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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.
The year is 1995 and the gang isn't a gang yet, the only ones that are friends are Fred Jones(15) and Norville "Shaggy" Rogers(15). Fred is the son of Mayor Fred Jones Sr. and Judy Jones, he is also the star quarterback of the Coolsville Devils. Fred also has an older sister Courtney Jones, who works at the Coolsville Gazette with Frank Finnigan and Danny Stone, the son of Sheriff Bronson Stone. Shaggy lives with his parents Colton(50)and Paula Rogers(50). Five years prior their family went through a tragedy when their daughter Andi Rogers(8) was kidnapped and found dead a month later. They had just bought her a dog and she named it Scooby-Doo, after her favorite snack. They have kept him ever since and he has become a support dog for the family. Velma Dinkley(15) lives with her mother Angie Dinkley(50) and her father Dale Dinkley(50). Velma is at the top of her class and always has straight A's. Her family lives in a shady part of town, but the people know not to mess with Dale. Daphne Blake(15) has just moved to Coolsville from Cleveland, Ohio. Her mother Nan Blake(50) and father Bartholomew Blake(50) both grew up here and decided to come back after an accident at the school Daphne went to occurred. Daphne hates it here straight away and hates school even more. But soon the gang has to team up when strange things start happening, these strange things are monsters and they aren't people in masks, they are real and the gang must save the town before it is taken over.
