Screen Director's Playhouse is a popular radio anthology series which brought leading Hollywood actors to the NBC microphones beginning in 1949. The radio programs broadcast adaptations of films, and original directors of the films were sometimes involved in the productions.

The show ran for 122 episodes and aired on NBC from January 9, 1949 to September 28, 1951>

Appearing on the show were John Wayne, Robert Cummings, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Robert Montgomery, ROsalind Russell, Irene Dunne, Ronald Colman, Benita Hume, Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund, Dan Dailey, Loretta Young, Fred MacMurray, Bob Hope, June Allyson, Dana Andrews, Fred Astaire, Ray Milland, James Stewart, Charles Boyer, Lucille Ball, Fredric March, Burt Lancaster, Shelly WInters, Cary Grant, Maureen O'Sullivan, Gregory Peck, Tony Martin, Mara Toron, Alan Ladd, Ward Bond, Bette Davis, William Powell, Jeanne Crain, Mickey Rooney, Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster, John Garfield, Dorothy McGuire, Joan Fontaine, Edmund Gwenn, Claudette Colbert, Ginger Rogers, Fred Allen, Betty Hutton, Jane Russell, Joseph Cotten, Kirk Douglas, Olivia de Haviland, Jane Wyman, Betty Grable, Broderick Crawford, Barbara Stanwyck, Betsy Drake, Tallulah Bankhead, Jeff Chandler, Irene Dunne, Ilene Woods, Stephen McNally, Nancy Olsen, Paul Douglas, Edmund O'Brien, Mercedes McCambridge, David Brian, Louis Jourdan, Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, Eleanor Parker, Margaret Truman, Peggy Dow, John Lund, Joan Caufield, Henry Fonda, William Holden, Jane Wyatt, Loretta Young, William Lundigan, Debra Paget, Lyle Bettger, Gale Storm, Norma Shearer, Paula Morgan, James Mason, Pamela Kellino, Fred Astaire, Shelly Winters, Carl Harbord, Janet Waldo, Joe Grande, Lou Krugman, Paul McVey, Raymond Burr, Carleton Young, Dink Trout, Mary Jane Croft, Pat McGeehan, Verna Felton, Betty Moran, Dan Riss, Ed Begley, Herb Lytton, Joan Banks, Willard Waterman, Anne Whitfield, Barbara Eiler, Ralph Moody, Paul Frees, William Demerest, Betty Lynn, Jim Backus, William Tracy, Irene Tedrow, Norman Field, Barton Yarborough, Bob Bailey, Gail Bonney, Leif Erickson, Lewis Allen, Ruth Perrot, Virginia Gregg, Mitchell Leisen, Frank Lovejoy, Hal Girard, Margaret Brayton, Shirley Mitchell, Sheldon Leonard, Jack Edwards, June Foray, Ken Christy, Donald Morrison, Henry Coster, GeGe Pearson, Herbert Rawlinson, Wilms Herbert, Joseph Kearns, Janet Waldo, Theodore Von Eltz, Gerald Mohr, Earle Ross, Howard McNear, David Ellis, Edward H. Griffith, Sharon Douglas, Jay Novello, Harry Bartell, Edwin Max, Bob Bruce, Florence Halop, Frank Lovejoy, Herb Vigran, Sarajane Wells, Sidney Lanfield, Georgia Backus, Hans Conried, Herb Butterfield, Joseph Granby, Vanessa Brown, John Dehner, Jeanne Bates, Elliott Lewis, S. Sylvan Simon, Lurene Tuttle, James Nusser, Wally Maher, Frank Gerstle, Gwen Delano, Sam Edwards, Tony Barrett, William Conrad, Frances Robinson, Willard Waterman, Ruby Danridge, Lawrence Dobkin, Gloria Blondell, Marta Toren, Paul McVey, Gil Stratton, William Johnstone, Jerry Hausner, Francis X. Bushman, Michael Ann Barrett, Parley Baer, Peter Leeds, Vic Perrin, James Nusser, and Jack Kruschen.