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Frank Welker
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American actor (born 1946)
Film & TV
Denver, Colorado, USA
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…
Known for
- Optimus Prime Awakening — Megatron / Soundwave (voice)2026
- Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo! Meets Courage the Cowardly Dog — Scooby-Doo / Fred Jones (voice)2025
- Transformers: 40th Anniversary Event — Megatron / Mirage / Rumble / Skywarp / Soundwave (voice)2024
- Not Just a Goof — Self (archive footage)2024
- Scooby-Doo! and Krypto, Too! — Scooby-Doo / Fred Jones (voice)2023
- Once Upon a Studio — Abu / Joanna (voice) (archive sound)2023
- Velma — William (voice)2023
- Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo! — Scooby-Doo / Rudy / Fred / Nefario (voice)2022
- Prancer: A Christmas Tale — Prancer Vocal Effects (voice)2022
- Scooby-Doo, Where Are You Now! — Scooby-Doo / Fred Jones / Self2021
via TMDB
Key facts
- Born
- Franklin Wendell Welker , ( 1946-03-12 ) March 12, 1946 (age 80) , Denver , Colorado, US
- Alma mater
- Santa Monica College
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 1967–present
- Known for
- Fred Jones and Scooby-Doo in Scooby-Doo
- Works
- Full list
- Website
- frankwelker .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Denver
- Occupation
- voice actor
- Educated at
- Santa Monica College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Official website
- www.frankwelker.net
- Image
- Frank Welker Headshot 2016.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1946-03-12
- Commons category
- Frank Welker
- start of work period
- 1967-00-00
- writing language
- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
Franklin Wendell Welker (born March 12, 1946) is an American voice actor. He began his career in the 1960s, and held around 850 film, television, and video game credits as of 2020, making him one of the most prolific voice actors in history. With his films earning a total worldwide box-office gross of $17.4 billion, he is also amongst the highest-grossing actors as of 2024.
Welker is best known for voicing Fred Jones from the Scooby-Doo franchise since its inception in 1969 and later the titular character himself since 2002. In 2020, Welker reprised the latter role in the animated film Scoob!, the only original voice actor from the series in the film's cast. He is also known for voicing Garfield from the Garfield franchise since 2007, as well as voicing several characters and creatures in Matt Groening's animated sci-fi sitcom Futurama, including Nibbler. In 2016, he received a Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award. He was nominated for the Children's and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice Performance in an Animated Program in 2022.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Frank Welker” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.