Gus Wicke
Birthday: 1885-05-07
Place of Birth: Barmen [now Wuppertal], North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Biography: 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]
Movies
Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput and attempts to prevent war between that tiny kingdom and its equ...
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Bold King Cole
Felix the Cat is perched in a tree playing his guitar and serenading himself and a canary with a lit...
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In My Merry Oldsmobile
A lady is rescued from a villain by a heroic young man, who then takes her for a spin in his Oldsmob...
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Sunday Go to Meetin' Time
A Black man sneaks out of church and tries to steal a chicken, but gets a taste of Hell when he's ac...
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Spinach Packin' Popeye
Popeye donates blood, then dashes off to a boxing match with Bluto. He loses. Olive, who heard this ...
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Be Human
Betty Boop is incensed at her farmer neighbor's cruelty to his animals. Grampy knows how to teach hi...
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Silly Scandals
In a vaudeville act, Betty Boop (with dog's ears) sings "You're Drivin' Me Crazy;" Bimbo sneaks into...
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For Better or Worser
Popeye's failures in the kitchen send him on a quest for a wife. He visits the "matrimonial agency" ...
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What -- No Spinach?
Wimpy is working for Bluto in his diner and trying to filch all the food he can eat. Popeye comes in...
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A Clean Shaven Man
That's what Olive wants. To even the score, the boys visit Wimpy's barber shop. Wimpy is out, so the...
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Brotherly Love
Olive preaches the need for brotherly love on the radio. Popeye, hearing this, does a number of good...
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Choose Your 'Weppins'
Policeman Wimpy loses his handcuffed prisoner when he's distracted by a hamburger shop. The escapee ...
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I Wanna Be a Life Guard
Popeye applies for a lifeguard job when he sees Olive in the pool, but Bluto also wants the job (and...
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Let's Get Movin'
Olive is moving out of her apartment; she's hired Bluto to move her things, but Popeye comes over to...
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Little Swee'pea
Popeye takes Swee'pea to the zoo and spends most of his time rescuing the tot from the various anima...
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Hold the Wire
Popeye is wooing Olive on the phone when Bluto comes over. He overhears, taps into the line, and imp...
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The Spinach Roadster
Popeye drives up to take Olive for a ride, but Bluto in his much fancier car does what he can to spo...
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I'm in the Army Now
Olive tells Popeye and Bluto that she loves a man in a uniform, so they try to sign up at the recrui...
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Organ Grinder's Swing
Popeye and Olive are grooving to the sounds of Wimpy the organ grinder, but their neighbor Bluto wan...
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Be Kind to 'Aminals'
Popeye and Olive Oyl can't ignore it when produce vendor Bluto comes by with his terribly overloaded...
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Dizzy Divers
Popeye and Bluto are deep sea divers. Popeye has a treasure map; for some reason he cuts Bluto in on...
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You Gotta Be a Football Hero
Popeye and Olive are attending a football game; Bluto's team takes the field, and Olive is swept off...
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Vim, Vigor and Vitaliky
Popeye is running a women's gymnasium next door to Bluto's cabaret. Seeing Popeye's greater success ...
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King of the Mardi Gras
A Mardi Gras celebration, looking pretty much like any carnival. Bluto is a strongman, claiming to b...
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Adventures of Popeye
In live action, a big kid is attacking a little kid for his "Adventures of Popeye" comic book, so Po...
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The Spinach Overture
Popeye's ensemble is rehearsing the opening of the Poet and Peasant Overture (with interpolations of...
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My Artistical Temperature
Popeye and Bluto share an art studio; Popeye is a sculptor, and Bluto paints. Olive drops in for a l...
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The Twisker Pitcher
Baseball: Bluto's Bears vs. Popeye's Pirates, and both Bluto and Popeye have girlfriends cheering th...
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Hospitaliky
To get at nurse Olive, Popeye and Bluto fake various illnesses. Olive sees through this and tells th...
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Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer
A celebration of art by legendary animator Max Fleischer. Features: KoKo's Kozy Korner (1928), Somew...
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Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves
Popeye the Sailor, accompanied by Olive Oyl and Wimpy, is dispatched to stop the dreaded bandit Abu ...
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Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
After wrecking Popeye's ship and stealing away Olive Oyl, hero of Arabic legend Sindbad decides to t...
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I Likes Babies and Infinks
Swee'pea is crying, so Olive calls on Popeye to cheer the baby up. Popeye and Bluto compete by doing...
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I Never Changes My Altitude
Popeye is sitting outside Olive's lunchroom at the airport, distraught. She's closed the business to...
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Let's Celebrake
Popeye and Bluto pick up Olive to celebrate New Year's Eve with them. Popeye brings along her granny...
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Fowl Play
Popeye gives Olive a parrot that he's trained. Bluto sets the bird free and then tries to kill it....
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The Football Toucher Downer
Swee-Pea is reluctant to eat his spinach, so Popeye tells him about the football game when he was yo...
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Protek the Weakerist
Olive asks Popeye to walk her dog Fluffy, but Popeye is embarrassed because Fluffy is as weak lookin...
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S.O.S.
A sinking ship leaves three survivors on a life raft: Bimbo, Koko and Betty Boop. Good news/bad news...
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I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski
Popeye takes Olive mountain climbing. Bluto sets various traps for them along the way....
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Bridge Ahoy!
Popeye and Olive are taking a ferry run by Bluto. When they find out the fare, they decide, with Wim...
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The Paneless Window Washer
Bluto dirties all of an office building's windows himself, to drum up business for his window cleani...
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Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh
Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh is looking for a squaw. Meanwhile, Popeye and Olive are wrestling with their...
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The Hyp-Nut-Tist
Popeye takes Olive to a stage show of a hypnotist (Bluto), who also levitates objects. While he's do...
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Morning, Noon and Night Club
'Popito' and 'Olivita' are a dance team, performing at Wimpy's Cafe. Bluto is jealous, and heckles a...
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Somewhere in Dreamland
A poor boy and girl in rags gather wood in the snow. They pass by a tailor, a butcher and a baker, a...
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