Bill Turner

Bill Turner
Country: USA
Total Credits at Criticker: 3 (Actor), 1 (Director), 45 (Writer)
Find more information about Bill Turner at The Internet Movie Database
Titles you haven't rated - Actor (3) | Director (1) | Writer (45)
There\
Casper makes friends with a fox cub. But the new friendship is threatened when a fox hunter and his two hounds come on the scene. (imdb)
Naughty But Mice
Herman, the city-slicker mouse (looking like a cross between James Cagney and Lee Tracy) visits his barn-mice cousins in the country. (imdb)
Tarts and Flowers
Little Audrey falls asleep while cooking and drifts off to "Cakeland"
Comin\
The feud between the Catfield's and the McHounds.
Hawaiian Birds
Hawaiian Birds (1936) - Short Film
When the lady bird leaves her lover to join a performing group, he goes to try to win her back.
Little Brown Jug
"Little Brown Jug" is an animated short about various woodland creatures milling and drinking apple cider. Includes a sing-a-long of the title song. (imdb)
The Cobweb Hotel
A spider runs a hotel for flies where he keeps his guests captive. A pair of fly newlyweds arrive and check in. Fortunately, the husband is "flyweight champion". After a pitched battle featuring arrows (fountain pen nibs) and a machinegun (aspirins shot from a perfume atomizer), the spider winds up in a bottle of library paste. (imdb)
Winter Draws On
Winter Draws On (1948) - Short Film
As winter approaches, a variety of birds fly south to see a warmer climate. (imdb)
You Can\
Hunky and Spunky are settling in for a nap, but a horse fly sees them and sees dinner. After battling the fly for a while, the youngster enlists dad's help. But the fly is merely stunned, and rallies a new attack, this time with friends. Father eventually kills the lot of them. (imdb)
More Pep
More Pep (1936) - Short Film
In a return to the 'Out of the Inkwell' format, Betty Boop invents a 'pep' formula to speed up lazy Pudgy, but it escapes into the 'real world' with rapid results. (imdb)
Me Feelins Is Hurt
Olive writes a letter to Popeye: she's through with sailors; it's cowboys for her. Popeye immediately sails off to the West, where he finds, who else, Bluto as the head of the ranch where Olive is enthralled. Bluto gives Popeye a wild horse to ride, and, after a few humiliating defeats, Popeye conquers it (and wins back Olive's heart). Bluto punches Popeye out, and into the clutches of what can best be described as a rattlesnake constrictor. (imdb)
Puttin on the Act
Olive rushes over to show Popeye the headline: Vaudeville is coming back. They agree to rehearse their old act. After a brief song-and-dance intro, the act begins: Popeye demonstrating his strength while Olive displays her flexibility and balance; impersonations of Jimmy Durante, Stan Laurel and Groucho Marx; and the last act, more feats of strength and agility. (imdb)
My Pop, My Pop
My Pop, My Pop (1940) - Short Film
Popeye's 99-year-old father won't admit he's too old to help Popeye build a ship. Popeye tells him to build one side while he builds the other; Pappy's side is a mess. He falls asleep helping hoist the mast. While Pappy sleeps, Popeye rebuilds his side and finishes the above-decks, with a little help from spinach, of course. (imdb)
Many Tanks
Many Tanks (1942) - Short Film
Bluto's in the Army; he tries to sneak off base, but can't. Popeye passes by, on the way to a date with Olive; Bluto invites him in, then swaps uniforms (yes, they fit very badly). Popeye ends up in a tank drill, which he does very badly, driving through a house, into a pond, and ultimately falling off a cliff. (imdb)
Blunder Below
Blunder Below (1942) - Short Film
Popeye's on a battleship. He's in class to learn artillery, but it's way too technical for him; when he gets his hands on the gun, he fires everywhere, including at his own ship. That gets him banished to the boiler room. A real Japanese sub comes along. The sailors can't handle it, so Popeye eats his spinach and dives in to fight the sub by hand. (imdb)
Nix on Hypnotricks
The villain: Prof. I. Stare, hypnotist, frustrated by not having anyone to practice on. He cold-calls Olive at random while Popeye is pitching woo and hypnotizes her over the phone into coming to his office. Popeye rushes after her. Olive marches on, oblivious to hazards in her way, which Popeye eliminates. Just as Olive is approaching Stare's office, Popeye eats his spinach and the "S" on the can flies onto his chest, turning him into another Fleischer hero. (imdb)
Butterscotch and Soda
After Little Audrey is forbidden to eat candy, she gets the sweet-tooth version of delirium tremens. Suddenly, she's in a Candy Horror Land with cruel suckers and evil candy canes. (imdb)
Song of the Birds
Little Audrey causes too much havoc indoors with her toy gun, so Mammy sends her outside. A little bird just learning to fly is her first victim, but when the bird's mother mourns over it, Audrey feels remorse. The animals stage an elaborate funeral for the little bird. But during the funeral, some rain falls on it, and revives it we discover it was only stunned. Audrey smashes her gun and tries to befriend the birds. (imdb)
The Mild West
The Mild West (1947) - Short Film
A series of blackout gags, followed by an exhortation to sing along with the bouncing ball -- the song being "I'm an Old Cow Hand". (imdb comments)
Scrappily Married
Henry the rooster attempts to sneak out but his wife, Chickenpie, catches him and orders him to sit on the eggs, a job he hates. Along comes Herman the mouse who frightens away Chickenpie after taking one look at him. Henry sees the advantage to this and enlists Herman as his friend to keep Chickenpie away. Chickenpie tries to scare Herman away disguised as a cat, then sends a real cat after Herman when the costume fails, leaving Henry at Chickenpie's mercy... (imdb)
