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Acting
Birthday:
May 23, 1941
Place of Birth:
Canada
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Nicole Jaffe
Biography
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.
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Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Scooby-Doo: Mystery in Motion | Velma Dinkley (voice) (archive footage) |
| 2012 | Scooby-Doo! and the Skeletons | Velma Dinkley (voice) |
| 2012 | Scooby-Doo! and the Werewolves | Velma Dinkley (voice) (archive footage) |
| 2011 | Scooby-Doo! and the Robots | Velma Dinkley (voice) (archive footage) |
| 2011 | Scooby-Doo! and the Pirates | Velma Dinkley (voice) (archive footage) |
| 2003 | Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire | Velma (voice) |
| 2003 | Scooby-Doo! and the Monster of Mexico | Velma Dinkley (voice) |
| 2003 | Scooby-Doo's Spookiest Tales | (voice) |
| 2002 | Scooby-Doo Meets Batman | Velma Dinkley (voice) (archive footage) |
| 2001 | Scooby-Doo's Spookiest Tales | Velma Dinkley (voice) (archive footage) |
| 2000 | Scooby-Doo's Creepiest Capers | Velma (voice) |
| 2000 | Scooby-Doo's Original Mysteries | Velma Dinkley (voice) (archive footage) |
| 1999 | Scooby-Doo's Greatest Mysteries | Velma / Additional Voices (voice) |
| 1973 | Scooby-Doo! Meets the Harlem Globetrotters | Velma Dinkley (voice) |
| 1972 | Scooby-Doo Meets The Addams Family | Velma Dinkley (Voice) |
| 1969 | The Trouble with Girls | Betty |
| 1968 | The Love Bug | Girl In Dune Buggy |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated | |
| 1980 | Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels | Additional Voices (voice) |
| 1972 | The New Scooby-Doo Movies | Velma (voice) |
| 1969 | Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! | Velma Dinkley (voice) |