# 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.
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* 0–9
* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z

## 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$^{:17–19}$
* Marian Anderson$^{:19–20}$
* The Andrews Sisters
* George Ansbro
* Eve Arden
* Robert Armbruster
* Garner Ted Armstrong
* Herbert W. Armstrong
* Louis Armstrong$^{:20–22}$
* 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$^{:24–25}$
* Charita Bauer
* Erik Bauersfeld
* Gordon Baxter
* Morgan Beatty
* Louise Beavers$^{:25}$
* Jackson Beck
* Sandy Becker
* Brace Beemer
* Ed Begley
* Shirley Bell
* William J. Bell
* Bea Benaderet
* William Bendix
* Al Benson$^{:25–26}$
* 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.$^{:28}$
* Vanessa Brown
* Nigel Bruce
* Arthur Q. Bryan
* Willie Bryant$^{:28–29}$
* Lyman Bryson
* Winston Burdett
* Billie Burke
* Georgia Burke$^{:30–32}$
* Smiley Burnette
* Bob Burns
* George Burns
* Edgar White Burrill
* Abe Burrows
* Francis X. Bushman
* Daws Butler
* Herb Butterfield
* Pat Buttram

## C

* Cab Calloway$^{:33–34}$
* Floyd J. Calvin$^{:58–60}$
* Kay Campbell
* Candy Candido
* Judy Canova
* Charlie Cantor
* Eddie Cantor
* Phillips Carlin
* Kitty Carlisle
* Hoagy Carmichael
* Art Carney
* Don Carney
* Ken Carpenter
* Thelma Carpenter$^{:35–36}$
* Jack Carson
* Boake Carter
* Thomas Cassidy
* Del Castillo
* Carmen Cavallaro
* John Chancellor
* Ernest Chappell
* Paddy Chayefsky
* Adele Clark
* Dane Clark
* Lon Clark
* Inez Clough$^{:37}$
* Al "Jazzbo" Collins
* Nat King Cole$^{:37–38}$
* 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$^{:38–40}$
* Wyllis Cooper
* Ted Corday
* Charles Correll$^{:40–41}$
* 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$^{:41–42}$
* Howard Culver
* Adelaide Hawley Cumming

## D

* Dilip Kumar
* John Daly
* Cass Daley
* Dorthy Dandridge$^{:42–43}$
* Ruby Dandridge$^{:43–45}$
* Vivian Dandridge$^{:45}$
* Marcia Davenport
* Elmer Davis
* Joan Davis
* Dennis Day
* Doris Day
* Rosemary DeCamp
* Ruby Dee$^{:45–46}$
* 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$^{:53–55}$
* Win Elliot
* Bob Elliott
* Dave Elman
* Hope Emerson
* Skinnay Ennis
* Theodore Epp
* Dale Evans
* Leonard Evans$^{:57}$

## 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
* Bernardine Flynn
* Bess Flynn
* The Fontane Sisters
* June Foray
* Mary Ford
* Senator Edward Ford
* Bill Forman
* Templeton Fox
* Fred Foy
* Arlene Francis
* William Franklin$^{:62–63}$
* 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$^{:66–67}$
* Dolores Gillen
* Art Gillham
* Art Gilmore
* Charles Sidney Gilpin$^{:67}$
* Roy Glenn$^{:67–68}$
* 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$^{:69–71}$
* Johnny Green
* Oliver B. Greene
* Sydney Greenstreet
* Virginia Gregg
* Ferde Grofé
* Edgar Guest
* Tito Guizar

## H

* Jester Hairston$^{:71–73}$
* Jack Haley
* Juanita Hall$^{:73–74}$
* Walter Hampden
* Fred Haney
* Ernie Hare
* Richard Harkness
* Jim Harmon
* Tom Harmon
* Arlene Harris
* Marion Harris
* Phil Harris
* Joseph C. Harsch
* Georgette Harvey$^{:78–79}$
* 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$^{:79–80}$
* Skitch Henderson
* Ed Herlihy
* Juano Hernandez$^{:81–82}$
* Bernard Herrmann
* Jean Hersholt
* George Hicks
* Hildegarde
* Ruby Hill$^{:83}$
* Richard Himber
* Earl Hines$^{:83}$
* Don Hollenbeck
* Sterling Holloway
* Skip Homeier
* Hoosier Hot Shots
* Bob Hope
* Lena Horne$^{:84–85}$
* 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$^{:168}$
* Marlin Hurt$^{:86–87}$
* Ted Husing

