List of old-time American 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
 * Roy Acuff
 * Franklin Pierce Adams
 * Mason Adams
 * Martin Agronsky
 * Ben Alexander
 * Joan Alexander
 * Barbara Jo Allen
 * Fred Allen
 * Gracie Allen
 * Ida Bailey Allen
 * Mel Allen
 * Peggy Allenby
 * Fran Allison
 * Elvia Allman
 * Don Ameche
 * Jim Ameche
 * Morey Amsterdam
 * Arthur Anderson
 * Eddie "Rochester" Anderson
 * Marian Anderson
 * The Andrews Sisters
 * George Ansbro
 * Eve Arden
 * Robert Armbruster
 * Garner Ted Armstrong
 * Herbert W. Armstrong
 * Louis Armstrong
 * Cliff Arquette
 * Jon Arthur
 * Robert Arthur, Jr.
 * Eleanor Audley
 * Artie Auerbach
 * Paul Harvey Aurandt
 * Gene Austin
 * Gene Autry
 * Hy Averback
 * George Axelrod
 * Lew Ayres

B

 * Harry Babbitt
 * Jim Backus
 * Parley Baer
 * Bob Bailey
 * Jack Bailey
 * Eugenie Baird
 * Art Baker
 * Belle Baker
 * Kenny Baker
 * Lucille Ball
 * Edwin Balmer
 * Sam Balter
 * Tallulah Bankhead
 * Joan Banks
 * Howard Barlow
 * Donald Grey Barnhouse
 * The Barry Sisters
 * Ethel Barrymore
 * Lionel Barrymore
 * Harry Bartell
 * André Baruch
 * Count Basie
 * Charita Bauer
 * Erik Bauersfeld
 * Gordon Baxter
 * Morgan Beatty
 * Louise Beavers
 * Jackson Beck
 * Sandy Becker
 * Brace Beemer
 * Francis X. Bushman
 * Ed Begley
 * Shirley Bell
 * William J. Bell
 * Bea Benaderet
 * William Bendix
 * Al Benson
 * Jack Benny
 * Jack Berch
 * Gertrude Berg
 * Edgar Bergen
 * Milton Berle
 * Bunny Berigan
 * Sara Berner
 * Ben Bernie
 * Dick Bertel
 * Alfred Bester
 * Rolly Bester
 * Don Bestor
 * Dr. Frank Black
 * Joan Blaine
 * Mel Blanc
 * Ray Bloch
 * Martin Block
 * Ford Bond
 * Johnny Bond
 * Nelson S. Bond
 * Shirley Booth
 * Victor Borge
 * The Boswell Sisters
 * Anthony Boucher
 * Willis Bouchey
 * Major Edward Bowes
 * William Boyd
 * Ray Bradbury
 * Bertha Brainard
 * Eddie Bracken
 * Truman Bradley
 * Rod Brasfield
 * Tom Breneman
 * Fanny Brice
 * Norman Brokenshire
 * Cecil Brown
 * Himan Brown
 * John Brown (actor)
 * Oscar Brown, Jr.
 * Vanessa Brown
 * Nigel Bruce
 * Arthur Q. Bryan
 * Willie Bryant
 * Lyman Bryson
 * Winston Burdett
 * Billie Burke
 * Georgia Burke
 * Smiley Burnette
 * Bob Burns
 * George Burns
 * Edgar White Burrill
 * Abe Burrows
 * Francis X. Bushman
 * Daws Butler
 * Herb Butterfield
 * Pat Buttram

