Douglas Rye

American actor

Douglas Rye
Other names	Doug Rye
Occupation	Voice Actor/Film Actor
Agent	William Morris Agency
Notable credit(s)	Read or Die as Mr. Gentleman
Website	http://www.douglasrye.com/

Douglas Rye 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 iconic role would be Mr. Gentleman on Read or Die.

Credits

.hack franchise as Silver Knight^[1]
Burn-Up Excess as Additional Voices
Castlevania: Curse of Darkness as Dracula^[2]
Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin as Dracula^[2]
Code Geass R2 as Black King (Ep.1)
Dead Leaves as Bobafett Guy; Caterpillar; Dr. Yabu; Easter Island Guy; White Haired Guy
Dynasty Warriors series (fifth installment onward) as Cao Cao
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)
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
Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds as the Attack Tank and X-wing pilots

References

^ "Douglas Rye (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved 11 August 2021. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its opening and/or closing credits and/or other reliable sources of information.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
^ ^a ^b "Castlevania Fan Game Gets Official Voice Actors On Board". Rice Digital. 18 November 2016. Retrieved 2 September 2023.