NECROLOGY OF OLD RADIO PERSONALITIES
This list includes deceased individuals who appeared on at least one radio program. There may be movie personalities here provided they appeared at least once on an old time radio program. Writers, directors and other radio people may appear here provided they played a major role in radio's Golden Age. Report errors and omissions to: stiquesheik@yahoo.com Please include name, dates of birth and death, radio show appearance and source of death information. (IMPORTANT --Use screen resolution of 1024 x 768 to display correct line formatting.)
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Name
Abbott, Bud
Abbott, Gregory
Ace, Goodman
Ace, Jane
Acuff, Roy
Adams, Joey
Adams, Mason
Adams, Maude
Adams, Franklyn P.
Adams, Stanley
Adler, Luther
Adrian, Iris
Agronsky, Martin
Aherne, Brian
Albert, Eddie
Albertson, Jack
Albertson, Mabel
Aldan, Daisy
Alexander, A L
Alexander, Ben
Alexander, Joan
Aley, Albert
Allen, Arthur
Allen, Barbara Jo
Allen, Charme
Allen, Fred
Allen, Gracie
Allen, Judith
Allen, Mel
Allen, Steve
Allison, Fran
Allman, Elvia
Allyson, June
Ameche, Don
Ameche, Jim
Ames, Leon
Amsterdam, Morey
Anderson, Eddie
Anderson, Marian
Anderson, Marjorie
Anderson, Warner
Andrews, Clark
Andrews, Dana
Andrews, Laverne
Andrews, Maxine
Andrews, Patty
Andrews, Robert H.
Andrews, Stanley
Anthony, John
Antonini, Alfredo
Aplon, Boris
Appel, Anna
Archer, John
Arden, Eve
Arliss, George
Armstrong, Garner Ted
Armstrong, Herbert W
Armstrong, Louis
Arnal, Curtis
Arnaz, Desi
Arnold, Edward
Arquette, Cliff
Arthur, Jean
Arthur, Jon
Arthur Jr., Robert
Ascot, Rita
Ashe, Martin
Ashley, Ira
Astaire, Fred
Astor, Mary
Atwill, Lionel
Audley, Eleanor
Auer, Mischa
Auerbach, Artie
Austin, Gene
Autry, Gene
Averback, Hy
Axelrod, George
Ayars, Ann
Ayres, Lew
Babbitt, Harry
BaCall, Lauren
Backus, Georgia
Backus, Jim
Baclanova, Olga
Baer, Parley
Baily, Bob
Bailey, Mildred
Bailey, Ruth
Bainter, Fay
Baker, Art
Baker, Belle
Baker, Bonnie
Baker, Gene
Baker, Kenny
Baker, Phil
Baldwin, Bill
Ball, Lucille
Ballew, Smith
Balsam, Martin
Banghart, Kenneth
Bankhead, Tullulah
Banks, Joan
Bara, Nina
Barber, Red
Bari, Lynn
Barker, Brad
Barlow, Howard
Barnes, Binnie
Barnes, Paul
Barnett, Griff
Barney, Jay
Barnhouse, Donald Grey
Barrett, Pat
Barrie, Wendy
Barrier, Edgar
Barris, Harry
Barry, Jack
Barrymore, Ethel
Barrymore, John
Barrymore, Lionel
Bartell, Harry
Bartholomew, Freddie
Barton, Frank
Baruch, Andre
Basehart, Richard
Basie, Count
Bates, Barbara
Bauer, Charita
Baukhage, H R
Baxter, Anne
Beal, John
Beatty, Clyde
Beatty, Morgan
Beavers, Louise
Beck, Jackson
Becker, Sandy
Beckett, Scotty
Beemer, Brace
Beery, Noah Sr.
