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.
Filmography (23 titles)
9.7MovieScooby-Doo! and the Werewolves
Velma Dinkley (voice) (archive footage) · 2012
7.3MovieScooby-Doo! and the Skeletons
Velma Dinkley (voice) · 2012
9.8MovieScooby-Doo: Mystery in Motion
Velma Dinkley (voice) (archive footage) · 2012
9.7MovieScooby-Doo! and the Robots
Velma Dinkley (voice) (archive footage) · 2011
9.6MovieScooby-Doo! and the Pirates
Velma Dinkley (voice) (archive footage) · 2011
8.2ShowScooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
2010
7.3MovieScooby-Doo! and the Monster of Mexico
Velma Dinkley (voice) · 2003
7.1MovieScooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire
Velma (voice) · 2003
9.7MovieScooby-Doo's Spookiest Tales
(voice) · 2003
8.2MovieScooby-Doo Meets Batman
Velma Dinkley (voice) (archive footage) · 2002
9.9MovieScooby-Doo's Spookiest Tales
Velma Dinkley (voice) (archive footage) · 2001
9.4MovieScooby-Doo's Creepiest Capers
Velma (voice) · 2000
10.0MovieScooby-Doo's Original Mysteries
Velma Dinkley (voice) (archive footage) · 2000
9.1MovieScooby-Doo's Greatest Mysteries
Velma / Additional Voices (voice) · 1999
7.1ShowCaptain Caveman and the Teen Angels
Additional Voices (voice) · 1980
9.1MovieScooby-Doo! Meets the Harlem Globetrotters
Velma Dinkley (voice) · 1973
7.0MovieScooby-Doo! Meets the Harlem Globetrotters
Velma Dinkley · 1972
7.5MovieScooby-Doo Meets The Addams Family
Velma Dinkley (Voice) · 1972
7.7ShowThe New Scooby-Doo Movies
Velma (voice) · 1972
6.1MovieMarlowe
Lilly (uncredited) · 1969
7.8ShowScooby-Doo, Where Are You!
Velma Dinkley (voice) · 1969
4.9MovieThe Trouble with Girls
Betty · 1969
6.6MovieThe Love Bug
Girl In Dune Buggy · 1968