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William 'Billy' Costello

William 'Billy' Costello

Acting

Known For

Popeye the Sailor
6.9

Popeye and Bluto fight for the love of Olive Oyl in their debut short, featuring Betty Boop.

Popeye the Sailor

1933
Let's Sing with Popeye
6.7

Popeye walks around while singing his theme song, followed by a sing-along.

Let's Sing with Popeye

1934
Let's You and Him Fight
5.9

Bluto is the boxing champ, Popeye his challenger, Wimpy the timekeeper. Popeye is pounded mercilessly until Olive comes by with a can of spinach.

Let's You and Him Fight

1934
Choose Your 'Weppins'
6.6

Policeman Wimpy loses his handcuffed prisoner when he's distracted by a hamburger shop. The escapee drops into the weapon-filled pawnshop Popeye and Olive are running, and quickly gets in a fight with Popeye.

Choose Your 'Weppins'

1935
Beware of Barnacle Bill
6.9

To the classic tune of "Barnacle Bill the Sailor", Olive explains that she can't marry Popeye because she's in love with Barnacle Bill (an unusually large Bluto), who then comes by and proceeds to pound Popeye (until he eats his spinach, of course).

Beware of Barnacle Bill

1935
We Aim to Please
7.3

Popeye and Olive open a diner, singing the title song. Alas, their first two customers are Wimpy (who actually gets them to fall for the "gladly pay you Tuesday" schtick) and Bluto, who orders 6 sandwiches and refuses to pay for them. This leads, of course, to a fight, which Popeye needs his spinach to win.

We Aim to Please

1934
For Better or Worser
7.0

Popeye's failures in the kitchen send him on a quest for a wife. He visits the "matrimonial agency" and picks Olive at the same time Bluto picks her. Of course, the boys settle their problem with their fists. Soon, Bluto and Olive are visiting Justice of the Peace Wimpy, with Popeye temporarily detained.

For Better or Worser

1935
Sock-a-Bye, Baby
7.3

When Popeye takes the baby for a walk in the stroller, the little one won't be quiet unless he's sleeping. Of course there's no end of noisiness.

Sock-a-Bye, Baby

1934
Shiver Me Timbers!
7.0

Popeye, Olive, and Wimpy stumble across a ghost ship. They climb aboard, and it proceeds to scare them in various ways.

Shiver Me Timbers!

1934
The Man on the Flying Trapeze
7.1

Popeye comes to ask Olive out, but finds she's gone off with the title character. Popeye goes to the circus (ringmaster Wimpy) looking for her, to find she's part of the act; an aerial battle ensues.

The Man on the Flying Trapeze

1934
Wild Elephinks
7.4

Popeye and Olive, adrift on a raft, land on what apparently is Africa, and are immediately battling elephants and gorillas (also a moose!). Popeye eventually battles an entire menagerie at once - after first gulping down a can of spinach, of course.

Wild Elephinks

1933
Seasin's Greetinks!
7.2

Popeye skates over to Olive's house to give her a Christmas present: ice skates of her own. While he's teaching her, Bluto skates up and gets fresh; of course, Popeye fights him. When Olive rejects Bluto again, he sends her careening on an ice floe towards a waterfall.

Seasin's Greetinks!

1933
Axe Me Another
6.8

Pierre Bluto, running a logging camp, has thrown Olive into the river because he didn't like her spinach. Popeye rescues her and proceeds to beat Bluto in a lumberjack contest.

Axe Me Another

1934
Shoein' Hosses
6.9

Wimpy is such a terrible helper that blacksmith Olive fires him. Both Popeye and Bluto see the help wanted sign; they compete for the position. Of course, their competition wrecks the shop.

Shoein' Hosses

1934
You Gotta Be a Football Hero
6.6

Popeye and Olive are attending a football game; Bluto's team takes the field, and Olive is swept off her feet, becoming a cheerleader for him. Popeye signs up and becomes quarterback of the opposing team, which is skinny and pathetic looking, compared to Bluto's team of huge bruisers. Things go badly, of course, until Popeye eats his spinach and becomes a whole football team himself, winning both the game and Olive.

You Gotta Be a Football Hero

1935
Can You Take It
7.5

Popeye sees Olive going into the Bruiser Boys Club, where she works in the hospital ward. Their motto, "Can you take it?", is a clear challenge to Popeye. President Bluto puts Popeye through the tests, and while he fares better than most, he still ends up in the hospital ward, until he eats his spinach and goes after the members.

Can You Take It

1934
The Dance Contest
6.5

Popeye and Olive compete as partners in a dance contest. Naturally, Bluto butts in.

The Dance Contest

1934
The Hyp-Nut-Tist
7.3

Popeye takes Olive to a stage show of a hypnotist (Bluto), who also levitates objects. While he's doing this, Popeye makes him lose his concentration, so in retaliation, the hypnotist pulls Olive on stage and turns her into a chicken. Popeye comes down to fight and the hypnotist tries to turn him into a monkey, but Popeye pulls a mirror into place. He recovers, and turns Popeye into a donkey, then smacks him around a bit, but spinach comes to the rescue.

The Hyp-Nut-Tist

1935
Dizzy Dishes
5.7

The Fleischer's Talkartoon short that debuted Betty Boop.

Dizzy Dishes

1930
Dizzy Divers
7.3

Popeye and Bluto are deep sea divers. Popeye has a treasure map; for some reason he cuts Bluto in on the deal, but of course, Bluto's idea of 50-50 isn't exactly fair...

Dizzy Divers

1935