List of old-time radio people

Listed below are actors and personalities heard on vintage radio programs, plus writers and others associated with Radio's Golden Age.

A

*Bud Abbott
*Goodman Ace
*Jane Ace
*Franklin Pierce Adams
*Martin Agronsky
*Ben Alexander
*Barbara Jo Allen
*Fred Allen
*Gracie Allen
*Fran Allison
*Don Ameche
*Arthur Anderson
*Garner Ted Armstrong
*Herbert W. Armstrong
*Louis Armstrong
*Jon Arthur
*Robert Arthur, Jr.
*Eleanor Audley
*Gene Autry
*Lew Ayres
*Hy Averback

B

*Harry Babbitt
*Jim Backus
*Parley Baer
*Belle Baker
*Edwin Balmer
*Tallulah Bankhead
*Donald Grey Barnhouse
*Lionel Barrymore
*Harry Bartell
*André Baruch
*Gordon Baxter
*Jackson Beck
*Brace Beemer
*Shirley Bell
*William J. Bell
*William Bendix
*Jack Benny
*Michael Bentine
*Gertrude Berg
*Milton Berle
*Bunny Berigan
*Ben Bernie
*Dick Bertel
*Alfred Bester
*Rolly Bester
*Mel Blanc
*Johnny Bond
*Nelson S. Bond
*Anthony Boucher
*Willis Bouchey
*Major Edward Bowes
*William Boyd
*Bertha Brainard
*Rod Brasfield
*Tom Breneman
*Fanny Brice
*Himan Brown
*Vanessa Brown
*Billie Burke
*Smiley Burnette
*Bob Burns
*George Burns
*Edgar White Burrill
*Abe Burrows
*Francis X. Bushman
*Daws Butler
*Pat Buttram

C

*Kay Campbell
*Candy Candido
*Judy Canova
*Eddie Cantor
*George Carlin
*Phillips Carlin
*Hoagy Carmichael
*Boake Carter
*Ernest Chappell
*Paddy Chayefsky
*Adele Clark
*Lon Clark
*Al "Jazzbo" Collins
*Ronald Colman
*Perry Como
*Jim Connors
*Willis Conover
*William Conrad
*Hans Conried
*Wyllis Cooper
*Charles Correll
*Norman Corwin
*Lou Costello
*Jim Cox
*Sally Creighton
*Mary Jane Croft
*Bing Crosby
*Milton Cross
*Howard Culver

D

*Marcia Davenport
*Joan Davis
*John Dehner
*Richard Denning
*Andy Devine
*Lawrence Dobkin
*Jack Douglas
*Alex Dreier
*Elaine Dundy
*John Dunning
*Jimmy Durante

E

*Ralph Edwards
*Webley Edwards
*Win Elliot
*Bob Elliott
*Theodore Epp
*Dale Evans

F

*Jinx Falkenburg
*Alice Faye
*Verna Felton
*Jimmy Fidler
*Benny Fields
*Michael Fitzmaurice
*Bess Flynn
*June Foray
*Mary Ford
*Fred Foy
*Stan Freberg
*David Freedman
*Jane Froman
*Charles E. Fuller

G

*Frank Gallop
*Dave Garroway
*Betty Lou Gerson
*Art Gillham
*Art Gilmore
*George Gobel
*Arthur Godfrey
*Norris Goff
*Benny Goodman
*Bill Goodwin
*Gale Gordon
*Freeman Gosden
*Ray Goulding
*Martin Grams, Jr.
*Ben Grauer
*Glen Gray
*Virginia Gregg
*Oliver B. Greene
*Sydney Greenstreet
*Ferde Grofé
*Edgar Guest

H

*Walter Hampden
*Ernie Hare
*Jim Harmon
*Arlene Harris
*Phil Harris
*Wilbur Hatch
*George D. Hay
*Paul Hecht
*Jean Hersholt
*Sterling Holloway
*Bob Hope
*Edward Everett Horton
*Eddy Howard
*Arthur Hughes
*Wilbur Budd Hulick
*Anne Hummert
*Marlin Hurt

J

*Maze Jackson
*Raymond Edward Johnson
*Billy Jones
*Spike Jones
*Jim Jordan
*Marian Jordan

K

*Ish Kabibble
*Pert Kelton
*Nick Kenny
*William Bennett Kilpack
*John Reed King
*Raymond Knight
*André Kostelanetz
*Gene Krupa
*Jack Kruschen
*Kay Kyser

