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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.
Five years after they parted ways, a group of estranged friends gathers for a promised reunion, but the world has grown darker. The old gods are gone, replaced by false prophets and oppressive military rule. The reunion is strained, haunted by past failures and unresolved tensions, particularly between the weary half-elf Tanis, the frail mage Raistlin, and his warrior twin, Caramon. Their reunion is cut short when they are forced to protect two tribal wanderers carrying a staff of pure blue crystal, a relic of the forgotten true gods. Now fugitives, the Companions are hunted by the draconian legions of the Dragon Highlord Verminaard and must journey into the ruins of an ancient city to uncover the truth, a discovery that will ignite a war and make them the reluctant sparks of a new hope.
