slip at the Switch Feeny
Get a Horse! Peg-Leg Pete (voice)
Walt Disney Treasures - The Complete Goofy Al Muldoon
Dancing Sweeties Bud (uncredited)
Two-Fisted Cop
Polar Pals I. Killem (voice) (uncredited)
Meet John Doughboy Short Soldier (voice) (uncredited)
MGM Cartoon Christmas
Dry and Thirsty Horace Radish
Porky's Railroad Silver Fish engineer (voice) (uncredited)
The Winning Ticket The Captain (voice) (uncredited)
Husbands' Reunion Judge
Porky's Tire Trouble Boss
The Lone Ranger Lone Ranger (voice)
Casanova Brown Father in Waiting Room (uncredited)
A Feud There Was Weaver from Audience / McCoy at Cellar Door (voice)
Nellie the Indian Chief's Daughter Vocal Talents (voice) (uncredited)
Nellie the Sewing Machine Girl or Honest Hearts & Willing Hands Rudolf Ratbone (voice)
And the Angels Sing Club Patron (uncredited)
A Roman Scandal Stage Director
One Too Many Unhappy Boarder
Show Girl in Hollywood Sign Man Scraping Names off Doors
Down to Earth Conductor (uncredited)
A Bashful Bigamist Mr. Smith
One-Horse Farmers Subway Passenger (uncredited)
Moonlight and Monkey Business Honeymooner
Everybody Loves Donald
Lash of the Penitentes Narrating Missionary
Dick Whittington's Cat Cook
How to Vote Man on Platform (uncredited)
Top Speed Ipps
The Dentist Mr. Foliage - Bearded Patient
Hello, Dolly! Man (uncredited)
Alpine Antics Bully (voice) (uncredited)
The Story Behind Walt Disney's 'Fun and Fancy Free' Self (archive footage)
Porky in the North Woods Jean-Baptiste (voice) (uncredited)
The Tin Man The Tin Man (voice)
Two-Gun Mickey Pegleg Pete (voice) (uncredited)
Moving Day Pete (voice) (uncredited)
The Worm Turns Pete - Dog Catcher (voice) (uncredited)
A Haunting We Will Go Ghost (voice)
The Mexicali Kid Stagecoach Driver
Cold Feet Pride of the Mounted
Twin Triplets Merchant (uncredited)
Three Chumps Ahead Second Waiter (uncredited)
Sneak Easily Police Radio Announcer (uncredited)
One Track Minds Passenger with Whiskers (uncredited)
Maid in Hollywood Information Clerk (uncredited)
An All American Toothache Plumber #1 (uncredited)
Air Fright Stunt Aviator
Lonesome Ghosts Short Ghost (voice) (uncredited)
The Lone Ranger Rides Again The Masked Lone Ranger (voice)
Mickey's Mellerdrammer Horace Horsecollar (voice) (uncredited)
The Secret Witness Radio Announcer's Voice
Trader Hound Trader Hound / Native King (voice) (uncredited)
Men with Wings Red Cross Man
Mama's New Hat Captain (voice) (uncredited)
Me and My Pal Police Dispatcher (voice) (uncredited)
Zorro's Fighting Legion Don Del Oro (voice)
Seal Skinners Captain (voice) (uncredited)
Building a Building (voice) (uncredited)
The Practical Pig Big Bad Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
A Day at the Beach Captain
Poultry Pirates Captain
Professor Beware Shoeshine Customer
Destry Rides Again Pianist (uncredited)
Porky's Movie Mystery Invisible Man
The Dognapper Pete (voice) (uncredited)
Dancing Co-Ed Radio Man (voice) (uncredited)
The Wild and Woozy West Angel Face Wolf (uncredited)
Pluto's Judgement Day Cat Prosecutor (voice) (uncredited)
Three Little Wolves Big Bad Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
Who Killed Cock Robin? Judge Oliver Owl (voice) (uncredited)
Ye Olden Days King (voice) (uncredited)
The Big Bad Wolf Big Bad Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
Mickey's Service Station Pete (voice) (uncredited)
Pluto's Blue Note Music Store Proprietor (voice) (uncredited)
I Married a Witch
The Nutty Professor Plumber (uncredited)
The Chase Mr. Vincent (uncredited)
Call the Wagon
Farmyard Symphony Bull (voice) (uncredited)
Deadline at Dawn Waiter (uncredited)
Babes in Toyland Chief of Police (uncredited)
Chun King Chow Mein Hour Mr. Abramowitz
How to Be a Detective Pete - Al Muldoon (voice)
Walt Disney's Academy Award Revue Big bad wolf (voice)
Who Killed Who? Detective / Ghost (voice) (uncredited)
Edison, the Man Reporter
Yankee Doodle Daffy Sleepy Lagoon (singing voice) (uncredited)
The Bee-Deviled Bruin Henry Bear (voice) (uncredited)
What's Brewin', Bruin? Papa Bear (voice) (uncredited)
Goofy Movies Number Two Christopher Columbus (uncredited)
Daffy's Southern Exposure Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
Rootin' Tootin' Roundup Pete(archive sound)
Billboard Frolics Dave Rub-Em-Off
Buck Benny Rides Again Last Porter
The Californian Tax Collector
The Dude Cowboy Shorty O'Day
Tom & Jerry: Spotlight Collection
Rhapsody in Brew Meyer Schmaltz
Call Her Sausage Meyer (uncredited)
Coronado Waiter (uncredited)
Taxi Barons Host - Jenna's Father
