Douglas Rye
Douglas Rye | |
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Born |
Douglas Forsythe Rye November 6, 1950 Westchester, New York |
Other names | Doug Rye |
Occupation | Voice Actor/Film Actor |
Agent | William Morris Agency |
Notable credit(s) |
Read or Die as Mr. Gentleman Dynasty Warriors as Cao Cao |
Website | http://www.douglasrye.com/ |
Douglas Forsythe Rye (born November 6, 1950 in Westchester, New York) is an American voice actor who has done Narration for such notable companies as Bank of America, The Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, NBC, The Playboy Channel, Qwest, Carl's Jr. and DaimlerChrysler. Rye has been acting since he was a child, he beat out Christopher Reeve for a role in a summer production at The Lawrenceville School, during his four years there. He studied at New York University with the likes of Olympia Dukakis and Lloyd Richards, and during his time there worked alongside Jason Robards III, Melissa Manchester, Michael McKean and Christopher Guest.
He also worked behind the scenes for many great and classic musical acts. He toured with the Grateful Dead as part of the behind the scenes crew for nine years. He also was a stage hand at the historic Woodstock Festival in 1969. He has even performed as an opening act for Carlos Santana.
Douglas has also been a crew member for such famous musical acts as The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, The Commodores, The Eagles, The Oak Ridge Boys and Mel Tormé.
Douglas is currently known to many people as an American voice actor. His most famous roles are that of Mr. Gentleman on Read or Die and the current voice of Cao Cao in Dynasty Warriors.
Credits
- .hack franchise as Silver Knight
- Burn-Up Excess as Additional Voices
- Castlevania: Curse of Darkness as Dracula
- Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin as Dracula
- Code Geass R2 as Black King (Ep.1)
- Dead Leaves as Bobafett Guy; Caterpillar; Dr. Yabu; Easter Island Guy; White Haired Guy
- Dynasty Warriors 5 as Cao Cao
- Dynasty Warriors 5: Xtreme Legends as Cao Cao
- Dynasty Warriors 5: Empires as Cao Cao
- Dynasty Warriors 6 as Cao Cao
- Dynasty Warriors 6: Empires as Cao Cao
- Dynasty Warriors 7 as Cao Cao
- Dynasty Warriors 7: Xtreme Legends as Cao Cao
- Dynasty Warriors 8 as Cao Cao
- Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends as Cao Cao
- Dynasty Warriors Next as Cao Cao
- Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce as Cao Cao
- Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage as Narrator
- Grandia III as Drak, Seiba, and Xorn
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex as Litton (Ep. 2); President of Meditech (Ep. 8); Secretary (Ep. 8)
- Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG as Analyst (Ep. 41); Minister of Defence (Eps. 42, 49, 50)
- Kessen III as Mori Yoshinari
- MÄR as Gaira; Garon
- Naruto the Movie: Legend of the Stone of Gelel as Haido
- Rainbow Six as John Clark
- Red Alert 2/Yuri's Revenge as Flak Trooper
- Read or Die as Mr. Gentleman; Jean-Henri Fabre
- Resident Evil 5 as Dan DeChant
- Samurai Warriors as Nobunaga Oda
- Samurai Warriors: KATANA as Nobunaga Oda
- Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds as the Attack Tank and X-wing pilots
- Suikoden IV as Graham Cray
- Suikoden V as Ferid
- Warriors Orochi as Cao Cao
- Warriors Orochi 2 as Cao Cao
- Wild Arms 4 as Balgaine
External links
- Douglas Rye at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- Douglas Rye on IMDb