C

 * Cab Calloway
 * Floyd J. Calvin
 * Kay Campbell
 * Candy Candido
 * Judy Canova
 * Charlie Cantor
 * Eddie Cantor
 * Phillips Carlin
 * Kitty Carlisle
 * Hoagy Carmichael
 * Art Carney
 * Don Carney
 * Ken Carpenter
 * Thelma Carpenter
 * Jack Carson
 * Boake Carter
 * Thomas Cassidy
 * Del Castillo
 * Carmen Cavallaro
 * John Chancellor
 * Ernest Chappell
 * Paddy Chayefsky
 * Adele Clark
 * Dane Clark
 * Lon Clark
 * Inez Clough
 * Al "Jazzbo" Collins
 * Nat King Cole
 * Shirley Bell Cole
 * Charles Collingwood
 * Ray Collins
 * Ted Collins
 * Bud Collyer
 * Ronald Colman
 * Jerry Colonna
 * Pinto Colvig
 * Perry Como
 * Willis Conover
 * William Conrad
 * Hans Conried
 * John Conte
 * Spade Cooley
 * Jack L. Cooper
 * Wyllis Cooper
 * Ted Corday
 * Charles Correll
 * Bill Corum
 * Norman Corwin
 * Lou Costello
 * Staats Cotsworth
 * Joseph Cotten
 * Jim Cox
 * Bob Crane
 * Sally Creighton
 * Richard Crenna
 * Mary Jane Croft
 * Bing Crosby
 * Milton Cross
 * Frank Crumit
 * Xavier Cugat
 * Bill Cullen
 * Countee Cullen
 * Howard Culver
 * Adelaide Hawley Cumming

D

 * Dilip Kumar
 * John Daly
 * Cass Daley
 * Dorthy Dandridge
 * Ruby Dandridge
 * Vivian Dandridge
 * Marcia Davenport
 * Elmer Davis
 * Joan Davis
 * Dennis Day
 * Doris Day
 * Rosemary DeCamp
 * Ruby Dee
 * Ted de Corsia
 * Don DeFore
 * John Dehner
 * Kenny Delmar
 * Richard Denning
 * George V. Denny, Jr.
 * Van Des Autels
 * Andy Devine
 * Lawrence Dobkin
 * Peter Donald
 * Jack Douglas
 * Paul Douglas
 * Morton Downey
 * Bill Downs
 * Hugh Downs
 * Jessica Dragonette
 * Margaret Draper
 * Alex Dreier
 * Leanna Field Driftmier
 * Elaine Dundy
 * Joseph Dunninger
 * John Dunning
 * Don Dunphy
 * Jimmy Durante
 * Richard Durham

E

 * Robert Easton
 * Nelson Eddy
 * Cliff Edwards
 * Douglas Edwards
 * Ralph Edwards
 * Webley Edwards
 * George Fielding Eliot
 * Minetta Ellen
 * Duke Ellington
 * Win Elliot
 * Bob Elliott
 * Dave Elman
 * Hope Emerson
 * Skinnay Ennis
 * Theodore Epp
 * Dale Evans
 * Leonard Evans

F

 * Clifton Fadiman
 * Percy Faith
 * Jinx Falkenburg
 * Alice Faye
 * Verna Felton
 * Parker Fennelly
 * George Fenneman
 * Jimmy Fidler
 * Joan Field
 * Benny Fields
 * Ted Fio Rito
 * Eddie Firestone
 * Michael Fitzmaurice
 * Bernadine Flynn
 * Bess Flynn
 * The Fontane Sisters
 * June Foray
 * Mary Ford
 * Senator Edward Ford
 * Bill Forman
 * Templeton Fox
 * Fred Foy
 * Arlene Francis
 * William Franklin
 * Stan Freberg
 * David Freedman
 * Paul Frees
 * Jane Froman
 * Alice Frost
 * Charles E. Fuller
 * Allen Funt

G

 * Martin Gabel
 * Frank Gallop
 * Jan Garber
 * Betty Garde
 * Ed Gardner
 * Dave Garroway
 * Betty Lou Gerson
 * Georgia Gibbs
 * GI Jill
 * Mercedes Gilbert
 * Dolores Gillen
 * Art Gillham
 * Art Gilmore
 * Charles Sidney Gilpin
 * Roy Glenn
 * George Gobel
 * Arthur Godfrey
 * Norris Goff
 * Benny Goodman
 * Bill Goodwin
 * Gale Gordon
 * Freeman Gosden
 * Morton Gould
 * Sandra Gould
 * Ray Goulding
 * Martin Grams, Jr.
 * Johnny Grant
 * Ben Grauer
 * Barry Gray
 * Glen Gray
 * Eddie Green
 * Johnny Green
 * Oliver B. Greene
 * Sydney Greenstreet
 * Virginia Gregg
 * Ferde Grofé
 * Edgar Guest
 * Tito Guizar

