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The Golden Age of Radio, also known as the old-time radio (OTR) era, was an era of radio in the United States where it was the dominant electronic home entertainment medium. It began with the birth of commercial radio broadcasting in the early 1920s and lasted through the 1950s, when television gradually superseded radio as the medium of choice ...
Gunsmoke is an American western radio series, which was developed for radio by John Meston and Norman Macdonnell. The series ran for nine seasons and was broadcast by CBS . [ 1 ] The first episode of the series originally aired in the United States on April 26, 1952, [ 2 ] and the final first-run episode aired on June 11, 1961. [ 3 ]
Harry Alfred Bartell (November 29, 1913 – February 26, 2004) [1] 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 end of network radio drama in the 1960s.
Command Performance broadcast with Jane Russell, Bob Hope and, in background, Major Meredith Willson conducting the AFRS band (c. 1944). Command Performance was a radio program which originally aired between 1942 and 1949.
Norman Scarth Macdonnell (November 8, 1916 – November 28, 1979) was an American producer for radio, television, and feature films. He is best known for co-creating with writer John Meston the Western series Gunsmoke, which was broadcast on CBS Radio from 1952 to 1961, and on television from 1955 to 1975.
Howard Culver (June 4, 1918 – August 4, 1984) was an American radio and television actor, best known as hotel clerk Howie Uzzell during the entire run of TV's Gunsmoke. On radio he starred in the title role of the Western adventure series Straight Arrow , which aired on Mutual from May 6, 1948 to June 21, 1951.
He was the only actor to have two recurring roles on the television series, Gunsmoke, [4] portraying both a bartender named Floyd and a stagecoach driver named Jim Buck (often uncredited). [2] Some of Brubaker's other credits included the Rock Hudson film, Seconds , and television crime dramas The Walter Winchell File and Perry Mason , and the ...
This list contains notable cast members of the Gunsmoke radio and TV series, and TV movies. [1] The listing includes regular cast members, guest stars, and recurring cast members. Radio cast