Gus Wicke — Actor (23)
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Organ Grinder's Swing (1937) IMDb TMDB
Organ Grinder's Swing
director: Dave Fleischer actor: Jack Mercer / Mae Questel …
other title: Popeye connait la musique
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 disagreement in their usual fashion.
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I Never Changes My Altitude (1937) WikiData IMDb TMDB
I Never Changes My Altitude
director: Dave Fleischer actor: Jack Mercer / Gus Wicke …
other title: Popeye toujours à la hauteur
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.
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Hospitaliky (1937) IMDb TMDB
Hospitaliky
director: Dave Fleischer actor: Jack Mercer / Mae Questel …
other title: Hospitalité s’il vous plait
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.
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The Football Toucher Downer (1937) IMDb TMDB
The Football Toucher Downer
director: Dave Fleischer actor: Jack Mercer / Mae Questel …
other title: C’est le pied, le foot
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 keeping score) and also reluctant to eat his spinach.
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Protek the Weakerist (1937) IMDb TMDB
Protek the Weakerist
director: Dave Fleischer actor: Jack Mercer / Mae Questel …
other title: Pour protéger les plus faibles
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 his bulldog come by, the dogs (and their owners) get in a fight.
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Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh (1938) IMDb TMDB
Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh
director: Dave Fleischer actor: Jack Mercer / Mae Questel …
other title: Le grand chef Ugh Amugh Ugh
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.
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My Artistical Temperature (1937) IMDb TMDB
My Artistical Temperature
director: Dave Fleischer actor: Jack Mercer / Mae Questel …
other title: La fièvre artistique
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 fight, Olive starts to leave, but Popeye convinces her to stay when he eats his spinach and vanquishes Bluto.
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What -- No Spinach? (1936) IMDb TMDB
What -- No Spinach?
director: Dave Fleischer actor: Jack Mercer / Lou Fleischer …
other title: Il n’y a plus d’épinards
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 drumsticks, then coats it with pepper sauce. Popeye walks out in anger and Bluto comes after him. Wimpy takes advantage of the resulting battle to load up on hamburgers.
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A Clean Shaven Man (1936) IMDb TMDB
A Clean Shaven Man
director: Dave Fleischer actor: Jack Mercer / Mae Questel …
other title: Un homme bien rasé
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 better than to let Bluto at him with a razor.
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Adventures of Popeye (1935) IMDb TMDB
Adventures of Popeye
director: Dave Fleischer actor: Jack Mercer / Mae Questel …
other title: Les aventures de Popeye
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.
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King of the Mardi Gras (1935) IMDb TMDB
King of the Mardi Gras
director: Dave Fleischer actor: Jack Mercer / Gus Wicke …
other title: Popeye, le roi du mardi gras
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 crowd. Popeye, nearby, claims only, "I yam what I yam," and has no crowd, but still draws Bluto's wrath.