- Howard Stern
Howard Allan Stern (born January 12, 1954) is an American radio and TV personality, media mogul, humorist, actor, and author. Stern hosts "The Howard Stern Show" four days a week (Monday-Thursday) on Howard 100, a Sirius Satellite Radio station. The self-proclaimed "King of All Media" (a humorous reference to Michael Jackson's appellation "The King of Pop") has been dubbed a shock jock for his highly controversial use of scatological, sexual and racial humor. - Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson is a radio talk show host based in the Los Angeles area. Jackson is best known for his radio show which covered the arts, politics and human interest subjects, particularly in the Los Angeles and greater Southern California area. The show originally aired on L.A. radio station KABC. He was born in England, experiencing the The Blitz (German bombing) of London during World War Two. After the war, in which his father served in the RAF as a navigator trainer, … - Jack Benny
Jack Benny (February 14 1894 in Chicago, Illinois - December 26 1974 in Beverly Hills, California), born Benjamin Kubelsky, was an American comedian, vaudeville performer, and radio, television, and film actor. He was one of the biggest stars in classic American radio and was also a major television personality. Benny was renowned for his flawless comic timing and (especially) his ability to get laughs with either a pregnant pause or a single expression, … - Jim Cox
Jim Cox, a retired college professor living in Louisville, Kentucky, has written extensively on the history of radio programming. His books include "Radio Speakers: Narrators, News Junkies, Sports Jockeys, Tattletales, Tipsters, Toastmasters and Coffee Klatch Couples Who Verbalized the Jargon of the Aural Ether from the 1920s to the 1980s--A Biographical Dictionary" (2007), "The Daytime Serials of Television, 1946–1960" (2006), … - Wendy Williams
Wendy Williams (born July 18, 1964) is an American radio and television personality. She was raised in the unincorporated Wayside area of Ocean Township, New Jersey, and as of 2006 lives in northern New Jersey with her husband, Kevin Hunter, and their son, also named Kevin, who was born in 2000. Since 2003, she has hosted a weekday syndicated radio program, "The Wendy Williams Experience" from FM radio station 107.5 WBLS in New York City. - Don Wilson
Don Wilson (September 1, 1900 - April 25, 1982) was an American announcer and occasional actor in radio and television, with a Falstaffian vocal presence, remembered best as the rotund announcer and comic foil to the star of "The Jack Benny Program". Though best known for his comedy work with Benny, Wilson had a background as a sportscaster, covering the opening of the 1932 Olympics. Wilson first worked with Benny on the broadcast of April 6, 1934, … - Mae West
Mae West (August 17, 1893 - November 22, 1980) was an American actress, playwright, screenwriter, and sex symbol. Famous for her bawdy double entendres, West made a name for herself in vaudeville and on the legitimate stage in New York before moving to Hollywood to become renowned as a comedienne, actress and writer in the motion picture industry. One of the most controversial stars of her day, West encountered many problems including censorship. - Bernard McGuirk
Bernard McGuirk is the former executive producer of the "Imus in the Morning" radio program. He was born and raised in the South Bronx, New York, where he also worked in his younger years as a taxicab driver. McGuirk has worked in radio and television since 1986 after he graduated from College of Mount Saint Vincent in Riverdale, New York. According to the MSNBC website, McGuirk is married with two children and resides in Long Beach, New York. - Chris Jericho
Christopher Keith Irvine (born November 9, 1970), better known by the ring name Chris Jericho, is an American-Canadian actor, radio host, rock musician and inactive professional wrestler. Jericho is best known for his appearances with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), … - Jeff Green
Jeff Stuart Green (born June 21, 1956) is a Canadian writer, playwright, producer, and director working in a variety of media including radio, television, computer and DVD-based multimedia, and in live club settings. His work has earned him critical acclaim and a number of awards. In addition to the work he has created, he was instrumental in the evolution of broadcast radio in the Ottawa, Ontario, Canada market during the late 1970s and the 1980s - specifically, … - Chuck Schaden
A former newspaper editor and marketing executive, he turned his hobby into a vocation and draws from a collection of more than 50,000 vintage broadcasts to prepare his programs. He is the founding editor and publisher of the Nostalgia Digest ; author of WBBM Radio: Yesterday and Today, a history of station WBBM, Chicago; and author of Speaking of Radio a Chuck Schaden 's conversations with the stars of the Golden Age of Radio , published by his Nostalgia Digest Press. - Bebe Winans
