Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio - Cast

Jason Robards

Narrator (voice)
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Erik Barnouw

Self - Historian
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Susan Douglas

Self - Historian
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Garrison Keillor

Self - Writer
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Fred Allen

Self - Predicts Demise of Radio (archive footage)
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Gene Autry

Self - Sings (archive sound)
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John Barrymore

Hamlet (archive sound)
Actor

Winston Churchill

Self - Finest Hour Speech (archive sound)
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Lee De Forest

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

Self - Host of 'This Is Your Life' (archive footage)
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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self - Announces Landing in Normandy (archive footage)
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Marie Mosquini

Self - with Lee De Forest (archive footage)
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Nelson Rockefeller

Self - Eulogizes Sarnoff (archive footage)
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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self - Makes Broadcast About Banking Reform (archive footage)
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Frank Sinatra

Self - Serenades Sarnoff (archive footage)
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Arturo Toscanini

Self - Conducts NBC Symphony (archive footage)
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Harry S. Truman

Self - Announces Bombing of Hiroshima (archive sound)
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Orson Welles

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