Gus Wicke

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]

  • Title: Gus Wicke
  • Popularity: 2.968
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1885-05-07
  • Place of Birth: Barmen [now Wuppertal], North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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  • Also Known As: August Wicke , Gus Wickie
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Gus Wicke Movies

  • 1935
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    For Better or Worser

    For Better or Worser

    6.3 1935 HD

    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....

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: William 'Billy' Costello

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  • 1936
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    A Clean Shaven Man

    A Clean Shaven Man

    6.6 1936 HD

    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...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Jack Mercer

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  • 1936
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    Brotherly Love

    Brotherly Love

    5 1936 HD

    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,...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Jack Mercer

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  • 1936
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    What -- No Spinach?

    What -- No Spinach?

    6 1936 HD

    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...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Jack Mercer

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  • 1936
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    Let's Get Movin'

    Let's Get Movin'

    6.3 1936 HD

    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.

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Jack Mercer

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    I Wanna Be a Life Guard

    I Wanna Be a Life Guard

    6.7 1936 HD

    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...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Lou Fleischer

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  • 1935
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    Choose Your 'Weppins'

    Choose Your 'Weppins'

    6 1935 HD

    Policeman Wimpy loses his handcuffed prisoner when he's distracted by a hamburger shop. The escapee drops into the weapon-filled pawnshop Popeye and...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: William 'Billy' Costello

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  • 1936
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    Hold the Wire

    Hold the Wire

    6.2 1936 HD

    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...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Jack Mercer

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  • 1936
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    Little Swee'pea

    Little Swee'pea

    6.6 1936 HD

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

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Jack Mercer

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  • 1936
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    I'm in the Army Now

    I'm in the Army Now

    5.9 1936 HD

    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.

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Jack Mercer

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  • 1936
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    The Spinach Roadster

    The Spinach Roadster

    6.5 1936 HD

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

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Jack Mercer

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  • 1937
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    Organ Grinder's Swing

    Organ Grinder's Swing

    6.5 1937 HD

    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...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Jack Mercer

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  • 1935
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    Be Kind to 'Aminals'

    Be Kind to 'Aminals'

    6 1935 HD

    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....

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Floyd Buckley

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  • 1935
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    Dizzy Divers

    Dizzy Divers

    6.7 1935 HD

    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...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: William 'Billy' Costello

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  • 1935
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    You Gotta Be a Football Hero

    You Gotta Be a Football Hero

    5.6 1935 HD

    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...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: William 'Billy' Costello

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  • 1935
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    King of the Mardi Gras

    King of the Mardi Gras

    6.5 1935 HD

    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...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Jack Mercer

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  • 1935
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    The Spinach Overture

    The Spinach Overture

    6 1935 HD

    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...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Jack Mercer

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  • 1935
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    Adventures of Popeye

    Adventures of Popeye

    6.6 1935 HD

    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...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Jack Mercer

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  • 1936
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    Vim, Vigor and Vitaliky

    Vim, Vigor and Vitaliky

    6.5 1936 HD

    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...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Jack Mercer

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  • 1937
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    My Artistical Temperature

    My Artistical Temperature

    7 1937 HD

    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...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Jack Mercer

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  • 1937
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    The Twisker Pitcher

    The Twisker Pitcher

    6.3 1937 HD

    Baseball: Bluto's Bears vs. Popeye's Pirates, and both Bluto and Popeye have girlfriends cheering them on.

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Jack Mercer

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  • 1937
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    Hospitaliky

    Hospitaliky

    6.5 1937 HD

    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...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Jack Mercer

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

    Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves

    7.8 1937 HD

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

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Lou Fleischer

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  • 1936
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    Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor

    Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor

    6.521 1936 HD

    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...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Jack Mercer

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  • 1937
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    I Likes Babies and Infinks

    I Likes Babies and Infinks

    6.333 1937 HD

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

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Jack Mercer

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  • 1937
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    The Football Toucher Downer

    The Football Toucher Downer

    6 1937 HD

    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...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Jack Mercer

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  • 1937
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    I Never Changes My Altitude

    I Never Changes My Altitude

    6 1937 HD

    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...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Jack Mercer

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  • 1938
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    Learn Polikeness

    Learn Polikeness

    6.3 1938 HD

    Olive takes Popeye to Professor Bluteau to learn some manners.

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Jack Mercer

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  • 1937
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    Fowl Play

    Fowl Play

    7.2 1937 HD

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

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Jack Mercer

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  • 1938
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    Let's Celebrake

    Let's Celebrake

    6.7 1938 HD

    Popeye and Bluto pick up Olive to celebrate New Year's Eve with them. Popeye brings along her granny out of sympathy.

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Jack Mercer

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  • 1937
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    Protek the Weakerist

    Protek the Weakerist

    7 1937 HD

    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...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Jack Mercer

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  • 1932
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    S.O.S.

    S.O.S.

    5.5 1932 HD

    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…

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Ann Little

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  • 1936
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    I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski

    I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski

    6.5 1936 HD

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

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Jack Mercer

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    Bridge Ahoy!

    Bridge Ahoy!

    6.3 1936 HD

    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...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Lou Fleischer

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  • 1937
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    The Paneless Window Washer

    The Paneless Window Washer

    6.553 1937 HD

    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...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Jack Mercer

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  • 1938
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    Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh

    Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh

    5 1938 HD

    Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh is looking for a squaw. Meanwhile, Popeye and Olive are wrestling with their recalcitrant mule and Olive accidentally lands...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Jack Mercer

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  • 1935
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    The Hyp-Nut-Tist

    The Hyp-Nut-Tist

    6.2 1935 HD

    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...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Gus Wicke

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  • 1937
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    Morning, Noon and Night Club

    Morning, Noon and Night Club

    7.8 1937 HD

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

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Lou Fleischer

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  • 1936
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    Somewhere in Dreamland

    Somewhere in Dreamland

    7.2 1936 HD

    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...

    Genre: Fantasy

    Cast: Mae Questel

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  • 1939
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    Gulliver's Travels

    Gulliver's Travels

    6.2 1939 HD

    Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput and attempts to prevent war between that tiny kingdom and its equally-miniscule rival, Blefiscu, as well as smooth...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Lanny Ross

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  • 1936
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    Sunday Go to Meetin' Time

    Sunday Go to Meetin' Time

    4.538 1936 HD

    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...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Gus Wicke

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  • 1944
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    Spinach Packin' Popeye

    Spinach Packin' Popeye

    5 1944 HD

    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...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Jack Mercer

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  • 1931
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    Silly Scandals

    Silly Scandals

    5.4 1931 HD

    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.

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Billy Murray

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  • 1941
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    It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day

    It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day

    7 1941 HD

    Gabby goes camping with the Mayor.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Pinto Colvig

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  • 1936
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    Bold King Cole

    Bold King Cole

    5 1936 HD

    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...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Walter Tetley

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  • 1931
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    In My Merry Oldsmobile

    In My Merry Oldsmobile

    6.1 1931 HD

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

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Gus Wicke

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  • 1936
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    Be Human

    Be Human

    6.2 1936 HD

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

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Mae Questel

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    Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer

    Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer

    10 2024 HD

    A celebration of art by legendary animator Max Fleischer. Features: KoKo's Kozy Korner (1928), Somewhere in Dreamland (1936), Any Rags? (1932), Small...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Margie Hines

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