Frank Welker

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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.

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2026
Optimus Prime Awakening
Movie Megatron / Soundwave (voice)
2026
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TV show Creator
2025
Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo! Meets Courage the Cowardly Dog
Movie Scooby-Doo / Fred Jones (voice)
2024
Not Just a Goof
Movie Self (archive footage)
2024
Transformers: 40th Anniversary Event
Movie Megatron / Mirage / Rumble / Skywarp / Soundwave (voice)
2023
Scooby-Doo! and Krypto, Too!
Movie Scooby-Doo / Fred Jones (voice)
2023
Once Upon a Studio
Movie Abu / Joanna (voice) (archive sound)
2023
Velma
TV show William (voice)
2022
Prancer: A Christmas Tale
Movie Prancer Vocal Effects (voice)
2022
Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!
Movie Scooby-Doo / Rudy / Fred / Nefario (voice)
2021
Saturday Morning All Star Hits!
TV show Ronnie $elfish (voice)
2021
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You Now!
Movie Scooby-Doo / Fred Jones / Self
2021
Mickey's Tale of Two Witches
Movie Figaro / Butch (voice)
2021
Curious George: Cape Ahoy
Movie Curious George (voice)
2021
Jellystone!
TV show Fred Jones / Cheese of the Future Narrator (voice)
2021
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
Movie Additional Voices (voice)

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2021
INVINCIBLE
TV show Emperor Argall / Viltrumites (voice)
2021
Scooby-Doo! The Sword and the Scoob
Movie Scooby-Doo / Fred Jones / Monster (voice)
2021
Tom & Jerry
Movie Tom / Jerry (voice) (uncredited)
2020
Animaniacs
TV show Male Gallery Member / Ralphus (voice)
2020
Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo!
Movie Scooby-Doo / Fred Jones (voice)
2020
Curious George: Go West, Go Wild
Movie George / Additional Voices (voice)
2020
Scoob!
Movie Scooby-Doo / Pterodactyl (voice)
2020
Looney Tunes Cartoons
TV show Announcer (voice)
2020
Zenimation
TV show Abu (voice) (archive footage)
2019
The Rocketeer
TV show Ambrose / Butch (voice)
2019
The Little Mermaid Live!
Movie Max (archive footage) (voice)
2019
Curious George: Royal Monkey
Movie George / Philippe (voice)
2019
Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island
Movie Scooby Doo / Fred Jones (voice)
2019
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
TV show Fred Jones / Scooby-Doo (voice)
2019
Aladdin
Movie Cave of Wonders (voice)
2019
Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost
Movie Scooby-Doo / Fred Jones (voice)
2018
3Below: Tales of Arcadia
TV show Luug (voice)
2018
Star Wars Resistance
TV show Chelidae (voice)
2018
Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost
Movie Scooby-Doo / Fred Jones (voice)
2018
Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
TV show Councilor 2 (voice)
2018
Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold
Movie Scooby-Doo / Fred Jones (voice)
2017
LEGO Scooby-Doo! Blowout Beach Bash
Movie Scooby-Doo / Fred Jones (voice)
2017
Transformers: The Last Knight
Movie Megatron (voice)
2017
Smurfs: The Lost Village
Movie Azrael (voice)