- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- May 23, 1941
- Place of Birth
- Canada
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 …
Filmography
movieScooby-Doo! and the Werewolves
2012 · Velma Dinkley (voice) (archive footage)
movieScooby-Doo! and the Skeletons
2012 · Velma Dinkley (voice)
movieScooby-Doo: Mystery in Motion
2012 · Velma Dinkley (voice) (archive footage)
movieScooby-Doo! and the Robots
2011 · Velma Dinkley (voice) (archive footage)
movieScooby-Doo! and the Pirates
2011 · Velma Dinkley (voice) (archive footage)
tvScooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
2010
movieScooby-Doo! and the Monster of Mexico
2003 · Velma Dinkley (voice)
movieScooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire
2003 · Velma (voice)
movieScooby-Doo's Spookiest Tales
2003 · (voice)
movieScooby-Doo Meets Batman
2002 · Velma Dinkley (voice) (archive footage)
movieScooby-Doo's Spookiest Tales
2001 · Velma Dinkley (voice) (archive footage)
movieScooby-Doo's Creepiest Capers
2000 · Velma (voice)
movieScooby-Doo's Original Mysteries
2000 · Velma Dinkley (voice) (archive footage)
movieScooby-Doo's Greatest Mysteries
1999 · Velma / Additional Voices (voice)
tvCaptain Caveman and the Teen Angels
1980 · Additional Voices (voice)
movieScooby-Doo! Meets the Harlem Globetrotters
1973 · Velma Dinkley (voice)
movieScooby-Doo! Meets the Harlem Globetrotters
1972 · Velma Dinkley
tvThe Best of The New Scooby-Doo Movies - The Lost Episodes
1972 · Velma Dinkley
movieScooby-Doo Meets The Addams Family
1972 · Velma Dinkley (Voice)
tvThe New Scooby-Doo Movies
1972 · Velma (voice)
movieMarlowe
1969 · Lilly (uncredited)
tvScooby-Doo, Where Are You!
1969 · Velma Dinkley (voice)
movieThe Trouble with Girls
1969 · Betty
movieThe Love Bug
1968 · Girl In Dune Buggy