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Franklin Wendell Welker (born March 12, 1946) is an American voice actor. He is responsible for a broad spectrum of character voices, and other vocal effects that have appeared over the last 40 years in American television and motion pictures.
Welker is listed as the number one "All Time Top 100 Stars at the Box Office," not as a box office draw, but in terms of the total revenue generated by the films in which he has participated, for the sheer number of voices he has
As it should be, Welker's reputation is astounding and alongside [[Mel Blanc]] is likely the most famous voice actor in the world, he is revered as a voice acting god. Frank's ability goes beyond creating human voices and is often cast as animals and used for animal vocals, where he has has an uncanny talent at imitation. If the movie or show has any sort of budget and it has a regular animal character, he probably does the voices for it.
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Welker hasn't been entirely on animated shows, either. Animal sounds or otherwise "beastly" characters in live action work also keeps him in high demand. As an interesting side-note, he provided the voice of a screaming Spock in ''[[Star Trek III: The Search For Spock|Star Trek III the Search For Spock]]'', while Leonard Nimoy took on the role of Galvatron (an altered Megatron) in ''[[Transformers: The Movie]]''. He also cameoed in ''[[The Informant (film)|The Informant]]'' as Matt Damon's character's father.
Largely because of the demand of his animal voice work, Welker more often plays a side-character instead of being the Hero. His most famous high profile work has been ''[[Scooby-Doo (animation)|Scooby Doo]]'' as Freddy (and Scooby since Don Messick's death), ''[[The Transformers (animation)|The Transformers]]'' as Megatron and Soundwave, and more recently has provided the voice (both speaking and non-speaking) of Nibbler in ''[[Futurama]]''.
One interesting little story about Welker is that he was nearly included in some cartoon's credits for voice work, until the guys remembered that no, they'd used an actual horse. He's just that ubiquitous. In terms of voice acting, he's a bit of a [[Memetic Badass]].
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* ''[[Adventures from the Book of Virtues]]'' - Socrates, additional voices
* ''[[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius|The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron]]'' - Goddard, Poultra, Roxy, various animals and people
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* ''[[Dinosaur]]'' - The Carnotaurus
* ''[[Epic Mickey]]'' - [[Oswald the Lucky Rabbit]]
* ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'' - Bubba Duck, the Phantom Blot, additional voices
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons (animation)|Dungeons and Dragons]]'' - Tiamat, Uni, various one-off characters (mostly human)
* ''[[Dynomutt Dog Wonder]]'' - Dynomutt
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* ''[[Goof Troop]]'' - Waffles the cat, Chainsaw the dog
* ''[[Gremlins]]'' - All the gremlins, except Brain, who was Tony Randall
* ''[[Hercules (
* ''[[Histeria!]]'' - Father Time, Fetch, Pule Howser, [[Abraham Lincoln]], additional voices
* ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'' - Djali and Achilles
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* ''[[The Lion King]]'' - animal vocal effects
* ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'' - Max the sheepdog, animal vocal effects
* ''[[Mars Attacks
* ''[[Mc Donaldland]]'' - Grimace (the purple thing)
* ''[[Mighty Max]]'' - Warmonger
* ''[[Mulan]]'' - Kahn, Crikee
** ''Mulan II'' - Little Brother (replaced Chris Sanders)
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* ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'' - Ray Stanz, Slimer, The Boogeyman, additional voices
* ''[[The Rescuers (Disney film)|The Rescuers Down Under]]'' - Marahute and Joanna
* ''[[Richie Rich (comics)|Richie Rich]]'' (Hanna-Barbera) - Dollar
* ''[[SeaQuest DSV]]'' - Darwin
* ''[[The Schnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show]]'' - Meat
* ''[[Scooby-Doo (animation)|Scooby Doo]]'' - Fred, Scooby Doo (
* ''[[Shrek]]'' - Dragon (uncredited)
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' - Santa's Little Helper, Snowball, various animals
* ''[[The Smurfs (animation)|The Smurfs]]'' - Hefty Smurf, Pewit, Poet Smurf, Clockwork Smurf, Azrael, additional voices
* ''[[The Snorks]]'' - Occy, Tooter
* ''[[Spawn]]'' - Malebolgia
* ''[[Species]]'' - Sil's alien vocals
* ''[[Spiral Zone]]'' - Ned Tucker, Dr. Lawrence and Razorback
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