Frank Welker

Frank Welker
Background information
Born	Franklin Wendell Welker March 12, 1946 (age 76) Denver, Colorado, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alternate names	Franklin Welker
Occupation	Voice actor
Years active	1960-present

Franklin Wendell "Frank" Welker (born March 12, 1946) is an American actor who specializes in voice acting. He is one of the most legendary voice actors in the world, and was once the highest paid actor ever until October 2011 when Samuel L. Jackson took his title. Welker's first notable voice role was Fred Jones in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?, a role he has reprised in most subsequent spin-offs and adaptations (he is also the current voice of Scooby-Doo himself since 2002). His range extends to such characters as Slimer from The Real Ghostbusters, Megatron from Transformers, Abu from Disney's Aladdin, Hefty Smurf from The Smurfs, Curious George in the film and TV series of the same name, Dr. Claw and Brain on Inspector Gadget, Father Time on Histeria!, Santa's Little Helper (the dog) on The Simpsons, and Santa Claus in multiple Christmas specials.

For Nickelodeon, he has voiced Goddard on The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, the wolf from The Rugrats Movie, and Mox and Macqaque Wallah on The Wild Thornberrys. He has also been the official voice of Garfield since 2007 (a dozen years before Nickelodeon acquired the franchise), though it is unknown if he will continue to voice the character in Nickelodeon's upcoming Garfield series. He has voiced the character in Nickelodeon Extreme Tennis, however. (Prior to voicing Garfield, he also voiced some of the U.S. Acres characters on Garfield and Friends.)

Nickelodeon roles

Bubble Puppy

Goddard

Garfield

Trivia

• Welker was one of the many people who had auditioned for the voice of Ren Höek from The Ren & Stimpy Show before the role went to John Kricfalusi and eventually Billy West.

External links

• Frank Welker at the Internet Movie Database
• Frank Welker at Behind the Voice Actors

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