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Jack Mercer

Jack Mercer

Acting1910Worthington, Indiana, USA

Biography

Winfield B. Mercer (January 31, 1910 – December 7, 1984), professionally known as Jack Mercer, was a prolific American voice actor, animator and writer. He is best known as the voice of cartoon characters Popeye the Sailor and Felix the Cat. The son of vaudeville and Broadway performers, he also performed on the vaudeville and legitimate stage.

Acting History

2024
Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer
as Pool Room Fishes / Popeye the Sailor (voice) (archive sound)
2015
3-D Rarities
as Moon People (archive footage)
1980
Popeye
as Popeye - Animated Prologue (voice)
1978
The All-New Popeye Hour
TVas Popeye / Poopdeck Pappy140 eps
1972
1964
Goodie's Good Deed
as Gremlins / Bear Kid
The Timid Knight
as Bear/Stork
1963
Tell Me a Badtime Story
as Meanie / Bad Gremlin Kid / Powhatan (uncredited)
City Snicker
as Spooky/Farmer
1962
Funderful Suburbia
as Hardy's Son / George / Delivery Man (voice)
Popcorn and Politics
as Parrot / President's Assistants / Kids / Professor / Engineers
1961
The Lion's Busy
as Sir Reginald Tweedledumb IV / Lion (voice) (uncredited)
Bopin' Hood
as Bopin' Hood 'The Cat' / King / Guards (uncredited)
Weight for Me
as Popeye
Operation Ice-Tickle
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
1960
Matinee Idol Popeye
as Popeye (Voice)
Jeep Tale
as Popeye
Galaxia
as Galaxia Space Man (uncredited) (voice)
Trouble Date
as Jeepers / Crazy Lady / Marine Doctor
Fiddle-Faddle
as Professor Schmaltz (voice) (uncredited)
Mike the Masquerader
as Lieutenant / Cop #2 (uncredited)
Counter Attack
as Scat the Cat
Peck Your Own Home
as Vocal Effects
Popeye's Pizza Palace
as Popeye / Wimpy (voice)
Popeye and the Giant
as Popeye (voice)
Popeye's Service Station
as Popeye / Wimpy (voice) (uncredited)
Tiger Burger
as Popeye / Wimpy (voice) (uncredited)
Seeing Double
as Popeye(voice)
Popeye the Sailor
TVas Popeye (voice)220 eps
1959
Owly to Bed
as Hawk (uncredited)
Talking Horse Sense
as Man (voice)
Venus and The Master Cyclinder
as Felix, Master Cylinder, Poindexter, The Professor
Fit to Be Toyed
as Dr. Dumbkopf / J.G.'s Father / Santa Claus / Butler / Board Member (voice) (uncredited)
Spooking of Ghosts
as Walter Wowie / Ghost (voice) (uncredited)
1958
Travelaffs
as Dog Porter / Mouse Porter
Chew Chew Baby
as Chew Chew / Dentist / Fred / Emergency Vehicle Driver (voice)
Stork Raving Mad
as Stork / Dispatcher Stork / Father
Felix the Cat
TVas Felix / The Professor / Rock Bottom
1957
Pest Pupil
as Tutor / Duckling (voice)
Spooky Swabs
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Patriotic Popeye
as Popeye / Popeye's Nephews (voice) (uncredited)
Nearlyweds
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Spooking About Africa
as Peacock / Monkeys (voice)
Hooky Spooky
as Spooky / Kangaroo (voice) (uncredited)
The Crystal Brawl
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
From Mad to Worse
as Various Mice
Spree Lunch
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Cat In The Act
as Tour Guide
1956
Popeye for President
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Assault and Flattery
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Insect to Injury
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Fright from Wrong
as Ghost #3 / Evil Casper (voice) (uncredited)
Dutch Treat
as Scared Lion / Scared Fisherman (voice) (uncredited)
A Haul in One
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
I Don't Scare
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Swab the Duck
as Ducklings
Lion in the Roar
as King Louis
Out to Punch
as Popeye / Boxing Announcer / Counter (voice) (uncredited)
Line of Screammage
as Chicken / Cheering Boy / Neighborhood Kid (voice) (uncredited)
Parlez Vous Woo
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Hill-billing and Cooing
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Sir Irving and Jeames
as Jeames (voice) (uncredited)
1955
Mister and Mistletoe
as Popeye / Pipeye / Pupeye / Poopeye (voice) (uncredited)
A Job for a Gob
as Popeye (voice)
Penny Antics
as Popeye / Radio Announcer (voice)
Poop Goes the Weasel
as Waxey Weasel / Bulldog / Cuckoo (voice)
Red White and Boo
as Paul Revere / Horse / Soldiers (voice) (uncredited)
Gift of Gag
as Popeye / Pip-eye / Pup-eye (voice) (uncredited)
Rabbit Punch
as Moe Hare / Tommy Tortoise (voice) (uncredited)
Beaus Will Be Beaus
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Robin Rodenthood
as Various Mice (voice) (uncredited)
Cookin' with Gags
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Mousieur Herman
as Herman's Cousins
1954
Boo Moon
as Moon People
Crazytown
as House Builder (voice) (uncredited)
Candy Cabaret
as Hard Candy (voice)
Floor Flusher
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Taxi-Turvy
as Popeye / Old Man (voice) (uncredited)
Fright to the Finish
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
The Seapreme Court
as Various Fish (voice) (uncredited)
Greek Mirthology
as Popeye / Nephews (voice) (uncredited)
Gopher Spinach
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye's 20th Anniversary
as Popeye / Bob Hope / Jerry Lewis / Audience Members (uncredited)
Bride and Gloom
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Private Eye Popeye
