Frank Welker
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Franklin Wendell Welker (born March 12, 1946) is an American actor and voice actor.
Fred Jones and Scooby-Doo from the Scooby-Doo franchise (the former was around since the franchise's inception in 1969 and the latter since 2002), Megatron and Soundwave in the Transformers franchise, and Nibbler on Futurama are among his favorite characters.
Welker was given an Emmy Award in 2016 for his lifetime contributions.
Early life and career
Welker was born in Denver, Colorado, on March 12, 1946. Merrill Welker, a mining engineer, and Lillian were his parents.
Welker began his career as a stand-up comedian and impressionist in the 1960s, before moving to on-screen acting and later voice acting. Fred Jones, the Scooby-Doo franchise's first big voice role, appeared in 1969. In virtually every series and incarnation of the Scooby-Doo animated film (with the exceptions of A Pup Named Scooby-Doo and Scoob!) Welker has voiced Fred. Scooby-Doo has also been a voice of Scooby-Doo since 2002. Welker is the only original voice actor in the Scooby-Doo franchise as of 2022.
Wonder Dog (which was based on Scooby-Doo) and Marvin White's 1973 film Super Friends (also produced by Hanna-Barbera) was his next major character voice. He appeared in Pudge and Gabby on DePatie-Freleng Enterprises' animated film Bailey's Comets during the same year. Welker has been providing voices for many characters for Hanna-Barbera, including Jabberjaw, Dynomutt, Dog Wonder, and Shmoo in The New Fred and Barney Exhibition and its spin-off, The Flintstones Comedy Show. Frank Welker described the voice he used for the Shmoo as "a bubble voice" (one he'll later use for Gogo Dodo in Tiny Toon Adventures).
On The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show, he appeared as the title character on Fangface and Fangpuss, later in its spin-off, Fangface and Fangpuss, and later on The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Jeckle, as well as the voice of Heckle and Jeckle.
Welker became a very popular voice actor in many television series, including Brain, Doctor Claw, and M.A.D. In the 1980s and 1990s, he appeared in many popular cartoon characters, including Brain, Doctor Claw, and M.A.D. Inspector Gadget; Mister Mxyzptlk, Darkseid, and Kalibak on Super Friends; Mister Mxyzptlk, Spider-Man and His Associated Friends; Wild Bill, Dreadnok Torch, and other G.I. Jonny Quest's heroes and villains; Scooter on the Challenge of the Gobots; Ray Stantz and Slimer of The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest; Bubba the Caveduck; and other Captain Planet and Planeteers; Jeremiah Surd on GoBots.
He also appeared on The Simpsons, such as Santa's Little Helper, Snowball II, and several other animals from 1991 to 2002. On Matt Groening's Futurama, Welker provided both the speaking voice and animal sounds for Nibbler. On Animaniacs, Runt, Ralph the Guard, Buttons, and others, Hector the Bulldog, John Wicky, Tom Cat, Jerry Mouse, and others on Tiny Toon Adventures, Hector the Bulldog, Droopy and his nephew Dripple on Tom and Jerry Kids Show and Droopy, Master Detective.
"Gus Goose," "Salty the Seal," "Figaro") from Hercules, "Abu" the Monkey from Aladdin, "Aracuan Bird" & Cri-Kee from Mulan from 2001 to 2003, he also sang "Gus Goose," "Pegasus," "Figaro," "Figaro" from Mulan, "Abu" the Monkey "Abu" the Monkey."
In Aladdin (1990), the Martians in Tim Burton's Mars Attacks, Welker has also produced voice for many animals and plants in films, including Abu the monkey, Rajah the tiger, and the Cave of Wonders. In Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011), there were penguins and penguins (1996), as well as the penguins. Spock's screams were recorded in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), Jimx, 1986), Toming in The Golden Child (1986), Totoro, (1995), Alien Sil in Species (1995), and Gargamel's cat Azrael in Sony Pictures Animation's live action/animated film versions of The Smurfs.
He began voicing George in the popular children's film Curious George in 2006. In the animated film of the same name that year, George was also named George. Welker, the original Garfield and Friends, was the new face of Garfield in 2007, replacing Bill Murray (2004-2006), and replacing Lorenzo Music, the original actor who died in 2001. In Garfield Gets Real (2007), Garfield's Fun Fest (2008), Garfield's Pet Force (2009), and the series The Garfield Show, which ran from 2008 to 2016, Welker voiced Garfield. "Bat-Mite Presents: Batman's Strangest Cases" was the voice of Batman in a Scooby-Doo crossover segment of the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode. He also voiced Batboy, the classic Mad Magazine Batman parody spoof that was originally created by Wally Wood in the same episode.
On StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, Welker has provided voices for many video game characters, most notably Disney's Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and The Shadow Blot in Epic Mickey and its sequel Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two, as well as Zurvan, which has been dubbed the Ancient One. He also played the mad mage Xzar for the Baldur's Gate video game series, as well as reprised his role as Odin for Lego Marvel's Avengers.
At the 43rd Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Awards in 2016, Welker was given a Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award.
Welker's first on-camera film role was as a college student from Rutgers University who befriends Elvis Presley in The Trouble with Girls (1969). Kurt Russell appeared in the Disney film The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969), his second film appearance (he'll also appear in the film's sequel, Now You See Him, Now You Don't). Don Knotts appeared in Universal's How to Frame a Figg (1971), and on The Paul Lynde Exhibition (1972).
On-camera television appearances included roles on Laugh-In, Love, American Style, The Partridge Family, and The Don Knotts Show. In Paramount Television's pilot Catch-22, he appeared as a prosecutor in the widely acclaimed ABC special The Trial of General Yamashita and as Captain Pace alongside Richard Dreyfuss' Yossarian. In addition to Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, The Mike Douglas Show, The Merv Griffin Exhibition, The Burns Brothers Show, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Laugh Trax, and As one of the cast members of David Frost's special "That Was the Year That Was (1985) with David Frost, he appeared on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, The Mike Douglas Show, The Tonight Show, The Tonight Show, The Merv Griffin Exhibition,
In a 1984 episode of Simon & Simon, Welker appeared on camera as a voice actor. In The Duck Factory, he played a rival actor attempting to take the role of Dippy Duck from fellow voice actor Wally Wooster (Don Messick). He appeared in Steven Soderbergh's film The Informant in later years. Matt Damon's father died in (2009).
Welker appeared on George Burns' The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast in 1978. Although lauding Burns, he demonstrated his talent as an impressionist by lauding George Burns with the voices of Walter Cronkite, Henry Kissinger, Muhammad Ali, David Frost, and Jimmy Carter. On an episode of the short lived television series Keep On Cruisin', he performed stand-up comedy on 1987.'
Welker portrayed several recurring characters in the original Transformers animated film in the 1980s. Several Decepticons, including Megatron, Soundwave, Skywarp, Mixmaster, Rumble, Ravage, and Ratbat, as well as Autobots Mirage, Trailbreaker, and Ratbat, all appeared, including Megatron, Megatron, Soundwave, Skywarp, Mixmaster, Rumble, Rumble, Frenzy, Ravage, and Ratbat. Wheelie in The Transformers: The Movie (1986), and in the sequels, he took over Galvatron's role (from his Star Trek III castmate Leonard Nimoy) and also voiced Chromedome and Pinpointer.
Megatron and Soundwave appeared in the film Transformers: Prime (renamed Beast Hunters for its third season) and Transformers: Transformers: Devastation, in 2010. Welker notably changed Megatron's voice from his Generation 1 appearance to be more sinister in Prime Minister Welker's Prime.
When Welker portrayed Megatron and Soundwave as part of a spoof in a third-season episode of Robot Chicken, which aired shortly after the first installment of the live-action film series was released. He appeared in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), joined the voice cast and reprised the roles of Soundwave and Ravage, as well as providing the voices for Grindor, Devastator, and Reedman. In the third film, Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011), he will reprise his role as Soundwave, as well as starring Shockwave and Barricade. He reprised his role as Galvatron in Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014), but with a tone reminiscent of his appearance in Transformers: Prime.
In the first three live-action films, Welker does not appear as Megatron (Hugo Weaving was chosen instead). However, he did voice Megatron in the two video games based on the first two films, as well as Universal Studios Singapore, Universal Studios Hollywood, and Universal Studios Florida, Transformers: The Ride. He finally reprised Megatron's voice in the fifth installment of the film series Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), utilizing his Transformers: Prime version of the character.
Welker continues to occasionally voice Megatron in various Transformers media, alternating between his Generation 1 and his Prime representations as of 2019.