1. Billy Bletcher was known for voice roles for various classic animated characters, most notably Pete in Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse short films and the Big Bad Wolf in Disney's Three Little Pigs.
12 Facts About Billy Bletcher
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William Billy Bletcher was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on September 24,1894, to Huber and Dora Billy Bletcher.
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Billy Bletcher appeared on-screen in films and later television from the 1910s to the 1970s, including appearances in several Our Gang and The Three Stooges comedies.
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Billy Bletcher's voice was a deep, strong and booming baritone.
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Billy Bletcher provided the voices of various characters for Walt Disney Productions.
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Billy Bletcher auditioned to play one of the dwarfs in Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
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Billy Bletcher provided voice work for Ub Iwerks as the Pincushion man in the 1935 animated short Balloon Land, Owl Jolson's disciplinarian violinist father in the 1936 Warner Bros.
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Billy Bletcher voiced the villainous wolf in Little Red Riding Rabbit.
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Billy Bletcher did voice acting for the 1944 Private Snafu World War II training film "Gas", where Billy Bletcher voices the villainous Gas Cloud.
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Billy Bletcher portrayed The Captain in Captain and the Kids with MGM cartoons.
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Billy Bletcher died at the age of 84 on January 5,1979, in Los Angeles, California.
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Billy Bletcher was survived by his wife Arlyn and their daughter Barbara.