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His broad spectrum of character voices, noises and other vocal effects that have appeared over the last 40 years in motion pictures, have vaulted him to number one on the "All Time Top 100 Stars at the Box office" list. The revenue of films he has participated in have generated over 12 billion dollars worldwide. His work in over 90 films has put him ahead of Harrison Ford, Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Hanks and Eddie Murphy.

Has done every voicing of Fred Jones for most of the Scooby-Doo animated series with the sole exception of Spürnase Scooby Doo (1988). Even in parodies and cameos on dissimilar television series, he has always done this voice.

Has played the same character (Fred Jones) on 15 dissimilar series: Scooby-Doo, wo bist du? (1969), The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972), Die Scooby-Doo Show (1976), Dynomutt Dog Wonder (1976), Scooby und Scrappy-Doo (1979), The Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Puppy Hour (1982), Ein Fall für Scooby Doo (1984), Scooby's Mystery Funhouse (1982), Family Guy (1999), Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law (2000), Scooby-Doo! (2002), Robot Chicken (2005), Supernatural: Zur Hölle mit dem Bösen (2005), Batman: The Brave and the Bold (2008) and Mission Scooby-Doo (2010).

Referred to in Hollywood as a voice god.

Has worked with Robin Williams in five films: A Wish for Wings That Work (1991), Aladdin (1992), In Search of Dr. Seuss (1994), Jumanji (1995) and Aladdin und der König der Diebe (1996).

One of the most prolific voice actors of all time, he has been involved with some of the most popular and important animated series of all time as well, beginning with his role as level-headed leader Fred Jones on "Scooby-Doo", the evil Decepticon leader Megatron on Transformers (1984) (among others), Dr. Ray Stantz on The Real Ghostbusters (1986), and a variety of supporting roles on Action Force: Die neuen Helden (1985), Tiny Toon Abenteuer (1990), Animaniacs (1993) and Die Schlümpfe (1981).

Became the sixth actor to appear in two films to gross $1 billion with Alice im Wunderland (2010) and Transformers 3: Die dunkle Seite des Mondes (2011). He is the first voice actor to achieve this feat. His films have grossed $17.4 billion worldwide.

Has provided voices for eight of the original 14 Decepticons on Transformers (1984) animated series: Megatron, Soundwave, Skywarp, Laserbeak, Rumble, Frenzy, Ravage and Buzzsaw. He voiced two of the original Autobots as well: Trailbreaker and Mirage, as well as one of the Dinobots (Sludge) that also appeared in the first season.

Has also done the animal voice effects including Dumbo in Falsches Spiel mit Roger Rabbit (1988).

Has appeared in six films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant": Jäger des verlorenen Schatzes (1981), Falsches Spiel mit Roger Rabbit (1988), Arielle, die Meerjungfrau (1989), Die Schöne und das Biest (1991), Der König der Löwen (1994) and Shrek - Der tollkühne Held (2001).

His "Doctor Claw" voice came about as a result of him trying to do an impression of Barry White.

Has shared two roles with Leonard Nimoy. When the third season of Transformers (1984) came around, Frank took the role of Galvatron that Leonard Nimoy had taken in Transformers - Der Kampf um Cybertron (1986). And in Star Trek III - Auf der Suche nach Mr. Spock (1984), Frank provided the screams of Leonard Nimoy's most famous character Spock.

Has worked with Christopher Lloyd in five films: Star Trek III - Auf der Suche nach Mr. Spock (1984), Falsches Spiel mit Roger Rabbit (1988), Ducktales Der Film: Jäger der verlorenen Lampe (1990), Der Pagemaster - Richies fantastische Reise (1994) and In Search of Dr. Seuss (1994).

His "Doctor Claw" voice is arguably his most famous role. Aside from playing Doctor Claw on Inspektor Gadget (1983), he has used the voice for other characters, such as Darkseid on Das Powerteam - Superman & Co. (1973), Emperor Krulos on Dino-Riders (1988), Soundwave on Transformers (1984) (only heavily modified with a vocoder, to give this a distinct monotone, robotic sound), as well as in movies such as the Cave of Wonders in Aladdin (1992), Shao Kahn in Mortal Kombat (1995), Soundwave again in both Transformers: Die Rache (2009) and Transformers 3: Die dunkle Seite des Mondes (2011) (without the vocoder effects), as well as playing the Devil in four movies: Auf der Suche nach dem goldenen Kind (1986), Charlie - Alle Hunde kommen in den Himmel (1989), Bill & Teds verrückte Reise in die Zukunft (1991) and Spawn (1997).

Although he never meet with the producers or the director Michael Bay, Bay felt his Welker's G1 Megatron voice was not suitable for the film and Bay's new interpretation. Ironically, he recreated the G1 voice for Transformers: The Game (2007) based on the movie, and was once again reunited with his old nemesis Optimus Prime played by Peter Cullen.

Has done voices for both the Star Trek movie series and Star Trek: Raumschiff Voyager (1995).

Has worked with Leonard Nimoy in four films: Star Trek III - Auf der Suche nach Mr. Spock (1984), Transformers - Der Kampf um Cybertron (1986), Der Pagemaster - Richies fantastische Reise (1994) and Transformers 3: Die dunkle Seite des Mondes (2011).

In Tiny Toon Abenteuer (1990), he voiced Furrball, Gogo Dodo, Calamity Coyote, Little Beeper, Byron Basset, Uncle Stinky Pig, Henry Bear and Ralph the Guard who later appeared in Animaniacs (1993), where Frank not only voiced Ralph, but also voiced Thaddeus Plotz, Buttons, Runt, Flavio Hippo and Chicken Boo.

Has two roles in common with Carl Steven: (1) Welker provided Spock's screams in Star Trek III - Auf der Suche nach Mr. Spock (1984) while Steven played the nine-year-old version of the character in the same film and (2) Welker voiced Fred Jones in Scooby-Doo, wo bist du? (1969) and its various spin-offs while Steven voiced him in Spürnase Scooby Doo (1988).

He voiced Grimace in many McDonald's television commercials from 1986 to 2003 as well as the 1995 Halloween-themed Kid Rhino cassette tapes "Ronald Makes It Magic", "Travel Tunes", "Silly Sing Along" and "Scary Sound Effects".

Based the voice of the Cave of Wonders in Aladdin (1992) on Sir Sean Connery.

Good friends with longtime Transformers co-star Peter Cullen.

Born on the exact same date as singer/actress Liza Minnelli.

Having provided Spock screams, he is one of six Star Trek cast members who has also provided a voice for Star Wars. The others include George Takei, Brent Spiner, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg and Jason Isaacs.

Attended Santa Monica City College in Santa Monica, California where he majored in Theatrical Arts.