Nicole Jaffe

Nicole Jaffe born 1946 is an American actress and voice actress best known as the original voice of Velma Dinkley in HannaBarberas ScoobyDoo Saturday morning cartoon series from 1969 to 1974 Before ScoobyDoo began production Jaffe had appeared in The Trouble with Girls with Elvis Presley and future ScoobyDoo costar Frank Welker and in Disneys The Love Bug Velma was Jaffes only voice role Like her character Jaffe was myopic and needed glasses or contacts to see At the first voice recording rehearsal for ScoobyDoo Where are You Jaffe accidentally dropped her glasses and cried out something to the effect of my glasses I cant 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 directtovideo movies ScoobyDoo and the Legend of the Vampire and ScoobyDoo and the Monster of Mexico Description above from the Wikipedia article Nicole Jaffe licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia