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Frank Welker Overview:

Actor, Frank Welker, was born Franklin W. Welker on Mar 12, 1946 in Denver, CO. As of December 2025, Frank Welker was 79 years old.

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Frank Welker Facts
His "Dr. Claw" voice came about as a result of him trying to do an impression of Barry White.
Although he never met with the producers or the director Mike Bay, Bay felt his Welker's G1 Megatron voice did not fit the film and Bay's new interpretation. Ironically, he recreated the G1 voice for the "Transformer Game" based on the movie, and was once again reunited with his old nemesis Optimus Prime played by Peter Cullen.
His "Dr. Claw" voice is arguably his most famous role. Aside from playing Dr. Claw in "Inspector Gadget" (1983), he has used the voice for other characters, such as Darkseid in "SuperFriends: The Legendary Super Powers Show" (1984), Emperor Krulos in "Dino-Riders" (1988), Soundwave in "The Transformers" (1984) (only heavily modified with a vocoder, to give it 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: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) and Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) (without the vocoder effects), as well as playing the Devil in four different movies; The Golden Child (19
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