Frank Welker

This is the page about the voice actor. For other uses, see Frank (disambiguation).

Template:Person Franklin Wendell Welker (born March 12, 1946; age Template:Age) is an American actor, voice actor, comedian, impressionist, and former SpongeBob SquarePants cast member who provided additional voices in the show's early seasons. He voiced Clamu and the baby oyster in the episode "The Smoking Peanut," Mystery the Seahorse in the episode "My Pretty Seahorse," and the gorilla in the episode "I Had an Accident."

He has been referred to by fellow Futurama cast members Billy West and John DiMaggio as a "voice god."

Biography

Welker is an American actor, who for most of his career has specialized as a voice actor. His first major voice role came in 1969 as Fred Jones in the Scooby-Doo franchise. Welker has voiced Fred in almost every series and incarnation of the Scooby-Doo animated franchise (with the exceptions of A Pup Named Scooby-Doo and Scoob!) and has also provided the voice of Scooby-Doo since 2002. As of 2024, Welker is the only original voice actor still in the Scooby-Doo franchise.^[1]

Non-SpongeBob discography

Welker is best known for his roles as Fred and Scooby-Doo from the Scooby-Doo franchise, Megatron, Soundwave, and many other characters from the original Transformers, Dr. Claw from Inspector Gadget, Nibbler (both talking and sound effects) from Futurama, and Abu from Aladdin.

Among others, he is also well known for doing various animal, monster, and alien sound affects used in various animated series and live-action films. He is now the current voice of Walt Disney Studio's oldest animated star, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. He was the voice of Goddard from the Nickelodeon series and movie The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, as well as Garfield in The Garfield Show. He is the voice of Bubble Puppy in the Nick Jr. animated preschool TV series Bubble Guppies. He voices George in the movie and TV show Curious George, Sharptooth in The Land Before Time, Sabor in Tarzan, Momma Dino and Rudy in Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs and Joanna the Goanna in The Reacuers Down Under.