1926 in British television

none 1926 British television 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.https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/baird_logie.shtml BBC – History – John Logie Baird www.bbc.co.uk 2019-04-07The Hutchinson Factfinder Helicon 1999 1-85986-000-1 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/baird-demonstrates-tv Baird demonstrates TV History com 2019-04-13https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Logie-Baird John Logie Baird British inventor Encyclopædia Britannica 2019-04-13 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 and 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 (Dad's Army) (died 2013) 22 July – Bryan Forbes, director, producer, screenwriter and actor (died 2013) 6 August – Frank Finlay, actor (died 2016) 27 August – Pat Coombs, comic stooge (died 2002) 11 October - Earl Hyman, actor and voice actor (Thundercats, A Different World)(died 2017) 11 October - Jean Alexander, actress (Coronation Street, Last of the Summer Wine)(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 1926 in British music 1926 in the United Kingdom References Burns R. W. 1986 British Television: The Formative Years No. 7 IET 9780863410796 https://books.google.com/books?id=7v7FTnT1wE4C&dq=1926+in+British+television&pg=PR9 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 10.1111/j.1468-229X.2011.00515_21.x Cooke, L. (2003). British television drama : a history . London: BFI Pub. https://www.bbc.com/timelines/zxqc4wx History of the BBC - 1920s BBC 2019-04-13 2019-04-09 https://web.archive.org/web/20190409151727/https://www.bbc.com/timelines/zxqc4wx dead Category:1926 in British television