Template:Realworld Frank Welker (born 16 February 1945; age 79) is a professional voice actor, most noted for portraying the character of Freddy (and following Don Messick's death, Scooby-Doo as well) in the various Scooby-Doo animated series and movies, Darwin the dolphin from the series seaQuest DSV, and many others. His Star Trek work included the voice of a screaming child Spock in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, as well as additional voice work on the Star Trek: Starfleet Academy series of games and the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Nothing Human". His work with Leonard Nimoy goes even futher: Nimoy was the voice of Galvatron in The Transformers: The Movie, and Welker took over that role in the subsequent seasons of the television series. They also appeared together in The Pagemaster and Futurama. Franks also voiced Autobot leader Optimus Prime on Transformers.
He voiced many animals in The Simpsons and Nibbler in Futurama.
Filmography
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991; with Michelan Sisti, David Warner, Brian Tochi, Lee Spencer, and Lisa Chess)
Trivia
- Welker also performed the voice of a character known as Doctor Claw. Years later this would come to be a fanbased appellation for the Temporal Cold War character known as Future Guy, due to the similarity of traits held in common between them such as distinctive distorted voices, and never showing their faces while simultaneously orchestrating the actions of their pawns as their own relative anonymity is maintained.
External Links
- Official Home Page
- Frank Welker at Wikipedia
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