Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (1991) | Full Cast

Ken Burns

DIRECTOR

Jason Robards

Narratorvoice

Red Barber

Self - Radio Announcer

Erik Barnouw

Self - Historian

Ken Bilby

Self - Biographer of David Sarnoff

Norman Corwin

Self - Writer

Susan Douglas

Self - Historian

Frank Günther

Self (engineer)

Jeanne Hammond

Self - Niece of Edwin H. Armstrong

Loren Jones

Self - Engineer

Garrison Keillor

Self - Writer

Helen Kelley

Self - Radio Broadcaster

Robert Morris

Self - Engineer

Dana Raymond

Self - Friend of Edwin H. Armstrong

Gertrude Tyne

Self - Engineer

Fred Allen

Self - Predicts Demise of Radiouncredited,archiveFootage

Gene Autry

Self - Singsuncredited,archiveSound

John Barrymore

Hamletuncredited,archiveSound

Winston Churchill

Self - Finest Hour Speechuncredited,archiveSound

Charles J. Correll

Self - Prepares for Amos 'n' Andy Broadcastuncredited,archiveFootage

Lee De Forest

Self - Objects to Quality of Radio Programminguncredited,archiveFootage

Ralph Edwards

Self - Host of 'This Is Your Life'uncredited,archiveFootage

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self - Announces Landing in Normandyuncredited,archiveSound

Eugenia Farrar

Self (with Lee De Forest)uncredited,archiveFootage,unconfirmed

Freeman F. Gosden

Self - Prepares for Amos 'n' Andy Broadcastuncredited,archiveFootage

Guglielmo Marconi

Self - Visits Sarnoff at RCAuncredited,archiveFootage

Marie Mosquini

Self - with Lee De Forestuncredited,archiveFootage

Nelson Rockefeller

Self - Eulogizes Sarnoffuncredited,archiveFootage

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self - Makes Broadcast About Banking Reformuncredited,archiveFootage

David Sarnoff

Self - with Marconi at RCAuncredited,archiveFootage

Frank Sinatra

Self - Serenades Sarnoffuncredited,archiveFootage

Arturo Toscanini

Self - Conducts NBC Symphonyuncredited,archiveFootage

Harry S. Truman

Self - Announces Bombing of Hiroshimauncredited,archiveSound

Bob Warren

This is Your Life Announcer Dr. Lee DeForrest episodeuncredited

Orson Welles

Professor in War of the Worlds Broadcastuncredited,archiveSound