ORIGINAL CAST PROFILES – CAST REFERENCE LIST

The Mercury Theatre On The Air

The War of the Worlds

by H.G. Wells

LISTEN TO THE ORIGINAL BROADCAST (.mp3)

The Cast

• Professor Richard Pierson – ORSON WELLES
• Studio announcer – DAN SEYMOUR
• Reporter Carl Phillips – FRANK READICK
• Second studio announcer – CARL FRANK
• Farmer Wilmuth – RAY COLLINS
• Policeman at farm – KENNY DELMAR
• Meridian room announcer – WILLIAM ALLAND
• Harry McDonald, radio VP – RAY COLLINS
• Brig.General Montgomery Smith – RICHARD WILSON
• Captain Lansing – KENNY DELMAR
• Third Studio Announcer – PAUL STEWART
• Secretary of the Interior – KENNY DELMAR
• Rooftop radio announcer – RAY COLLINS
• Officer 22nd Field Artillery - RICHARD WILSON
• Field artillery gunner – WILLIAM ALLAND
• Field artillery observer – STEFAN SCHNABEL
• BomberLt. Voght- HOWARD SMITH
• Bayonne radio operator – KENNY DELMAR
• Langham Field – RICHARD WILSON
• Newark radio operator – WILLIAM HERZ
• Radio operator 2X2L – FRANK READICK
• Radio operator 8X3R – WILLIAM HERZ
• Fascist stranger - CARL FRANK

• Writers – HOWARD KOCH, JOHN HOUSEMAN, ORSON WELLES
• Producer – JOHN HOUSEMAN
• Sound Effects – ORA NICHOLS, RAY KREMER, JAMES ROGAN
• Music – Bernard Herrmann
• CBS Production Manager – DAVIDSON TAYLOR
• CBS Studio Head – WILLIAM S. PALEY

We’ve added this list as a “quick reference guide” so you can place names and faces with many of the roles from the original War of the Worlds broadcast in 1938. This list will be updated as more profiles are added!

~ by mrphileasfogg on May 21, 2008.