Frank Welker
| Frank Welker | |
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| Born |
Franklin Wendell Welker March 12, 1946 Denver, Colorado, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Santa Monica College |
| Occupation | Voice actor, actor |
| Years active | 1967–present |
| Agent | CESD Talent Agency |
| Notable credit(s) | (all voices)
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Franklin Wendell "Frank" Welker (born March 12, 1946) is an American actor, who for most of his career has specialized as a voice actor, is best known for his role as Fred Jones from the Scooby-Doo franchise since its conception in 1969; as the only original voice actor still with the Scooby-Doo franchise, along with the voice of Megatron in the Transformers franchise; specifically Transformers G1 and Transformers: Prime, as well as Scooby-Doo since 2002.
In 2016, Welker received an Emmy Award in honor of his lifetime achievements.
Welker was born in Denver, Colorado, on March 12, 1946. He then moved to California and attended Santa Monica City College in Santa Monica, California, where he majored in Theatrical Arts. In 1966, he received honors for his performance as the Cowardly Lion in the college's theater production of The Wizard of Oz. During his transition between college and his voice acting career, his first voice-over role was in a commercial for Friskies dog food. The producer's girlfriend informed him of auditioning for Hanna-Barbera during the casting of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! where he initially auditioned for the title character but instead won the role of Fred Jones.
Welker's first on-camera film role was as a college kid from Rutgers University who befriends Elvis Presley in The Trouble with Girls (1969). His next film role was in the Disney film The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969), which starred Kurt Russell (he would also appear in the film's sequel, Now You See Him, Now You Don't, in 1972). He later co-starred with Don Knotts in Universal's How to Frame a Figg (1971), and appeared in Dirty Little Billy (1972).
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