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Frank Welker

Born Franklin W. Welker
March 12, 1946 (1946-03-12) (age 62)
Denver, Colorado
Occupation Voice actor
Official website

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Welker is listed as the number one "All Time Top 100 Stars at the Box office," not as a box office draw, but in terms of the total revenue the over 90 films he has participated in have generated. [1]

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Early life

Welker was born in Denver, Colorado. The City and County of Denver (pronounced /ˈdɛnvɚ/ is the Capital and the most populous city of Colorado, in the United States He attended college in California, where he later began his career appearing in commercials. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. While in college he appeared in numerous plays, and developed a stand-up comedy act which got him started on the concert circuit touring with The Righteous Brothers and Sergio Mendes. Stand-up comedy is a style of comedy where the performer speaks directly to the audience with the absence of the theatrical " Fourth wall " The Righteous Brothers were the Musical duo of Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield. Sérgio Santos Mendes, pron. 'sɛxʒiu 'sɐ̃tus 'mẽ'dʒis (born February 11, 1941 in Niterói, Brazil) is a Grammy Award He continued with stand up, appearing in places including Las Vegas and Lake Tahoe as the opening act for headliners like Sonny and Cher, Diana Ross, Loretta Lynn, Ann Margaret and Neil Sedaka. The Las Vegas Strip (also known as The Strip) is an approximately 4 mile (6 Lake Tahoe is a large freshwater Lake in the Sierra Nevada mountains of the United States. Sonny & Cher were an American Pop music duo made up of husband and wife team Sonny Bono and Cher in the 1960s and 1970s Diana Ross (born March 261944 is an American twelve-time Grammy and Oscar -nominated singer Record producer and actress whose musical repertoire Loretta Lynn (born Loretta Webb on April 14, 1934) is an American Country music Singer-songwriter; she was one of the leading Ann-Margret (born April 28 1941 is a Swedish -born American actress singer Neil Sedaka (born March 13, 1939 in Brooklyn New York) is an American pop Singer, Pianist, and Songwriter

Acting career

Welker's first on camera film role was as a bar fight participant in Stan Dragoti’s Dirty Little Billy. He played a college kid from Rutgers University in the Elvis Presley picture The Trouble with Girls. Rutgers The State University of New Jersey (also known as Rutgers University) is the largest institution for higher education in the state of New Jersey For the comic book see The Trouble with Girls (comics. The Trouble with Girls (full title The Trouble with Girls (and How He later co-starred with Don Knotts in Universal’s How to Frame a Figg. Jesse Donald Knotts ( July 21, 1924 &ndash February 24, 2006) was an American comedic Actor best known Universal Studios (sometimes called Universal Pictures or Universal City Studios) a subsidiary of NBC Universal, is a major Global American How to Frame a Figg is a 1971 Universal Comedy about a bungling bookkeeper's assistant Hollis Alexander Figg (played by Don Knotts Welker also appeared in two Disney films, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes and Now You See Him, Now You Don't. The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes is a Walt Disney film from 1969, starring Alan Hewitt, Kurt Russell, Frank Webb, and Joe Now You See Him Now You Don't is a Walt Disney film from 1972, starring Kurt Russell, a student in the fictional Medfield College

His on camera television appearances included Love American Style, The Partridge Family and The Don Knotts Show. Love American Style is an hour-long television Anthology which was produced by Paramount Television and originally aired between September The Partridge Family was a successful American Television sitcom about a widowed mother and her five children who embarked on a music career The Don Knotts Show was a variety program aired by NBC as part of its 1970-71 lineup. He played a prosecutor in highly acclaimed ABC special The Trial of General Yamashita and as Captain Pace beside Richard Dreyfuss' Yossarian in Paramount television’s pilot, Catch-22. The American Broadcasting Company ( ABC) is an American Television network. Richard Stephen Dreyfuss (born October 29 1947 is an Academy Award -winning American Actor, known for a number of film television and theater roles such Also covered in this article are the characters Snowden and Yo-Yo's Roomies. Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and Distribution company, based in Hollywood California. Catch-22 is a satirical, historical Novel by the American author Joseph Heller, first published in 1961 He appeared on Laugh In, The Dean Martin Roast, The Mike Douglas Show, The Tonight Show, Merv Griffin, The Smothers Brothers Show, The Burns and Schreiber Comedy Hour and Laugh Trax. Here Comes The Judge redirects here for the 1968 song see Shorty Long. Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti; June 7 1917 &ndash December 25 1995 was an American Singer, Film Actor, television personality The Mike Douglas Show was an American daytime Television Talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that ran from 1961 to 1982 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as appropriate --> The Tonight Show is a long-running Mervyn Edward "Merv" Griffin Jr ( July 6, 1925 &ndash August 12, 2007) was an American Television host and The Smothers Brothers Show was a Situation comedy featuring the Smothers Brothers that aired on CBS on Friday nights at 930 p In the latter show, he was a cast member alongside Jim Staahl and Howie Mandel. Howie Michael Mandel II (born November 29, 1955) is a Canadian Stand-up comedian, Television host, and Actor. Frank also played an on camera role of a voice actor on an episode of Simon and Simon. Simon & Simon is a 1980s detective series starring Gerald McRaney and Jameson Parker.

