Acting

Jack Mercer

Born January 31, 1910 · Worthington, Indiana, USA

Died December 7, 1984 · aged 74

Winfield B. Mercer (January 31, 1910 – December 7, 1984), professionally known as Jack Mercer, was a prolific American voice actor, animator and writer. He is best known as the voice of cartoon characters Popeye the Sailor and Felix the Cat. The son of vaudeville and Broadway performers, he also performed on the vaudeville and legitimate stage.

Known For

Dumbo

MovieAnimationFamily

Dumbo is a baby elephant born with over-sized ears and a supreme lack of confidence. But thanks to his even more diminutive buddy Timothy the Mouse, the pint-sized pachyderm learns to surmount all obstacles.

Popeye

MovieActionAdventure

Popeye is a super-strong, spinach-scarfing sailor man who's searching for his father. During a storm that wrecks his ship, Popeye washes ashore and winds up rooming at the Oyl household, where he meets Olive. Before he can win her heart, he must first contend with Olive's fiancé, Bluto.

Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels · 1939

Gulliver's Travels

MovieAnimationFamily

Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput and attempts to prevent war between that tiny kingdom and its equally-miniscule rival, Blefiscu, as well as smooth the way for the romance between the Princess and Prince of the opposing lands. In this he is alternately aided and hampered by the Lilliputian town crier and general fussbudget, Gabby. A life-threatening situation develops when the bumbling trio of Blefiscu spies, Sneak, Snoop, and Snitch, manage to steal Gulliver's pistol.

Crazytown

Crazytown · 1954

MovieAnimationComedy

The story of a town where everything is topsy-turvy.

Mr. Bug Goes to Town

Mr. Bug Goes to Town · 1941

Mr. Bug Goes to Town

MovieAnimationComedy

The happy tranquility of Bugville is shattered when the populace learns that a colossal skyscraper is to be built over their tiny town.

Swing Cleaning

Swing Cleaning · 1941

MovieAnimationComedy

Gabby is a servant in a castle and is required to do a little housework.

Robin Rodenthood

Robin Rodenthood · 1955

Robin Rodenthood

MovieAnimationComedy

Herman battles Katnip in a costume epic satirizing the Robin Hood story. Katnip is the offical tax collector. Taxes have gone up 100%. The first place that Katnip hits is Povertyville. No money there... only Robin Hood Herman. Herman follows Katnip back to the castle and recovers the money for the mice after a battle. Katnip gets sliced clean down the middle with a fancy medieval executioner's axe!

Spooky Swabs

Spooky Swabs · 1957

MovieAnimationComedy

Popeye and Olive board a run-down ship, which turns out to be haunted.

Filmography

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Dumbo

MovieAnimationFamily

Dumbo is a baby elephant born with over-sized ears and a supreme lack of confidence. But thanks to his even more diminutive buddy Timothy the Mouse, the pint-sized pachyderm learns to surmount all obstacles.

Clowns (voice) (uncredited)

Popeye

MovieActionAdventure

Popeye is a super-strong, spinach-scarfing sailor man who's searching for his father. During a storm that wrecks his ship, Popeye washes ashore and winds up rooming at the Oyl household, where he meets Olive. Before he can win her heart, he must first contend with Olive's fiancé, Bluto.

Popeye - Animated Prologue (voice)

Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels · 1939

Gulliver's Travels

MovieAnimationFamily

Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput and attempts to prevent war between that tiny kingdom and its equally-miniscule rival, Blefiscu, as well as smooth the way for the romance between the Princess and Prince of the opposing lands. In this he is alternately aided and hampered by the Lilliputian town crier and general fussbudget, Gabby. A life-threatening situation develops when the bumbling trio of Blefiscu spies, Sneak, Snoop, and Snitch, manage to steal Gulliver's pistol.

King Little (voice) (uncredited)

Crazytown

Crazytown · 1954

MovieAnimationComedy

The story of a town where everything is topsy-turvy.

House Builder (voice) (uncredited)

Mr. Bug Goes to Town

Mr. Bug Goes to Town · 1941

Mr. Bug Goes to Town

MovieAnimationComedy

The happy tranquility of Bugville is shattered when the populace learns that a colossal skyscraper is to be built over their tiny town.

Mr. Bumble / Swat (voice)

Swing Cleaning

Swing Cleaning · 1941

MovieAnimationComedy

Gabby is a servant in a castle and is required to do a little housework.

King Little / Castle Workers (voice) (uncredited)

Robin Rodenthood

Robin Rodenthood · 1955

Robin Rodenthood

MovieAnimationComedy

Herman battles Katnip in a costume epic satirizing the Robin Hood story. Katnip is the offical tax collector. Taxes have gone up 100%. The first place that Katnip hits is Povertyville. No money there... only Robin Hood Herman. Herman follows Katnip back to the castle and recovers the money for the mice after a battle. Katnip gets sliced clean down the middle with a fancy medieval executioner's axe!

Various Mice (voice) (uncredited)

Spooky Swabs

Spooky Swabs · 1957

MovieAnimationComedy

Popeye and Olive board a run-down ship, which turns out to be haunted.

Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Japoteurs

Japoteurs · 1942

MovieAnimationAction

Superman vs. Japanese spies hijacking a new super-bomber.

