13 Facts About Michael Rye

Michael Rye is credited in TL Osborn's gospel documentaries as the narrator.

Michael Rye began his career during the Golden Age of Radio when radio programming was at the height of its popularity.

Michael Rye was cast in numerous lead roles for radio shows, including Gary Curtis for the NBC soap opera, Ma Perkins; Tim Lawrence on Guiding Light; Jack Armstrong on the radio adventure series, Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy; and Pembroke in the soap opera, Backstage Wife.

Michael Rye starred in radio productions produced and broadcast from Hollywood, including the ABC crime drama, This is Your FBI; the radio anthology series, Lux Radio Theater; the radio drama, The Whistler; the CBS radio comedy, Meet Millie; and the CBS drama, Suspense.

Michael Rye provided the narration for the world's first full-length recorded book, the 1969 audio adaptation of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.

Michael Rye voiced both Apache Chief and Green Lantern in Hanna-Barbera's Challenge of the Superfriends, The All-New Super Friends Hour, and Super Friends.

Michael Rye was cast in Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears, which aired from 1985 to 1991, as the voices of King Gregor and his nemesis Duke Igthorn, who is the nemesis of the Gummi Bears as well.

Michael Rye appeared in television and radio commercials until his retirement from advertising in the late 1990s.

Michael Rye narrated thousands of training films, videos and software for industrial and workplace functions.

Michael Rye served as the National President of the Information Film Producers of America in the 1970s for a single two-year term.

Michael Rye was inducted as an honorary, lifetime member of Sperdvac, the Society to Preserve and Encourage Radio Drama, Variety and Comedy.

Michael Rye died from a short illness on September 20,2012, in Los Angeles at the age of 94.

Michael Rye was survived by his wife, Patricia Foster Rye.