radio performer

Mr. Young was a versatile radio performer whose disarming personality and youthful looks led to supporting roles on the big screen and then on television, where he won an Emmy for best actor on his self-titled variety show in the early 1950s.

Prior to that, he had been a stage and radio performer for several years after abandoning his law degree to study acting.

During the late 1930s she was heard in living rooms across America as a popular radio performer, appearing on such widely listened-to programs as The General Motors Hour and The Ford Hour.

Mr. King conquered a childhood stammer to become a radio performer in the late 1940s.

A New Yorker writer in “Adaptation,” a magazine editor in “The Devil Wears Prada,” a radio performer in “A Prairie Home Companion” and a cookbook author in “Julie &d Julia,” directed by Nora Ephron, a noted food writer before she was a filmmaker, whom Ms. Streep had already played, more or less, in “Heartburn.”