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| − | [[File:Frank welker.jpg|thumb|Frank Welker in 2007]] | + | |name= Frank Welker |
| − | '''Franklin W. Welker''' (born March 12, 1946) is a voice actor. On ''The Simpsons'', he was primarily responsible for giving barks to [[Santa's Little Helper]], meows to [[Snowball II]] and other animal noises. He left sometime in 2006 for reasons unknown and most of his vocal duties were taken over by [[Dan Castellaneta]]. He is responsible for a broad spectrum of character voices, noises, and other vocal effects that have appeared over the last 40 years in American television and motion pictures. He is listed as the number one "All Time Top 100 Stars at the Box office" in terms of the total revenue the films he has participated in have generated, a title previously held by Samuel L. Jackson.
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| | + | |job= Voice actor |
| | + | |birthdate= {{birthdate|1946|3|12}} |
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| | + | |seasons= [[Season 2]] - [[Season 3|3]], [[Season 5|5]] - [[Season 8|8]], [[Season 11|11]] - [[Season 13|13]], [[Season 26|26]] |
| | + | |first episode= "[[Bart's Dog Gets an "F"]]" |
| | + | |latest episode= "[[Simpsorama]]" |
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| − | == Early life ==
| + | '''Franklin Wendell "Frank" Welker''' (born March 12, 1946) is an American voice actor and actor. He performed the barks of [[Santa's Little Helper]], meows of [[Snowball II]], and many other animal noises. |
| − | Welker was born in Denver, Colorado. He attended college in California, where he later began his professional career appearing in commercials. While in college he appeared in numerous plays, and developed a stand-up comedy act which got him started on the concert circuit touring with The Righteous Brothers and Sergio Mendes. He continued with stand up, appearing in places including Las Vegas and Lake Tahoe as the opening act for headliners like Sonny and Cher, Diana Ross, Loretta Lynn, Ann Margaret and Neil Sedaka. | |
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| − | == Acting career == | + | == Credits == |
| − | Welker's first film role was as a bar fight participant in Stan Dragoti’s ''Dirty Little Billy.'' He played a college kid from Rutgers University in the Elvis Presley picture ''The Trouble with Girls.'' He later co-starred with Don Knotts in Universal’s ''How to Frame a Figg.'' Welker also participated in two Disney films, ''The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes'' and ''Now You See Him, Now You Don't''.
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| − | His on camera television appearances included ''Love American Style,'' ''The Partridge Family'' and ''The Don Knotts Show''. He played a prosecutor in highly acclaimed ABC special ''The Trial of General Yamashita'' and as Captain Pace beside Richard Dreyfuss' Yossarian in Paramount television’s pilot, ''Catch-22.'' He appeared on ''Laugh In'', ''The Dean Martin Roast'', ''The Mike Douglas Show'', ''The Tonight Show'', ''Merv Griffin'', ''The Smothers Brothers Show'', ''The Burns and Schreiber Comedy Hour'' and ''Laugh Trax''. In the latter show, he was a cast member along side Jim Staahl and Howie Mandel.
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| − | == Voice actor == | + | == See also == |
| − | Welker has been referred to as a "voice acting god" (by [[John DiMaggio]] and Billy West in the DVD commentary for ''[[Futurama]]'') in Hollywood for the sheer number of voices he has done — over 1,200 — ranging from his work on [[Wikipedia:Scooby-Doo|''Scooby-Doo'']] to the present day. His voice acting credits include television shows and films such as ''Curious George'', ''Aladdin'', ''Pocahontas'' and computer games such as the ''Baldur's Gate'' series, ''New Super Mario Bros'' and ''CarnEvil''.
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| − | In the ''Transformers'' television series, he voiced eight of the original 14 Decepticons as well as the Autobots Mirage and Trailbreaker. With the release of the animated film in 1986, he took on the role of the Autobot Wheelie and afterwards, took over the role of Galvatron, (which Welker had originated) from [[Leonard Nimoy]]. Having already provided the screams for Nimoy's character Mr. Spock in ''Star Trek III: The Search for Spock'', this marked the second time he had inherited a role from Nimoy.
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| − | Welker did more live action movies during the 1990s. Among his work includes vocal effects for the character of Sil in ''Species'', Goro in 1995's ''Mortal Kombat'', the Devil in 1985's ''The Golden Child'', and Malebolgia in 1997's ''Spawn''. Welker also provided the voice (both speaking and non-speaking) of Nibbler in the cartoon TV series ''[[Futurama]]'' and was also the voice of Snot Tiger in the 2006 Walt Disney animated film ''The Fox and the Hound 2''.
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| − | As of 2002, Welker is the voice of both Fred Jones and Scooby Doo. This includes the most recent ''What's New, Scooby-Doo?'', and the series-based spinoff, ''Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue!''.
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| − | His most recent character is Garfield in ''Garfield Gets Real'', the first in a series of new Garfield DVDs.
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| − | In 2009, Welker once again did a role in front of the camera in the film ''The Informant'', where he has a cameo role playing the father of Matt Damon's character.
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| | == External links == | | == External links == |
| − | *{{IMDB|name/nm0919798/}} | + | *{{IMDb|name/nm0919798/}} |
| − | *{{Wikipedialink|Frank Welker|Frank Welker}} | + | *{{Wikipedialink}} |
| | + | *{{Infosphere|Frank Welker}} |
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Frank Welker at the Internet Movie Database
Frank Welker at Wikipedia
Frank Welker at the Infosphere