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
1953
Ancient Fistory
as Popeye / Fairy Godfather / Announcer / Bull (voice) (uncredited)
Toreadorable
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Child Sockology
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Frightday the 13th
as Ghosts / Pet Shop Man / Mr. Rabbit (voice) (uncredited)
Firemen's Brawl
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye's Mirthday
as Popeye / Nephews (voice) (uncredited)
Herman the Catoonist
as Herman's Cousins (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye, the Ace of Space
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Baby Wants a Battle
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
1952
Snooze Reel
as Jonah / Professor / Beautiful Bob
Forest Fantasy
as Owl / Frogs
Ghost of the Town
as Ghosts / Taxi-Driver / Kids / Townsmen (uncredited)
Law and Audrey
as Policeman without dentures (voice)
Pig-a-Boo
as Bull (voice) (uncredited)
The Deep Boo Sea
as Octopus / Turtle / Billy's Brother / Whale (uncredited)
Big Bad Sindbad
as Popeye / Popeye's Nephews (voice) (uncredited)
Popalong Popeye
as Popeye / Nephews (voice) (uncredited)
Friend or Phony
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Clown on the Farm
as Ducklings (voice)
Popeye's Pappy
as Popeye / Pappy / Popeye's Mama / Native (voice) (uncredited)
Tots of Fun
as Popeye / Nephews (voice) (uncredited)
Swimmer Take All
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Lunch with a Punch
as Popeye / Nephews (voice) (uncredited)
Shuteye Popeye
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Off We Glow
as Horsefly / Flea / Dog / Moth
Fun At The Fair
as Elephant Mother / Peanut Vendor / Watermelon Vendor / Mortimer
Gag and Baggage
as Baggage Helpers
Dizzy Dinosaurs
as Caveboy / Worm / Salesman / Caveman
1951
Casper Takes a Bow-Wow
as Ghosts / Little Boys / Pal / Dog Catcher (voice) (uncredited)
Pilgrim Popeye
as Popeye / Nephews / Turkey (voice) (uncredited)
Tweet Music
as Hoot Owl / Scotch Owl / Night Owl / Duck
Casper Comes to Clown
as Ghosts / Owl / Brownie Bear / Gorilla (voice) (uncredited)
Boo Scout
as Billy's Brother / Ghosts (voice)
To Boo or Not to Boo
as Little Boy / Donkey / Square Dance Caller (voice) (uncredited)
Punch and Judo
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Vacation with Play
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Alpine for You
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Let's Stalk Spinach
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Thrill of Fair
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Vegetable Vaudeville
as Various Fruits and Vegetables
Drippy Mississippi
as Duck Hunter
Miners Forty Niners
as Native American / Miner / Jerry Colonna
1950
Casper's Spree Under the Sea
as Ghost/Fish Fair Barker/Fisherman(voice) (uncredited)
Gobs of Fun
as Kangaroo / Chef / Club Jonah Owner
Gym Jam
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Quack-a Doodle-Doo
as The Fox (voice) (uncredited)
Quick on the Vigor
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Beach Peach
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
The Farmer and the Belle
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Jitterbug Jive
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye Makes a Movie
as Popeye / Nephews / Director (voice) (uncredited)
Saved by the Bell
as Mice (voice) (uncredited)
Riot in Rhythm
as Popeye / Popeye's Nephews (voice) (uncredited)
How Green Is My Spinach
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Gym Jam
Story
1949
Popeye's Premiere
as Popeye / Aladdin (voice)
Silly Hillbilly
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Tar with a Star
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Snow Foolin'
as Rabbit / Skunk / Mouse / Swan (voice) (uncredited)
A-Haunting We Will Go
as Turtle / Hunter (voice) (uncredited)
The Fly's Last Flight
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
A Balmy Swami
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Lumberjack and Jill
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Barking Dogs Don't Fite
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Hot Air Aces
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Strolling Thru the Park
as Bandmaster / Man (voice)
1948
Base Brawl
as (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye Meets Hercules
as Popeye/Freshman/Announcer (voice)
There's Good Boos To-Night
as Ghosts / Calf / Ferdie Fox (voice) (uncredited)
Olive Oyl for President
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Pre-Hysterical Man
as Popeye / Caveman (voice) (uncredited)
Spinach vs Hamburgers
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Wigwam Whoopee
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Robin Hood-Winked
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Snow Place Like Home
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Symphony in Spinach
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
A Wolf in Sheik's Clothing
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
1947
I'll Be Skiing Ya
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Santa's Surprise
as Russian Boy / Dutch Boy / Vocal Effects - Snoring (voice) (uncredited)
Safari So Good
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
The Royal Four-Flusher
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Naughty But Mice
