Performers
Explore the performers behind classic radio through biographies, program credits, and verified appearances in the Golden Radio Hour archive.
Agnes Moorehead
BiographyAgnes Moorehead was a radio repertory master before Hollywood made her famous, moving from The Shadow and the Mercury company to the landmark Suspense perf…
ALAlan Ladd
BiographyBefore Alan Ladd became one of Hollywood’s defining quiet tough guys, radio helped shape the controlled voice that made him distinctive. He later turned th…
ARAlan Reed
BiographyAlan Reed spent decades as a radio character actor before Fred Flintstone made his gruff comic voice famous, bringing repertory timing and emotional range…
ABAlice Backes
BiographyAlice Backes was a radio and television character actress whose command of dialect, timing and supporting roles made her a dependable presence across crime…
AFAlice Faye
BiographyAlice Faye walked away from one of Hollywood’s top musical careers and found a second one in radio, where her dry timing and unshowy authority made her the…
ADAndy Devine
BiographyAndy Devine turned a voice no casting director could ignore into a career spanning western films, Jack Benny comedy and the beloved Jingles P. Jones of The…
AWAnne Whitfield
BiographyAnne Whitfield became a professional radio actress before adolescence, grew up inside network comedy and drama, and later walked away from Hollywood for a…
AAArthur Anderson
BiographyArthur Anderson grew from child radio and Let’s Pretend into Orson Welles’s Mercury Theatre, then spent an eight-decade career performing and later documen…
AQArthur Q. Bryan
BiographyArthur Q. Bryan is remembered as Elmer Fudd, but radio reveals a much broader actor: an announcer, ensemble comedian and character performer whose natural…
BEBarbara Eiler
BiographyBarbara Eiler entered radio while still in high school and grew into a flexible comedy and dramatic repertory actress whose microphone training carried dir…
BFBarbara Fuller
BiographyBarbra Fuller grew up professionally inside radio, playing scores of serial roles before spending fourteen years as Claudia Barbour on One Man’s Family and…
BSBarbara Stanwyck
BiographyBarbara Stanwyck brought the same emotional directness and discipline that defined her films to live radio, where Lux Radio Theatre forced famous screen pe…
BWBarbara Whiting
BiographyBarbara Whiting grew from a teenage Junior Miss star into a working radio actress, carrying an authentic young voice through comedy, drama, film and later…
BPBarney Phillips
BiographyBarney Phillips spent a career sounding like the man who had already been at the crime scene for an hour, moving from Dragnet and Rocky Fortune into wester…
BRBartlett Robinson
BiographyBartlett Robinson gave Perry Mason his first radio voice in 1943, then carried decades of serial and repertory experience into the authoritative character…
BYBarton Yarborough
BiographyBarton Yarborough gave radio two very different long-running men in Clifford Barbour and Doc Long before becoming Joe Friday’s first partner on Dragnet, wh…
BRBasil Rathbone
BiographyBasil Rathbone brought classical discipline and wartime steel to Sherlock Holmes, then spent years struggling against the typecasting created by the role h…
BBBea Benaderet
BiographyBea Benaderet was one of radio’s great utility players, a performer who could act, sing, write, produce and switch dialects fast enough to work several sho…
BABen Alexander
BiographyBen Alexander survived child stardom, rebuilt himself in radio, and brought that microphone ease to Officer Frank Smith, Joe Friday’s indispensable human c…
BWBen Wright
BiographyBen Wright brought RADA training and an exact ear for dialect into American radio, where his range made him invaluable even as some of the cross-ethnic cas…
BHBenita Hume
BiographyBenita Hume brought an established British stage and screen career to American radio, where her comic partnership with Ronald Colman grew from Jack Benny g…
BKBennett Kilpack
BiographyBennett Kilpack brought Shakespearean stage training and years of early radio experience to Mr. Keen, creating a patient, courtly detective unlike the hard…
BRBenny Rubin
BiographyBenny Rubin was a vaudeville-trained master of dialect and comic repetition whose radio career also extended into serious repertory work, revealing both th…
BLBernard Lenrow
BiographyBernard Lenrow turned formal speech and dramatic training into one of radio’s most versatile authoritative voices, from Geoffrey Barnes on Molle Mystery Th…
BKBerry Kroeger
BiographyBerry Kroeger began in radio as a teenager and developed a resonant, controlled voice that could carry serial drama, narration and mystery before Hollywood…
BGBert Gordon
BiographyBert Gordon carried the vaudeville dialect tradition into radio as “The Mad Russian,” a highly recognizable comic persona whose popularity and ethnic caric…
BGBetty Garde
BiographyBetty Garde was a formidable stage and radio character actress whose career stretched from early CBS repertory and Orson Welles to the original Aunt Eller…
BLBetty Lou Gerson
BiographyBetty Lou Gerson spent years as one of radio’s busiest dramatic actresses before Disney made her voice immortal as Cruella de Vil, and the villain’s famous…
BTBill Thompson
BiographyBill Thompson turned vocal transformation into character acting on Fibber McGee and Molly, creating Wallace Wimple, the Old-Timer and other distinct person…
BHBilly Halop
BiographyBilly Halop became famous as a child radio actor and leader of the Dead End Kids, then spent much of his adult career working against the youthful tough-gu…
BCBing Crosby
BiographyBing Crosby changed radio twice: first by making microphone singing intimate and conversational, then by helping prerecorded tape production replace the ri…
BBBob Bailey
BiographyBob Bailey helped radio detective drama mature twice, first as George Valentine on Let George Do It and then as the definitive Johnny Dollar, where restrai…
BEBob Elliott
BiographyBob Elliott and Ray Goulding built comedy from the language of broadcasting itself. Elliott’s deadpan Wally Ballou and other characters worked because he k…
BHBob Hastings
BiographyBob Hastings began professional radio at eleven, returned from wartime service to become Archie Andrews, then grew into a major science-fiction radio actor…
BHBob Hope
BiographyBob Hope made the topical radio monologue into a national conversation, then transformed his 1941 experiment broadcasting from March Field into a fifty-yea…
BRBob Readick
BiographyBob Readick’s Johnny Dollar run was only one chapter in a radio career that began in childhood, passed through major New York serials, and later reached th…
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