1932 in British television
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This is a list of events related to British television in 1932.
Events
- 22 August â The BBC starts a regular experimental television service, using John Logie Baird's 30-line mechanical system.[1]
- EMI demonstrate electronic television, with up to 3 times as many lines as Baird's mechanical system, to the BBC.
Births
- 12 January â Des O'Connor, television personality and singer (died 2020)
- 6 March â Jean Boht, née Dance, actress (died 2023)
- 17 April â Tony Bilbow, presenter and screenwriter
- 21 April â Bob Grant, comic actor (died 2003)
- 25 April â William Roache, actor (Coronation Street)
- 8 May â Phyllida Law, Scottish-born actress
- 22 June â Prunella Scales, actress (died 2025)
- 8 July â Brian Walden, journalist, broadcaster and member of parliament (died 2019)
- 2 August â Peter O'Toole, British-Irish-born actor (died 2013)
- 7 August â Edward Hardwicke, actor (died 2011)
- 9 August â Reginald Bosanquet, journalist and news presenter (died 1984)
- 20 August â Anthony Ainley, actor (died 2004)
- 21 August â Barry Foster, actor (Van der Valk) (died 2002)
- 4 September â Dinsdale Landen, actor (died 2003)
- 25 September â Brian Murphy, comedy actor (died 2025)
- 26 September â Andrew Gardner, journalist and newsreader (died 1999)
- 28 September â Jeremy Isaacs, producer and executive
- 30 October â Janice Willett, producer with ABC Weekend TV (died 2018)[2]
- 20 November â Richard Dawson, comedian and game show host (died 2012)