Cartoon Voice-Acting Legend: Frank Welker

Monday, Sep. 25 2006 | Author: Spengs

There are many notable and exceptional voice actors within the field of animation, but few with the range and extensive resume of Frank Welker. “Who is Frank Welker,” you ask? Well, you may not recognize his name but if you’ve watched cartooned beween 1970 and now, there’s a 100% chance you’ve heard his voice. He’s been the voice of Freddy on Scooby Doo, Baby Kermit on Muppet Babies, Megatron on Transformers, Wild Bill on G.I. Joe, Tooter on the Snorks, Stripe from Gremlins, Furrball on Tiny Toon Adventures, Dr. Claw on Inspector Gadget, Malebolgia from Spawn the Movie, Ray and Slimer from the Real Ghostbusters, the Gopher from Caddyshack, Booker and Sheldon from Garfield & Friends, Big-Time Beagle from Duck Tales, Mohawk from Gremlins 2, Tom and Jerry from Tom & Jerry Kids, Tokka and Rahzar from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Secret of the Ooze, Jeremiah Surd from the Real Adventures of Jonny Quest…

He’s been in a lot of cartoons. As a matter of fact, check out his IMDB resume. It’ll blow your mind.

Well, the Allspark, a Transformers messageboard, has landed a fascinating interview with Welker. If you like cartoons or are interested in the field of voice-acting, then you’ll enjoy the interview (he doesn’t do many of them). Also, check out the voice clip included with the interview featuring Frank Welker performing “Megatron” for the first time in 20 years.

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2 Responses for "Cartoon Voice-Acting Legend: Frank Welker"

Jonathan Wagaku

September 26th, 2006 at 6:23 am
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Nice indeed. I’ve seen his name for years on so many shows.
Sneep29

February 25th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
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I’ve seen almost all the shows on that list, I’d love to revisit the past where cartoons were put effort into them. Now cartoonist aren’t worth a crap. They don’t know the basics of making the cartoons, all they do is make up ideas of stuff that nodody will be interested in. They think that kids won’t notice that the show is great, but there used to be adults who would give the classic shows like the ren and stimpy episodes(spumco) and animaniacs it’s ratings. Rocko’s modern life was another great hit. Then computer animation was introduced, and I thought that the Animation budget would go very high, shows would get more and more better produced, but now we have god awful shows like “Class of three thousand”. That’s the worst show I have ever seen in my life, I am sure that when I produce Games and Cartoons that I will use the full potential of my skill, Even if it’s for the kids.