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Douglas Rye

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Douglas Rye
Other namesDoug Rye
OccupationVoice Actor/Film Actor
AgentWilliam Morris Agency
Notable creditCastlevania as Dracula

Dynasty Warriors as Cao Cao

Read or Die as Mr. Gentleman
Websitehttp://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 roles would be Dracula in the Castlevania series which he played in Portrait of Ruin and Curse of Darkness, and as Cao Cao in 7 of the Dynasty Warriors games and spin-offs

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  1. ^ "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)