Spoiler : Born in Bay City, Michigan 2/14/1912; died 7/4/2003 following a long battle with lymphocytic leukemia in Rancho Mirage, California. Married three times including the former Miss Michigan, Lorraine Budge (1937-?); former radio organist Esther Geddes (1971-2003 his death). Screen debut playing Government agent Brady in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951). Last movie was playing Regent in The Strongest Man in the World (1975).

Spoiler : Tyler McVey launched his professional career playing in amateur theatricals in his Michigan hometown. At age 21, he joined an outfit staging shows throughout upper New York state and New England. He invested heavily in a highly unprofitable venture, The Trial of the Century, or Who is Nellie Bly, a show he not only acted in but directed and produced. He wasn’t deterred, however. Within two years he was on the West Coast seeking work. He found it in a less-than- noteworthy radio series in 1937, with Jerry of the Circus. Beginning in 1939, he was on Lux Radio Theater and his career took off, eventually surpassing-according to his own estimate- 1,000 broadcasts. In 1994 McVey recalled: “Live radio was the greatest way in the world to make a living. There were probably 150 of us in Hollywood that worked quite steadily on the many shows that emanated from there.”

Spoiler : Elwood Giddings on the NBC-Radio soap, One Man's Family (ca. 1940s, 1950s). Tyler the desk clerk on Glamour Manor for the NBC-BLUE and ABC Radio Networks (1944-1945). Announcer for the syndicated radio program, The Smiths Of San Fernando (1946); Daisy Discovers America on NBC- Radio (1950).

Spoiler : Regular performer on radio programs including The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (ca. 1940s); The Hermit's Cave for KMPC-Los Angeles (1942-1944); The Great Gildersleeve on NBC (ca. 1940s, 1950s); The Jack Benny Program (actor, ca. 1940s, 1950s); Gene Autry’s Melody Ranch (ca. 1940s, 1950s); The Red Skelton Show (actor, ca. 1940s, 1950s); The Smiths of Hollywood (1947); Today’s Children (actor, 1947-1950); Dragnet (1949-1957); Wild Bill Hickok for Mutual (1951-1956); Omar, the Mystic (actor, 1953-1954); On Stage for CBS (1953-1954); Fibber McGee And Molly (1953-1956); syndicated series, Heartbeat Theater (1956-?); The Sears Radio Theater for CBS (1979-1980). Television character actor from the early 1950s until the middle 1980s. General Norgath on Men Into Space for CBS-TV (1959-1960).

Spoiler : He joined the American Federation of Radio Artists in 1938, was later elected president for five years of the Los Angeles local of the successor American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA). Until shortly before his death, McVey routinely attended annual vintage radio conventions in Cincinnati, Los Angeles, Newark and Seattle where he performed in re- creations of some of the shows on which he originally appeared. His wife, Esther Geddes, a former radio organist, accompanied him to those events and participated in the reenactments. Subsequently, he was elected that group’s national president. McVey was also active in Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters for many years.