
Jack Mercer
Known for Acting · 367 credits
- Born
- 1910-01-31
- Died
- 1984-12-07
- Place of birth
- Worthington, Indiana, USA
- Also known as
- Winfield B. Mercer · Jack B. Mercer
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.
Known For

Popeye the Sailor
1960
as Popeye (voice)

The All-New Popeye Hour
1978
as Popeye / Poopdeck Pappy

Dumbo
1941
as Clowns (voice) (uncredited)

Felix the Cat
1958
as Felix / The Professor / Rock Bottom

Popeye
1980
as Popeye - Animated Prologue (voice)

Superman
1941
as The Mad Scientist (voice) (uncredited)
TV Shows (3)
Movies (364)

Dumbo
1941
as Clowns (voice) (uncredited)

Popeye
1980
as Popeye - Animated Prologue (voice)

Superman
1941
as The Mad Scientist (voice) (uncredited)

Poor Cinderella
1934
as Various (voice) (uncredited)

Gulliver's Travels
1939
as King Little (voice) (uncredited)

The Hungry Goat
1943
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Japoteurs
1942
as Press Tour Guide (voice) (uncredited)

Jungle Drums
1943
as Lieutenant Fleming / Pilot #1 (voice) (uncredited)

Eleventh Hour
1942
as Japanese Guard / Japanese Official / American Reporter (voice) (uncredited)

Private Eye Popeye
1954
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

The Mighty Navy
1941
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

You're Not Built That Way
1936
as Butcher (voice) (uncredited)

I'm in the Army Now
1936
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Stork Raving Mad
1958
as Stork / Dispatcher Stork / Father

Out to Punch
1956
as Popeye / Boxing Announcer / Counter (voice) (uncredited)

Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves
1937
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
1936
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Tiger Burger
1960
as Popeye / Wimpy (voice) (uncredited)

The Hot Air Salesman
1937
as Wiffle Piffle (voice) (uncredited)

Fit to Be Toyed
1959
as Dr. Dumbkopf / J.G.'s Father / Santa Claus / Butler / Board Member (voice) (uncredited)

3-D Rarities
2015
as Moon People (archive footage)

Mr. Bug Goes to Town
1941
as Mr. Bumble / Swat (voice)

Patriotic Popeye
1957
as Popeye / Popeye's Nephews (voice) (uncredited)

You Can't Shoe a Horse Fly
1940

Frightday the 13th
1953
as Ghosts / Pet Shop Man / Mr. Rabbit (voice) (uncredited)

Organ Grinder's Swing
1937
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Christmas Comes But Once a Year
1936
as Professor Grampy (voice) (uncredited)

The Impractical Joker
1937
as Cousin Irving (voice) (uncredited)

Vim, Vigor and Vitaliky
1936
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Ancient Fistory
1953
as Popeye / Fairy Godfather / Announcer / Bull (voice) (uncredited)

Popeye's 20th Anniversary
1954
as Popeye / Bob Hope / Jerry Lewis / Audience Members (uncredited)

Greek Mirthology
1954
as Popeye / Nephews (voice) (uncredited)

Stealin Aint Honest
1940
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Assault and Flattery
1956
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
1939
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

The Cobweb Hotel
1936
as Spider (voice) (uncredited)

The Friendly Ghost
1945
as Ghost / Rooster (voice) (uncredited)

Gabby Goes Fishing
1941
as Fish (voice)

Jitterbug Jive
1950
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Talking Horse Sense
1959
as Man (voice)

Destruction Inc.
1942
as Radio Newscaster / Louis (voice) (uncredited)

Floor Flusher
1954
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Snow Place Like Home
1948
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Popeye Meets the Man Who Hated Laughter
1972
as Popeye / Wimpy (voice)

Hill-billing and Cooing
1956
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Adventures of Popeye
1935
as Popeye (voice)
Snooze Reel
1952
as Jonah / Professor / Beautiful Bob

Pip-eye, Pup-eye, Poop-eye an' Peep-eye
1942
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

A Clean Shaven Man
1936
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Pest Pilot
1941
as Popeye / Pappy (voice) (uncredited)

We Did It
1936
as Kitten (voice) (uncredited)

Penguin for Your Thoughts
1956
as Mr. Penguin

Wotta Knight
1947
as Popeye (voice)

I Wanna Be a Life Guard
1936
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Moving Aweigh
1944
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

