Nancy Foy said her father worked as an actor before landing the job as the announcer and narrator on "The Lone Ranger" radio show in 1948. The show's live lead-in introduced its masked cowboy hero and ...

Foy was the “Lone Ranger” announcer on radio from 1948 until it went off the air in 1954, and reprised his role for the introduction when it moved to television. Foy, however, was always quick to ...

BOSTON - Fred Foy, the announcer best known for his passionate lead-in to "The Lone Ranger" radio program, has died at his Massachusetts home. His daughter, Nancy Foy, said he died Wednesday of ...

BOSTON -- Fred Foy, an announcer best known for his booming, passionate lead-ins to The Lone Ranger radio and television series, died Wednesday of natural causes at his Woburn, Mass., home, his ...

BOSTON (AP) - Fred Foy, the announcer best known for his passionate lead-in to "The Lone Ranger," has died at his Massachusetts home. His daughter says he died Wednesday of natural causes. He was 89.