Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio

Jason Robards

as Narrator (voice)

Red Barber

as Self - Radio Announcer

Erik Barnouw

as Self - Historian

Ken Bilby

as Self - Biographer of David Sarnoff

Norman Corwin

as Self - Writer

Susan Douglas

as Self - Historian

Frank Günther

as Self - Engineer

Jeanne Hammond

as Self - Niece of Edwin H. Armstrong

Loren Jones

as Self - Engineer

Garrison Keillor

as Self - Writer

Helen Kelley

as Self - Radio Broadcaster

Robert Morris

as Self - Engineer

Dana Raymond

as Self - Friend of Edwin H. Armstrong

Gertrude Tyne

as Self - Engineer

Fred Allen

as Self - Predicts Demise of Radio (archive footage)

Gene Autry

as Self - Sings (archive sound)

John Barrymore

as Hamlet (archive sound)

Winston Churchill

as Self - Finest Hour Speech (archive sound)

Charles J. Correll

as Self - Prepares for Amos 'n' Andy Broadcast (archive footage)

Lee De Forest

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

Ralph Edwards

as Self - Host of 'This Is Your Life' (archive footage)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

as Self - Announces Landing in Normandy (archive footage)

Eugenia Farrar

as Self (with Lee De Forest) (archive footage)

Freeman F. Gosden

as Self - Prepares for Amos 'n' Andy Broadcast (archive footage)

Guglielmo Marconi

as Self - Visits Sarnoff at RCA (archive footage)

Marie Mosquini

as Self - with Lee De Forest (archive footage)

Nelson Rockefeller

as Self - Eulogizes Sarnoff (archive footage)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

as Self - Makes Broadcast About Banking Reform (archive footage)

David Sarnoff

as Self - with Marconi at RCA (archive footage)

Frank Sinatra

as Self - Serenades Sarnoff (archive footage)

Arturo Toscanini

as Self - Conducts NBC Symphony (archive footage)

Harry S. Truman

as Self - Announces Bombing of Hiroshima (archive sound)

Bob Warren

as Self - This is Your Life Announcer (archive footage)

Orson Welles

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