All's Fair at the Fair
1947
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Popeye's Premiere
1949
as Popeye / Aladdin (voice)

The Crystal Brawl
1957
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Hold the Wire
1936
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

On with the New
1938
as Telegram Guy (voice) (uncredited)

Crazytown
1954
as House Builder (voice) (uncredited)

Popeye for President
1956
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer
2024
as Pool Room Fishes / Popeye the Sailor (voice) (archive sound)

Barking Dogs Don't Fite
1949
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

The Best Popeye the Sailor Man Cartoons
2025
as Popeye (voice)

Kickin' the Conga Round
1942
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Ants in the Plants
1940
as Ants (voice)

A Hull of a Mess
1942
as Popeye

Doing Impossikible Stunts
1940
as Popeye / Director (voice) (uncredited)

Santa's Surprise
1947
as Russian Boy / Dutch Boy / Vocal Effects - Snoring (voice) (uncredited)

She-Sick Sailors
1944
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Showdown
1942
as Office Boy / Fake Superman (voice) (uncredited)

Spinach Fer Britain
1943
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Drippy Mississippi
1951
as Duck Hunter

Casper's Spree Under the Sea
1950
as Ghost/Fish Fair Barker/Fisherman(voice) (uncredited)

Shakespearian Spinach
1940
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Symphony in Spinach
1948
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Git Along Lil' Duckie
1955
as Ducklings

Wigwam Whoopee
1948
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Snubbed by a Snob
1940
as Hunky / Spunky / Stallions / Bull (voice) (uncredited)

Pudgy the Watchman
1938
as Al E. Katt

Puttin on the Act
1940
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

The Football Toucher Downer
1937
as Popeye / Young Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Alona on the Sarong Seas
1942
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

What -- No Spinach?
1936
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Let's Get Movin'
1936
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

The Anvil Chorus Girl
1944
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Swing Cleaning
1941
as King Little / Castle Workers (voice) (uncredited)

Jeep Tale
1960
as Popeye
Tell Me a Badtime Story
1963
as Meanie / Bad Gremlin Kid / Powhatan (uncredited)

Quick on the Vigor
1950
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Nearlyweds
1957
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Olive's Boithday Presink
1941
as Popeye / Geezil (voice) (uncredited)

Popeye Meets Hercules
1948
as Popeye/Freshman/Announcer (voice)

Terror on the Midway
1942
as Sideshow Barker (voice) (uncredited)

Fright to the Finish
1954
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Wood-Peckin'
1943
as Popeye / Woodpecker / Pelican (voice) (uncredited)

Spinach vs Hamburgers
1948
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Bridge Ahoy!
1936
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Popeye and the Giant
1960
as Popeye (voice)

The Marry-Go-Round
1943
as Popeye / Shorty (voice) (uncredited)

Taxi-Turvy
1954
as Popeye / Old Man (voice) (uncredited)
The Tears of an Onion
1938
as Caterpillar / Onion (voice) (uncredited)

Hooky Spooky
1957
as Spooky / Kangaroo (voice) (uncredited)

Base Brawl
1948
as (voice) (uncredited)

Lumberjack and Jill
1949
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Let's Stalk Spinach
1951
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Robin Hood-Winked
1948
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Zula Hula
1937
as Grampy

A Date to Skate
1938
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Puppet Love
1944
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Bopin' Hood
1961
as Bopin' Hood 'The Cat' / King / Guards (uncredited)

Dancing on the Moon
1935
as Various (voice, uncredited)

Ghost of the Town
1952
as Ghosts / Taxi-Driver / Kids / Townsmen (uncredited)

Rocket to Mars
1946
as Popeye (voice)

Too Weak to Work
1943
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)

Goonland
1938
as Popeye / Pappy (voice) (uncredited)

Little Boy Blue
1936
as Scarecrow (voice)

Pop-Pie a la Mode
1945
as Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
The Raven
1942
About Jack Mercer
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. With 367 credits spanning from 1931 to 2025, Jack Mercer has appeared in 364 films and 3 TV shows.
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Most Popular Jack Mercer Movies
- Dumbo (1941) — as Clowns (voice) (uncredited)
- Popeye (1980) — as Popeye - Animated Prologue (voice)
- Superman (1941) — as The Mad Scientist (voice) (uncredited)
- Poor Cinderella (1934) — as Various (voice) (uncredited)
- Gulliver's Travels (1939) — as King Little (voice) (uncredited)
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