- Jack Webb
John Randolph "Jack" Webb (April 2 1920 - December 23 1982) was an American actor, television producer, director and writer who is most famous for his role as Sergeant Joe Friday in the radio and television series "Dragnet". He was also the founder of his own production company, Mark VII Productions. - Mel Blanc
Melvin Jerome Blanc was a prolific American voice actor, performing on radio, in television commercials, and most famously, in hundreds of theatrical animated shorts for Warner Bros. during the Golden Age of American animation--and later for Hanna-Barbera television productions. He is regarded as one of the most gifted and influential persons in his field, providing the definitive voices for iconic characters such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, … - William Conrad
William Conrad (September 27 1920 - February 11 1994), born William Cann, was an American actor and narrator in radio, film and television noted for his baritone voice, as well as for his sizable girth. - Agnes Moorehead
Agnes Robertson Moorehead (December 6, 1900 - April 30, 1974) was an Oscar-nominated American character actress. Although she appeared in more than 70 films and on dozens of television shows during a career that spanned more than 30 years, Moorehead is probably most-widely known to modern audiences for her role as the witch Endora in the television series "Bewitched". - Elliott Lewis
Elliott Lewis (November 28, 1917 - May 23,1990 New York City) was active during the Golden Age of Radio as an actor, producer and director, proficient in both comedy and drama. These talents earned him the nickname "Mr Radio" - Ed Begley
Edward James Begley (March 25, 1901 - April 28, 1970) was an Academy Award winning American film actor. - Gale Gordon
Gale Gordon was an American character actor. Remembered best as Lucille Ball's longtime television foil - and particularly as cantankerously combustible, tightfisted bank executive Theodore J. Mooney, on Ball's second television situation comedy, "The Lucy Show" - Gordon was just as respected for his earlier career in classic American radio, where he was once the highest-paid actor in the medium, even though he was never a top-billed radio star. - Raymond Burr
Raymond William Stacey Burr (May 21 1917 - September 12, 1993) was an Emmy-nominated actor and vintner, perhaps best known for his roles in the television dramas "Perry Mason" and "Ironside". - Jeff Chandler
Jeff Chandler (December 15, 1918-June 17, 1961) was a popular American film actor in the 1950s. - John Dehner
John Dehner (November 23, 1915 - February 4, 1992) was an American actor in radio, television and films, playing countless roles, usually as a mildly comical villain. Between 1941 and 1988, he appeared in over 260 films and TV shows. - Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford (March 23 1905 - May 10 1977), was an acclaimed, iconic, Academy Award-winning American actress, arguably one of the greatest from the Golden Age of Hollywood from the 1920s through 1940s. The American Film Institute named Crawford among the Greatest Female Stars of All Time, ranking her at number ten. Starting as a dancer, she was signed to a motion picture contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios in 1925 and played in small parts. - Edgar Bergen
Edgar John Bergen was an American actor and radio performer, best known as a ventriloquist. - Harry Bartell
Harry Bartell (November 28, 1913 - February 26, 2004) was an American actor and announcer in radio, television and film. With his rather youthful sounding voice, Bartell was one of the busiest West Coast character actors from the early 1940s until the final end of network radio drama in the 1960s. Bartell was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, but grew up in Houston, where he got his start at station KRPC. - Lionel Barrymore
Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blythe on April 28, 1878 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – November 15, 1954 in Van Nuys, California) was an American Academy Award Winning actor of stage, radio and film. - William Bendix
William Bendix was an Academy Award-nominated American film actor. As a young boy, he was a batboy for the New York Yankees. Bendix was born in New York City, and made his film debut in 1942, having worked as a grocer until the Great Depression. He played in supporting roles in dozens of Hollywood films, usually as a soldier, gangster or detective. He started with appearances in film noir films including a memorable performance in "The Glass Key" (1942), … - Eve Arden
Eve Arden was an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning American actress, who established a lengthy career as a supporting and character actor but was best remembered for playing a sardonically engaging high school teacher in the radio and television classic "Our Miss Brooks". - Howard Duff
