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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
Scooby-Doo
for Scooby-Doo in Scooby-Doo: The 13th Ghost
Suggested by michaelcosby
A prologue set before the film depicts a young Vincent Van Ghoul and his partner Mortifer hunting down and successfully sealing the final ghost into the Chest of Demons. Mortifer, however, is attacked and seemingly killed by minion ghosts as a tearful Vincent makes his escape. In the opening credits, Vincent recaps the events in which Scooby eventually set the ghosts free once more but would catch all but one with the help of his friends Daphne and Shaggy. In the present day, Mystery Inc. are a decade removed from being forced to retire from solving mysteries to avoid being arrested for "criminal negligence." Shaggy has reunited with his girlfriend Mary Jane and the two have decided to take their relationship further until an old foe is in need of the gang's help with one final mystery to solve. The Awakening of the 13th Ghost. This story would not only see the return of Mary Jane but introduce also Colton Rogers, Shaggy's father who finally gets to see what he's up, having been roped into the mystery with the gang.
