Birthday
1946-03-12
Birthplace
Denver, Colorado, USA
Gender
Male
Known For
Acting
Franklin Wendell Welker (born March 12, 1946) is an American voice actor with an extensive career spanning nearly six decades. As of 2021, Welker holds over 860 film, television, and video game credits, making him one of the most prolific voice actors of all time. With a total worldwide box-office gross of $17.4 billion, he is also the third highest-grossing film voice actor of all time. Welker is best known for voicing Fred Jones in the Scooby-Doo franchise since its inception in 1969, and Scooby-Doo himself since 2002. In 2020, Welker reprised the latter role in the CGI-animated film Scoob!, the only original voice actor from the series in the movie's cast. He has also voiced Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in Epic Mickey and its sequel, Megatron, Galvatron and Soundwave in the Transformers franchise, Shao Kahn and Reptile in the 1995 Mortal Kombat film, Curious George in the Curious George franchise, Garfield on The Garfield Show, Nibbler on Futurama, the titular character in Jabberjaw, Speed Buggy in the Scooby-Doo franchise, Astro and Orbitty on The Jetsons, Mushmouse on Punkin' Puss & Mushmouse, and various characters in The Smurfs as well as numerous animal vocal effects in many works. In 2016, he was honored with an Emmy Award for his lifetime achievement. Description above from the Wikipedia article Frank Welker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Acting Credits
Transformers: The Return of Optimus Prime
Galvatron / Mixmaster / Rumble / Skywarp / Soundwave / Superion / Wheelie
The Smurfs: 'Tis the Season to Be Smurfy
Hefty Smurf / Poet Smurf / Wild Smurf / Puppy / Rat (voice)
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins
Grubs / Self Destruct / Ranger #1 / Cadet Flam (voice)
Tiny Toon Night Ghoulery
Furrball / Gogo Dodo / Byron Basset / Calamity Coyote / Little Beeper / Gremlin / Additional Voices (voice)
Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation
Uncle Stinky Pig / Byron Basset / Furrball / Little Beeper / Gogo Dodo / Vinnie / Mac Duff / Additional Voices (voice)
The 1st 13th Annual Fancy Anvil Awards Show Program Special: Live in Stereo
Fred Jones (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tweety's High Flying Adventure
Hector the Bulldog / Hugo the Abominable Snowman / Mugsy / Penelope Pussycat (voice)
The Pyramid of Darkness: The Further Adventures of G.I. Joe
Junk Yard / Polly / Torch / Wild Bill (voice)
George of the Jungle
Lion/Little Monkey/Shep/Tooki Tooki Bird/Gorilla sound effects(voice) (uncredited)
The Good, the Bad and Huckleberry Hound
Bob /Huckleberry's Horse /Chief /Judge Tumbleweed Flopner /Mission Control /Race Track Announcer (voice)
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
Goddard / Tubbs / Health Inspector / Special Vocal Effects (voice)
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
Goddard / Tubbs / Father / Special Vocal Effects (voice)