The Rummy Taxicab Company Mechanic (uncredited)
Punch Drunks Fight Announcer (uncredited)
Keg o' My Heart Meyer Schmaltz
The Ape Short Mustached Posse Man
Melody Ranch Scarlet Shadow Radio Actor
Diplomaniacs Schmerzenschmerzen (uncredited)
Rhythm on the Range Buck's Friend
Harlow Policeman
The Big Broadcast of 1937 Property Man
The Old-Fashioned Way Tomato Thrower (uncredited)
Man on the Flying Trapeze Timekeeper (uncredited)
This Is Your Life Donald Duck Pete (voice)
Life Begins at Forty Hog Caller
The Serenade Schmitte
The Lyin' Mouse Lion - Cat Humming (voice) (uncredited)
The Film Fan Narrator / Masked Marvel (voice) (uncredited)
Satan Met a Lady Father of Sextuplets (uncredited)
That's the Spirit The Crooked Scientist
Cracked Nuts Parachute Man
The Tabasco Kid Susie (voice)
Boss of Rawhide Jed Bones
The Captain's Pup Captain (voice)
Playing the Ponies Announcer (uncredited)
Bedtime Worries Radio Voice
The First Round-Up Wally's Father
The Verdict Gravedigger
Early to Bed Office Boy
Soup to Nuts Revolutionary (uncredited)
Chatterbox Black Jake
Bear Raid Warden Barney Bear
Mickey's Man Friday Friday (voice) (uncredited)
The Little Broadcast Master of Ceremonies (voice) (uncredited)
Baby Puss Butch (voice) (uncredited)
The Captain's Christmas The Captain (voice) (uncredited)
New Shoes Boy's Shoes (voice)
Calamity Jane Prospector (uncredited)
Slightly Dangerous Customer (uncredited)
Porky's Building Dirty Digg (voice) (uncredited)
The Battle Royal Grandpa Runt
The Fresh Lobster
Walt Disney Treasures - Silly Symphonies
Porky's Phoney Express Porky's boss (voice)
The Lone Stranger and Porky Narrator / Lone Stranger / Villain (voice)
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
Joe Smith, American Police Radio Broadcaster (voice) (uncredited)
Tex Avery's Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection Spike
Alias St. Nick Cat / Fake Santa Claus (voice) (uncredited)
The Bear and the Bean Barney Bear (voice)
Polar Pest Barney Bear (voice) (uncredited)
Best Foot Forward Waxer
What a Lion! Captain (voice) (uncredited)
Blue Monday Captain (voice) (uncredited)
Cleaning House Captain (voice) (uncredited)
The Rainmakers Townsman
Crazy House Policeman
Loose Ankles Mr. Berry from Logan
True to Life Radio Heavy (uncredited)
Father Takes the Air Haggarly
Everybody Loves Mickey Short Ghost
Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.3 Robot Butler (segment "Modern Inventions") (archive sound)
Petunia Natural Park The Captain (voice) (uncredited)
Trailblazer Magoo Various (voice)(uncredited)
Billy Jim Jimmy
Two Girls Wanted Johnny
Here's Goofy! Narrator (voice)
Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.5 Big Bad Wolf / Captain Katt (voice) (archive sound)
Old Smokey Captain (voice) (uncredited)
Taxi for Two The District Attorney
Road to Utopia Bear (uncredited) (voice)
Lost in a Harem Bobo (voice) (uncredited)
Double Wedding Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Ain't We Got Fun Mouse in Checkered Cap (voice) (uncredited)
Canine Casanova Dogcatcher (voice) (uncredited)
Porky's Duck Hunt The Guy Upstairs / Bass Fish (voice) (uncredited)
Monkey Business Man in Deck Chair
The Noodle Nut
The Patent Leather Kid Fight Fan
Two Gun Goofy Pete (voice) (uncredited)
The Wizard of Oz Mayor / Lollipop Guild Member (voice) (uncredited)
Little Dutch Plate Vinegar Bottle (voice) (uncredited)
Disney's Halloween Treat Cat Prosecutor (voice) (archive footage)
Red Riding Hood Rides Again Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
California Frontier Bellhop
God's Country and the Man Sandy Briggs
The Fire Alarm Beans (voice) (uncredited)
Hit Parade of 1941 Radio Actor
Disney’s Coyote Tales Young Bent-Tail the Coyote (voice)
Maisie Goes to Reno Public Address Announcer (Voice) (Uncredited)
Picador Porky Bull (uncredited)
Swing Shift Maisie Workman (Uncredited)
Mouse Meets Lion Lion (voice)
Dog Meets Dog Butch
Kidding Katie The Butler
A Sunbonnet Blue Villain Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
Dog Trouble Spike (voice) (uncredited)
Getting Gertie's Goat Mr Smith
Thru the Mirror Radio (voice) (uncredited)
By Whose Hand? Police Radio Dispatcher (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
Can This Be Dixie? John P. Smith Peachtree
Mama's Little Pirate Voice of Giant
Teacher's Beau Chairman of the Board
Divot Diggers Golfer
The Terrible People Proody
The Inside Story Officer
Shows
Get Smart
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok Waiter
Pete Kelly's Blues
