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Frank Welker

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Frank Welker was born in Colorado. He followed his dream to California, and started a voice acting career which has spanned over five decades and hundreds of credits. Frank has worked with fellow voice actors Casey Kasem, Nicole Jaffe, Don Messick, Heather North, and Stefanianna Christopherson on Hanna-Barbera's iconic Scooby Doo, Where Are You! (1969), voicing Fred Jones, among other Scooby credits over the years. He has also worked with Kurt Russell, Peter Cullen, and Michael Bay.
- IMDb mini biography by: Athanatos173

Often works in animated productions as the voice of animal characters
Often provides a deep raspy ominous voice for his characters, most notably Doctor Claw
The voice of Fred Jones. He has performed as the character over 200 times, since 1969, one of the longest continual performances of all time
The voice of Megatron, the nefarious leader of the Decepticons on Transformers (1984).
Has an ability to alter his voice from animal sounds to villains and heroes and eclectic collection of roles

His broad spectrum of character voices, noises and other vocal effects that have appeared over the last 40 years in motion pictures, have vaulted him to number one on the "All Time Top 100 Stars at the Box office" list. The revenue of films he has participated in have generated over 12 billion dollars worldwide. His work in over 90 films has put him ahead of Harrison Ford, Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Hanks and Eddie Murphy.
Has done every voicing of Fred Jones for most of the Scooby-Doo animated series with the sole exception of A Pup Named Scooby-Doo (1988). Even in parodies and cameos on dissimilar television series, he has always done this voice.
Has played the same character (Fred Jones) on 15 dissimilar series: Scooby Doo, Where Are You! (1969), The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972), The Scooby-Doo Show (1976), Dynomutt Dog Wonder (1976), Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1979), The Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Puppy Hour (1982), The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries (1984), Scooby's Mystery Funhouse (1982), Family Guy (1999), Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law (2000), What's New, Scooby-Doo? (2002), Robot Chicken (2005), Supernatural (2005), Batman: The Brave and the Bold (2008) and Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated (2010).
Referred to in Hollywood as a voice god.
Has worked with Robin Williams in five films: A Wish for Wings That Work (1991), Aladdin (1992), In Search of Dr. Seuss (1994), Jumanji (1995) and Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1996).

I've been doing voices as long as I can remember. When I was little, I could pick up on sounds and then I discovered you could distort what you hear and make people laugh or disrupt a class.
I was voted by my high-school senior class as most likely to recede.
I like looking at the characters. Seeing them always brings up some voice or attitude. I am much more visual, and that works so much better than having someone tell me what the character is all about.
I have worked alone and with a cast and enjoy the process both ways. There is more back-and-forth with a full cast, and you can feed off the other actors' performance.
Normally, I play dads, good guys and little animals.

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