Frank Welker

  • a.k.a. Jack Beanstalk
  • Dr. Frankenwelker
  • Frank W. Welker
  • Franklin Welker
  • Tom Welker
  • Franklin Wendell Welker
  • Frank Wendell Welker

This product uses the TMDb and OMDb APIs but is not endorsed or certified by either TMDb or OMDb.
You can also find this person on TMDb.org and IMDb.com.

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.

Gender
male
Date of Birth
()
Place of Birth
Denver, Colorado, USA

Credits

Cast

CharacterMovie / TV ShowGenresReleaseRating
Cave of Wonders (voice)Aladdin71% · 10,034
Sparky (voice) (uncredited)Frankenweenie70% · 3,354
Sonya (voice)Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted66% · 6,120
Mannequins / Beast (voice)Mirror Mirror59% · 3,143
Azrael (voice)The Smurfs58% · 3,739
Momma Dino (voice) (uncredited)Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs68% · 8,293
Buddy (voice)Cats & Dogs54% · 1,621
Special Vocal Effects (voice)Independence Day69% · 9,562
Alien Creature (voice)Star Trek: VoyagerTV78% · 935
Reindeer Voices (voice)The Santa Clause65% · 2,063
Spock's ScreamsStar Trek III: The Search for Spock66% · 1,363
All credits on TMDb.org.