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Franklin Wendell "Frank" Welker (born March 12, 1946) is an American actor who specializes in voice acting. He is one of the highest-grossing actors in Hollywood.

Welker's first notable voice role was Fred Jones in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?, a role he has reprised in most subsequent spin-offs and adaptations (he is also the current voice of Scooby-Doo himself as of 2002). His range extends to such varied characters as Ralph the Guard and Runt from Animaniacs, Ray Stantz and Slimer on The Real Ghostbusters, Megatron from Transformers, Abu from Disney's Aladdin, Baby Kermit in the original Muppet Babies cartoon, Dr. Claw and Brain from Inspector Gadget, Father Time on Histeria!, Santa's Little Helper (the dog) from The Simpsons, Hefty Smurf from The Smurfs, Curious George in the film and TV series of the same name, and of course, Santa Claus in multiple Christmas productions.

Voice roles in Christmas specials

Hanna-Barbera

Production	Year	Character(s)
The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries: "The Nutcracker Scoob"	1981	Fred Jones Winslow Nickelby Snowball Nickelby's lawyer
The Smurfs' Christmas Special	1982	Hefty Smurf
Christmas Comes to Pac-Land	1982	Chomp-Chomp Reindeer Morris
The Jetsons: "A Jetson Christmas Carol"	1985	The Ghost of Christmas Present Orbitty Young Mr. Spacely
'Tis the Season to Be Smurfy	1987	Hefty Smurf Poet Smurf Wild Smurf Puppy Rat
Midnight Patrol: Adventures in the Dream Zone: "Santanapped"	1990	Murphy Nosey Bird Rocky
A Flintstone Family Christmas	1993	Barney Rubble
A Flintstones' Christmas Carol	1994	Barney Rubble Dino
Cave Kids: "Cave Kid Christmas"	1996	Dino

Warner Bros. Animation

Production	Year	Character(s)
Tiny Toon Adventures: "It's a Wonderful Tiny Toons Christmas Special"	1992	Furball Gogo Dodo
Animaniacs: "'Twas the Day Before Christmas"	1993	Ralph the Guard Thaddeus Plotz
Animaniacs: "A Christmas Plotz"	1993	Ralph the Guard Thaddeus Plotz
Pinky and the Brain: "A Pinky and the Brain Christmas"	1995	Bill Clinton
The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries: "It Happened One Night Before Christmas"		Hector Freddy Totter
Freakazoid!: "In Arms Way"		Santa
Animaniacs: "Noel"	1996	Captain Ahab
Histeria!: "The Banks of the Delaware River"	1998	Father Time Bill Clinton
The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries: "Feather Christmas"	1998	Hector
A Scooby-Doo Christmas	2002	Scooby-Doo Fred Jones
Scooby-Doo: Haunted Holidays	2012	Scooby-Doo Fred Jones
Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!: "Scary Christmas"	2015	Scooby-Doo Fred Jones
Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!: "Scroogey Doo"	2016	Scooby-Doo Fred Jones

Other Christmas specials

Production	Year	Character(s)
A Chipmunk Christmas	1981	Santa Claus Doctor
Ziggy's Gift	1982	Ziggy's dog Cat Turkeys
Saturday Supercade: "A Christmas Story"	1983	Donkey Kong Jr.
Deck the Halls with Wacky Walls	1983	Baby Boo Al Kenzo Alien Astronomer
Gremlins	1984	Steele
The Real Ghostbusters: "Xmas Marks the Spot"	1986	Ray Stantz Slimer Santa Claus
A Wish For Wings That Work	1991	Additional Voices
Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas	1992	Brain Dr. Claw Santa Claus
A Goof Troop Christmas: Have Yourself a Goofy Little Christmas	1992	Waffles Chainsaw The bear
Bonkers: "Miracle at the 34th Precinct"	1993	Fall-Apart Rabbit
A Hollywood Hounds Christmas	1994	Additional characters
The Mask: the Animated Series: "Santa Mask"	1995	Milo
Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas	1997	Philippe the Horse Sultan the Dog
101 Dalmatians: "A Christmas Cruella"	1997	Scorch
Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas	1999	Turkey Figaro
Donkey Kong Country: "The Kongo Bongo Festival of Lights"	1999	Krusha
How the Grinch Stole Christmas	2000	Max
House of Mouse: "Clarabelle's Christmas List"	2002	Monstro the Whale
The Garfield Show: "Caroling Capers"	2009	Garfield
The Garfield Show: "Home for the Holidays"	2010	Garfield Mr. Arbuckle
The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol	2011	Azrael

