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Fun Fact of the Week #304

7/13/2020

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Both of Fred's only animated voice actors over the years, Frank Welker and Carl Steven (the latter from A Pup Named Scooby-Doo), also played Spock in the film Star Trek 3: The Search for Spock. Carl Steven played 9-year-old Spock, while Frank Welker provided the voice of Spock's screams throughout the film.
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Becker
7/13/2020 10:52:15 am

Perfect clips of both Freds lol

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WildwindVampire link
7/13/2020 01:34:42 pm

Haha I don't use GIFs too often on here so I wanted to find some :)

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Greybishop
7/13/2020 04:51:35 pm

As coincidental Hollywood connections go, that one ranks WAY up there.

These are the voyages of the Mystery Machine...

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WildwindVampire link
7/13/2020 05:47:35 pm

Especially given Star Trek 3 was released in 1984, meaning it was only 4 years apart...

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Greybishop
7/13/2020 06:56:10 pm

Interestingly, both also provided voice work on the 1988 Ruby-Spears animated Superman series. Both are credited simply as "voice" on 2 different shorts in the series. The show would run 30 minutes with about a 20/10 split of a longer adventure of Superman and a shorter one of a young Clark Kent in Smallville.

I was hoping to find more connections since Welker is SUCH a prolific voice actor but a quick IMDB search turned up just the one more crossover.

For a bit more crossover magic, Ginny McSwain (voices on Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo and casting director on a few Scooby projects) played Lois Lane on the show and B.J. Ward added her voice to the same episode Carl Stevens worked on.

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Greybishop
7/13/2020 07:03:04 pm

Oops. Missed one other connection. Both worked on Popeye and Son in 1987. Stevens in an unspecified role for all 13 episodes and Welker in one episode as "Shelly's Father".

B.J. Ward worked on 2 episodes as "Rad" as well.

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Greybishop
7/13/2020 07:10:01 pm

...and Scott Menville (Shaggy in Get a Clue and Red Herring in Pup) worked on the Popeye and Son show for 13 episodes, too!

WildwindVampire link
7/13/2020 10:47:58 pm

WOW, that’s a lot of connections between all of them. That’s amazing, thanks for doing the research!

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Greybishop
7/16/2020 09:33:54 pm

Your original find of the Star Trek 3 connection is still the most impressive of all. It's very rare to find voice actors who have played a single character collaborate on a live action project.

There are lots of crossovers like this in the voice acting world, such as the ones I found, since the voice acting community is actually surprisingly small. There are so many of them, in fact, that at one point in time I considered writing a book that would have included a section on just this phenomenon.

WildwindVampire link
7/17/2020 09:42:12 am

It is really surprising, especially given they were the only two voice actors to ever play that character. A book on phenomena like this sounds really cool!

scoobydoouk
7/14/2020 10:30:38 pm

I've been working on a book for quite sometime now, which goes into detail of EVERY dvd/blu-ray release in all countries. Sorted by series and then again by release date. And it's ALMOST done....

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WildwindVampire link
7/17/2020 09:42:53 am

Wow! That sounds like a really ambitious project! I would love to see it when it's done, if you want to share it!

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