H

 * Jester Hairston
 * Jack Haley
 * Juanita Hall
 * Walter Hampden
 * Fred Haney
 * Ernie Hare
 * Richard Harkness
 * Jim Harmon
 * Tom Harmon
 * Arlene Harris
 * Marion Harris
 * Phil Harris
 * Joseph C. Harsch
 * Georgette Harvey
 * Wilbur Hatch
 * Bob Hawk
 * Jim Hawthorne
 * Bill Hay
 * George D. Hay
 * Helen Hayes
 * John Michael Hayes
 * Peter Lind Hayes
 * Dick Haymes
 * Paul Hecht
 * Horace Heidt
 * Fletcher Henderson
 * Skitch Henderson
 * Ed Herlihy
 * Juano Hernandez
 * Bernard Herrmann
 * Jean Hersholt
 * George Hicks
 * Hildegarde
 * Ruby Hill
 * Richard Himber
 * Earl Hines
 * Don Hollenbeck
 * Sterling Holloway
 * Skip Homeier
 * Hoosier Hot Shots
 * Bob Hope
 * Lena Horne
 * Edward Everett Horton
 * Richard C. Hottelet
 * Eddy Howard
 * Quincy Howe
 * Arthur Hughes
 * Wilbur Budd Hulick
 * Warren Hull
 * Benita Hume
 * Anne Hummert
 * Chet Huntley
 * Zora Neale Hurston
 * Marlin Hurt
 * Ted Husing

I

 * Bill Idelson
 * Rex Ingram
 * The Ipana Troubadors
 * Jose Iturbi
 * Burl Ives

J

 * Hal Jackson
 * Maze Jackson
 * Gee Gee James
 * House Jameson
 * Leon Janney
 * Vernon Jarrett
 * Gordon Jenkins
 * Georgie Jessel
 * Eva Jessye
 * Vere Everette Johns
 * Hall Johnson
 * Parks Johnson
 * Raymond Edward Johnson
 * Al Jolson
 * Billy Jones
 * Clarence M. Jones
 * Spike Jones
 * Venzella Jones
 * Jim Jordan
 * Marian Jordan
 * Victor Jory
 * Jay Jostyn

K

 * Ish Kabibble
 * Mickey Katz
 * Danny Kaye
 * Evelyn Kaye
 * Joseph Kearns
 * Jackie Kelk
 * Joe Kelly
 * Pert Kelton
 * John B. Kennedy
 * Nick Kenny
 * Ted Key
 * William Bennett Kilpack
 * John Reed King
 * Ernest Kinoy
 * Walter Kinsella
 * Durwood Kirby
 * Dorothy Kirsten
 * Raymond Knight
 * Richard Kollmar
 * André Kostelanetz
 * Gene Krupa
 * Jack Kruschen
 * Eloise Kummer
 * Joel J. Kupperman
 * Kay Kyser

L

 * Arthur Lake
 * Dan Landt
 * Jack Landt
 * Karl Landt
 * Frances Langford
 * Chester Lauck
 * Joe Laurie, Jr.
 * Paul Lavalle
 * Canada Lee
 * Peggy Lee
 * Pinky Lee
 * Richard LeGrand
 * Lew Lehr
 * Sheldon Leonard
 * Jack Lescoulie
 * Larry LeSueur
 * Oscar Levant
 * Cathy Lewis
 * Elliott Lewis
 * Forrest Lewis
 * Fulton Lewis
 * Monica Lewis
 * Robert Q. Lewis
 * Beatrice Lillie
 * Art Linkletter
 * James Lipton
 * Mary Livingstone
 * Guy Lombardo
 * Vincent Lopez
 * Phillips Lord
 * Frank Lovejoy
 * George Lowther
 * Barbara Luddy
 * Bela Lugosi
 * Jimmy Lydon
 * Abe Lyman

