Walter Tetley
Actor
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 motorcycle accident and used a wheelchair for the rest of his life. He died in 1975 at age 60, having never fully recovered from his injuries.
[biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]
Filmography
The Pride of the Yankees
as Cake Delivery Boy (uncredited) 1942
The Lodger
1944
Invisible Agent
as Newsboy (uncredited) 1942
Tower of London
as Chimney Sweep 1939
Who Done It?
as 'Shorty', a studio pageboy 1942
Out of the Fog
1941
Horror Island
as Delivery Boy (uncredited) 1941
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
as Boy with Candy Cane (uncredited) 1939
First Love
as Willie, Country Club Page 1939
The Villain Still Pursued Her
as Telegram Boy (uncredited) 1940
Molly and Me
as Grocery Delivery Boy 1945
Tom Brown's School Days
as Student 1940
They Shall Have Music
as Rocks Mulligan 1939
Bold King Cole
as Felix the Cat (voice) 1936
Lord Jeff
as Tommy Thrums 1938
Follow the Boys
as Soldier (uncredited) 1944