Voice actor

Welker has been referred to as a "voice acting god" (by John DiMaggio and Billy West in the DVD commentary for Futurama) in Hollywood for the sheer number of voices he has done—over 1,200—ranging from his work on Scooby-Doo to the present day. John William DiMaggio (born September 4, 1968) is an American voice actor. William Richard "Billy" West (born on April 16, 1952 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American voice actor, known Futurama is an Emmy Award -winning animated American sitcom created by Matt Groening, and developed by Groening and Scooby-Doo is a long-running American animated series produced for Saturday morning television in several different versions from 1969 to the His voice acting credits include television shows and films such as Curious George, Aladdin, Pocahontas and computer games such as the Baldur's Gate series, and CarnEvil. Curious George is the Protagonist of a series of popular Children's books by the same name written by Hans Augusto Rey and Margret Rey. Aladdin (an Anglicisation of the Arabic name (originally Syrian Alāʼ ad-Dīn, Arabic: علاء الدين literally "nobility of the faith" Pocahontas (c 1595 – March 21 1617 was a Native American woman who married an Englishman John Rolfe, and became a celebrity in London in the last year of her A personal computer Game (also known as a computer game or simply PC game) is a Video game played on a Personal computer, rather Baldur's Gate is a popular series of Computer role-playing games that take place on Faerûn, the main continent from Dungeons & Dragons CarnEvil is a Rail shooter Arcade game using a Light gun. Released by Midway Games on October 31 ( Halloween Frank's ability goes beyond creating human voices and is often cast as animals and used for animal vocals, for example the animal-spirit Totoro in the Disney 2005 re-dub of My Neighbour Totoro. is a 1988 Japanese anime film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli. is a 1988 Japanese anime film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli. He was described as "unbelievable" at imitating animal sounds by Maurice LaMarche in a Futurama DVD commentary. Maurice LaMarche (born March 30, 1958) is a Canadian Voice actor and former stand up Comedian.

Welker appears in Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams, playing Abu and Rajah. Disney Princess Enchanted Tales Follow Your Dreams is a Direct-to-video Animated feature produced by DisneyToon Studios.

Welker did more live action movies during the 1990s. Among his work includes vocal effects for the character of Sil in Species, Goro in 1995's Mortal Kombat, the Devil in 1986's The Golden Child, and Malebolgia in 1997's Spawn. Species is a 1995 Science fiction thriller by Roger Donaldson. Goro is a Fictional character in the Mortal Kombat Fighting game series Mortal Kombat is a 1995 action film directed by Paul W S Anderson that was based on the popular Mortal Kombat series of The Devil is the The Golden Child is a 1986 American mystical Comedy film starring Eddie Murphy. Malebolgia (also referred to at times as the Malebolgia) is the name of a fictional Demon in the Spawn universe, drawing its name from the Spawn is a Film adaptation of Todd McFarlane 's creator-owned Image comic book of the same name. Welker also provided the voice (both speaking and non-speaking) of Nibbler in the cartoon TV series Futurama and was also the voice of Snot Tiger in the 2006 Walt Disney animated film The Fox and the Hound 2. Lord Nibbler is a fictional character from the animated Television series Futurama. Futurama is an Emmy Award -winning animated American sitcom created by Matt Groening, and developed by Groening and The Fox and the Hound 2 is a 2006 Direct-to-video midquel to the 1981 Disney animated film The Fox and the Hound

