Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio

Jason Robards

Narrator (voice)

Red Barber

Self - Radio Announcer

Erik Barnouw

Self - Historian

Ken Bilby

Self - Biographer of David Sarnoff

Norman Corwin

Self - Writer

Susan Douglas

Self - Historian

Frank Günther

Self - Engineer

Jeanne Hammond

Self - Niece of Edwin H. Armstrong

Loren Jones

Self - Engineer

Garrison Keillor

Self - Writer

Helen Kelley

Self - Radio Broadcaster

Robert Morris

Self - Engineer

Dana Raymond

Self - Friend of Edwin H. Armstrong

Gertrude Tyne

Self - Engineer

Fred Allen

Self - Predicts Demise of Radio (archive footage)

Gene Autry

Self - Sings (archive sound)

John Barrymore

Hamlet (archive sound)

Winston Churchill

Self - Finest Hour Speech (archive sound)

Charles J. Correll

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

Lee De Forest

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

Tom Lewis

Producer, Author

Lee Dichter

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Ken Burns

Director, Producer, Executive Producer, Music Director, Director of Photography

Geoffrey C. Ward

Writer

Buddy Squires

Director of Photography

Paul Barnes

Editor, Sound Editor

Allen Moore

Director of Photography

Dalton Delan

Executive In Charge Of Production

Morgan Wesson

Producer, Sound, Archival Footage Research

Alan Barker

Sound

Yaffa Lerea

Associate Editor, Sound Editor

Susanna Steisel

Associate Producer

Camilla Rockwell

Associate Producer