External links

Frank Welker at the Internet Movie Database

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-'''Franklin Wendell "Frank" Welker''' (born March 12, 1946) is an American voice <del>actor</del> god.
+'''Franklin Wendell "Frank" Welker''' (born March 12, 1946) is an American actor who specializes in voice acting. He is one of the highest-grossing actors in Hollywood.
+Welker's first notable voice role was [[Fred Jones]] in ''{{W|Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?}}'', a role he has reprised in most subsequent spin-offs and adaptations (he is also the current voice of [[Scooby-Doo]] himself as of 2002). His range extends to such varied characters as [[Ralph the Guard]] and Runt from ''{{W|Animaniacs}}'', [[Ray Stantz]] and [[Slimer]] on ''{{W|The Real Ghostbusters}}'', Megatron from ''Transformers'', Abu from [[The Walt Disney Company|Disney]]'s ''{{W|Aladdin (1992 film)|Aladdin}}'', [[Kermit the Frog|Baby Kermit]] in the original ''{{W|Muppet Babies}}'' cartoon, [[Dr. Claw]] and [[Brain (Inspector Gadget)|Brain]] from ''{{W|Inspector Gadget}}'', [[Father Time]] on ''{{W|Histeria!}}'', [[Santa's Little Helper (The Simpsons)|Santa's Little Helper]] (the dog) from ''{{W|The Simpsons}}'', [[Hefty Smurf]] from ''The Smurfs'', Curious George in the film and TV series of the same name, and of course, [[Santa Claus]] in multiple Christmas productions.
 ==Voice roles in Christmas specials==
+===Hanna-Barbera===
-{| class="wikitable" border="1"
+{| class="wikitable"
-! Production
+! Production !! Year !! Character(s)
-! Year
-! Character(s)
 |-valign="top"
+|''The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries'': "[[The Nutcracker Scoob]]" || 1981 || [[Fred Jones]]<br />Winslow Nickelby<br />Snowball<br />Nickelby's lawyer
-|"[[The Nutcracker Scoob]]"
+|-
-|1981
+|''[[The Smurfs' Christmas Special]]'' || rowspan="2" | 1982 || [[Hefty Smurf]]
-|[[Fred Jones]]
 |-valign="top"
-|''[[Christmas Comes to Pac-Land]]''
+|''[[Christmas Comes to Pac-Land]]'' || Chomp-Chomp<br />Reindeer<br />Morris
-|1982
-|Chomp-Chomp<br />Reindeer<br />Morris
 |-valign="top"
-|"[[A Jetson Christmas Carol]]"
+|''The Jetsons'': "[[A Jetson Christmas Carol]]" || 1985 || [[The Ghost of Christmas Present]]<br />Orbitty<br />Young [[Mr. Spacely]]
-|1985
-|[[The Ghost of Christmas Present]]<br />Orbitty<br />Young Mr. Spacely
 |-valign="top"
+|''[['Tis the Season to Be Smurfy]]'' || 1987 || Hefty Smurf<br />Poet Smurf<br />Wild Smurf<br />Puppy<br />Rat
-|''[[Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas]]''
+|-
-|1992
+|''Midnight Patrol: Adventures in the Dream Zone'': "[[Santanapped]]" || 1990 || Murphy<br />Nosey Bird<br />Rocky
-|Brain<br />[[Dr. Claw]]<br />[[Santa Claus]]
+|-
-|-valign="top"
+|''[[A Flintstone Family Christmas]]'' || 1993 || [[Barney Rubble]]
-|"[[It's a Wonderful Tiny Toons Christmas Special]]"
+|- valign="top"
-|1992
+|''[[A Flintstones' Christmas Carol]]'' || 1994 || Barney Rubble<br />Dino
-|Furball<br />Calamity Coyote
+|-
-|-valign="top"
+|''Cave Kids'': "[[Cave Kid Christmas]]" || 1996 || Dino
-|"[[A Christmas Plotz]]"
-|1993
-|Thaddeus Plotz
-|-valign="top"
-|''[[A Flintstone Family Christmas]]''
-|1993
-|[[Barney Rubble]]
-|-valign="top"
-|"[[Miracle at the 34th Precinct]]"
-|1993
-|Fall-Apart Rabbit
-|-valign="top"
-|''[[A Flintstones' Christmas Carol]]''
-|1994
-|Barney Rubble
-|-valign="top"
-|"[[In Arms Way]]"
-|1995
-|Cave Guy
-|-valign="top"
-|"[[The American Revolution - Part I]]"
-|1998
-|[[Father Time]]
-|-valign="top"
-|"[[The Kongo Bongo Festival of Lights]]"
-|1999
-|Krusha
-|-valign="top"
-|''[[A Scooby-Doo Christmas]]''
-|2002
-|Fred Jones
-|-valign="top"
-|"[[Holly Jolly Jimmy]]"
-|2003
-|[[Goddard]]
-|-valign="top"
-|"[[Home for the Holidays (The Garfield Show)|Home for the Holidays]]"
-|2010
-|[[Garfield]]<br />[[Jon's Dad]]
 |}
+===Warner Bros. Animation===
+{| class="wikitable"
+! Production !! Year !! Character(s)