The Ski\
A combination cartoon/travelogue set in the Swiss Alps, with a tuneful sight-seeing tour of Switzerland thrown in, before the bounding-ball comes bouncing along and asks the theatre audience to follow it in singing the ever-popular "I Miss My Swiss Miss, My Swiss Miss Misses Me." Some of the theatre singers may have actually thrown in a yodel or two. (imdb)
The Stork Market
The audience takes a tour through a baby factory run by storks. Next, we're invited to follow the bouncing ball and sing along to "Pretty Baby". (imdb)
Land of the Lost Jewels
Two children are fishing when they catch a talking fish named Red Lantern. He takes them underwater with him to the Land of the Lost, where missing items can be found again. They meet King Find All, a walrus, and a singing cricket (Hoppy-Go-Lucky) that used to be the girl's pin. He's deemed to be a special jewel (since he's made of emerald) and is brought to the jewel storage room, despite his wishes to be in the Land of the Toys... (imdb)
Rocket to Mars
Rocket to Mars (1946) - Short Film
Popeye and Olive are touring a museum when they accidentally launch a rocketship to Mars. Olive escapes... (imdb)
She-Sick Sailors
Bluto disguises himself as Superman in order to impress the comic book hero's biggest fan, Olive Oyl. A jealous Popeye becomes a real superhero by eating his spinach. (imdb)
Symphony in Spinach
Singer Olive Oyl needs an accompanist, and both Popeye and Bluto apply for the job. (imdb)
Peep in the Deep
Olive has a map to a sunken treasure, but Bluto stowed away and is determined to beat Popeye to it. (imdb)
I\
Popeye and Olive are on a winter vacation in Lake Plastered, NY. Popeye is teaching Olive to ice skate (but not doing a very good job); she catches the eye of skating instructor Bluto... (imdb)
The Anvil Chorus Girl
Popeye and Bluto pass by Olive's blacksmith shop and are smitten. Olive needs help, and of course, both of the boys offer, and demonstrate their prowess at blacksmithing. (imdb)
Spinach vs Hamburgers
Popeye's nephews would rather have hamburgers than spinach, so Popeye recounts some of his past exploits where spinach saved the day. (imdb)
The Mighty Navy
The Mighty Navy (1941) - Short Film
Popeye is on a training ship, but his seat-of-the-pants ways don't fit in with modern equipment. (imdb)
Pitchin\
Popeye takes Olive to the zoo, where she's spotted by zookeeper Bluto, who tries various stunts to impress her and/or get rid of Popeye... (imdb)
Base Brawl
Base Brawl (1948) - Short Film
ll the animals come out to watch in this singalong about an opening-day baseball game at the zoo between the Jungle Jumbos and the Forest ... (bcdb.com)
Mess Production
Mess Production (1945) - Short Film
Olive Oyl, a regular Rosie the Riveter, receives a blow to the head from a swinging grappling hook, sending her into a sleepwalking state. Popeye and Bluto, two rival factory workers, fight each other for privilege of saving her life. (imdb)
Spinach Packin\
Popeye donates blood, then dashes off to a boxing match with Bluto. He loses. Olive, who heard this on the radio... (imdb)
Kickin\
Shore leave in South America; Bluto muscles in on Popeye's girl, Olivia Oyla. Popeye muscles him out, but when they get to the conga club, he doesn't care to dance, so Bluto wins again. (imdb)
When G.I. Johnny Comes Home
A cartoon short following various soldiers and sailors as they come home from World War II. Includes a sing-a-long of "When Johnny Come Marching Home Again." (imdb)
Mommy Loves Puppy
A walrus steals the brandy from a Saint Bernard puppy. (imdb)
Way Back When a Nightclub Was a Stick
A comic look at prehistoric life.
Twinkletoes Gets the Bird
Twinkle Toes, the incompetent carrier pigeon, is set with the task of delivering a rare parrot to the Royal Zoo. (imdb)
I\
For misbehaving, Little Lulu gets a spanking from Daddy with the book "Art of Self Defense" in her pants. In the shower, after being sent to her room, Lulu starts to sing "I'm Just Curious." Later Lulu sneaks out and goes after a chicken hawk who, thinking that he's a stork, tries to get Lulu's chickens from her family's henhouse.
The Baby Sitter
The Baby Sitter (1947) - Short Film
Lulu is babysitting Alvin Jones, a bratty and hyperactive baby. While chasing Alvin through the house, Lulu crashes into a wall and is knocked unconscious when a picture frame falls on her head. This leads into a dream where Lulu is searching for Alvin in a nightclub filled with celebrity babies. (imdb)
The Circus Comes to Clown
Singalong about the fun of the circus featuring spot gags such as stereotypical black "Siamese Twins" eating watermelons (one eats them, the other spits out the seeds) and lions shooting the teaser after he whips them with his rod. A trumpeting seal holds out a sign reading "Petrillo Says Two Fish" (a reference to American Federation of Musicians president James C. Petrillo).
Camptown Races
Camptown Races (1948) - Short Film
Join the Minstrel Show on the farm where animals show their talents. The audience asks for something from the seller. Watch for the gag where he uses his mouth to carry the items on sale. Follow the bouncing ball to sing "Camptown Races."
Spree for All
Spree for All (1946) - Short Film
Snuffy Smith, a returning war veteran, wants peace and quiet. He settles in the mountains, only to have his peace shattered by two violently feuding families.