Richard Kiley - Later Years

Later Years

Kiley won several Emmy Awards and Golden Globe Awards for his work in television, including The Thorn Birds (as Paddy, Rachel Ward's father) (1983) and A Year in the Life (1986, 1987–1988). Kiley appeared as Gideon Seyetik in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Second Sight".

In Jurassic Park, the park's impresario boasts about the narration at the beginning of the park tour, "The voice you're now hearing is Richard Kiley. We've spared no expense." Kiley was introduced as the narrator for the tour first in the novel by Michael Crichton, and later in the film adaptation by Steven Spielberg. Visitors to Universal's Islands of Adventure theme park in Orlando, Florida, and Universal Studios in Hollywood hear Kiley as the narrator of the Jurassic Park River Adventure ride.

From 1994 until 1998, Kiley narrated the A&E documentary television series, Mysteries of the Bible.