Francisco Resendez

This memorial is for Francisco Reséndez Novoa, known in the Mexican dubbing trade as Don Paco, and sometimes as Paquito in interview titles. He was a Mexican voice actor, announcer, translator, adapter, and dubbing director. This page is not for Juan Francisco Resendez, not for an illustrator named Francisco Reséndiz, not for the Portuguese painter Francisco José Resende, and not for other Reséndez voice actors such as Roberto "Tito" Reséndiz.

Francisco Reséndez Novoa was born in Mexico City on 10 July 1941. He spent most of a lifetime in a job the public hears and rarely sees: sitting at a microphone, or standing just behind one, turning foreign film and television into Latin American Spanish. Colleagues called him Don Paco. When he died on 2 September 2026, at 85, the news did not come from a studio press office or a family statement. It moved first through the dubbing community, then through animation pages, then into national papers the next day. No cause of death has been made public.

He entered dubbing in 1957, when he was still a teenager. Doblaje Wiki, the specialist record of Latin American voice work, lists his first appearance as El Conde de Montecristo and dates the start of his booth career to that year. From then until 2026 he remained attached to Mexican Spanish versions of films, series, anime, and animation. The same page gives him 69 years in the craft and lists his last credited appearance as additional voices on Mi hermano el minotauro. He was a member of ANDA, the Mexican actors' union.

His name reached the widest public as one of the Latin American Spanish voices of Scooby-Doo. That credit needs care. Scooby-Doo has had more than one Spanish voice across decades. Specialized credits, not the looser headlines, place Reséndez as Scooby-Doo in some episodes of El show de Scooby-Doo (1976-1978) and on El show de Scooby-Doo y Scrappy-Doo (1982), matching the original English actor Don Messick in those stretches, and as Scooby-Doo in the late-1980s telefilms Scooby-Doo y los Hermanos Boo (1987), Scooby-Doo y la escuela de fantasmas (1988), and Scooby-Doo y la carrera de los monstruos (1989). He also voiced Scooby-Doo in a 1997 Johnny Bravo appearance, and he voiced Papá Doo on Un cachorro llamado Scooby-Doo (1988). Obituaries in El Universal, Infobae, and Diario de Tabasco all lead with the Scooby work, especially the 1980s films.

Behind the glass he was, if anything, more important to a later generation. He directed the Latin American Spanish dub of the first eight seasons of Los Simpson, the stretch in which the yellow family became a daily habit across Mexico and much of the Spanish-speaking Americas. El Universal, LOS40, and SensaCine all describe that run as foundational. During seasons 1 to 3 he also took small on-mic parts, including a one-episode Hans Moleman and assorted announcers and passers-by. He is not credited in the specialist filmography consulted here as Apu. A few secondary write-ups have claimed that role, and it should not be repeated without a credit match. He also directed ¡Oye Arnold! and Japanese robot titles including Patlabor and its films.

The studios map the career. He worked at SISSA-Oruga, then at Audiomaster 3000 until 2001, and from 2008 into the middle of the 2010s at Central Entertainment. Those rooms were the machinery of Mexican dubbing: actors gathered for a morning loop, a director set the Spanish against the picture, and the tape went out to television. Reséndez did every part of that chain. Pages and obituaries list him as actor, director, translator, and adapter.

New audiences met him again in the 2020s, often without knowing the 1980s dog. In the Mexican or Latin American Spanish dubs he was Commander Dot Pixis in Attack on Titan (2020-2024) and in the films El arco y la flecha escarlata and Alas de la libertad. He was Makarov Dreyar in the Latin American dub of Fairy Tail. Earlier animation credits include Mario in the Donkey Kong series (1983-1987), Bucéfalo in Halcones Galácticos (SilverHawks), and Mr. Gruber, matching Jim Broadbent, in Paddington 2 (2018) and Paddington en Perú (2024). Live-action loops run from the original Mexican Spanish of Rocky III (Tony Duke) and the narration inserts of the original Terminator dub, through much later parts such as Doug in Five Nights at Freddy's (2023). The point is not a complete list. It is the span: a man who began in the 1950s was still on 2024 and 2026 credits.

Family in the public record is thin, and that should stay thin. The documented relative is his cousin Vicky Burgoa, herself a well-known Mexican voice actress and dubbing director, who had already died. El Universal and Doblaje Wiki both record the relationship. No spouse, children, parents, or schooling appear in the obituaries used here. Those facts are not made public. No official personal social account was found. Interviews recorded by actor and director Rodolfo Navarro, posted on Navarro's YouTube channel, are the main public window onto his speaking voice and his account of the craft. Obituaries do not reprint first-person lines from those films, so none are quoted here as his words.

When the news broke, the first named confirmations were from the trade, not from a funeral home. Cartoons On The Moon posted a tribute recalling Scooby-Doo and Commander Pixis. Voice actress Gloria Obregón, reported by SensaCine and El Financiero, shared a photograph and wrote: "Luz en tu camino Francisco Reséndez, QDP. Un abrazo a sus familiares." World Dubbing News was among the accounts that noted the death. None of those messages gave a medical cause. Infobae and Publimetro México both warned that guesses about natural causes were not family statements.

Doblaje Wiki records the place of death as Mexico City and states that his remains were cremated. The national papers consulted here did not publish a wake, a church, or a cemetery. Until a family notice appears, the resting place beyond that wiki line is not made public, and the cause of death is not made public.

What he left is a voice people already know and a director's hand they do not. For children of the 1980s in Latin America, a frightened Great Dane said "Scooby-Doo!" in a particular way because Francisco Reséndez was in the booth. For everyone who grew up on the first years of Los Simpson in Spanish, the timing of the jokes, the casting of the household, and the feel of the town passed through his direction. He kept working into anime that his earliest listeners watched with their own children. That is a rare public life: famous as a sound, and almost invisible as a face, until the photographs came out with the obituaries. No English or Spanish Wikipedia article was found for this person. The fullest public credit list remains on Doblaje Wiki.