Know Your “That Guy”: Frank Welker
Frank Welker
Born: March 12, 1946
Number of Roles: 649
Best Known for Playing: 80’s cartoon characters
First Appearance: Rutgers in The Trouble with Girls (1969)
Most Recent Appearance: Megatron on Tranformers Prime (2010)
Notable Roles:
- Megatron, Soundwave, Shockwave and more on Tranformers
- Fred on The New Scooby Doo Movies and Scooby Doo and Scrappy Doo
- H.E.R.B.I.E. on The Fantastic Four
- Toyman on Challenge of the Superfriends
- Crime Globe on The Super Globetrotters
- Rock n Roll, Short Fuse and Timber on GI Joe
- Donkey Kong Junior on Saturday Supercade
- Iceman on Spider Man and his Amazing Friends
- Stripe in Gremlins
- Scooter, Blaster, Rest-Q on Challenge of the Go-Bots
- Brain, Dr. Claw on Inspector Gadget
- Nate Slate, Stalagbite, Thug on The Flintstone Kids
- Slimer on The Real Ghostbusters
- Gameboy on Captain N
- Tokka and Rahzar in TMNT II: Secret of the Ooze
- Kermit, Skeeter, Beaker on Muppet Babies
- Abu, Cave of Wonders in Aladdin
- Furball, GoGo Dodo, Little Beeper on Tiny Toon Adventures
- Bo, Booker, Sheldon on Garfield and Friends
- Bronx on Gargoyles
- Santa’s Little Helper on The Simpsons
- Nibbler on Futurama
Fun Facts
- Voiced 8 of the original 14 Decepticons on Transformers
- Has voiced every incarnation of Fred from Scooby Doo except for “A Pup Named Scooby Doo”
- Has used his “Dr. Claw” voice in numerous other roles including Shao Khan, Soundwave and Darkseid
- Although he doesn’t voice Megatron in the Michael Bay Transformers movies, he did voice him in the video game based on the movie.