26 Facts About Frank Welker

Franklin Wendell Welker was born on March 12,1946 and is an American voice actor.

Frank Welker began his career in the 1960s, and holds over 860 film, television, and video game credits as of 2023, making him one of the most prolific voice actors of all time.

Frank Welker was born on March 12,1946, in Denver, Colorado.

Frank Welker's parents were Merrill Welker, a mining engineer, and Lillian.

Frank Welker began his career as a stand-up comedian and impressionist in 1967, before transitioning to on-screen acting and later voice acting.

Frank Welker has voiced Fred in almost every series and incarnation of the Scooby-Doo animated franchise and has provided the voice of Scooby-Doo since 2002.

Frank Welker continued to provide voices for many characters for Hanna-Barbera for several years, which include Jabberjaw, Dynomutt, Dog Wonder, and the Shmoo in The New Fred and Barney Show and its spin-off, The Flintstones Comedy Show.

Frank Welker described the voice he used for the Shmoo as "a bubble voice".

Frank Welker voiced various characters on The Simpsons, such as Santa's Little Helper, Snowball II, and various other animals from 1991 to his departure from the show in 2002.

Frank Welker provided both the speaking voice and animal sounds for Nibbler on Matt Groening's Futurama.

Frank Welker voiced George in the animated film of the same name that same year.

In 2007, Frank Welker became the new voice of Garfield, following Bill Murray's departure from the role, and succeeding the original actor Lorenzo Music, who died in 2001.

Frank Welker voiced Garfield in Garfield Gets Real, Garfield's Fun Fest, Garfield's Pet Force, and on the series The Garfield Show, which ran from 2008 to 2016.

Frank 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, called the Ancient One, on StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm.

Frank Welker provided the voice of the mad mage Xzar for the Baldur's Gate video game series, and reprised his role from Avengers Assemble as Odin for Lego Marvel's Avengers.

In 2016, Frank Welker received a Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award at the 43rd Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Awards.

Frank Welker later co-starred with Don Knotts in Universal's How to Frame a Figg, appeared in Dirty Little Billy, and on The Paul Lynde Show.

Frank Welker played a prosecutor in the highly acclaimed ABC special The Trial of General Yamashita and as Captain Pace beside Richard Dreyfuss' Yossarian in Paramount Television's pilot Catch-22.

In 1978, Frank Welker appeared on The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast to George Burns.

Frank Welker voiced several Decepticons, including the leader Megatron, Soundwave, Skywarp, Mixmaster, Rumble, Frenzy, Ravage, and Ratbat, as well as Autobots Mirage, Trailbreaker, and Sludge.

Frank Welker took on the role of Wheelie in The Transformers: The Movie, and in the post-movie episodes took over the role of Galvatron and voiced Chromedome and Pinpointer.

In 2010, Frank Welker reprised the roles of Megatron and Soundwave in the series Transformers: Prime and the Transformers: Generation 1 video game Transformers: Devastation.

In Prime, Frank Welker significantly altered Megatron's voice from his Generation 1 portrayal to sound more sinister.

Frank Welker returned to two of his Transformers roles when he portrayed Megatron and Soundwave as part of a spoof in a third-season episode of Robot Chicken, which aired shortly after the release of the first installment of the live-action film series.

Frank Welker again reprised his role as Soundwave, and took on the roles of Shockwave and Barricade, in the third film, Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

Frank Welker has been a licensed pilot since 2010, he flies a Beechcraft Bonanza B36T from a local general aviation airport in Los Angeles, California.