Begley, Ed
Behrens, Frank
Belasco, Leon
Bell, Joseph
Bell, Marion
Bell, Ralph
Bellamy, Ralph
Benaderet, Bea
Benchley, Robert
Bendix, William
Beneke, Tex
Bennett, Constance
Bennett, Joan
Benny, Jack
Benson, Court
Benzell, Mimi
Berg, Gertrude
Bergen, Edgar
Bergman, Ingrid
Bergner, Elisabeth
Berigan, Bunny
Berle, Milton
Berlin, Irving
Berner, Sara
Bernie, Ben
Berry, Wallace
Berstein, Leonard
Besser, Joe
Best, Edna
Bester, Alfred
Bester, Rolly
Bickford, Charles
Bing, Rudolf
Bivins, Bill
Bixby, Carl
Bjoerling, Jussi
Black, Shirley Temple
Blaine, Joan
Blanc, Mel
Bleyer, Archie
Bloch, Ray
Blondell, Joan
Bogart, Humphrey
Bogue, Mervyn
Boles, Jim
Boles, John
Bolger, Ray
Bond, Ford
Bond, Johnny
Bond, Nelson S.
Bond, Ward
Bondi, Beulah
Bonnell, Lee
Booth, Shirley
Bordoni, Irene
Borge, Victor
Bosley, Tom
Boswell, Connee
Boswell, Martha
Boswell, Vet
Boucher, Anthony
Bouchey, Bill
Bowes, Major Edward
Bowman, Lee
Boyd, William
Boyer, Charles
Bracken, Eddie
Bradbury, Ray
Bradley, Joe "Curley"
Bradley, Truman
Brady, Pat
Brainard, Bertha
Brasfield, Rod
Breneman, Tom
Brennen, Walter
Brent, George
Brian, David
Brice, Fanny
Briggs, Donald L
Brinkley, David
Brisson, Carl
Britton, Barbara
Brokenshire, Norman
Brook, Clive
Brown, Bob
Brown, Himan
Brown, Joe E.
Brown, John
Brown, Les
Brown, Russ
Brown, Vanessa
Brown, Wally
Bruce, Nigel
Bruce, Virginia
Brusiloff, Nat
Bryan, Arthur Q
Bryant, Nana
Buck, Charles
Buck, Frank
Buloff, Joseph
Bunce, Alan
Burke, Billie
Burnette, Smiley
Burns, Bob
Burns, George
Burr, Raymond
Burrows, Abe
Bushman, Francis X
Butler, Daws
Butterworth, Charles
Buttram, Pat
Byington, Spring
Cadman, S. Parks
Cagney, James
Calloway, Cab
Calvin, Henry
Campbell, Flora
Campbell, Kay
Candido, Candy
Canova, Judy
Cantor, Charlie
Cantor, Eddie
Capell, Peter
Carey, Harry
Carey, Macdonald
Carlin, Phillips
Carlisle, Kitty
Carlon, Fran
Carmichael, Hoagy
Carney, Art
Carney, Don
Carnovsky, Morris
Carpenter, Ken
Carpenter, Thelma
Carr, Tommy
Carrillo, Leo
Carrington, Elaine
Carroll, Carroll
Carroll, Gene
Carroll, Leo G
Carroll, Madeleine
Carson, Jack
Carson, Ken
Carter, Boake
Carter, June
Casals, Pablo
Case, Nelson
Caulfield, Joan
Chalmers, Thomas
Chandler, Jeff
Chaney, Lon Jr.
Chaplin, W W
Chapman, Marguerite
Chappell, Ernest
Chase, Ilka
Chayefsky, Paddy
Chevalier, Maurice
Christine, Virginia
Claire, Helen
Clark, Buddy
Clark, Dane
Clark, Lon
Clift, Montgomery
Clooney, Rosemary
Clyde, Andy
Cobb, Irvin S
Cobb, Lee J.
Coburn, Charles
Coca, Imogene
Cohan, George M.
