Frank Welker

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Frank Welker does the voice for Nibbler, Santa's Little Helper and other various animals in The Simpsons and Futurama. DXC talks about him a lot in commentaries about how it's amazing how he can make such sounds. He says that Frank can pretty much do a great imitation of an entire flock of birds all at once. I found this interesting.

Yesterday, I watched "Mars Attacks!". In the credits, at the bottom of the 'cast' list, it said "Various Martian Voices: Frank Welker". So I thought, knowing Frank Welker, does that mean that he's the one who does those weird sounds that are in the martians 'native' language? It sounds like something he, and only he could do.

This also got me wondering: what else does he do the voices for? Does anybody know? Does anybody have any feedback?

Note: I searched his name and nothing came up.

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He did the voice for, uh, Walter Cronkite (that is his name, right?) in A Tale Of Two Santas.

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Really? Cool. But I was actually refering to outside of Futurama and the Simpsons.

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omg...so much..must breathe..
 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0919798/

he's a busy man, that's for sure.

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Holy Shizter

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Woah! Now that's what I was looking for!

Thing that stood out:
-He does Bowser from Mario


P.S. Who's Freddy (fr. Family Guy)?

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Freddy from Scooby Doo. In one episode, iirc, Peter had an inane cut-away gag to an over-the-top crude version of Scooby Doo where they discovered a murdered police-man who'd been choked by his own intestines.

"That's right, Scob, we're dealing with one sick son of a bitch."

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Oh, cool. According to the link, he is the real voice of Freddy too. It's funny that the actual guy who does the voice would actually say that in a different show.

Anyways, I did a quick image search for ya:

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some good sites: http://www.mkbmemorial.com/FWHp/

an interview from 2001 with the good man: http://www.coldhardslag.com/interviews/welker.html

hey there's the picture again   

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Wait, wait, wait:

 

"Futurama" (1999)
Animated Series
Nibbler* (*On Nibbler's planet, when he spoke in "Human." But I think Billy West is Nibbler the rest of the time.)
Monster; parrot; monkey; goat; Groveling Robot; chihuahua; Alien doctor

Is that accurate, or is the webmaster on acid? Billy doesn't do Nibbler's sounds, does he?

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No, Nibbler is all Welker, all the time.

The webmaster made an incorrect guess.

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Okay, good, that's what I thought...

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Originally posted by GreyThinkyWhale:
Frank Welker does the voice for Nibbler, Santa's Little Helper and other various animals in The Simpsons and Futurama. DXC talks about him a lot in commentaries about how it's amazing how he can make such sounds. He says that Frank can pretty much do a great imitation of an entire flock of birds all at once. I found this interesting.

Yesterday, I watched "Mars Attacks!". In the credits, at the bottom of the 'cast' list, it said "Various Martian Voices: Frank Welker". So I thought, knowing Frank Welker, does that mean that he's the one who does those weird sounds that are in the martians 'native' language? It sounds like something he, and only he could do.

This also got me wondering: what else does he do the voices for? Does anybody know? Does anybody have any feedback?

Note: I searched his name and nothing came up.

when you say the native sounds, do you mean the humming noises they make when they create a sand storm?

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No! He's talking about the movie Mars Attacks!, not futurama. Frank made all of those "Ack" sounds. In WTBR, it was Billy and John.

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Oh yea that movie was funny

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Originally posted by Wooter:
No! He's talking about the movie Mars Attacks!, not futurama. Frank made all of those "Ack" sounds. In WTBR, it was Billy and John.

Exactly! For whoever thinks I'm talking about Futurama, I'm trying to scrap Futurama and find out what else he does. Which I did...

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Originally posted by Wooter:
No! He's talking about the movie Mars Attacks!, not futurama. Frank made all of those "Ack" sounds. In WTBR, it was Billy and John.

Oh yea thanks for reminding me!

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Originally posted by GreyThinkyWhale:

Anyways, I did a quick image search for ya:

<Insert Funny Joke Here>

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Say whaaat...?

That's not the least bit funny.

Aaah, IMDb... why is it that the existance of that site keeps slipping from people's memory? It's pretty famous.

Also, @Futurama Crazy: How did you confuse Mars Attacks (yes- he posted the title) with Where The Buggaloo Roam?

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Probably the simple fact that it has the word 'Mars' in it which is where WTBR is situated. Also everyone generally assumes people are automatically talking about Futurama...

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Wow, he's the parrot from Deep Blue Sea.

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I know he started out as Freddy in scooby doo, he also voiced megatron and several other decepticons on the original transformers and he currently does animal voice work for the simpsons and was the voice of werewolf Flanders

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He was also Ray and Slimer on "The Real Ghostbusters", Darkseid, Kalibak, Toyman & Mr. Mxyzptlk on the many "Superfriends" series, Dynomutt and Jabberjaw in the 70s and beyond, a few of the Smurfs...that guy's got even more range than Billy West, and I didn't think that was possible.

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Originally posted by Futurama Crazy:
 when you say the native sounds, do you mean the humming noises they make when they create a sand storm?

That's Billy and John doing a form of Tuvan throat singing, a pretty damn crazy type of singing in which more than one tone is sung by the same person at the same time. 

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Thanks for the info CrazyDoc, I've always liked Dinomutt and Jabber Jaw, and now I like them more