BeBe Winans (born Benjamin Winans, 17 September 1962, in Detroit, Michigan) is a Grammy Award winning gospel and R&B singer.He is a member of the noted Winans family, many members of which are also gospel artists. He released several albums, first with his sister CeCe Winans, and later as a solo artist. He currently hosts his own nationally syndicated radio program, "The BeBe Winans Radio Show". In 1989, BeBe won His First Grammy for Best Soul Gospel Performance, … - 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. - Parley Baer
Parley Baer (5 August 1914 - 22 November 2002) was an American character actor in film, television, and radio. - Mary Jane Croft
Mary Jane Croft (February 15, 1916 - August 24, 1999) was an American actress best known for her role as Mary Jane Lewis on "The Lucy Show" and "Here's Lucy". Croft was born in Muncie, Indiana. Prior to her involvement with Lucille Ball, she had worked heavily in radio and been a frequent guest star on other television programs. She was a regular on at least two series, … - Michio Kaku
Dr. Michio Kaku is a Japanese American theoretical physicist, tenured professor, and co-founder of string field theory, a branch of superstring theory. He is a widely known popularizer of science, the host of two radio programs, and the author of numerous books. - 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. - 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. - Betty Lou Gerson
Betty Lou Gerson (April 20, 1914 - January 12, 1999) was an American actress, predominantly in radio, but also in film and television, and as a voice actress. Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Gerson grew up in Birmingham, Alabama and later migrated to Chicago. She began her acting career in radio drama in 1935, while still in her 20s, and became a mainstay of soap operas during this period, … - Peter Fincham
Peter Fincham (born 1957) is a British television producer and executive, who since May 2005 has been the Controller of BBC One, the primary television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation. Immediately prior to joining the BBC he had been the Chief Executive of the independent production company talkbackTHAMES, a role in which he was succeeded by Lorraine Heggessey, his predecessor as Controller of BBC One, meaning the pair had effectively swapped jobs. - Verna Felton
Verna Felton (July 20, 1890 - December 14, 1966) was an American actress who was best-known for providing many female voices in numerous Disney animated films, as well as voicing Fred Flintstone's mother-in-law for Hanna-Barbera. She also worked extensively in radio, notably playing Junior the Mean Widdle Kid's grandmother on the Red Skelton Radio Show and Dennis Day's mother on Jack Benny's radio program. On the strength of her guest appearances on "I Love Lucy", … - Chris Booker
Chris Booker (born Christopher Bugher on May 20, 1971) is an American radio and TV personality. - Norris Goff
Norris Goff (May 30, 1906 - June 7, 1978) was an American comedian in radio and film best known for his portrayal of Abner Peabody on the rural comedy "Lum and Abner". Nicknamed "Tuffy," Goff was born in Cove, Arkansas, but soon moved to Mena, Arkansas where he met his longtime friend and partner Chester Lauck (Lum). Despite their fame as backwoodsmen, both actors graduated from the University of Arkansas. - Shirley Booth
Shirley Booth (August 30, 1898 - October 16, 1992) was an acclaimed Tony Award, Academy Award, Emmy Award and Golden Globe-winning American actress, whose acclaim on stage and in motion pictures was probably eclipsed by her late-life popularity as television's sitcom maid "Hazel". She was born Marjory Ford in New York, New York, the daughter of Albert James Ford and Virginia Martha Wright. Her sister was Jean Valentine Ford (born 1914). - Tony Delroy
Anthony Eric Delroy is an Australian radio personality and host of "NightLife" on ABC Local radio. Joining the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, he worked on-air in Bathurst and Launceston before settling at their Sydney station 702 ABC Sydney in 1987. He found his niche when he took over the late show slot from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. In 1990 it went national and the ABC replaced the state-based late-night programming with the Sydney-based show, … - Shmuley Boteach
Shmuley Boteach (born November 19, 1966) Los Angeles, California, USA is an American Orthodox rabbi, radio and television host, and author. - John Hodiak
John Hodiak (April 16, 1914 - October 19, 1955) was an American actor. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Walter Hodiak (October 25, 1888-August 21, 1962) and Anna Pogorzelec (February 28, 1888-October 17, 1971). He was of Ukrainian and Polish descent. He grew up in Hamtramck, Michigan, a part of Detroit. Hodiak had his first smell of greasepaint at age eleven, acting in Ukrainian and Russian plays at the Ukrainian Catholic Church. - John Todd
John Todd (born Fred McCarthy, 1877 - July 14, 1957) was an American radio actor. A former stage actor known for Shakespearean roles, Todd soon gained work at Detroit radio station WXYZ, as part of director James Jewell's repertory company, with roles on the various series produced by the station. His most famous work was on "The Lone Ranger". He played a local sheriff in some of the show's earliest episodes, but on the twelfth broadcast, which aired February 25, … - Irene Tedrow