Colbert, Claudette
Cole, Alonzo
Coleman, Nancy
Collier, Constance
Collins, Dorothy
Collins, Ray
Collins, Ted
Collyer, Clayton "Bud"
Colman, Bonita Hume
Colman, Ronald
Colonna, Jerry
Columbo, Russ
Como, Perry
Connolly, Walter
Connor, Whitfield
Conrad, William
Conried, Hans
Conte, Richard
Conway, Tom
Coogan, Jackie
Cook, Donald
Cook, Phil
Cooke, Alistair
Cooper, Gary
Cooper, Wyllis
Copeland, Maurice
Corday, Ted
Cordell, Kathleen
Corey, Jeff
Corey, Wendell
Cornell, Katharine
Correll, Charles
Costello, Lou
Cotsworth, Staats
Cotten, Joseph
Coughlin, Charles E.
Coulouris, George
Coward, Noel
Crabbe, Larry "Buster"
Craig, Helen
Craven, Frank
Crawford, Broadrick
Crawford, Jesse
Crawford, Joan
Crenna, Richard
Crisp, Donald
Croft, Mary Jane
Cromwell, Richard
Cronyn, Hume
Crosby, Bing
Crosby, Bob
Crosby, Gary
Crosby, Lou
Cross, Milton
Crowley, Matt
Crumit, Frank
Cugot, Xavier
Cullen, Bill
Culver, Howard
Cummings, Irving
Cummings, Robert
Curtin, Joseph
Curtis, Donald
Curtis, Ken
Born Died
1895 1974
1900 1981
1899 1982
1905 1974
1903 1992
1911 1999
1919 2005
1872 1953
1881 1960
1915 1977
1903 1984
1913 1994
1915 1999
1902 1986
1906 2005
1907 1981
1901 1982
1923 2001
1906 1967
1911 1969
1915 2009
1919 1986
1881 1947
1904 1974
1909 1980
1894 1956
1902 1964
1911 1996
1913 1996
1921 2000
1907 1989
1904 1992
1917 2006
1908 1993
1915 1983
1903 1993
1912 1996
1905 1977
1897 1993
1916 1946
1911 1976
1909 1985
1909 1992
1915 1967
1916 1995
1919 2013
1903 1976
1891 1969
1902 1970
1901 1983
1910 1995
1888 1963
1915 1999
1908 1990
1868 1946
1930 2003
1892 1986
1900 1971
1898 1964
1917 1986
1890 1956
1905 1974
1901 1991
???? 1982
1909 1969
1907 1988
1911 1991
1910 1985
1899 1987
1905 1987
1885 1946
1905 1991
1905 1967
1903 1957
1900 1972
1907 1998
1920 1997
1922 2003
1920 1995
1908 1996
1913 2004
1924 2014
1901 1983
1913 1989
1899 1974
1914 2002
1913 1983
1903 1951
1905 1989
1892 1968
1898 1966
1897 1957
1917 1990
1910 1981
1912 1985
1896 1963
1917 1982
1910 1989
1902 1984
1919 1996
1910 1980
1902 1968
1918 1998
1920 1990
1908 1992
1913 1989
1895 1951
1892 1972
1903 1998
1919 1983
1884 1958
1918 1985
1895 1960
1887 1959
1912 1978
1906 1964
1905 1962
1918 1984
1879 1959
1882 1942
1878 1954
1913 2004
1924 1992
1909 1995
1902 1991
1914 1984
1904 1984
1925 1969
1923 1985
1889 1976
1923 1985
1909 1997
1904 1965
1903 1975
1902 1962
1912 2004
1922 1996
1929 1968
1902 1965
1884 1946
1901 1970
1919 1986
1902 1988
1912 1987
1919 1997
1916 1998
1904 1991
1906 1968
1889 1945
1906 1964
1914 2000
1904 1965
1910 1990
1894 1974
1915 1995
1924 1970
1899 1966
1903 1978
1915 1982
1900 1986
1908 1942
1908 2002
1888 1989
1912 1969
1891 1943
1889 1949
1918 1990
1907 1988
1900 1974
1913 1987
1917 1984
1889 1967
1902 1997
1916 1984
1895 1978
1911 1960
1928 2014
1914 1949
1908 1989
1910 1989
1903 1982
1909 1979
1899 1957
1908 1994
1914 1977
1895 1969
1904 1987
1904 1962
1915 1978
1908 2006
1903 1960
1892 1981
1918 1986
1898 1992
1894 1953
1909 2000
1927 2010
1908 1976
1906 1958
1911 1988
1911 1968
1907 1977
1874 1946
1914 1979
