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 ...

Long before superheroes filled the multiplex, America already had its own masked champion riding across the airwaves and into our imaginations. The Lone Ranger, wasn’t born in comic books or on a ...

The character has been around for 80 years but hasn't been a hit for 50. A quick primer on the famous Western hero. By Andy Lewis Johnny Depp (left) as Tonto and Armie Hammer as the Lone Ranger.

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.

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 ...

HOLLYWOOD -- In honor of the masked man's 75th anniversary, a 13-disc DVD collector's edition was released this week that features the first two seasons of "The Lone Ranger" television series that ran ...

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.

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 daughter said.