Irene Tedrow was an American character actor in stage, film, television and radio. A founding member of the Old Globe Theater Irene Tedrow was cast as a young pretty ingenue, but with age found more work in film cast as the meddling old woman. She however did have an intermittently recurring role as Mrs. Elkins on Dennis the Menace television sitcom in the 1950s where her character was a kind woman. - Juliet Stevenson
Juliet Anne Virginia Stevenson (born October 30, 1956) is an English actress. Stevenson was born in Essex, England. She studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, which led to a stage career starting in the early 1980s with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Although she has gained fame through her television and film work, and has often undertaken roles for BBC radio, she is still primarily a stage actress. - Arnold Brown
Arnold Brown (December 13, 1913 - June 26, 2002) was the 11th General of The Salvation Army (1977-1981). He was born in London, England, the son of officers of the Army. While he was still a young boy, his family emigrated to Canada, and it was from the corps in Belleville that he entered training, becoming an officer in 1935. A two-year corps command was followed by 10 years service in the editorial department at territorial headquarters, … - Lillian Randolph
Lillian Randolph (December 14 1898 - September 12 1980) was an African American actress and singer, a veteran of radio, film, and television. A native of Louisville, Kentucky, she was the younger sister of actress Amanda Randolph. She worked in entertainment from the 1930s well into the 1970s, appearing in hundreds of radio shows, motion pictures, short subjects, and television shows. - Robert Q. Lewis
Robert Q. Lewis was an American radio and television personality, game show host, and actor. He was born in New York City, and educated at the University of Michigan. - Edward Bowes
Edward Bowes (b. 14 June 1874, San Francisco; d. 14 June 1946, Rumson, New Jersey) was an American radio personality of the 1930s and 40s whose "Major Bowes' Amateur Hour" was the best-known amateur talent show in radio during its eighteen-year (1934-1952) run on NBC and CBS. Bowes (his nickname sprang from his earlier military rank, … - Claudia Cassidy
Claudia Cassidy, born in Shawneetown, Illinois, was a music, dance, and drama critic. She was so well-known for giving caustic reviews to what she considered bad performances that she earned the nickname "Acidy Cassidy." Her judgment, however, which was regarded as extremely controversial even in her heyday, has been seriously doubted by more recent critics. She was unfailingly critical of the great Czech conductor Rafael Kubelík, … - Huntz Hall
Henry "Huntz" Hall was an American radio, theatrical, and motion picture performer perhaps best known for his acting in the "Dead End Kids" movies such as "Angels with Dirty Faces" (1938). Hall later played the increasingly buffoonish Horace Debussy "Sach" Jones in 48 inexpensive but profitable "Bowery Boys" entries, graduating to top billing when Leo Gorcey left the series in 1955. He died from congestive heart failure at the age of 79. - John Kieran
John F. Kieran (August 21892-December 91981) was an American writer, amateur naturalist and radio and television personality. A native of The Bronx, Kieran began his newspaper career in 1915 as a sportswriter for "The New York Times". He continued on the sports beat during his entire career, working for a number of New York newspapers and becoming one of the country's best known sports columnists, credited with coining the tennis term "grand slam". - Nick Lawrence
Nick Lawrence (born January 1966) is a radio and local TV presenter. From summer 2004 - October 2006, he used to be a radio presenter for the BBC's regional programme for the east of England between 7pm and 10pm every weekday. He was born and brought up in Halifax, West Yorkshire. He went to the Crossley Heath School. At university he studied a Drama and Theatre Studies course. The regional show, now presented by Sue Marchant, … - Minerva Pious
Minerva Pious (March 5 1903 - March 16 1979), an actress/comedian in American radio, became a radio icon playing malaprop-prone Jewish housewife Pansy Nussbaum in Fred Allen's famous "Allen's Alley" current-events skits. Born in Odessa, Ukraine, Pious spent the majority of her life and career in New York. She worked extensively as a radio comedian, but gained a regular such job when she joined Allen in the 1930s. - John D. MacArthur
John Donald MacArthur (March 6, 1897 - January 6, 1978) was an American businessman and philanthropist who established the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, benefactor in the MacArthur Fellowships. MacArthur made his fortune in the insurance business; in 1935, he acquired the Bankers Life and Casualty Company for $2,500. In subsequent years, he built up a business empire through acquisitions of many small insurance corporations.
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