Press Tour Guide (voice) (uncredited)

Many Tanks

Many Tanks · 1942

MovieAnimationComedy

Bluto's in the Army; he tries to sneak off base, but can't. Popeye passes by, Bluto invites him in, then swaps uniforms. Popeye ends up in a tank drill.

Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Blunder Below

Blunder Below · 1942

MovieAnimationComedy

Popeye's on a battleship, on which he's banished to the boiler room. A Japanese sub comes along. Can Popeye save his ship from the enemy?

Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Popalong Popeye

Popalong Popeye · 1952

Popalong Popeye

MovieAnimationWestern

Popeye is hosting three of his western-obsessed nephews on his ranch. To get them to eat their spinach, he tells about how he arrived at the ranch and was humiliated by foreman Bluto until, of course, he ate his spinach.

Story

Wigwam Whoopee

Wigwam Whoopee · 1948

Popeye follows along behind the Mayflower in his own rowboat. He washes up on Plymouth Rock.

Story

Terror on the Midway

Terror on the Midway · 1942

Terror on the Midway

MovieAnimationFantasy

When things go wrong at the circus, it's up to Superman to stop the escaped animals.

Sideshow Barker (voice) (uncredited)

Superman

Superman · 1941

MovieActionAnimation

After The Daily Planet receives a letter from a mad scientist threatening to wreak destruction with his Electrothanasia Ray, Lois Lane heads out in the hopes of getting more information for a news story.

The Mad Scientist (voice) (uncredited)

Hold It!

Hold It! · 1938

When the lights of the city go dim, all of the kitties are let outdoors to prowl. Holding a meeting, they come up with a plan to rid themselves of a neighboring dog. The cats proceed to torment him, chase him with a water hose, and try feeding him.

Cats (voice) (uncredited)

Patriotic Popeye

Patriotic Popeye · 1957

Patriotic Popeye

MovieAnimationComedy

Two of Popeye's nephews get caught playing with fireworks on the Fourth of July. Popeye takes them away, and they spend the rest of the picture trying to get them back (mostly by getting Popeye away from them).

Popeye / Popeye's Nephews (voice) (uncredited)

Problem Pappy

Problem Pappy · 1941

MovieAnimationComedy

Popeye's Pappy takes a flagpole sitting job atop a tall building without telling Popeye. Popeye goes to rescue him, but he doesn't want to go until an electrical storm hits.

Popeye / Pappy (voice) (uncredited)

Puppet Love

Puppet Love · 1944

MovieAnimationComedy

Bluto builds a Popeye puppet and manipulates it to treat Olive rudely. Then he comes in and takes Olive away. When Popeye discovers the ruse, knocks Bluto out and ties puppet strings to him.

Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Fowl Play

Fowl Play · 1937

MovieAnimationComedy

Popeye gives Olive a parrot that he's trained. Bluto sets the bird free and then tries to kill it.

Popeye / Polly Parrot (voice) (uncredited)

Floor Flusher

Floor Flusher · 1954

MovieAnimationComedy

Popeye and Bluto stop by to see Olive and fix her leaky faucet. Popeye does it better, and Bluto gets jealous, so he starts rerouting Olive's plumbing and causing all sorts of leaks.

Story

Boo Scout

Boo Scout · 1951

Casper the Friendly Ghost befriends a Boy Scout.

Billy's Brother / Ghosts (voice)

Taxi-Turvy

Taxi-Turvy · 1954

MovieAnimationComedy

Popeye and Bluto are taxi drivers; they are, of course, competing for fares - and Olive, in particular.

Popeye / Old Man (voice) (uncredited)

Be Human

Be Human · 1936

Betty Boop is incensed at her farmer neighbor's cruelty to his animals. Grampy knows how to teach him a lesson.

Horse / Pig (voice) (uncredited)

Popeye the Sailor

Popeye the Sailor · 1960

Popeye the Sailor

SeriesAnimationKids

Follows the adventures of the famed spinach-eating sailor man. Popeye is one of the most popular cartoon characters of all time. This spunky but loveable spinach-eating sailor continues to delight young and old with his comic adventures, and the entire gang is around to provide plenty of rousing fun and action: Olive Oyl, Swee'Pea, Wimpy and Bluto.

Writer

The All-New Popeye Hour

The All-New Popeye Hour · 1978

The All-New Popeye Hour

SeriesAnimation

The All-New Popeye Hour is an animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and King Features Syndicate. Starring the popular comic strip character Popeye, the series aired from 1978 to 1983 on CBS.

Popeye / Poopdeck Pappy

Felix the Cat

Felix the Cat · 1958

SeriesAnimationComedy

Felix the Cat follows the offbeat adventures of that curious feline, Felix. Although he was quickly overshadowed by Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse, America's favorite cat still remains a classic.

Felix / The Professor / Rock Bottom

Casper the Friendly Ghost

Casper the Friendly Ghost · 1950

Casper the Friendly Ghost

SeriesAnimationKids

Casper the Friendly Ghost is the protagonist of the Famous Studios theatrical animated cartoons of the same name. He is a pleasant, personable and translucent ghost, but often criticized by his three wicked uncles, the Ghostly Trio. The character was featured in 55 theatrical cartoons titled "The Friendly Ghost" from 1945 to 1959.

Little Boy / Donkey / Square Dance Caller (voice)