Optimus prime video game voice clips

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Could you talk a little bit about how the industry has changed from the first time you walked into a recording booth up to your most recent role? Frank Welker: First, let me thank you for your interest in me.

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Collider: Your career currently spans some 45 years and has nearly 700 titles according to IMDb (not to mention multiple roles within most of those titles).

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Welker also reflects on his long-time working relationship with Peter Cullen, the on-going voice of Optimus Prime.  He also commented on the recent remarks by Hugo Weaving, who voiced Megatron in Michael Bay's Transformers movies.  Welker is still going strong, voicing multiple characters in Transformers Prime, the title role in The Garfield Show, plus video games, movie work and more.In this recent interview with Welker, he talked about the changing landscape of the voice acting world over the years, how much time he spends in the studio, which voices give him the most trouble and which roles he'd like to see revisited.  In his continuing 45-year acting/voice-acting career, Welker's voice has brought Scooby-Doo's Fred Jones, Transformer's Megatron and countless other characters to life.  While you may not know his name, you should know his voice.

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I recently had the privilege to pose a number of questions to the inimitable Frank Welker.

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