+|- valign="top"
+|''Tiny Toon Adventures'': "[[It's a Wonderful Tiny Toons Christmas Special]]" || 1992 || Furball<br>Gogo Dodo
+|-
+|''Animaniacs'': "[['Twas the Day Before Christmas]]" || rowspan="2" | 1993 || [[Ralph the Guard]]<br>Thaddeus Plotz
+|-
+|''Animaniacs'': "[[A Christmas Plotz]]" || Ralph the Guard<br>Thaddeus Plotz
+|-
+|''Pinky and the Brain'': "[[A Pinky and the Brain Christmas]]" || rowspan="3" | 1995 || {{w|Bill Clinton}}
+|- valign="top"
+|''The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries'': "[[It Happened One Night Before Christmas]]" || Hector<br>Freddy Totter
+|-
+|''Freakazoid!'': "[[In Arms Way]]" || [[Santa]]
+|-
+|''Animaniacs'': "[[Noel (Animaniacs)|Noel]]" || 1996 || {{w|Captain Ahab}}
+|- valign="top"
+|''Histeria!'': "[[The Banks of the Delaware River]]" || rowspan="2" | 1998 || [[Father Time]]<br>Bill Clinton
+|-
+|''The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries'': "[[Feather Christmas]]" || Hector
+|-
+|''[[A Scooby-Doo Christmas]]'' || 2002 || [[Scooby-Doo]]<br />Fred Jones
+|-
+|''[[Scooby-Doo: Haunted Holidays]]'' || 2012 || Scooby-Doo<br />Fred Jones
+|-
+|''Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!'': "[[Scary Christmas]]" || 2015 || Scooby-Doo<br />Fred Jones
+|-
+|''Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!'': "[[Scroogey Doo]]" || 2016 || Scooby-Doo<br />Fred Jones
+|}
+===Other Christmas specials===
+{| class="wikitable"
+! Production !! Year !! Character(s)
+|- valign="top"
+|''[[A Chipmunk Christmas]]'' || 1981 || [[Santa Claus]]<br />Doctor
+|- valign="top"
+|''[[Ziggy's Gift]]'' || 1982 || Ziggy's dog<br />Cat<br />Turkeys
+|-
+|''Saturday Supercade'': "[[A Christmas Story (Donkey Kong Jr.)|A Christmas Story]]" || rowspan="2" | 1983 || Donkey Kong Jr.
+|- valign="top"
+|''[[Deck the Halls with Wacky Walls]]'' || Baby Boo<br />Al<br />Kenzo<br />Alien Astronomer
+|- valign="top"
+|''[[Gremlins]]'' || 1984 || Steele
+|- valign="top"
+|''The Real Ghostbusters'': "[[Xmas Marks the Spot]]" || 1986 || [[Ray Stantz]]<br />[[Slimer]]<br />Santa Claus
+|- valign="top"
+|''[[A Wish For Wings That Work]]'' || 1991 || Additional Voices
+|-valign=top
+|''[[Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas]]'' || rowspan="2" | 1992 || [[Brain (Inspector Gadget)|Brain]]<br />[[Dr. Claw]]<br />Santa Claus
+|-valign=top
+|''[[A Goof Troop Christmas: Have Yourself a Goofy Little Christmas]]'' || Waffles<br />Chainsaw<br />The bear
+|-
+|''Bonkers'': "[[Miracle at the 34th Precinct]]" || 1993 || Fall-Apart Rabbit
+|-valign=top
+|''[[A Hollywood Hounds Christmas]]'' || 1994 || Additional characters
+|-
+|''The Mask: the Animated Series'': "[[Santa Mask]]" || 1995 || Milo
+|-
+|''[[Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas]]'' || rowspan="2" | 1997 || [[w:c:Disney:Philippe|Philippe the Horse]]<br>[[w:c:Disney:Sultan|Sultan the Dog]]
+|-valign=top
+|''101 Dalmatians'': "[[A Christmas Cruella]]"  || Scorch
+|-
+|''[[Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas]]'' || rowspan="2" | 1999 || Turkey<br />[[w:c:Disney:Figaro|Figaro]]
+|-
+|''Donkey Kong Country'': "[[The Kongo Bongo Festival of Lights]]" || Krusha
+|-
+|''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas (movie)|How the Grinch Stole Christmas]]'' || 2000 || [[Max (The Grinch)|Max]]
+|-
+|''House of Mouse'': "[[Clarabelle's Christmas List]]" || 2002 || [[w:c:Disney:Monstro|Monstro the Whale]]
+|-valign=top
+|''The Garfield Show'': "[[Caroling Capers]]" || 2009 || [[Garfield]]
+|-valign=top
+|''The Garfield Show'': "[[Home for the Holidays (The Garfield Show)|Home for the Holidays]]" || 2010 || Garfield<br />[[Mr. Arbuckle]]
+|-
+|''[[The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol]]'' || 2011 || [[Azrael]]
+|}
+==External links==
+* {{imdb person|0919798}}
 {{DEFAULTSORT:Welker, Frank}}
 [[Category:Real-world individuals]]
+[[Category:Voice actors]]
+[[Category:Actors]]