Acting

Gus Wicke

Born 1885-05-07 · Barmen [now Wuppertal], North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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]

Acting credits

Gulliver's Travels poster
6.2

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.

Gulliver's Travels

1939

Brotherly Love poster
6.7

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...

Brotherly Love

1936

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6.6

A lady is rescued from a villain by a heroic young man, who then takes her for a spin in his Oldsmobile.

In My Merry Oldsmobile

1931

Learn Polikeness poster
7.3

Olive takes Popeye to Professor Bluteau to learn some manners.

Learn Polikeness

1938

Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor poster
6.7

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.

Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor

1936

Dizzy Divers poster
7.3

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...

Dizzy Divers

1935

Fowl Play poster
7.4

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

Fowl Play

1937

Little Swee'pea poster
7.0

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

Little Swee'pea

1936

I Likes Babies and Infinks poster
7.1

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

I Likes Babies and Infinks

1937

Bridge Ahoy! poster
7.0

Popeye and Olive are taking a ferry run by Bluto. When they find out the fare, they decide, with Wimpy, to build a bridge. Bluto does what he can to sabotage this plan - until spinach time, of course.

Bridge Ahoy!

1936

Morning, Noon and Night Club poster
7.3

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

Morning, Noon and Night Club

1937

I Wanna Be a Life Guard poster
7.0

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.

I Wanna Be a Life Guard

1936

Let's Get Movin' poster
7.0

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.

Let's Get Movin'

1936

Hospitaliky poster
6.9

To get at nurse Olive, Popeye and Bluto fake various illnesses. Olive sees through this and tells them they need to be either very sick or hurt real bad, so they try to get hurt, but both have a sudden run of what would normally be very good luck. Out of desperation, Popeye feeds Bluto the spinach when they start fighting.

Hospitaliky

1937

I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski poster
6.9

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

I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski

1936

Be Human poster
6.0

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

Be Human

1936

Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves poster
7.6

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

Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves

1937

The Spinach Roadster poster
7.0

Popeye drives up to take Olive for a ride, but Bluto in his much fancier car does what he can to spoil their jaunt.

The Spinach Roadster

1936

Adventures of Popeye poster
6.8

In live action, a big kid is attacking a little kid for his "Adventures of Popeye" comic book, so Popeye gives the little kid pointers, in the form of clips from four of his earlier pictures.

Adventures of Popeye

1935

Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh poster
5.6

Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh is looking for a squaw. Meanwhile, Popeye and Olive are wrestling with their recalcitrant mule and Olive accidentally lands in the Indian camp. Popeye catches up to her. There's an unfair fight, and Popeye is about to be burned at the stake. He drops his spinach, but it cooks and pops into his mouth.

Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh

1938

I'm in the Army Now poster
6.1

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.

I'm in the Army Now

1936

I Never Changes My Altitude poster
6.5

Popeye is sitting outside Olive's lunchroom at the airport, distraught. She's closed the business to fly away with an aviator (Bluto, of course). But it's hardly what she expected; he has her painting his plane, while it's flying; when she says she's rather go back to Popeye, he tries to throw her off the plane. Popeye sees this, and takes off in a plane, just in time to help her out. The boys get into a dogfight, and Bluto manages to demolish Popeye's plane.

I Never Changes My Altitude

1937

Silly Scandals poster
5.7

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.

Silly Scandals

1931

It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day poster
7.0

Gabby goes camping with the Mayor.

It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day

1941