Billie Lou Watt
Billie Lou Watt is an actor, born 1924.
Billie Lou Watt's most-heard performances are not among the credits listed here. In the 1960s she was the original English dub voice of the title characters of both Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion, which makes her one of the first American actors to decide how anime sounded to English-speaking children, at a point when nobody involved imagined it as a career path. She was also Elsie the Cow in Borden's commercials and Ellie Harper Bergman on the soap opera Search for Tomorrow, so daytime drama, advertising and imported animation were all one job to her.
Born in St. Louis in 1924, she was still working in the late 1990s and died in 2001. The credits gathered here catch the tail end of that long run: Ma Bagge in Courage the Cowardly Dog and the animated Bible series Superbook. There is also a listing for Tripping the Rift against a year that falls after her death, which is worth treating with caution rather than repeating as fact.
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Where to start with Billie Lou Watt
Nothing on this list is what she is remembered for, so calibrate accordingly. Courage the Cowardly Dog is the one to watch, and it is genuinely strange television: she plays Ma Bagge in a cartoon far more frightening than its afternoon slot ever suggested.
Superbook is the curiosity, a Japanese-animated Bible series dubbed into English, sitting in exactly the same tradition as the dub work that made her name in the first place. Her Astro Boy and Kimba performances are not among the credits listed here, which is a pity, because they are the real reason to know who she was.