William 'Billy' Costello

Popeye the Sailor · 1933

Popeye the Sailor

★ 6.91933

MovieAnimationComedy

Popeye and Bluto fight for the love of Olive Oyl in their debut short, featuring Betty Boop.

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Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Dizzy Divers · 1935

Dizzy Divers

★ 7.31935

MovieAnimationComedy

Popeye and Bluto are deep sea divers. Popeye has a treasure map; for some reason he cuts Bluto in on the deal, but of course, Bluto's idea of 50-50 isn't exactly fair...

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Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Dizzy Dishes · 1930

Dizzy Dishes

★ 5.51930

MovieAnimationComedy

The Fleischer's Talkartoon short that debuted Betty Boop.

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Gorilla

A Dream Walking · 1934

A Dream Walking

★ 6.81934

MovieAnimationComedy

Popeye and Bluto each wants to save Olive as she sleepwalks onto a construction site. But most of their efforts go into preventing each other from being the hero.

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Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Choose Your 'Weppins' · 1935

Choose Your 'Weppins'

★ 6.71935

MovieAnimationComedy

Policeman Wimpy loses his handcuffed prisoner when he's distracted by a hamburger shop. The escapee drops into the weapon-filled pawnshop Popeye and Olive are running, and quickly gets in a fight with Popeye.

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Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

I Yam What I Yam · 1933

I Yam What I Yam

★ 6.61933

MovieFamilyAnimation

Popeye, Olive Oyl and Wimpy are shipwrecked on an island of hostile Indians

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Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Axe Me Another · 1934

Axe Me Another

★ 6.91934

MovieAnimationComedy

Pierre Bluto, running a logging camp, has thrown Olive into the river because he didn't like her spinach. Popeye rescues her and proceeds to beat Bluto in a lumberjack contest.

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Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

The Dance Contest · 1934

The Dance Contest

★ 6.61934

MovieAnimationComedy

Popeye and Olive compete as partners in a dance contest. Naturally, Bluto butts in.

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Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

For Better or Worser · 1935

For Better or Worser

★ 7.01935

MovieAnimationComedy

Popeye's failures in the kitchen send him on a quest for a wife. He visits the "matrimonial agency" and picks Olive at the same time Bluto picks her. Of course, the boys settle their problem with their fists. Soon, Bluto and Olive are visiting Justice of the Peace Wimpy, with Popeye temporarily detained.

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Popeye

Let's You and Him Fight · 1934

Let's You and Him Fight

★ 6.11934

MovieAnimationComedy

Bluto is the boxing champ, Popeye his challenger, Wimpy the timekeeper. Popeye is pounded mercilessly until Olive comes by with a can of spinach.

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Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Blow Me Down! · 1933

Blow Me Down!

★ 6.91933

MovieAnimationComedy

Popeye sails into Mexico, where Olive is a dancer and Bluto is a bandit.

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Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

You Gotta Be a Football Hero · 1935

You Gotta Be a Football Hero

★ 6.61935

MovieAnimationComedy

Popeye and Olive are attending a football game; Bluto's team takes the field, and Olive is swept off her feet, becoming a cheerleader for him. Popeye signs up and becomes quarterback of the opposing team, which is skinny and pathetic looking, compared to Bluto's team of huge bruisers. Things go badly, of course, until Popeye eats his spinach and becomes a whole football team himself, winning both the game and Olive.

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Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Seasin's Greetinks! · 1933

Seasin's Greetinks!

★ 7.01933

MovieAnimationComedy

Popeye skates over to Olive's house to give her a Christmas present: ice skates of her own. While he's teaching her, Bluto skates up and gets fresh; of course, Popeye fights him. When Olive rejects Bluto again, he sends her careening on an ice floe towards a waterfall.

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Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

The Man on the Flying Trapeze · 1934

The Man on the Flying Trapeze

★ 7.11934

MovieAnimationComedy

Popeye comes to ask Olive out, but finds she's gone off with the title character. Popeye goes to the circus (ringmaster Wimpy) looking for her, to find she's part of the act; an aerial battle ensues.

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Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Shiver Me Timbers! · 1934

Shiver Me Timbers!

★ 7.01934

MovieAnimationComedy

Popeye, Olive, and Wimpy stumble across a ghost ship. They climb aboard, and it proceeds to scare them in various ways.

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Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Wild Elephinks · 1933

Wild Elephinks

★ 7.31933

MovieAnimationComedy

Popeye and Olive, adrift on a raft, land on what apparently is Africa, and are immediately battling elephants and gorillas (also a moose!). Popeye eventually battles an entire menagerie at once - after first gulping down a can of spinach, of course.

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Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

We Aim to Please · 1934

We Aim to Please

★ 7.21934

MovieAnimationComedy

Popeye and Olive open a diner, singing the title song. Alas, their first two customers are Wimpy (who actually gets them to fall for the "gladly pay you Tuesday" schtick) and Bluto, who orders 6 sandwiches and refuses to pay for them. This leads, of course, to a fight, which Popeye needs his spinach to win.

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Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Sock-a-Bye, Baby · 1934

Sock-a-Bye, Baby

★ 7.31934

MovieAnimationComedy

When Popeye takes the baby for a walk in the stroller, the little one won't be quiet unless he's sleeping. Of course there's no end of noisiness.

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Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Shoein' Hosses · 1934

Shoein' Hosses

★ 6.91934

MovieAnimationComedy

Wimpy is such a terrible helper that blacksmith Olive fires him. Both Popeye and Bluto see the help wanted sign; they compete for the position. Of course, their competition wrecks the shop.

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Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Let's Sing with Popeye · 1934

Let's Sing with Popeye

★ 6.71934

MovieAnimationComedy

Popeye walks around while singing his theme song, followed by a sing-along.

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Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Beware of Barnacle Bill · 1935

Beware of Barnacle Bill

★ 6.91935

MovieAnimationComedy

To the classic tune of "Barnacle Bill the Sailor", Olive explains that she can't marry Popeye because she's in love with Barnacle Bill (an unusually large Bluto), who then comes by and proceeds to pound Popeye (until he eats his spinach, of course).

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Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

I Eats My Spinach · 1933

I Eats My Spinach

★ 7.61933

MovieAnimationComedy

Popeye and Olive Oyl visit a rodeo.

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Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

The Hyp-Nut-Tist · 1935

The Hyp-Nut-Tist

★ 7.11935

MovieAnimationComedy

Popeye takes Olive to a stage show of a hypnotist (Bluto), who also levitates objects. While he's doing this, Popeye makes him lose his concentration, so in retaliation, the hypnotist pulls Olive on stage and turns her into a chicken. Popeye comes down to fight and the hypnotist tries to turn him into a monkey, but Popeye pulls a mirror into place. He recovers, and turns Popeye into a donkey, then smacks him around a bit, but spinach comes to the rescue.

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Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

The Two-Alarm Fire · 1934

The Two-Alarm Fire

★ 6.71934

MovieAnimationComedy

Popeye and Bluto run adjoining (and competing) fire companies. When Olive's huge house catches fire, they are soon more interested in fighting each other than the fire. When Bluto goes to the roof to rescue Olive, the fire strands him there. Popeye eats his spinach and rescues them, but it's too late for the house.

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Popeye (voice) (uncredited)