Age: 80
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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.
Frank Welker
Curious George
for Curious George in PBS's Final Lesson
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Have you heard the news? Funding for PBS and it's affiliates has been drastically cut by the U.S government, leaving thousands of families with limited options for safe channels to show their kids on T.V. This is the end for PBS Kids. So join Curious George, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Arthur, the dragons of Dragon Tales, the cast of Sesame Street, the family of Mr. Fred Rogers, Daniel Tiger, Zoboomafoo, Ruff Ruffman, Thomas the Tank Engine, Bob the Builder, Super Why, Word Girl, Barney the Dinosaur, Angelina Ballerina, the Cat in the Hat, the Kratt Brothers among many more friends as we pay tribute to the channel that changed the way kids watch T.V forever. Premiering at 8:00PM on most PBS stations.
