Acting

Gus Wicke

Born May 7, 1885 · Barmen [now Wuppertal], North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Died January 3, 1947 · aged 61

August Wicke (May 7, 1885 – January 3, 1947), also known as Gus Wicke and Gus Wickie, was an American bass singer and stage and voice actor. He was one of the voices of Bluto in the animated series Popeye the Sailor, by Fleischer Studios. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]

Known For

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.

Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor

Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor · 1936

Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor

MovieAnimationAdventure

After wrecking Popeye's ship and stealing away Olive Oyl, hero of Arabic legend Sindbad decides to test him and his ever-resilient new rival's strength in order to prove their supremacy as the "most remarkable, extraordinary fella" of Sindbad's menagerie island.

I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski

I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski · 1936

I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski

MovieAnimationComedy

Popeye takes Olive mountain climbing. Bluto sets various traps for them along the way.

The Paneless Window Washer

The Paneless Window Washer · 1937

The Paneless Window Washer

MovieAnimationComedy

Bluto dirties all of an office building's windows himself, to drum up business for his window cleaning service. When he gets to Olive's stenographer office, about ten floors up, she says no: Popeye's going to wash her windows. And the battle with Popeye is on.

I Likes Babies and Infinks

I Likes Babies and Infinks · 1937

I Likes Babies and Infinks

MovieAnimationComedy

Swee'pea is crying, so Olive calls on Popeye to cheer the baby up. Popeye and Bluto compete by doing various silly antics.

Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves

Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves · 1937

Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves

MovieComedyAnimation

Popeye the Sailor, accompanied by Olive Oyl and Wimpy, is dispatched to stop the dreaded bandit Abu Hassan and his force of forty thieves.

Let's Get Movin'

Let's Get Movin' · 1936

Let's Get Movin'

MovieAnimationComedy

Olive is moving out of her apartment; she's hired Bluto to move her things, but Popeye comes over to visit and won't be shown up.

A Clean Shaven Man

A Clean Shaven Man · 1936

A Clean Shaven Man

MovieAnimationComedy

That's what Olive wants. To even the score, the boys visit Wimpy's barber shop. Wimpy is out, so they shave each other; you'd think Popeye would know better than to let Bluto at him with a razor.

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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.

Various (voice) (uncredited)

Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor

Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor · 1936

Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor

MovieAnimationAdventure

After wrecking Popeye's ship and stealing away Olive Oyl, hero of Arabic legend Sindbad decides to test him and his ever-resilient new rival's strength in order to prove their supremacy as the "most remarkable, extraordinary fella" of Sindbad's menagerie island.

Sindbad (voice) (uncredited)

I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski

I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski · 1936

I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski

MovieAnimationComedy

Popeye takes Olive mountain climbing. Bluto sets various traps for them along the way.

Bluto (voice) (uncredited)

The Paneless Window Washer

The Paneless Window Washer · 1937

The Paneless Window Washer

MovieAnimationComedy

Bluto dirties all of an office building's windows himself, to drum up business for his window cleaning service. When he gets to Olive's stenographer office, about ten floors up, she says no: Popeye's going to wash her windows. And the battle with Popeye is on.

Bluto (voice) (uncredited)

I Likes Babies and Infinks

I Likes Babies and Infinks · 1937

I Likes Babies and Infinks

MovieAnimationComedy

Swee'pea is crying, so Olive calls on Popeye to cheer the baby up. Popeye and Bluto compete by doing various silly antics.

Bluto (voice) (uncredited)

Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves

Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves · 1937

Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves

MovieComedyAnimation

Popeye the Sailor, accompanied by Olive Oyl and Wimpy, is dispatched to stop the dreaded bandit Abu Hassan and his force of forty thieves.

Abu Hassan (voice) (uncredited)

Let's Get Movin'

Let's Get Movin' · 1936

Let's Get Movin'

MovieAnimationComedy

Olive is moving out of her apartment; she's hired Bluto to move her things, but Popeye comes over to visit and won't be shown up.

Bluto (voice) (uncredited)

A Clean Shaven Man

A Clean Shaven Man · 1936

A Clean Shaven Man

MovieAnimationComedy

That's what Olive wants. To even the score, the boys visit Wimpy's barber shop. Wimpy is out, so they shave each other; you'd think Popeye would know better than to let Bluto at him with a razor.

Bluto (voice) (uncredited)

King of the Mardi Gras

King of the Mardi Gras · 1935

King of the Mardi Gras

MovieAnimationComedy

A Mardi Gras celebration, looking pretty much like any carnival. Bluto is a strongman, claiming to be King of the Mardi Gras, and drawing a large crowd. Popeye, nearby, claims only, "I yam what I yam," and has no crowd, but still draws Bluto's wrath.