as Mice (voice)
Wotta Knight
as Popeye (voice)
Popeye and the Pirates
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
All's Fair at the Fair
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Madhattan Island
as Mouse (uncredited)
1946
Rocket to Mars
as Popeye (voice)
Spree for All
as Snuffy Smith (voice) (uncredited)
1945
The Friendly Ghost
as Ghost / Rooster (voice) (uncredited)
Tops in the Big Top
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Pop-Pie a la Mode
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Mess Production
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
1944
Spinach Packin' Popeye
as Popeye (voice)
W'ere on our way to Rio
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Puppet Love
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
She-Sick Sailors
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
The Anvil Chorus Girl
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Eggs Don't Bounce
as Henrietta (voice) (uncredited)
Pitchin' Woo at the Zoo
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Moving Aweigh
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
It's Nifty to Be Thrifty
as Ant / Grasshopper (voice) (uncredited)
1943
Too Weak to Work
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
The Marry-Go-Round
as Popeye / Shorty (voice) (uncredited)
Jungle Drums
as Lieutenant Fleming / Pilot #1 (voice) (uncredited)
Wood-Peckin'
as Popeye / Woodpecker / Pelican (voice) (uncredited)
Her Honor, the Mare
as Popeye (voice)
Spinach Fer Britain
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Happy Birthdaze
as Popeye / Olive's Neighbor (voice) (uncredited)
Cartoons Ain't Human
as Popeye / Nephews / Villain (voice) (uncredited)
The Hungry Goat
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Secret Agent
as Perry White / Saboteur (voice) (uncredited)
1942
Showdown
as Office Boy / Fake Superman (voice) (uncredited)
Destruction Inc.
as Radio Newscaster / Louis (voice) (uncredited)
Eleventh Hour
as Japanese Guard / Japanese Official / American Reporter (voice) (uncredited)
Japoteurs
as Press Tour Guide (voice) (uncredited)
Terror on the Midway
as Sideshow Barker (voice) (uncredited)
Alona on the Sarong Seas
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
You're a Sap, Mr. Jap
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Blunder Below
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Kickin' the Conga Round
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Baby Wants a Bottleship
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Fleets of Stren'th
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Olive Oyl and Water Don't Mix
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Me Musical Nephews
as Popeye / Pip-eye / Pup-eye / Poop-eye / Peep-eye (voice) (uncredited)
Many Tanks
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Pip-eye, Pup-eye, Poop-eye an' Peep-eye
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Scrap the Japs
as Popeye (voice)
1941
The Mighty Navy
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Superman
as The Mad Scientist (voice) (uncredited)
Dumbo
as Clowns (voice) (uncredited)
Child Psykolojiky
as Popeye / Pappy (voice) (uncredited)
Problem Pappy
as Popeye / Pappy (voice) (uncredited)
Vitamin Hay
as Hunky / Spunky (voice)
Olive's Boithday Presink
as Popeye / Geezil (voice) (uncredited)
Olive's $weep$take Ticket
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
I'll Never Crow Again
as Popeye / Crow (voice) (uncredited)
Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy
as Paint Brush / Doctors (voice)
Nix on Hypnotricks
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Swing Cleaning
as King Little / Castle Workers (voice) (uncredited)
Flies Ain't Human
as Popeye / Fly (voice) (uncredited)
It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day
as Mayor (voice)
Quiet! Pleeze
as Popeye / Pappy (voice) (uncredited)
Pest Pilot
as Popeye / Pappy (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye Meets Rip Van Winkle
as Popeye / Rip Van Winkle / Dwarves (voice) (uncredited)
Gabby Goes Fishing
as Fish (voice)
Mr. Bug Goes to Town
as Mr. Bumble / Swat (voice)
1940
Ants in the Plants
as Ants (voice)
Females Is Fickle
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Wimmin Hadn't Oughta Drive
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Sneak, Snoop and Snitch
as King Little / Sneak / Snoop / Snitch (voice)
Doing Impossikible Stunts
as Popeye / Director (voice) (uncredited)
Shakespearian Spinach
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
My Pop, My Pop
as Popeye / Pappy (voice) (uncredited)
Wimmin is a Myskery
as Popeye / Pepeye / Pupeye / Pipeye / Peepeye (voice) (uncredited)
The Fulla Bluff Man
as Salesman / Various (voice)
Onion Pacific
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Fightin Pals
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye Presents Eugene, the Jeep
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Puttin on the Act
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Snubbed by a Snob
as Hunky / Spunky / Stallions / Bull (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye Meets William Tell
as Popeye / Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Me Feelins is Hurt
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Nurse-Mates