L

*Frances Langford
*Chester Lauck
*Joe Laurie, Jr.
*Peggy Lee
*Pinky Lee
*Richard LeGrand
*Lew Lehr
*Sheldon Leonard
*Jack Lescoulie
*Oscar Levant
*Cathy Lewis
*Elliott Lewis
*Monica Lewis
*Robert Q. Lewis
*Art Linkletter
*James Lipton
*Phillips Lord
*Frank Lovejoy
*George Lowther
*Barbara Luddy

M

*Franklyn MacCormack
*Nila Mack
*Ted Mack
*Fletcher Markle
*Dick Martin
*Groucho Marx
*Mary Margaret McBride
*Mercedes McCambridge
*Clem McCarthy
*John Edward McCarthy
*Tex McCrary
*Lou McGarity
*J. Vernon McGee
*John McIntire
*Elizabeth McLeod
*Graham McNamee
*Howard McNear
*Don McNeill
*James Melton
*The Merry Macs
*Marvin Miller
*Spike Milligan
*Gerald Mohr
*Garry Moore
*Agnes Moorehead
*Al Morgan
*Claudia Morgan
*Henry Morgan
*Bret Morrison
*Carlton E. Morse

N

*J. Carrol Naish
*Long John Nebel
*Frank Nelson
*Ozzie Nelson
*Ricky Nelson
*Allan Nevins
*Ken Nordine
*Jack Norworth
*Louis Nye

O

*Arch Oboler
*Dan O'Herlihy
*Ben Ohmart
*Nelson Olmsted
*Johnny Olson
*Santos Ortega

P

*Harry Parke
*Dorothy Parker
*Jack Paar
*William S. Paley
*Korla Pandit
*Don Pardo
*Les Paul
*Edward Pawley
*Virginia Payne
*Al Pearce
*Jack Pearl
*Minnie Pearl
*Drew Pearson
*Harold Peary
*Joe Penner
*Irna Phillips
*Roger Price
*Joe Pyne

R

*Lillian Randolph
*Stratton Rawson
*Alan Reed
*Ethel Remey
*Harry Reser
*Paul Rhymer
*Tommy Riggs
*Rin Tin Tin
*Roy Rogers
*Will Rogers
*B. A. Rolfe
*Luis van Rooten
*Benny Rubin
*Babe Ruth

*Harry Secombe
*Vivienne Segal
*Peter Sellers
*Rod Serling
*Artie Shaw
*Irwin Shaw
*L. R. Shelton, Sr.
*Jean Shepherd
*Dinah Shore
*Herb Shriner
*Singin' Sam
*Frank Sinatra
*Penny Singleton
*Red Skelton
*Menasha Skulnik
*Walter Slezak
*J. Scott Smart
*J. Harold Smith
*Kate Smith
*Olan Soule
*Ann Sothern
*Sigmund Spaeth
*Lawrence E. Spivak
*Hanley Stafford
*Jo Stafford
*Arnold Stang
*Leith Stevens
*Ezra Stone
*Hal Stone
*Shelby Storck
*Amzie Strickland
*Fran Striker
*Rex Stout
*Karl Swenson

T

*Maurice Tarplin
*Frederick Chase Taylor
*Irene Tedrow
*Alec Templeton
*Lowell Thomas
*Bill Thompson
*Kay Thompson
*Tedi Thurman
*Martha Tilton
*John Todd
*Arturo Toscanini
*Arthur Tracy
*George W. Trendle
*Lurene Tuttle

V

*Rudy Vallée
*Art Van Damme
*Jean Vander Pyl
*Luis van Rooten
*Benay Venuta
*Herb Vigran
*Vicki Vola
*Donald Voorhees

W

*Bea Wain
*Janet Waldo
*Ed Walker
*Mike Wallace
*Willard Waterman
*Doodles Weaver
*Pat Weaver
*Jack Webb
*Ted Weems
*Orson Welles
*Gayne Whitman
*Paul Whiteman
*Barbara Whiting
*Richard Widmark
*Marie Wilson
*Walter Winchell
*Paula Winslowe
*Ben Wright
*Alexander Woollcott
*Ed Wynn

Y

*Barton Yarborough
*Alan Young
*Carleton G. Young
*Robert Young
*Victor Young

Z

*Harry von Zell
*Florenz Ziegfeld

ee also

*List of old-time radio programs
*List of U.S. radio programs

External links

* [http://mywebpage.netscape.com/bogusotr/instant/taz.html Birth/Deaths of Radio Personalities]
* [http://www.geocities.com/stiquesheik/Dead.html Necrology of Old Radio Personalities]
* [http://otractors.blogspot.com/2006_03_01_archive.html OTR Actors and Their Roles]
* [http://mywebpage.netscape.com/__121b_AkIKwtA1Wr03jr3KUukxF+wDm/tloFezPLnCQJ0e1sc= Radio Character Names]