Gus Wicke
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 | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.733 |
| Birthday | 1885-05-07 |
| Place of Birth | Barmen [now Wuppertal], North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
| Also Known As | August Wicke , Gus Wickie, |
1939
Gulliver's Travels
6.193/119
Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput and attempts to prevent war between that tiny kingdom and its equally-miniscule rival, Blefiscu, as well as smooth...
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Gulliver's Travels
1936
Bold King Cole
5/10
Felix the Cat is perched in a tree playing his guitar and serenading himself and a canary with a little ditty called "Nature and Me." It is a beautifu...
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Bold King Cole
1931
In My Merry Oldsmobile
6.1/8
A lady is rescued from a villain by a heroic young man, who then takes her for a spin in his Oldsmobile.
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In My Merry Oldsmobile
1936
Sunday Go to Meetin' Time
4.571/14
A Black man sneaks out of church and tries to steal a chicken, but gets a taste of Hell when he's accidentally knocked unconscious. One of the "Censor...
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Sunday Go to Meetin' Time
1944
Spinach Packin' Popeye
5/1
Popeye donates blood, then dashes off to a boxing match with Bluto. He loses. Olive, who heard this on the radio, rejects him as no longer strong enou...
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Spinach Packin' Popeye
1936
Be Human
6.2/6
Betty Boop is incensed at her farmer neighbor's cruelty to his animals. Grampy knows how to teach him a lesson.
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Be Human
1931
Silly Scandals
5.4/7
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.
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Silly Scandals
1941
It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day
6.75/4
Gabby goes camping with the Mayor.
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It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day
1936
What -- No Spinach?
6/3
Wimpy is working for Bluto in his diner and trying to filch all the food he can eat. Popeye comes in and orders roast duck, but Wimpy grabs the drumst...
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What -- No Spinach?
1935
For Better or Worser
6.3/3
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....
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For Better or Worser
1936
Brotherly Love
5/2
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, straight...
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Brotherly Love
1936
A Clean Shaven Man
6.6/5
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...
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A Clean Shaven Man
1935
Choose Your 'Weppins'
6/2
Policeman Wimpy loses his handcuffed prisoner when he's distracted by a hamburger shop. The escapee drops into the weapon-filled pawnshop Popeye and O...
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Choose Your 'Weppins'
1936
I Wanna Be a Life Guard
6.7/6
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 demonstr...
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I Wanna Be a Life Guard
1936
Let's Get Movin'
6.3/3
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.
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Let's Get Movin'
1936
Hold the Wire
6.2/4
Popeye is wooing Olive on the phone when Bluto comes over. He overhears, taps into the line, and impersonates Popeye. They proceed to have a high-wire...
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Hold the Wire
1936
Little Swee'pea
6.545/11
Popeye takes Swee'pea to the zoo and spends most of his time rescuing the tot from the various animals.
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Little Swee'pea
1936
The Spinach Roadster
6.5/6
Popeye drives up to take Olive for a ride, but Bluto in his much fancier car does what he can to spoil their jaunt.
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The Spinach Roadster
1936
I'm in the Army Now
5.8/10
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.
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I'm in the Army Now
1937
Organ Grinder's Swing
6.5/2
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 d...
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Organ Grinder's Swing
1935
Be Kind to 'Aminals'
6/6
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. Th...
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Be Kind to 'Aminals'
1935
Dizzy Divers
6.7/3
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 is...
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Dizzy Divers
1935
You Gotta Be a Football Hero
5.6/5
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...
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You Gotta Be a Football Hero
1936
Vim, Vigor and Vitaliky
6.5/2
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 P...
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Vim, Vigor and Vitaliky
1935
King of the Mardi Gras
6.5/4
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 crow...
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King of the Mardi Gras
1935
The Spinach Overture
6/3
Popeye's ensemble is rehearsing the opening of the Poet and Peasant Overture (with interpolations of the Popeye theme and "I've Been Working on the Ra...
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The Spinach Overture
1935
Adventures of Popeye
6.6/5
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...
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Adventures of Popeye
1937
My Artistical Temperature
7/3
Popeye and Bluto share an art studio; Popeye is a sculptor, and Bluto paints. Olive drops in for a likeness, and the boys compete. When they start to...
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My Artistical Temperature
1937
The Twisker Pitcher
6.3/3
Baseball: Bluto's Bears vs. Popeye's Pirates, and both Bluto and Popeye have girlfriends cheering them on.
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The Twisker Pitcher
1937
Hospitaliky
6.7/7
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 b...
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Hospitaliky
2024
Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer
10/1
A celebration of art by legendary animator Max Fleischer. Features: KoKo's Kozy Korner (1928), Somewhere in Dreamland (1936), Any Rags? (1932), Small...
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Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer
1936
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
6.5/125
Two sailors Sindbad and Popeye decide to test themselves in order to prove their supremacy. Popeye is then presented with a series of daunting tasks b...
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Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
1937
Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves
7.8/26
Popeye the Sailor, accompanied by Olive Oyl and Wimpy, is dispatched to stop the dreaded bandit Abu Hassan and his force of forty thieves.
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Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves
1937
I Likes Babies and Infinks
6.4/4
Swee'pea is crying, so Olive calls on Popeye to cheer the baby up. Popeye and Bluto compete by doing various silly antics.
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I Likes Babies and Infinks
1937
I Never Changes My Altitude
6/6
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...
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I Never Changes My Altitude
1938
Learn Polikeness
6.3/3
Olive takes Popeye to Professor Bluteau to learn some manners.
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Learn Polikeness
1937
Fowl Play
7.1/4
Popeye gives Olive a parrot that he's trained. Bluto sets the bird free and then tries to kill it.
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Fowl Play
1938
Let's Celebrake
6.7/3
Popeye and Bluto pick up Olive to celebrate New Year's Eve with them. Popeye brings along her granny out of sympathy.
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Let's Celebrake
1937
The Football Toucher Downer
6/3
Swee-Pea is reluctant to eat his spinach, so Popeye tells him about the football game when he was young (against Bluto, with Olive cheering and Wimpy...
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The Football Toucher Downer
1937
Protek the Weakerist
7/1
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...
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Protek the Weakerist
1932
S.O.S.
5.5/6
A sinking ship leaves three survivors on a life raft: Bimbo, Koko and Betty Boop. Good news/bad news: they're rescued by a pirate ship…
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S.O.S.
1936
I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski
6.5/4
Popeye takes Olive mountain climbing. Bluto sets various traps for them along the way.
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I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski
1936
Bridge Ahoy!
6.3/3
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 s...
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Bridge Ahoy!
1937
The Paneless Window Washer
6.5/20
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 o...
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The Paneless Window Washer
1938
Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh
5/3
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...
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Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh
1935
The Hyp-Nut-Tist
6.2/4
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,...
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The Hyp-Nut-Tist
1937
Morning, Noon and Night Club
7.6/5
'Popito' and 'Olivita' are a dance team, performing at Wimpy's Cafe. Bluto is jealous, and heckles and otherwise disrupts the act.
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Morning, Noon and Night Club
1936
Somewhere in Dreamland
7.2/23
A poor boy and girl in rags gather wood in the snow. They pass by a tailor, a butcher and a baker, all of whom pity the children. Later, they arrive h...
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