## I

* Bill Idelson
* Rex Ingram$^{:87}$
* The Ipana Troubadors
* Jose Iturbi
* Burl Ives

## J

* Hal Jackson$^{:87–88}$
* Maze Jackson
* Gee Gee James$^{:88–89}$
* House Jameson
* Leon Janney
* Vernon Jarrett$^{:89}$
* Gordon Jenkins
* Georgie Jessel
* Eva Jessye$^{:90–91}$
* Vere Everette Johns$^{:94}$
* Hall Johnson$^{:92–94}$
* Parks Johnson
* Raymond Edward Johnson
* Al Jolson
* Billy Jones
* Clarence M. Jones$^{:94–95}$
* Spike Jones
* Venzella Jones$^{:95}$
* 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$^{:96}$
* 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$^{:98–99}$
* 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$^{:103}$
* Chico Marx
* Groucho Marx
* Harpo Marx
* Elsa Maxwell
* Marilyn Maxwell
* Sherman "Jocko" Maxwell$^{:103–104}$
* 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$^{:106}$
* Lou McGarity
* J. Vernon McGee
* Artie Bell McGinty$^{:103–104}$
* John McIntire
* Elizabeth McLeod
* Graham McNamee
* Howard McNear
* Don McNeill
* Butterfly McQueen$^{:106–107}$
* James Melton
* Lou Merrill
* The Merry Macs
* Don Messick
* Glenn Miller
* Marvin Miller
* Spike Milligan
* Billy Mills
* The Mills Brothers$^{:109–110}$
* Jan Miner
* Abrica "Abbie" Mitchell$^{:110}$
* Shirley Mitchell
* The Modernaires
* Gerald Mohr
* Vaughn Monroe
* Ralph Moody
* Garry Moore
* Sam Moore
* Agnes Moorehead
* Mantan Moreland$^{:111}$
* Claudia Morgan
* Frank Morgan
* Henry Morgan
* Bret Morrison
* Carlton E. Morse
* Carlton Moss$^{:111–113}$
* Jack Moyles
* Merrill Mueller
* Frank Munn
* Clarence Muse$^{:113–114}$

## 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$^{:124}$
* 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$^{:125–126}$
* Lillian Randolph$^{:126–128}$
* Basil Rathbone
* Herbert Rawlinson
* Stratton Rawson
* Alan Reed
* Alice Reinheart
* Ethel Remey
* Harry Reasoner
* Seymour Rexite
* Quentin Reynolds
* Paul Rhymer
* Irene Rich
* Emory Richardson$^{:129}$
* Tommy Riggs
* Rin Tin Tin
* Rosa Rio
* Robert Ripley
* Ken Roberts
* Paul Robeson$^{:130–132}$
* Jackie Robinson$^{:132–133}$
* 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$^{:137}$
* Singin' Sam
* Frank Sinatra
* Jasdev Singh
* Penny Singleton
* Red Skelton
* Menasha Skulnik
* Walter Slezak
* Everett Sloane
* J. Scott Smart
* Smilin' Jack Smith
* Bessie Smith$^{:137–139}$
* Elwood Smith$^{:139}$
* Ethel Smith
* Hal Smith
* Howard Smith
* Howard K. Smith
* J. Harold Smith
* Whispering Jack Smith
* Kate Smith
* Trixie Smith$^{:141}$
* Wonderful Smith$^{:141}$
* 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$^{:146}$
* 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$^{:148–150}$
* Frederick Chase Taylor
* Deems Taylor
* Irene Tedrow
* Alec Templeton
* Studs Terkel
* Walter Tetley
* Edna Lewis Thomas$^{:150–151}$
* 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$^{:156}$
* Bea Wain
* John Wald
* Janet Waldo
* Ed Walker
* Lucille Wall
* Mike Wallace
* Jimmy Wallington
* Fred Waring
* Gertrude Warner
* Mark Warnow
* Willard Waterman
* Ethel Waters$^{:156–157}$
* Doodles Weaver
* Pat Weaver
* Jack Webb
* Ted Weems
* Dwight Weist
* Orson Welles
* Ernest Whitman$^{:160–162}$
* Gayne Whitman
* Paul Whiteman
* Barbara Whiting
* Dick Whittinghill
* Mary Wickes
* Richard Widmark
* Harlow Wilcox
* Clarence Williams$^{:160–162}$
* Nat D. Williams$^{:162}$
* Dave Willock
* Meredith Willson
* Frank H. Wilson$^{:162–163}$
* 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