M

 * Franklyn MacCormack
 * Norman Macdonnell
 * Nila Mack
 * Ted Mack
 * Gisele MacKenzie
 * Gordon MacRae
 * Dick Manning
 * Knox Manning
 * Fletcher Markle
 * Herbert Marshall
 * Dick Martin
 * Sara (a.k.a. Sarah) Martin
 * Chico Marx
 * Groucho Marx
 * Harpo Marx
 * Elsa Maxwell
 * Marilyn Maxwell
 * Sherman "Jocko" Maxwell
 * Mary Margaret McBride
 * Mercedes McCambridge
 * Clem McCarthy
 * John Edward McCarthy
 * Gordon McLendon
 * Smilin' Ed McConnell
 * John McCormack
 * Myron McCormick
 * Joel McCrea
 * Tex McCrary
 * Hattie McDaniel
 * Lou McGarity
 * J. Vernon McGee
 * Artie Bell McGinty
 * John McIntire
 * Elizabeth McLeod
 * Graham McNamee
 * Howard McNear
 * Don McNeill
 * Butterfly McQueen
 * James Melton
 * Lou Merrill
 * The Merry Macs
 * Don Messick
 * Glenn Miller
 * Marvin Miller
 * Spike Milligan
 * Billy Mills
 * The Mills Brothers
 * Jan Miner
 * Abrica "Abbie" Mitchell
 * Shirley Mitchell
 * The Modernaires
 * Gerald Mohr
 * Vaughn Monroe
 * Ralph Moody
 * Garry Moore
 * Sam Moore
 * Agnes Moorehead
 * Mantan Moreland
 * Claudia Morgan
 * Frank Morgan
 * Henry Morgan
 * Bret Morrison
 * Carlton E. Morse
 * Carlton Moss
 * Jack Moyles
 * Merrill Mueller
 * Frank Munn
 * Clarence Muse

N

 * Conrad Nagel
 * J. Carrol Naish
 * Long John Nebel
 * Frank Nelson
 * Ozzie Nelson
 * Ricky Nelson
 * John Nesbitt
 * Allan Nevins
 * Earl Nightingale
 * Ken Niles
 * Wendell Niles
 * Ray Noble
 * Ken Nordine
 * Jack Norworth
 * Jay Novello
 * Louis Nye

O

 * Jack Oakie
 * Arch Oboler
 * Anita O'Day
 * Spencer Odom
 * Dan O'Herlihy
 * Walter O'Keefe
 * Nelson Olmsted
 * Johnny Olson
 * Santos Ortega
 * Roi Ottley
 * Gary Owens
 * Harry Owens

P

 * Jack Paar
 * Raymond Paige
 * William S. Paley
 * Korla Pandit
 * Don Pardo
 * Harry Parke
 * Dorothy Parker
 * Bert Parks
 * Les Paul
 * Edward Pawley
 * Virginia Payne
 * Al Pearce
 * Jack Pearl
 * Minnie Pearl
 * Drew Pearson
 * Harold Peary
 * Jan Peerce
 * Louis Pelletier
 * Vincent Pelletier
 * Joe Penner
 * Irna Phillips
 * Minerva Pious
 * The Pied Pipers
 * George Polk
 * Lily Pons
 * Cowan Powers and his Family Band
 * Roger Price
 * Louie Prima
 * Carl Princi
 * Florence Pritchett
 * George Putnam
 * Joe Pyne

Q

 * Don Quinn

R

 * Michael Raffetto
 * Katharine Raht
 * Amanda Randolph
 * Lillian Randolph
 * Basil Rathbone
 * Herbert Rawlinson
 * Stratton Rawson
 * Alan Reed
 * Alice Reinheart
 * Ethel Remey
 * Harry Reasoner
 * Seymour Rexite
 * Quentin Reynolds
 * Paul Rhymer
 * Irene Rich
 * Emory Richardson
 * Tommy Riggs
 * Rin Tin Tin
 * Rosa Rio
 * Robert Ripley
 * Ken Roberts
 * Paul Robeson
 * Jackie Robinson
 * William N. Robson
 * Roy Rogers
 * Will Rogers
 * B. A. Rolfe
 * Mickey Rooney
 * Luis van Rooten
 * David Rose
 * Norman Rose
 * David Ross
 * Earle Ross
 * Lanny Ross
 * Johnny Roventini
 * Cecil Roy
 * Benny Rubin
 * Melville Ruick
 * Babe Ruth
 * Alfred Ryder
 * Michael Rye