Howard Green Duff was a radio and stage performer before he began appearing in films in the late 1940s. He played Dashiell Hammett's private eye Sam Spade while a radio actor. Duff starred in "The Adventures of Sam Spade" on three different networks - ABC, CBS and NBC - from 1946 to 1950. In 1951 Steve Dunne took over the role of Sam Spade. Born in Bremerton, Washington, his first film role was as an inmate in "Brute Force". - Lurene Tuttle
Lurene Tuttle (b. 29 August, 1906, Pleasant Lake, Indiana; d. 28 May, 1986, Encino, California) was a character actress on radio and television and in film, but it was in radio that she made her most enduring impact. She was one of classic network radio's most versatile and often-employed actresses, often appearing in as many as 15 shows a week - earning the nickname the First Lady of Radio for her effort. - Richard Crenna
Richard Donald Crenna was an American actor. He had a long career in films, appearing in such movies as "The Sand Pebbles", "Wait Until Dark", "Body Heat", "First Blood" (and its following Rambo sequels), "Hot Shots! Part Deux" and "The Flamingo Kid". - Gerald Mohr
Gerald Mohr (June 11 1914 - November 9 1968) was a radio, film and television character actor who appeared in over 500 radio plays, 73 films and over 100 television shows. The New York City-born actor was educated in Dwight Preparatory School in New York, where he learned to speak fluent French and German, and also learned to ride horses and play the piano. Whilst a student at Columbia University, where he was on a course to become a doctor, … - Virginia Gregg
Virginia Gregg Burket (March 6, 1916 - September 15, 1986) was an American actress. Born in Harrisburg, Illinois, Gregg was a prolific radio actor, in addition to her work in film and television. She is best known for her voice acting in the role of Norman Bates' mother in the movie "Psycho". She died from lung cancer in Encino, California. Virginia Gregg was one of the core of a dozen actors and actresses in the "Dragnet" company, … - Barton Yarborough
Barton Yarborough (October 2 1900, Goldthwaite, Texas - December 19 1951, Pasadena, California) was an American actor who worked extensively in radio drama. As a youth, Yarborough ran away from home, attracted by the vaudeville stages, and he first worked in radio during the 1920s. In 1932 he began a long run as Clifford Barbour "One Man's Family", continuing in the role throughout his life. While on this series in the late 1930s, … - Jackson Beck
Jackson Beck (July 23, 1912 in Manhattan, New York - July 28, 2004 in Manhattan) was an American actor best known as the voice of Bluto in over 300 Popeye cartoons. His father, Max Blank, was a silent-film actor. Beck had a career in radio, television and animation dating from 1931 with "Myrt and Marge". - Claudette Colbert
Claudette Colbert (September 13, 1903 - July 30, 1996) was an Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning American actress of film, theater and television. She was acclaimed for her performances in screwball comedies as well as dramatic roles. She received Academy Award nominations in both film genres. - Arthur Q. Bryan
Arthur Q. Bryan was a United States comedian and voice actor. Bryan was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Growing up with a deep desire to go into show business, he stumbled through the industry for several years before finding steady if unsatisfying work as a bit player and occasional film narrator in Hollywood. Bryan first came to prominence in his late 30s as the voice of Egghead and Elmer Fudd at Warner Brothers animation unit, headed by Leon Schlesinger. - Bud Collyer
Bud Collyer (born Clayton Johnson Heermance, Jr., June 18, 1908 - September 8 1969) was an American radio actor/announcer who became one of the nation's first major television game show stars. Collyer was born in New York City to Clayton Johnson Heermance and Caroline Collyer. He originally sought a career in the law and worked his way through Fordham University by acting in radio. Though he became a law clerk after his graduation, … - Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers, CBE (8 September 1925 - 24 July 1980) was an English comedian and actor best known for his Inspector Clouseau roles in Pink Panther films. Sellers first rose to fame on the BBC Home Service radio series "The Goon Show". - Kenny Delmar
Kenneth Howard "Kenny" Delmar (b. September 5 1910, Boston, Massachusetts - d. July 14 1984, Stamford, Connecticut) was a United States actor active in radio, film, and animation media. Delmar among other jobs is notable for his reading the role of Senator Claghorn on Fred Allen's radio program, which in turn was a major influence on the Warners cartoon character Foghorn Leghorn. Delmar was also a well-utilised cartoon voice talent, … - June Foray