As of 2002, Welker is the voice of both Fred Jones and Scooby Doo. Frederick Herman Jones, known to his friends by the nickname "Freddie", is a Fictional character in the long running American Television This includes the most recent What's New, Scooby-Doo?, and the series-based spinoff, Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue! Also, Welker starred in most of the 2000's Scooby-Doo projects as Fred Jones and Scooby-Doo. What's New Scooby-Doo? was the ninth incarnation of the long-running Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo, and Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue! is the tenth incarnation of Hanna-Barbera 's long-running Scooby-Doo series of Saturday morning cartoons He also was Sasquatch in The Legend of Sasquatch. The Legend of Sasquatch is a 2006 computer-animated independent film released by Gorilla Pictures that stars William Hurt and John Rhys-Davies. Welker's talent was also recognized in Disney's Stitch: Experiment 626, voicing the jealous and manicial Experiment 6-2-1. Disney's Stitch Experiment 626 is a Platform game for the Sony PlayStation 2.

His most recent character is Garfield in Garfield Gets Real, the first in a series of new Garfield DVDs. Garfield is a daily-syndicated Comic strip created by Jim Davis. Garfield Gets Real is a computer-generated animated movie starring Garfield the Cat, produced by Paws Inc DVD (also known as " Digital Versatile Disc " or " Digital Video Disc " - see Etymology)is

Transformers

In the 1980s, Welker voiced many recurring characters in the Transformers animated series. He voiced eight of the original 14 Decepticons: Megatron/Galvatron, Soundwave, Skywarp, Laserbeak, Buzzsaw, Rumble, Frenzy, Ravage, and Ratbat. "Deceptacon" redirects here but is also the name of a song by the group Le Tigre. Megatron Galvatron is the name of several fictional Transformers most often the recreated version of Megatron, the Decepticon Supreme Commander Soundwave is the name of several Fictional characters from the ''Transformers'' universes. Skywarp is the name of several Fictional characters in the Transformers toy line. Laserbeak (with various spellings is the name given to four Fictional characters in the various Transformers universes. Buzzsaw is the name of several Fictional characters in the fictional Transformers universes. Rumble is a Fictional character in the Transformers universes. Frenzy is the name of several Fictional characters in the various Transformers universes. Ravage is the name of several Fictional characters in the Transformers universes Ratbat is the name of several Fictional characters who appeared in various Transformers universes. He also did voicework as the Autobots Mirage, Trailbreaker and Wheelie. A mirage is a naturally-occurring Optical phenomenon, in which light rays are bent to produce a displaced image of distant objects or the sky Trailbreaker is the name of several Fictional characters from the Transformers toy line and Animated television series. In Vehicle Acrobatics, a wheelie is a trick where the front wheel or wheels come off the ground due to an excessive amount of torque being powered to the rear wheel With the release of the animated film in 1986, he took on the role of the Autobot Wheelie and afterwards, took over the role of Galvatron from Leonard Nimoy. Leonard Simon Nimoy (born March 26, 1931) is an American Actor, Film director, Poet, Musician and Having already provided the screams for Nimoy's character Mr. Spock in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, this marked the second time he had inherited a role from Nimoy. Spock (sometimes referred to as Mr Spock) is a main character in the original Star Trek TV series Star Trek III The Search for Spock ( Paramount Pictures, 1984) is the third feature Film based on the Star Trek Welker was asked to audition to reprise his original role of Megatron in the 2007 live action Transformers movie. Transformers is a 2007 Live-action Film adaptation of the ''Transformers'' franchise, directed by Michael Bay and Apparently due to conflict in schedules, Welker never met with the producers or director Michael Bay. Michael Benjamin Bay (born February 17, 1965) is an American Film director and producer. Bay, however, had Welker send him a couple of recorded lines and concluded Welker's Megatron did not fit his new interpretation of the character. Although this did not occur in the film itself, Welker reunited with Transformers co-star Peter Cullen in the 2007 Transformers: The Game, with both returning to voice their signature roles. Peter Cullen, born in 1944 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, is a Voice actor who is best known for providing the voices for Optimus Prime Transformers The Game is the name of multiple versions of a Video game based on the 2007 live action film Transformers He also reprised his role in the animated prequel, a bonus premium of the DVD package. Transformers Movie Prequel, published by IDW Publishing, is a 2007 Comic book Limited series that serves as a Prequel to the 2007

Welker also returned to two of his most famous Transformers roles when he portrayed Megatron and Soundwave as part of a spoof in the third season episode of Robot Chicken, aired shortly after the release of the live action film. Robot Chicken is an Emmy -Award Winning American Stop motion animated television series created by Seth Green and Matthew

Partial filmography

References

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