Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
Cast

Cast (34)

Jason Robards
Jason Robards

Narrator (voice)

Red Barber
Red Barber

Self - Radio Announcer

Erik Barnouw
Erik Barnouw

Self - Historian

Ken Bilby
Ken Bilby

Self - Biographer of David Sarnoff

Norman Corwin
Norman Corwin

Self - Writer

Susan Douglas
Susan Douglas

Self - Historian

Frank Günther
Frank Günther

Self - Engineer

Jeanne Hammond
Jeanne Hammond

Self - Niece of Edwin H. Armstrong

Loren Jones
Loren Jones

Self - Engineer

Garrison Keillor
Garrison Keillor

Self - Writer

Helen Kelley
Helen Kelley

Self - Radio Broadcaster

Robert Morris
Robert Morris

Self - Engineer

Dana Raymond
Dana Raymond

Self - Friend of Edwin H. Armstrong

Gertrude Tyne
Gertrude Tyne

Self - Engineer

Fred Allen
Fred Allen

Self - Predicts Demise of Radio (archive footage)

Gene Autry
Gene Autry

Self - Sings (archive sound)

John Barrymore
John Barrymore

Hamlet (archive sound)

Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill

Self - Finest Hour Speech (archive sound)

Charles J. Correll
Charles J. Correll

Self - Prepares for Amos 'n' Andy Broadcast (archive footage)

Lee De Forest
Lee De Forest

Self - Objects to Quality of Radio Programming (archive footage)

Ralph Edwards
Ralph Edwards

Self - Host of 'This Is Your Life' (archive footage)

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self - Announces Landing in Normandy (archive footage)

Eugenia Farrar
Eugenia Farrar

Self (with Lee De Forest) (archive footage)

Freeman F. Gosden
Freeman F. Gosden

Self - Prepares for Amos 'n' Andy Broadcast (archive footage)

Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi

Self - Visits Sarnoff at RCA (archive footage)

Marie Mosquini
Marie Mosquini

Self - with Lee De Forest (archive footage)

Nelson Rockefeller
Nelson Rockefeller

Self - Eulogizes Sarnoff (archive footage)

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self - Makes Broadcast About Banking Reform (archive footage)

David Sarnoff
David Sarnoff

Self - with Marconi at RCA (archive footage)

Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra

Self - Serenades Sarnoff (archive footage)

Arturo Toscanini
Arturo Toscanini

Self - Conducts NBC Symphony (archive footage)

Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman

Self - Announces Bombing of Hiroshima (archive sound)

Bob Warren
Bob Warren

Self - This is Your Life Announcer (archive footage)

Orson Welles
Orson Welles

Self - Professor in War of the Worlds Broadcast (archive sound)

Search history
delete
Popular search