1926 in British television
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This is a list of British television related events in 1926.
Events
- 26 January – Scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrates his pioneering greyscale mechanical television system (which he calls a "televisor") at his London laboratory for members of the Royal Institution and a reporter from The Times.[1][2][3][4]
Births
- 25 January – Richard Davies, Welsh actor (died 2015)
- 2 February – David Whitfield, actor and singer (died 1980)
- 22 February – Kenneth Williams, comedy actor (died 1988)
- 8 May – David Attenborough, naturalist and broadcaster
- 14 May – Eric Morecambe, comedy performer (died 1984)
- 17 May - Tenniel Evans, actor (died 2009)
- 19 May - David Jacobs, radio and television presenter (died 2013)
- 29 May - Katie Boyle, 4-time presenter of the Eurovision Song Contest (died 2018)
- 10 June - Lionel Jeffries, actor director and screenwriter (died 2010)
- 18 July - Robert Sloman, screenwriter, actor (died 2005)
- 18 July - Richard Pasco, actor (died 2014)
- 20 July - Patricia Cutts, actress (died 1974). First actress to play Blanche Hunt in Coronation Street.
- 21 July - Bill Pertwee, actor in Dad's Army (died 2013).
- 22 July - Bryan Forbes, director, producer, screenwriter and actor (died 2013)
- 6 August - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Finlay, actor (died 2016)
- 21 October – Leonard Rossiter, comedy actor and writer (died 1984)
- 31 October – Jimmy Savile, disc jockey, television presenter, philanthropist and serial sex offender (died 2011)
- 30 November – Sydney Lotterby, comedy producer (died 2020)
- 19 December – Stephen Lewis, comedy actor (On the Buses) (died 2015)
See also
References
- ↑ "BBC - History - John Logie Baird". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-04-07.
- ↑ The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.
- ↑ "Baird demonstrates TV". History com. Retrieved 2019-04-13.
- ↑ "John Logie Baird | British inventor". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2019-04-13.
- Burns, R. W. (1986). British Television: The Formative Years. No. 7. IET. ISBN 9780863410796.
- Crisell, A. (2002). An introductory history of British broadcasting. Routledge.
- Toye, R. (2011). "History on British Television: Constructing Nation, Nationality and Collective Memory - By Robert Dillon". History. 96 (322): 226–227. doi:10.1111/j.1468-229X.2011.00515_21.x.
- Cooke, L. (2003). British television drama : a history . London: BFI Pub.
- "History of the BBC - 1920s". BBC. Archived from the original on 2019-04-09. Retrieved 2019-04-13.
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