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Stealin Aint Honest
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Poopdeck Pappy
as Popeye / Pappy (voice) (uncredited)
1939
It's the Natural Thing to Do
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
My Friend the Monkey
as Pudgy / Monkey (voice) (uncredited)
Rhythm on the Reservation
as Native-Americans (voice)
The Fresh Vegetable Mystery
as Irish Potato Cop / Snoring Onions (voice) (uncredited)
Hello How Am I
as Popeye / Wimpy (voice) (uncredited)
Leave Well Enough Alone
as Popeye / Parrot (voice) (uncredited)
Wotta Nitemare
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Never Sock a Baby
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Ghosks Is the Bunk
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Customers Wanted
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Gulliver's Travels
as King Little (voice) (uncredited)
1938
The House Builder-Upper
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Goonland
as Popeye / Pappy (voice) (uncredited)
I Yam Love Sick
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
All's Fair at the Fair
as Elmer (voice) (uncredited)
A Date to Skate
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
On with the New
as Telegram Guy (voice) (uncredited)
Pudgy the Watchman
as Al E. Katt
Be Up to Date
as Hillbillies
Plumbing Is a 'Pipe'
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Mutiny Ain't Nice
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Hunky and Spunky
as Hunky / Spunky (voice)
The Jeep
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Hold It!
as Cats (voice) (uncredited)
Cops Is Always Right
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Let's Celebrake
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Bulldozing the Bull
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Riding the Rails
as Train Conductor
Learn Polikeness
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
The Tears of an Onion
as Caterpillar / Onion (voice) (uncredited)
1937
Lost and Foundry
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
I Likes Babies and Infinks
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Bunny Mooning
as Chicken / Peacock (voice) (uncredited)
The Hot Air Salesman
as Wiffle Piffle (voice) (uncredited)
The Paneless Window Washer
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
The Twisker Pitcher
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
The Impractical Joker
as Cousin Irving (voice) (uncredited)
The Football Toucher Downer
as Popeye / Young Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Fowl Play
as Popeye / Polly Parrot (voice) (uncredited)
Morning, Noon and Night Club
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Zula Hula
as Grampy
Chicken a la King
as Ducky Wucky / Chickens (voice) (uncredited)
The New Deal Show
as Rover / Chicken / Cat / Pigs (voice) (uncredited)
Organ Grinder's Swing
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
I Never Changes My Altitude
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Hospitaliky
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
1936
Little Boy Blue
as Scarecrow (voice)
Christmas Comes But Once a Year
as Professor Grampy (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
The Cobweb Hotel
as Spider (voice) (uncredited)
We Did It
as Kitten (voice) (uncredited)
You're Not Built That Way
as Butcher (voice) (uncredited)
A Clean Shaven Man
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Vim, Vigor and Vitaliky
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Let's Get Movin'
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Play Safe
as Red Train (voice) (uncredited)
Hold the Wire
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
What -- No Spinach?
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
The Spinach Roadster
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Little Swee'pea
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Bridge Ahoy!
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Happy You and Merry Me
as Myron the Kitten / Myron's Mama / Druggist (voice) (uncredited)
I'm in the Army Now
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
I Wanna Be a Life Guard
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Be Human
as Horse / Pig (voice) (uncredited)
Brotherly Love
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Never Kick a Woman
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
1935
King of the Mardi Gras
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
No! No! A Thousand Times No!!
as Moustachioed Villain (voice)
Judge for a Day
as Male Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Mary's Little Lamb
as Lamb / Little Elmer (voice)
Dancing on the Moon
as Various (voice, uncredited)
Adventures of Popeye
as Popeye (voice)
The Spinach Overture
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
1934
Poor Cinderella
as Various (voice) (uncredited)
1933
I Like Mountain Music
as Will Rogers / Various (voice) (uncredited)
1932
Three's a Crowd
as Uncle Tom / Various (voice) (uncredited)
1931
Tom & Jerry and Friends
as Fire Chief (voice) (uncredited)

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Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1/31/1910
Day of Death
12/7/1984
Place of Birth
Worthington, Indiana, USA
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