Walter Tetley

Walter Tetley

Known for

Acting

Born

June 2, 1915

Birthplace

Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Died

September 4, 1975 (aged 60)

Biography

Walter Tetley (June 2, 1915 – September 4, 1975) was an American voice actor specializing in child impersonation during radio's classic era, with regular roles on The Great Gildersleeve and The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show, as well as continuing as a voice-over artist in animated cartoons, commercials, and spoken-word record albums. He is perhaps best known as the voice of "Sherman" in the Jay Ward-Bill Scott Mr. Peabody TV cartoons.

Walter Tetley's perennially adolescent voice was the result of a medical condition which arrested his development, preventing his voice from breaking into maturity as well as preventing his further physical growth.

In 1971 Tetley was seriously injured in a moto...

Best known work

Clock Cleaners
Clock Cleaners
1937
The Pride of the Yankees
The Pride of the Yankees
1942
The Lodger
The Lodger
1944
Invisible Agent
Invisible Agent
1942
The Bullwinkle Show
The Bullwinkle Show
1959
Tower of London
Tower of London
1939
Who Done It?
Who Done It?
1942
Out of the Fog
Out of the Fog
1941
Horror Island
Horror Island
1941
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
1939

Filmography

  1. 1972

    A Christmas Story

    as Timmy (voice)

  2. 1969

    The Dudley Do-Right ShowTV
  3. 1959

    The Bullwinkle ShowTV

    as Sherman (voice) (815 episodes)

  4. 1959

    The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and FriendsTV

    as Walter Tetley Sherman (voice) (163 episodes)

  5. 1956

    The Gerald McBoing-Boing ShowTV

    as Dusty (voice) (13 episodes)

  6. 1954

    Red Garters

    as Gun-toting kid (voice) (uncredited)

  7. 1948

    Playful Pelican

    as Andy Panda (voice) (uncredited)

  8. 1948

    There's Good Boos To-Night

    as Casper (voice) (uncredited)

  9. 1946

    The Wacky Weed

    as Andy Panda

  10. 1946

    Apple Andy

    as Andy Panda

  11. 1946

    Reddy Made Magic

    as Reddy Kilowatt (voice) (uncredited)

  12. 1945

    Molly and Me

    as Grocery Delivery Boy

  13. 1944

    Follow the Boys

    as Soldier (uncredited)

  14. 1944

  15. 1943

    Mystery Broadcast

    as Page Boy (uncredited)

  16. 1943

  17. 1942

    Who Done It?

    as 'Shorty', a studio pageboy

  18. 1942

    Thunder Birds

    as Red Cross Nurse Trainee (uncredited), as Messenger Boy

  19. 1942

    Invisible Agent

    as Newsboy (uncredited)

  20. 1942

    The Pride of the Yankees

    as Cake Delivery Boy (uncredited)

  21. 1942

    Broadway

    as Western Union Messenger (uncredited)

  22. 1941

  23. 1941

    Horror Island

    as Delivery Boy (uncredited)

  24. 1941

    The Haunted Mouse

    as Mouse (voice) (uncredited)

  25. 1941

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