Bluto (voice) (uncredited)

Morning, Noon and Night Club

Morning, Noon and Night Club · 1937

Morning, Noon and Night Club

MovieAnimationComedy

'Popito' and 'Olivita' are a dance team, performing at Wimpy's Cafe. Bluto is jealous, and heckles and otherwise disrupts the act.

Bluto (voice) (uncredited)

You Gotta Be a Football Hero

You Gotta Be a Football Hero · 1935

You Gotta Be a Football Hero

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.

Bluto (voice) (uncredited)

For Better or Worser

For Better or Worser · 1935

For Better or Worser

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.

Bluto

Organ Grinder's Swing

Organ Grinder's Swing · 1937

Organ Grinder's Swing

MovieAnimationComedy

Popeye and Olive are grooving to the sounds of Wimpy the organ grinder, but their neighbor Bluto wants him to move on. Popeye and Bluto settle their disagreement in their usual fashion.

Bluto (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.

Bluto (voice) (uncredited)

I'm in the Army Now

I'm in the Army Now · 1936

I'm in the Army Now

MovieAnimationComedy

Olive tells Popeye and Bluto that she loves a man in a uniform, so they try to sign up at the recruiting station - that can only take one of them.

Bluto (voice) (uncredited)

Vim, Vigor and Vitaliky

Vim, Vigor and Vitaliky · 1936

Vim, Vigor and Vitaliky

MovieAnimationComedy

Popeye is running a women's gymnasium next door to Bluto's cabaret. Seeing Popeye's greater success with women, Bluto dresses in drag and challenges Popeye to various feats of strength.

Bluto (voice) (uncredited)

It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day

It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day · 1941

It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day

MovieComedyAnimation

Gabby goes camping with the Mayor.

Birds

Brotherly Love

Brotherly Love · 1936

MovieAnimationComedy

Olive preaches the need for brotherly love on the radio. Popeye, hearing this, does a number of good deeds: helping two workmen raise a safe, straightening a wrecked car, and helping two boys sneak into a baseball game. But when he tries to break up a fight, it's more than he can handle alone. Olive and her followers come along and try to help, but it's too much for them, too. Of course, once Popeye has his spinach...

Bruiser (voice) (uncredited)

I Wanna Be a Life Guard

I Wanna Be a Life Guard · 1936

I Wanna Be a Life Guard

MovieAnimationComedy

Popeye applies for a lifeguard job when he sees Olive in the pool, but Bluto also wants the job (and Olive). The manager, Wimpy, asks them to demonstrate their skills in a contest. Popeye does well, until Bluto demonstrates lifesaving and first aid on him.

Bluto (voice) (uncredited)

Be Kind to 'Aminals'

Be Kind to 'Aminals' · 1935

Be Kind to 'Aminals'

MovieAnimationComedy

Popeye and Olive Oyl can't ignore it when produce vendor Bluto comes by with his terribly overloaded cart, whipping his horse and denying it water. They intervene.

Bluto (voice) (uncredited)

Silly Scandals

Silly Scandals · 1931

In a vaudeville act, Betty Boop (with dog's ears) sings "You're Drivin' Me Crazy;" Bimbo sneaks into the show and runs afoul of a stage hypnotist.

Magician / Hippo (voice)

Little Swee'pea

Little Swee'pea · 1936

Little Swee'pea

MovieAnimationComedy

Popeye takes Swee'pea to the zoo and spends most of his time rescuing the tot from the various animals.

Elephant / Crocodile / Hippo (voice) (uncredited)

Choose Your 'Weppins'

Choose Your 'Weppins' · 1935

Choose Your 'Weppins'

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.

Prisoner (voice) (uncredited)

Protek the Weakerist

Protek the Weakerist · 1937

Protek the Weakerist

Olive asks Popeye to walk her dog Fluffy, but Popeye is embarrassed because Fluffy is as weak looking as the name implies. Sure enough, when Bluto and his bulldog come by, the dogs (and their owners) get in a fight.

Bluto

Popeye the Sailor

Popeye the Sailor · 1933

Popeye the Sailor

SeriesAnimationComedy

The theatrical run of Popeye the Sailor from 1933 to 1957 represents one of the most enduring and influential eras in American animation history. Spanning 231 shorts, this golden age of Popeye evolved across two distinct production studios: the boundary-pushing, gritty Fleischer Studios (1933–1942) and the more formulaic, brightly colored Famous Studios (1942–1957). Together, they transformed E.C. Segar’s comic strip character into a global cinematic icon, establishing formulas and animation techniques that altered the medium forever.

Bluto (voice)