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Frank Welker is an American voice actor. Welker was main voice actor on The Real Ghostbusters and Slimer! and guest voice actor on Extreme Ghostbusters.

Ghostbusters Voice Roles[]

Main Roles[]

Known as the voice of Ray Stantz, Slimer, and others in The Real Ghostbusters and as a guest (voicing Ray only) in Extreme Ghostbusters.

Incidental Roles[]

The Real Ghostbusters

Slimer!

Extreme Ghostbusters[]

Billy West was offered the role of Slimer for Extreme Ghostbusters but was lied to. He was told Frank Welker did not want to reprise the role. It might have been an issue about money.[147]

Live-Action Acting Actor[]

Welker's first on camera film role was as a bar fight participant in Stan Dragoti’s Dirty Little Billy. He played a college kid from Rutgers University in the Elvis Presley picture The Trouble with Girls. He later co-starred with Don Knotts in Universal’s How to Frame a Figg. Welker also appeared in two Disney films, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes and Now You See Him, Now You Don't.

His on camera television appearances included Love American Style, The Partridge Family and The Don Knotts Show. He played a prosecutor in highly acclaimed ABC special The Trial of General Yamashita and as Captain Pace beside Richard Dreyfuss' Yossarian in Paramount television’s pilot, Catch-22. He appeared on Laugh In, The Dean Martin Roast, The Mike Douglas Show, The Tonight Show, Merv Griffin, The Smothers Brothers Show, The Burns and Schreiber Comedy Hour and Laugh Trax. In the latter show, he was a cast member alongside Jim Staahl and Howie Mandel. Frank also played an on camera role of a voice actor on an episode of Simon and Simon.

Career Voice Actor[]

Welker has been referred to as a "voice acting god" (by John DiMaggio and Billy West in the DVD commentary for Futurama) in Hollywood for the sheer number of voices he has done—over 1,200—ranging from his work on Scooby-Doo to the present day. His voice acting credits include television shows and films such as Curious George, Muppet Babies, Aladdin, Pocahontas and computer games such as the Baldur's Gate series, and CarnEvil. He was also a regular on the original Transformers series, playing a large number of roles, most notably Megatron and Soundwave.

Frank's ability goes beyond creating human voices and is often cast as animals and used for animal vocals, for example the animal-spirit Totoro in the Disney 2005 re-dub of My Neighbour Totoro. He was described as "unbelievable" at imitating animal sounds by Maurice LaMarche in a Futurama DVD commentary.

Welker did more live action movies during the 1990s. Among his work includes vocal effects for the character of Sil in Species, Shao Kahn and Reptile in 1995's Mortal Kombat, the Devil in 1986's The Golden Child, and Malebolgia in 1997's Spawn. Welker also provided the voice (both speaking and non-speaking) of Nibbler in the cartoon TV series Futurama.

As of 2002, Welker is the voice of both Fred Jones and Scooby Doo. This includes the most recent What's New, Scooby-Doo?, and the series-based spinoff, Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue! Also, Welker starred in most of the 2000s Scooby-Doo projects as Fred Jones and Scooby-Doo. He also was Sasquatch in The Legend of Sasquatch. Welker's talent was also recognized in Disney's Stitch: Experiment 626, voicing the jealous and maniacal Experiment 6-2-1.

