Charles “Chuck” McKibben (born February 1947 in Dayton, Ohio

Dayton, Ohio

Dayton is the 6th largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Montgomery County, the fifth most populous county in the state. The population was 141,527 at the 2010 census. The Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 841,502 in the 2010 census...

) is an American voice actor, broadcast producer/director, voice-over coach, and audiobook reader. McKibben uses the proper name of “Charles” for his more serious readings.

Education

McKibben went to Cleveland Elementary School, Dayton, Ohio, where he was in the class of 1962, and Belmont High School, Dayton, class of 1966. He also attended the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music Broadcasting Division for several years.

Early Career

McKibben began his career as an announcer on WING

WING

WING "ESPN 1410" is a commercial AM radio station in Dayton, Ohio operating with 5,000 watts at 1410 kHz with studios, offices and transmitter located on David Road in Kettering. It is the first full-time commercial radio station in Dayton...

 (AM) in Dayton, Ohio while still in high school. By his mid-20’s, McKibben had advanced from various radio announcing jobs, such as being the afternoon “drive time” host on Cincinnati station WSAI-FM, to becoming the personal recording engineer/producer and studio manager for “The Man of 1,000 Voices,” Mel Blanc

Mel Blanc

Melvin Jerome "Mel" Blanc was an American voice actor and comedian. Although he began his nearly six-decade-long career performing in radio commercials, Blanc is best remembered for his work with Warner Bros...

. McKibben’s daily responsibilities at Mel Blanc Audiomedia in Beverly Hills, California

Beverly Hills, California

Beverly Hills is an affluent city located in Los Angeles County, California, United States. With a population of 34,109 at the 2010 census, up from 33,784 as of the 2000 census, it is home to numerous Hollywood celebrities. Beverly Hills and the neighboring city of West Hollywood are together...

 included recording Blanc himself (famed “voice” of a vast number of cartoon characters, including Bugs Bunny

Bugs Bunny

Bugs Bunny is a animated character created in 1938 at Leon Schlesinger Productions, later Warner Bros. Cartoons. Bugs is an anthropomorphic gray rabbit and is famous for his flippant, insouciant personality and his portrayal as a trickster. He has primarily appeared in animated cartoons, most...

, Daffy Duck

Daffy Duck

Daffy Duck is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons, often running the gamut between being the best friend and sometimes arch-rival of Bugs Bunny...

, Porky Pig

Porky Pig

Porky Pig is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. He was the first character created by the studio to draw audiences based on his star power, and the animators created many critically acclaimed shorts using the fat little pig...

, Yosemite Sam

Yosemite Sam

Yosemite Sam is an American animated cartoon character in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons produced by Warner Bros. Animation. The name is somewhat alliterative and is inspired by Yosemite National Park...

, Sylvester and Tweety, etc.) for a variety of motion picture, advertising and theme park projects. In addition, McKibben conducted recording sessions for commercials and syndicated radio programs with many iconic performers, such as Academy Award-winning actors Kirk Douglas and Jack Palance

Jack Palance

Jack Palance , was an American actor. During half a century of film and television appearances, Palance was nominated for three Academy Awards, all as Best Actor in a Supporting Role, winning in 1991 for his role in City Slickers.-Early life:Palance, one of five children, was born Volodymyr...

, Jack Benny

Jack Benny

Jack Benny was an American comedian, vaudevillian, and actor for radio, television, and film...

, Vincent Price

Vincent Price

Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. was an American actor, well known for his distinctive voice and serio-comic attitude in a series of horror films made in the latter part of his career.-Early life and career:Price was born in St...

 and Rod Serling

Rod Serling

Rodman Edward "Rod" Serling was an American screenwriter, novelist, television producer, and narrator best known for his live television dramas of the 1950s and his science fiction anthology TV series, The Twilight Zone. Serling was active in politics, both on and off the screen and helped form...

, plus major voice artists such as Ernie Anderson

Ernie Anderson

Ernie Anderson was an American disc jockey, and television and radio announcer/voiceover artist...

, Paul Frees

Paul Frees

Paul Frees was an American voice actor and character actor.-Biography:He was born Solomon Hersh Frees in Chicago...

, Casey Kasem

Casey Kasem

Kemal Amin "Casey" Kasem is an American radio personality and voice actor who is best known for being the host of the nationally syndicated Top 40 countdown show American Top 40, and for voicing Shaggy in the popular Saturday morning cartoon franchise Scooby-Doo.Kasem, along with Don Bustany and...

 and Gary Owens

Gary Owens

Gary Owens is an American disc jockey and voice actor. His polished baritone speaking voice generally offers deadpan recitations of total nonsense, which he frequently demonstrated as the announcer on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. Owens is equally proficient in straight or silly assignments and is...

.

Career in New York City

McKibben’s experience in Los Angeles was followed by a 30-year career (1976-2006) in New York City as the writer, producer, director and frequent “voice” of numerous radio and TV commercials. Although he worked primarily as the staff broadcast production director for two advertising agencies, and received numerous industry awards for his creative efforts, he also enjoyed considerable acceptance as a freelance voice artist.

Commercial Associations

In the late 1980’s, for example, McKibben was chosen to launch the “My First Sony

My First Sony

My First Sony was a series of smaller-scale electronics made by Sony in the mid-late 1980s intended for use by children. They were made of brightly colored plastic, usually red, and large colorful buttons with simplified controls...

” line of children’s electronics as the sole national TV spokesman, and through the 90’s, he was a daily “presence” for New York viewers as the senior promo announcer for Time Warner Cable

Time Warner Cable

Time Warner Cable is an American cable television company that operates in 28 states and has 31 operating divisions...

 of New York City. McKibben’s longest association as a TV spokesman for any advertiser was his 15-year run with Lexus

Lexus

is the luxury vehicle division of Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corporation. First introduced in 1989 in the United States, Lexus is now sold globally and has become Japan's largest-selling make of premium cars. The Lexus marque is marketed in over 70 countries and territories worldwide, and has...

 of Smithtown (Long Island), completed just prior to his leaving New York.

Audio Books

Although he continues to record commercials and narration for clients as far away as Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi , literally Father of Gazelle, is the capital and the second largest city of the United Arab Emirates in terms of population and the largest of the seven member emirates of the United Arab Emirates. Abu Dhabi lies on a T-shaped island jutting into the Persian Gulf from the central western...

, since January 2007 (when he moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,...

) Chuck McKibben has concentrated on the audiobook field, recording extensively for North Carolina-based publisher AudioRealms, Inc.

Teaching

In addition, McKibben teaches voice-over skills to aspiring voice actors, and produces demo recordings for them, in his home studio. His name appears at www.harlanhogan.com in the list of recommended voice-over coaches on the East Coast.

Works

• Tumbles the Turtle that Got Glued Back Together. Producer and narrator.
• Shadow Kingdoms, by R. E. Howard. Audio book. Contains: The Lost Race, read by Charles McKibben. ISBN 978-1-897304-12-9
• The Time Traders, by Andre Norton. Narration credit: Charles McKibben
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson, read by Charles McKibben. ISBN 9781897304051
• The Things that are Not There, by C. J. Henderson, narration credit Charles McKibben. ISBN 9781897304426
• Voodoo Planet, by Andre Norton
  Andre Norton
  Andre Alice Norton, née Alice Mary Norton was an American science fiction and fantasy author under the noms de plume Andre Norton, Andrew North and Allen Weston...
  
  , read by Chuck McKibben. AudioRealms (2007). ISBN 9781897304372