S

 * Julia Sanderson
 * David Sarnoff
 * Harry Secombe
 * Vivienne Segal
 * Peter Sellers
 * Rod Serling
 * Eric Sevareid
 * Dan Seymour
 * Walter Scharf
 * Del Sharbutt
 * Artie Shaw
 * Irwin Shaw
 * L. R. Shelton, Sr.
 * Jean Shepherd
 * Ransom Sherman
 * Nathaniel Shilkret
 * William L. Shirer
 * Dinah Shore
 * Herb Shriner
 * Ginny Sims
 * Hilda Simms
 * Singin' Sam
 * Frank Sinatra
 * Jasdev Singh
 * Penny Singleton
 * Red Skelton
 * Menasha Skulnik
 * Walter Slezak
 * Everett Sloane
 * J. Scott Smart
 * Smilin' Jack Smith
 * Bessie Smith
 * Elwood Smith
 * Ethel Smith
 * Hal Smith
 * Howard Smith
 * Howard K. Smith
 * J. Harold Smith
 * Whispering Jack Smith
 * Kate Smith
 * Trixie Smith
 * Wonderful Smith
 * J. Anthony Smythe
 * Sons of the Pioneers
 * Olan Soule
 * Ann Sothern
 * Sigmund Spaeth
 * Phil Spitalny
 * Lawrence E. Spivak
 * Hanley Stafford
 * Jo Stafford
 * Arnold Stang
 * The Real Don Steele
 * Leith Stevens
 * Jay Stewart
 * Nick Stewart
 * Paul Stewart
 * Ezra Stone
 * Hal Stone
 * Shelby Storck
 * Amzie Strickland
 * Fran Striker
 * Roba Stanley
 * Rex Stout
 * Ed Sullivan
 * Marion Sweet
 * Karl Swenson
 * Raymond Gram Swing

T

 * Maurice Tarplin
 * Eva Taylor
 * Frederick Chase Taylor
 * Deems Taylor
 * Irene Tedrow
 * Alec Templeton
 * Studs Terkel
 * Walter Tetley
 * Edna Lewis Thomas
 * Danny Thomas
 * John Charles Thomas
 * Lowell Thomas
 * Bill Thompson
 * Kay Thompson
 * Tedi Thurman
 * Lawrence Tibbett
 * Martha Tilton
 * John Todd
 * Mel Torme
 * Arturo Toscanini
 * Dallas Townsend
 * Arthur Tracy
 * George W. Trendle
 * John Scott Trotter
 * Bob Trout
 * Dink Trout
 * Orrin Tucker
 * Sophie Tucker
 * Lurene Tuttle

V

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

W

 * Ernestine Wade
 * Bea Wain
 * John Wald
 * Janet Waldo
 * Ed Walker
 * Lucille Wall
 * Mike Wallace
 * Jimmy Wallington
 * Fred Waring
 * Gertrude Warner
 * Mark Warnow
 * Willard Waterman
 * Ethel Waters
 * Doodles Weaver
 * Pat Weaver
 * Jack Webb
 * Ted Weems
 * Dwight Weist
 * Orson Welles
 * Ernest Whitman
 * Gayne Whitman
 * Paul Whiteman
 * Barbara Whiting
 * Dick Whittinghill
 * Mary Wickes
 * Richard Widmark
 * Harlow Wilcox
 * Clarence Williams
 * Nat D. Williams
 * Dave Willock
 * Meredith Willson
 * Frank H. Wilson
 * Marie Wilson
 * Walter Winchell
 * Paula Winslowe
 * Miriam Wolfe
 * Barbara Jean Wong
 * Lesley Woods
 * Alexander Woollcott
 * Ben Wright
 * Ed Wynn

Y

 * Barton Yarborough
 * Alan Young
 * Carleton G. Young
 * Robert Young
 * Jessie Young
 * Roland Young
 * Victor Young
 * Henny Youngman

Z

 * Harry von Zell
 * Lawson Zerbe
 * Florenz Ziegfeld
 * Frederick Ziv