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  1. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Killerwatt" (1986).
  2. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Ghosts R Us" (1986).
  3. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Look Homeward, Ray" (1986).
  4. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Mrs. Roger's Neighborhood" (1986).
  5. Validated Voice Credit Submissions - "Precious" Voiced by "Frank Welker"
  6. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Citizen Ghost" (1986).
  7. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Janine's Genie" (1986).
  8. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Troll Bridge" (1986).
  9. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "The Boogieman Cometh" (1986).
  10. straczynski Tweet 3/20/2021 J. Michael Straczynski says: "Sidebar info: the Sandman was voiced by Frank Welker, who made that uncanny sound without computer enhancement, ditto the Boogieman episode. He could do amazing things with his voice."
  11. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "When Halloween Was Forever" (1986).
  12. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Xmas Marks the Spot" (1986).
  13. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Station Identification" (1986).
  14. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Play Them Ragtime Boos" (1986).
  15. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Sea Fright" (1986).
  16. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "The Spirit of Aunt Lois" (1986).
  17. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Cry Uncle" (1986).
  18. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Adventures in Slime and Space" (1986).
  19. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Night Game" (1986).
  20. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Venkman's Ghost Repellers" (1986).
  21. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "The Old College Spirit" (1986).
  22. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Ain't NASA-Sarily So" (1986).
  23. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Who're You Calling Two-Dimensional?" (1986).
  24. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "A Fright at the Opera" (1986).
  25. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Boo-Dunit" (1986).
  26. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Chicken, He Clucked" (1986).
  27. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Ragnarok and Roll" (1986).
  28. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Don't Forget the Motor City" (1986).
  29. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Banshee Bake a Cherry Pie?" (1986).
  30. Marsha Goodman (1987). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Ghost?" (1987).
  31. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Hanging By a Thread" (1986).
  32. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "You Can't Take it With You" (1986).
  33. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "No One Comes to Lupusville" (1986).
  34. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "The Man Who Never Reached Home" (1986).
  35. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "The Collect Call of Cathulhu" (1986).
  36. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Bustman's Holiday" (1986).
  37. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "The Headless Motorcyclist" (1986).
  38. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "The Thing in Mrs. Faversham's Attic" (1986).
  39. Marsha Goodman (1987). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Egon on the Rampage" (1987).
  40. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Lights! Camera! Haunting!" (1986).
  41. Marsha Goodman (1987). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "The Bird of Kildarby" (1987).
  42. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Janine Melnitz, Ghostbuster" (1986).
  43. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Apocalypse - - What, Now?" (1986).
  44. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Lost and Foundry" (1986).
  45. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Hard Knight's Day" (1986).
  46. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Cold Cash and Hot Water" (1986).
  47. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "The Scaring of the Green" (1986).
  48. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "They Call Me MISTER Slimer" (1986).
  49. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Masquerade" (1986).
  50. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Janine's Day Off" (1986).
  51. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "The Ghostbusters in Paris" (1986).
  52. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "The Devil in the Deep" (1986).
  53. Validated Voice Credit Submissions - "Necksa" Voiced by "Frank Welker"
  54. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Ghost Fight at the O.K. Corral" (1986).
  55. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Ghostbuster of the Year" (1986).
  56. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Deadcon 1" (1986).
  57. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "The Cabinet of Calamari" (1986).
  58. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "A Ghost Grows in Brooklyn" (1986).
  59. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "The Revenge of Murray the Mantis" (1986).
  60. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Rollerghoster" (1986).
  61. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "I Am the City" (1986).
  62. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Moaning Stones" (1986).
  63. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "The Long, Long, Long, etc. Goodbye" (1986).
  64. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Buster the Ghost" (1986).
  65. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "The Devil to Pay" (1986).
  66. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Slimer, Is That You?" (1986).
  67. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Egon's Ghost" (1986).
  68. Marsha Goodman (1987). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Victor the Happy Ghost" (1987).
  69. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Egon's Dragon" (1986).
  70. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Dairy Farm" (1986).
  71. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "The Hole in the Wall Gang" (1986).
  72. Marsha Goodman (1987). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "The Two Faces of Slimer" (1987).
  73. Marsha Goodman (1987). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "It's a Jungle Out There" (1987).
  74. Marsha Goodman (1987). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Halloween II 1/2" (1987).
  75. Marsha Goodman (1987). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Big Trouble With Little Slimer" (1987).
  76. Marsha Goodman (1987). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "The Bogeyman Is Back" (1987).
  77. Marsha Goodman (1987). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Transylvanian Homesick Blues" (1987).
  78. Marsha Goodman (1987). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Loathe Thy Neighbor" (1987).
  79. Marsha Goodman (1988). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Standing Room Only" (1988).
  80. Marsha Goodman (1988). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Robo-Buster" (1988).
  81. Marsha Goodman (1988). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Short Stuff" (1988).
  82. Marsha Goodman (1988). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "The Brooklyn Triangle" (1988).
