Frank Welker

Franklin Wendell Welker (born March 12, 1946) is an American voice actor. He is best known for his role as Fred Jones from the Scooby-Doo franchise since its conception in 1969. He is the only original voice actor still with the Scooby-Doo franchise since June 15, 2014, along with the voice of Megatron in the Transformers franchise, specifically Transformers G1 and Transformers: Prime, as well as Scooby-Doo since 2002. He is also well known as both the vocal effects and the voice of Nibbler in Futurama. In 2016, Welker received an Emmy Award in honor of his lifetime achievements. 2Early life Welker was born in Denver, Colorado, on March 12, 1946. He then moved to California and attended Santa Monica City College in Santa Monica, California, where he majored in theatrical arts. In 1966, he received honors for his performance as the Cowardly Lion in the college's theater production of The Wizard of Oz. During his transition between college and his voice-acting career, his first voice-over role was in a commercial for Friskies dog food. The producer's girlfriend informed him of auditioning for Hanna-Barbera during the casting of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, where he initially auditioned for the title character (and, according to Casey Kasem, the role of Shaggy Rogers, as well) but instead won the role of Fred Jone