Frank Welker Biography
Born: 1945
Launching his career as a stand-up comedian in 1967, Frank Welker opened for such acts as the Righteous Brothers, Sergio Mendez and Brazil 66, The Fifth Dimension and Glen_Campbell. Welker's TV credits include comedy-ensemble stints on The Don Knotts Show (1971) and the syndicated Laugh Trax (1982). Despite his occasional on-camera appearances, Welker is best known as one of the most versatile voiceover specialists in show business. His specialty is a dead-on impression of the Three Stooges' Curly_Howard, which he utilized to peak effect in the Hanna-Barbera TV cartoon weekly Jabberjaw (1976). To list all of his credits would take a couple of weeks at best: in Hal Erickson's encyclopedic 1995 volume Television_Cartoon_Shows, Welker is mentioned no fewer than 110 times! Some of his more memorable TV cartoon credits include Itsy_Bitsy_Spider (title character), Duck_Tales, Captain_Planet, Garfield and Friends, The Jetsons, Tiny_Toon_Adventures, Real Adventures of Jonny Quest and Batman:_The_Animated_Series. In theatrical features, Welker is most often heard as nonverbal "funny animals" (1993's Aladdin) and "enchanted" inanimate objects (in 1994's The Shadow, he "played" a magic dagger). Hal Erickson, Rovi
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