  83. Marsha Goodman (1988). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Follow That Hearse" (1988).
  84. Marsha Goodman (1989). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Something's Going Around" (1989).
  85. Marsha Goodman (1989). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Three Men and an Egon" (1989).
  86. Marsha Goodman (1989). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Elementary My Dear Winston" (1989).
  87. Marsha Goodman (1989). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "If I Were a Witch Man" (1989).
  88. Marsha Goodman (1989). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Partners in Slime" (1989).
  89. Marsha Goodman (1989). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Future Tense" (1989).
  90. Marsha Goodman (1989). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Jailbusters" (1989).
  91. Marsha Goodman (1989). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "The Ghostbusters Live! from Al Capone's Tomb!" (1989).
  92. Marsha Goodman (1989). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Trading Faces" (1989).
  93. Marsha Goodman (1989). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Transcendental Tourists" (1989).
  94. Marsha Goodman (1989). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Surely You Joust" (1989).
  95. Marsha Goodman (1989). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Kitty-Cornered" (1989).
  96. Marsha Goodman (1989). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Slimer's Curse" (1989).
  97. Marsha Goodman (1989). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Til Death Do Us Part" (1989).
  98. Marsha Goodman (1989). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "It's About Time" (1989).
  99. Marsha Goodman (1989). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "The Ransom of Greenspud" (1989).
  100. Marsha Goodman (1989). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Revenge of the Ghostmaster" (1989).
  101. Marsha Goodman (1989). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Loose Screws" (1989).
  102. Marsha Goodman (1989). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Venk-Man!" (1989).
  103. Marsha Goodman (1989). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Slimer Streak" (1989).
  104. Marsha Goodman (1989). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "The Halloween Door" (1989).
  105. Marsha Goodman (1990). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Russian About" (1990).
  106. Marsha Goodman (1990). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "The Haunting of Heck House" (1990).
  107. Marsha Goodman (1990). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "You Can't Teach an Old Demon New Tricks" (1990).
  108. Marsha Goodman (1990). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Janine, You've Changed" (1990).
  109. Marsha Goodman (1990). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Mean Green Teen Machine" (1990).
  110. Marsha Goodman (1990). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Spacebusters" (1990).
  111. Marsha Goodman (1990). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Guess What's Coming to Dinner" (1990).
  112. Marsha Goodman (1990). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Very Beast Friends" (1990).
  113. Marsha Goodman (1990). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Ghostworld" (1990).
  114. Marsha Goodman (1990). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Afterlife in the Fast Lane" (1990).
  115. Marsha Goodman (1990). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "The Slob" (1990).
  116. Marsha Goodman (1990). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Busters in Toyland" (1990).
  117. Marsha Goodman (1990). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "My Left Fang" (1990).
  118. Marsha Goodman (1990). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Stay Tooned" (1990).
  119. Marsha Goodman (1990). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "The Magnificent Five" (1990).
  120. Marsha Goodman (1991). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "20,000 Leagues Under the Street" (1991).
  121. Marsha Goodman (1991). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Not Now, Slimer!" (1991).
  122. Marsha Goodman (1991). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "The Treasure of Sierra Tamale" (1991).
  123. Marsha Goodman (1991). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Attack of the B-Movie Monsters" (1991).
  124. Marsha Goodman (1988). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Nothing to Sneeze At" (1988).
  125. Marsha Goodman (1988). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Out with Grout" (1988).
  126. Marsha Goodman (1988). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Scareface" (1988).
  127. Marsha Goodman (1988). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Doctor Dweeb, I Presume" (1988).
  128. Marsha Goodman (1988). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "The Dirty Half-Dozen" (1988).
  129. Marsha Goodman (1988). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Sweet Revenge" (1988).
  130. Marsha Goodman (1988). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Show Dog Showdown" (1988).
  131. Marsha Goodman (1988). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Slimer for Hire" (1988).
  132. Marsha Goodman (1988). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Special Delivery" (1988).
  133. Marsha Goodman (1988). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Go-pher It" (1988).
  134. Marsha Goodman (1988). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Cash or Slime" (1988).
  135. Marsha Goodman (1988). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Monkey See, Monkey Don't" (1988).
  136. Marsha Goodman (1988). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Pigeon-Cooped" (1988).
  137. Marsha Goodman (1988). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Space Case" (1988).
  138. Marsha Goodman (1988). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Room at the Top" (1988).
  139. Marsha Goodman (1988). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "The Not-So-Great Outdoors" (1988).
  140. Marsha Goodman (1988). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Dr. Strangedog" (1988).
  141. Marsha Goodman (1988). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Unidentified Sliming Object" (1988).
  142. Marsha Goodman (1988). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Rainy Day Slimer" (1988).
  143. Marsha Goodman (1988). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Tea but not Sympathy" (1988).
  144. Marsha Goodman (1988). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Dog Days" (1988).
  145. Marsha Goodman (1988). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Up Close and Too Personal" (1988).
  146. Marsha Goodman (1988). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Slimer & the Beanstalk" (1988).
  147. The Ship-It Show YouTube "We Ship Extreme Ghostbusters with ICONIC VAs!" 4:47-5:26 3/7/2023 Billy West says: "Well, that's a long story. It's a very long story. Well, you know what, it's the Slime--I played Slimer in the show and they were like 'what do you think, you want to do Slimer?' and I was like 'Yeah, I guess but that's Frank Welker...' 'Well, he doesn't want to do it, he won't do it' and I was lied to and so that's how I wound up doing it. Yeah, somebody lied -- they either turned Frank's request down for more money and I -- and it was suddenly I felt like I became my own enemy. I became what I hated the most is some grave robber."

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