Scooby-Doo (character) Scooby-Doo (character) Scoobert "Scooby" Doo is the eponymous character and protagonist of the animated television franchise of the same name created in 1969 by the American animation company Hanna-Barbera. Scooby-Doo is a male Great Dane and lifelong companion of amateur detective Shaggy Rogers, with whom he shares many personality traits. Named after a nonsense vocal line in Frank Sinatra's hit song "Strangers in the Night", he features a mix of both canine and human behaviors (reminiscent of other funny animals in the Golden age of American animation), treated by his friends more or less as an equal while speaking in
Scooby-Doo (character) in every "Scooby-Doo" production from 1969 until 1994's "Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights". Voice actor Hadley Kay voiced the character for a brief period in 1997, for two episodes of "Johnny Bravo", and a few television commercials. Scott Innes (also the then-voice of Shaggy) voiced Scooby-Doo in four late 1990s/early 2000s direct-to-video films and continued to voice the character regularly for toys and video games (such as "Scooby-Doo! Night of 100 Frights") until 2008. Neil Fanning provided the voice of the computer-generated Scooby-Doo in the 2002 live-action film and its . Frank Welker (also the voice of Fred since 1969) has