June Foray (born September 18, 1917) is an American voice actress who has worked for most of the studios which produced animated films since the 1940s. Foray was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, where her voice was first broadcast in a local radio drama when she was 12 years of age; by age 15 she was doing regular radio voice work. Two years later she moved to Los Angeles, California, and soon became a popular voice actress on radio there, … - John Cleese
John Marwood Cleese (born 27 October 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award winning English comedian and actor. He is best known for being one of the founding members of the renowned comedy group Monty Python, and as the writer and star of the popular television comedy "Fawlty Towers". He has won BAFTA and Emmy awards, and was an Academy Award nominated screen writer for his film, "A Fish Called Wanda". - Joseph Kearns
Joseph Kearns (February 12, 1907 - February 17, 1962) was an American actor, who is best remembered for his role as Mr. Wilson in the 1960s television series "Dennis the Menace". Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, his family moved to California when he was very young. He went to college at the University of Utah, where he earned his tuition by teaching a course in theatrical makeup. Kearns started out in radio and theatre as a pipe organist; years later, … - Brock Peters
Brock Peters (July 2, 1927 - August 23, 2005), born George Fisher in New York City, was an African American actor probably best known for the role in the 1962 film "To Kill a Mockingbird" of Tom Robinson, the black man unjustly convicted of raping a white girl. Born of African and West Indian parentage in New York City, Brock Peters set his sights on a show business career early on, at age ten. A product of NYC's famed Music and Arts High School, … - Art Carney
Arthur William Matthew Carney (November 4, 1918 - November 9, 2003) was an Academy Award-winning American actor in film, stage, television, and radio. - Jack Kruschen
Jack Kruschen (March 20, 1922 - April 2, 2002) was a Canadian-born character actor who worked primarily in American film, television, and radio. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Kruschen began his career in the 1940s as staple of West Coast radio drama. He had regular or recurring roles on "Broadway Is My Beat" (as Sgt. Muggavan), and "Pete Kelly's Blues" (as Red, the bass player), as well as frequent episodic roles on anthology series, Westerns, and crime dramas. - Ray Collins
Ray Bidwell Collins was an American actor in film, stage, radio, and television, but may be best remembered as Lt. Arthur Tragg in the long-running series Perry Mason. Collins was born in Sacramento, California to Lillie Bidwell and William C. Collins, a newspaper drama editor. He started acting on stage at the age of 14. In the mid-1930s, now an established stage and radio actor, … - Parley Baer
Parley Baer (5 August 1914 - 22 November 2002) was an American character actor in film, television, and radio. - E. G. Marshall
E. G. Marshall (June 18 1914 - August 24 1998) was a two-time Emmy Award-winning American actor who co-starred in the 1957 movie "12 Angry Men". Two of his better known TV roles are those of lawyer, Lawrence Preston on "The Defenders" in the 1960s, and as neurosurgeon, Dr. David Craig on "The Bold Ones: The New Doctors" in the 1970s. - Peter Finch
Peter Finch was an English-born Australian actor. Born Frederick George Peter Ingle-Finch in London, he lived as a child in France and India, and finally in Australia, his parents' native country. There he grew up in Sydney. After finishing school, he worked in several badly paid jobs until he tried acting. He began in 1935 playing theatre roles, and also working in radio. In 1938, he appeared in his first film, "Dad and Dave Come to Town". - Hugh Beaumont
Eugene Hugh Beaumont was an American actor, television director, and ordained Methodist minister. He is best known for his portrayal of the character Ward Cleaver on the popular TV series "Leave It to Beaver" from 1957 to 1963. Beaumont was born in Lawrence, Kansas, to Ethel Adaline Whitney and Edward H. Beaumont, a little over three months after the couple married. After graduating from high school, he attended the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, … - Bill Thompson
Bill Thompson was an American radio actor and voice actor whose career stretched from the 1930s until his death. Born in Terre Haute, Indiana from vaudevillian parents, Bill Thompson began his career in Chicago radio, where his early appearances included a regular stint on Don McNeill's morning variety series "The Breakfast Club" in 1934 and a stint as a choir member on the musical variety series "The Sinclair Weiner Minstrels" around 1937.
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