Nicole Jaffe
Nicole Jaffe (born 1946) is an American actress and voice actress, best known as the original voice of Velma Dinkley in Hanna-Barbera's Scooby-Doo Saturday morning cartoon series from 1969 to 1974. Before Scooby-Doo began production, Jaffe had appeared in The Trouble with Girls with Elvis Presley (and future Scooby-Doo co-star Frank Welker) and in Disney's The Love Bug. Velma was Jaffe's only voice role. Like her character, Jaffe was myopic and needed glasses or contacts to see. At the first voice recording rehearsal for Scooby-Doo, Where are You!, Jaffe accidentally dropped her glasses and cried out something to the effect of "my glasses! I can't see without them," which became a trademark gag and catch phrase for Velma. Jaffe retired from acting after getting married to Brad David in 1973 and getting a job as an agent for the William Morris Agency. She briefly returned to the series 30 years later for the 2003 direct-to-video movies Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire and Scooby-Doo and the Monster of Mexico. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nicole Jaffe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- 2012 ยทScooby-Doo! and the Werewolvesas Velma Dinkley (voice) (archive footage)
- 2012 ยทScooby-Doo! and the Skeletonsas Velma Dinkley (voice)
- 2012 ยทScooby-Doo: Mystery in Motionas Velma Dinkley (voice) (archive footage)
- 2011 ยทScooby-Doo! and the Robotsas Velma Dinkley (voice) (archive footage)
- 2011 ยทScooby-Doo! and the Piratesas Velma Dinkley (voice) (archive footage)
- 2010 ยทScooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporatedas
- 2003 ยทScooby-Doo! and the Monster of Mexicoas Velma Dinkley (voice)
- 2003 ยทScooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampireas Velma (voice)
- 2003 ยทScooby-Doo's Spookiest Talesas (voice)
- 2002 ยทScooby-Doo Meets Batmanas Velma Dinkley (voice) (archive footage)
- 2001 ยทScooby-Doo's Spookiest Talesas Velma Dinkley (voice) (archive footage)
- 2000 ยทScooby-Doo's Creepiest Capersas Velma (voice)
- 2000 ยทScooby-Doo's Original Mysteriesas Velma Dinkley (voice) (archive footage)
- 1999 ยทScooby-Doo's Greatest Mysteriesas Velma / Additional Voices (voice)
- 1980 ยทCaptain Caveman and the Teen Angelsas Additional Voices (voice)
- 1973 ยทScooby-Doo! Meets the Harlem Globetrottersas Velma Dinkley (voice)
- 1972 ยทScooby-Doo Meets The Addams Familyas Velma Dinkley (Voice)
- 1972 ยทThe New Scooby-Doo Moviesas Velma (voice)
- 1969 ยทScooby-Doo, Where Are You!as Velma Dinkley (voice)
- 1969 ยทThe Trouble with Girlsas Betty
- 1968 ยทThe Love Bugas Girl In Dune Buggy