1898 1972
1899 1978
1915 2002
1920 2012
1911 1985
1906 1974
1914 1972
1890 1946
1910 1958
1902 1948
1894 1974
1904 1979
1914 1993
1891 1951
1911 1986
1920 2003
1895 1958
1919 1980
1898 1965
1887 1974
1904 1980
1911 2010
1892 1973
1904 1957
1913 2001
1894 1964
1928 1999
1904 1961
1895 1953
1910 1982
1904 1951
1899 1959
1888 1955
1901 1992
1888 1950
1907 1985
1900 1965
1885 1970
1911 1967
1893 1956
1896 1996
1917 1993
1911 1985
1883 1966
1916 1988
1896 1946
1916 1994
1893 1971
1864 1936
1899 1996
1907 1994
1918 1975
1911 1978
1905 1985
1913 1999
1916 1983
1898 1966
1892 1964
1907 1986
1878 1947
1913 1994
1894 1971
1910 2007
1913 1993
1899 1981
1918 2003
1896 1954
1898 1992
1900 1984
1922 1997
1908 1997
1880 1961
1892 1958
1902 1990
1889 1972
1892 1972
1906 1987
1910 1963
1919 1994
0000 1944
1929 2003
1876 1973
1910 1976
1922 1991
1884 1966
1918 1961
1906 1973
1895 1978
1918 1999
1903 1983
1905 1978
1923 1981
1888 1972
1920 1996
1906 1974
1911 1949
1913 1998
1911 1998
1920 1966
1928 2002
1892 1967
1876 1944
1911 1976
1877 1961
1908 2001
1878 1942
1903 1996
1897 1971
1912 2000
1878 1955
1926 1994
1890 1965
1901 1964
1908 1969
1906 1967
1891 1958
1905 1987
1908 1934
1913 2001
1887 1940
1916 1988
1920 1994
1917 1982
1910 1975
1904 1967
1914 1984
1900 1961
1890 1958
1908 2004
1901 1961
1889 1955
1911 1985
1908 1966
1916 1997
1914 2002
1914 1968
1893 1974
1890 1972
1906 1959
1908 1979
1905 1994
1891 1974
1903 1989
1899 1973
1907 1983
1912 1986
1975 1945
1911 1986
1896 1962
1904 1977
1928 2003
1880 1974
1916 1999
1910 1960
1911 2003
1903 1977
1913 1993
1933 1995
1914 1984
1887 1975
1904 1983
1889 1943
1900 1990
1920 1990
1918 1984
1888 1959
1908 1990
1910 1979
1915 1997
1916 1991
Radio Show
The Abbott and Costello Show
Believe It Or Not (a)
The Easy Aces
The Easy Aces
Grand Ole Opry
Rate Your Mate
Pepper Young's Family
The Ponds Players
Information, Please
My Friend Irma (w)
Lincoln Highway
The Abbott and Costello Show
News Reporter-Commentator
The Saint
The NBC Radio Theater
The Milton Berle Show
The Phil Baker Show
Let's Pretend
A L Alexander's Mediation Board
Dragnet
The Adventures of Superman
Let's Pretend
Snow Village Sketches
The Bob Hope Show
David Harum
The Fred Allen Show
Burns & Allen
The Shadow
Sports Broadcasts
It's a Great Life
The Breakfast Club
Blondie
Hollywood Calling
The Bickersons
Jack Armstrong, All-American Boy
Earplay
Stop Me If You Heard This One
The Jack Benny Program
The Bell Telephone Hour
The Parker Family
Terry and the Pirates
The Clock (d)
I Was A Communist For the FBI
The Andrew Sisters
The Andrew Sisters
The Andrew Sisters
Ma Perkins (w)
Little Orphan Annie
The Goodwill Hour
Yours For a Song
Scattergood Baines
Abie's Irish Rose
The Shadow
Our Miss Brooks
The March of Time
The World Tomorrow
Radio Church of God
This is Jazz
Buck Rogers In the 25th Century
I Love Lucy
Mr. President
Point Sublime
The Ford Theatre
Big Jon and Sparkie
The Mysterious Traveler (w)
Ma Perkins
Grand Central Station
The Second Mrs. Burton (d)
The Packard Show
Stars Over Hollywood
