Walter Tetley
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.
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Filmography
A Christmas Story
1972
as Timmy (voice)
Red Garters
1954
as Gun-toting kid (voice) (uncredited)
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Playful Pelican
1948
as Andy Panda (voice) (uncredited)
There's Good Boos To-Night
1948
as Casper (voice) (uncredited)
The Wacky Weed
1946
as Andy Panda
Apple Andy
1946
as Andy Panda
Reddy Made Magic
1946
as Reddy Kilowatt (voice) (uncredited)
Molly and Me
1945
as Grocery Delivery Boy
Follow the Boys
1944
as Soldier (uncredited)
The Lodger
1944
Mystery Broadcast
1943
as Page Boy (uncredited)
The Gorilla Man
1943
as Sammy
Who Done It?
1942
as 'Shorty', a studio pageboy
Thunder Birds
1942
as Red Cross Nurse Trainee (uncredited)
Thunder Birds
1942
as Messenger Boy
Invisible Agent
1942
as Newsboy (uncredited)
The Pride of the Yankees
1942
as Cake Delivery Boy (uncredited)
Broadway
1942
as Western Union Messenger (uncredited)
Out of the Fog
1941
Horror Island
1941
as Delivery Boy (uncredited)
The Haunted Mouse
1941
as Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
Let's Make Music
1941
as Eddie
The Villain Still Pursued Her
1940
as Telegram Boy (uncredited)
Under Texas Skies
1940
as Theodore