- Voiced the Big Bad Wolf in all Three Little Pigs shorts.
- He has appeared in ten films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: She Done Him Wrong (1933), Three Little Pigs (1933), Punch Drunks (1934), Porky in Wackyland (1938), The Wizard of Oz (1939), Destry Rides Again (1939), Dumbo (1941), Sullivan's Travels (1941), Sleeping Beauty (1959), & The Nutty Professor (1963).
- Billy's voice is one of many voices that is easily familiar along with Clarence Nash, Mel Blanc, etc.
- Father of actress Barbara Bletcher.
- His most famous voice over role was arguably as Peg-Leg Pete (or simply Pete) in various theatrical Disney shorts from 1932-1954. The only short made during this time where Bletcher did not provide the voice is in Bellboy Donald (1942), where the character was played by John McLeish.
- Entered films with Vitagraph in 1913.
- In Block-Heads (1938), he provided the deep voice saying "Out please" of the small gentleman who exits from the back of a packed lift. The actor seen was Karl 'Karchy' Kosiczky. Both Billy and Karl later appeared in The Wizard of Oz (1939).
- Played the Toyland Police Chief in Laurel & Hardy's March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934) and trouped with the Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz (1939).
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