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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
Soundwave
for Soundwave in Transformers: Cybertron Falls
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Transformers: Cybertron Falls is a 2028 American science fiction action film directed by Neill Blomkamp and produced by Zack Snyder, Jerry Bruckheimer, and Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by Blomkamp based on Hasbro's Transformers toy line. A co-production between Legendary Pictures and The Stone Quarry, the film is the final installment in the Cybertron Quadrilogy and the direct sequel to Transformers: Space Bridge. It stars an ensemble cast, including Peter Cullen, Sasha Calle, Justin Chatwin, Idris Elba, Jeffrey Combs, Kevin Nash, John Cena, Katherine Waterston, Jamie Foxx, Ron Livingston, Angela Bassett, Sam Elliott, Frank Welker, and Josh Brolin. In the film, a healed Optimus Prime must lead the Autobots into a final stand against the cruel Megatron and the other Decepticons in order to leave Cybertron and save the universe when a powerful new enemy claiming to be Megatron's master emerges and threatens the very safety of all life from beyond. Transformers: Cybertron Falls was released in theaters on January 29th, 2028; grossing $2.52 billion, it was a financial success and became the highest-grossing Transformers film of all time with a budget of over $571 million. The film received universal acclaim, with strong praise for its emotional weight, the action sequences, visuals, story, performances (particularly Cullen, Calle, and Brolin), the darker tone, Hans Zimmer's musical score, direction, and satisfying conclusion of the storyline.