The Eveready Hour
Father Knows Best
Mischa, the Magnificant
The Jack Benny Program
Joe Penner Show
Gene Autry's Melody Ranch
The Sealtest Village Store (a)
The Shadow (w)
The Chicago Theater on the Air
Dr. Kildare
Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge
Bold Venture
The Story of Holly Sloan
The Alan Young Show
Olga Baclanova's Continental Revue
Gunsmoke
Let George Do It
Benny Goodman Show
The Guiding Light
Nobody's Children
Hollywood In Person
The Eveready Hour (s)
Your Hit Parade
Queen For A Day (a)
Glamour Manor
Armour Star Jester
Charlie McCarthy Show (a)
I Love Lucy
Shell Chateau
Cloak and Dagger
Encore
The Big Show
Editor's Daughter
Space Patrol
Monitor
The Rexall Summer Theater
Little Orphan Annie (se)
The Voice of Firestone
Leave It To the Girls
Captain Midnight
Masquerade
The Romance of Helen Trent
The Bible Study Hour
Uncle Ezra
The Jack Haley Show
The Saint
Jack Oakie's College
Juvenile Jury
Family Theatre
The Rudy Vallee Show
A Christmas Carol
Gunsmoke
Anchors Aweigh
One Man's Family (a)
Your Hit Parade
Columbia Presents Corwin
Jubilee
Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons
The Guiding Light
News Broadcasts
Lux Radio Theater
Box 13
The Clyde Beatty Show
News of the World
Beulah
The Adventures of Superman
Young Dr. Malone
The Life of Riley
The Lone Ranger
The Texaco Star Theatre
The Fat Man
Woman In White
The Man Called X
20,000 in Sing Sing (d)
The Railroad Hour
Strange Romance of Evelyn Winters
These Are Our Men
The Great Guildersleeve
Melody and Madness
The Life of Riley
The Chesterfield Supper Club
Leave It To the Girls
The Skippy Hollywood Theatre
The Jack Benny Program
Adventure Theater
The Railroad Hour
The Goldbergs
The Charlie McCarthy Show
The Ford Theatre
Plays For Americans
Tim and Irene (m)
The Milton Berle Show
The People's Platform
Sara's Private Caper
Ben Bernie, The Old Maestro
Shell Chateau
The Metropolitan Opera
The Jack Benny Program
Sherlock Holmes (p)
The Shadow (w)
Tales of Tomorrow
Radio Hall of Fame
The Metropolitan Opera (d)
The Fred Waring Show (a)
This Day Is Ours (w)
The Metropolitan Opera
Junior Miss
Valiant Lady
The Mel Blanc Show
Arthur Godfrey Time (m)
The Gay Nineties Revue
Treasury Star Parade
Bold Venture
Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge
I Love a Mystery
The Texaco Star Theater
The Ray Bolger Show
Mary Noble Backstage Wife
Gene Autry's Melody Ranch (m)
Dr. Christian
The Screen Directors' Playhouse
Family Theatre
Three Sheets To The Wind
Duffy's Tavern
The RKO Hour
The Victor Borge Show
Adventure Theater
Music That Satisfies
Music That Satisfies
Music That Satisfies
Sherlock Holmes (w)
Captain Midnight
Major Bowes Original Amateur Hour
My Favorite Husband
Hopalong Cassidy
Columbia Presents Corwin
The Eddie Bracken Show
Dimension X (w)
Tom Mix Ralston Straight Shooters
Suspense
The Roy Rogers Show
The Magic Key (p)
Grand Ole Opry
Breakfast In Hollywood
This Is My Best
Lux Radio Theater
Mr. District Attorney
Baby Snooks
FBI In Peace and War
News Broadcasts
A Voice In The Night
Mr and Mrs North
The Theatre Guild On the Air
Sherlock Holmes
Vic and Sade (a)
Inner Sanctum Mysteries (P, D)
Lincoln Highway
The Life of Riley
The Bob Hope Show
The Tip Top Show
Hollywood Startime
Joan Davis Time
Sherlock Holmes
Lux Radio Theatre
Double or Nothing
Fibber McGee and Molly
The Fabulous Dr. Tweedy
One Man's Family (w,d)
Bring 'Em Back Alive
House of Glass
Ethel and Albert
The Billie Burke Show
The Smiley Burnette Show
Arkansas Traveler
Burns and Allen
Fort Laramie
The Abe Burrows Show
Valiant Lady
The Stan Freeberg Show
The Packard Show
Gene Autry's Melody Ranch
December Bride
National Radio Pulpit
Arch Obler's Plays
Calloway and His Orchestra
The Big Guy
Brave Tomorrow
Ma Perkins
The Jimmy Durante Show (s)
The Judy Canova Show
Duffy's Tavern
The Eddie Cantor Show
Romance
Lincoln Highway
Stella Dallas
The Palmolive Hour (a)
The Song Shop
Big Town
The Hoagy Carmichael Show
The Morey Amsterdam Show
Uncle Don
Into the Light
The Bing Crosby Show
The Eddie Cantor Show
Magic Island
Grapevine Rancho
Pepper Young's Family
Burns and Allen (w)
Gene and Glenn
The Adventures of Topper
Studio One
The Jack Carson Show
The Garry Moore Show
News Broadcasts
Grand Ole Opry
The Eveready Hour
The Ford Theatre
Great Scenes From Great Plays
Pepper Young's Family
Michael Shayne, Private Detective
The Pursuit of Happiness
News Broadcasts
Hollywood Startime
Are You a Genius?
Leave It To the Girls
Theater Guild On the Air
This is Paris
Confession
Dr. Christian
The Ben Bernie Show
Crime and Peter Chambers
Nick Carter, Master Detective
The Ford Theatre
Moon River
Hopalong Cassidy
Paducah Plantation
Hollywood Startime
Song of Liberty
New Faces of 1948
The Ed Sullivan Show
Ford Theatre
The Witch's Tale
Grand Central Station
Kate Hopkins - Angle of Mercy
Your Hit Parade
The Mercury Theatre On the Air
Kate Smith Hour (moc)
The Adventures of Superman
The Halls of Ivy
The Halls of Ivy
The Bob Hope Show
The Russ Columbo Show
Chesterfield Supper Club
Charlie Chan
This is Your FBI
Gunsmoke
My Friend Irma
Theater Guild on the Air
Sherlock Holmes
Forever Earnest
Charlie and Jessie
Phil Cook's Almanac
Translantic Quiz
Lux Radio Theatre
Lights Out (w)
The Hall of Fantasy
The Brighter Day (d)
The Second Mrs. Burton
The Adventures of Philip Marlowe
McGarry and His Mouse
The Mercury Theatre On the Air
The Amos and Andy Show
The Abbott and Costello Show
Casey, Crime Photographer
The Screen Director's Playhouse
Father Coughlin
Mercury Theater On the Air
The Rudy Vallee Show
Flash Gordon
Favorite Story
Arthur Hopkins Presents
Hedda Hopper Show
The Paramount-Publix Hour
The Screen Guild Theatre
Our Miss Brooks
Jonathan Trimble, Esquire
The Story of Sandra Martin
Those We Love
The Marriage
The Bing Crosby Show
The Bob Crosby Show
Edgar Bergan/Charlie McArthy Show
Lum and Abner (a)
Metropolitan Opera Auditions
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
The Battle of the Sexes
Remote Bands
Hit the Jackpot
Straigtht Arrow
Lux Radio Theater
The Four Star Playhouse
Mr. And Mrs. North
Michael Shayne
Hollywood Barn Dance