1943 in television

The year 1943 in television involved some significant events.
Below is a list of television-related events during 1943.

Events

May 8 – Opening of Paris Télévision – Fernsehsender Paris, a channel operated by German occupation authorities after an agreement between Telefunken and Compagnie des Compteurs, with a 441-line standard. Local French programmes and Fernsehsender "Paul Nipkow" programmes are interlaced.
June – Work is begun for the U.S. Army Air Forces to develop a remotely controlled glide bomb guided by a radio receiver and a television transmitter using a 625-line iconoscope tube. The first are completed in July and tested in August.
December 23 – The first complete opera, Hansel and Gretel, is telecast, by WRGB in Schenectady.
The American Broadcasting Company is formed. Its television network debuts in 1948.
Germany experiments with a flying bomb guided by a television camera, created by Fernseh, using both the Superikonoscope and the Farnsworth image dissector.

Debuts

The Voice of Firestone Televues.

April 18 - Your Victory Garden debuts on W2XVW

Births

January 1
*Don Novello, actor
*Stanley Kamel, actor
January 13 – Richard Moll, actor
January 14 - Holland Taylor, actress
January 18 - Paul Angelis, actor
January 23 – Gil Gerard, actor
January 24 – Sharon Tate, actress, model
January 26 - Kathryn Leigh Scott, actress
January 28 – John Beck, actor
January 31 - Peter McRobbie, actor
February 1 - Tina Sloan, actress
February 3 - Blythe Danner, actress
February 5 - Michael Mann, producer
February 8 - Creed Bratton, actor
February 17 – Claire Malis, actress
February 25 - George Harrison, English singer-songwriter, The Beatles
February 27 – Mary Frann, actress
March 8
*Susan Clark, Canadian actress
*Lynn Redgrave, actress
March 9 - Charles Gibson, American broadcast television anchor
March 16 – Susan Bay, actress
March 18 – Kevin Dobson, actor
March 23 - Alan Kalter, announcer
March 25 - Paul Michael Glaser, actor and director
March 28 - Conchata Ferrell, actress
March 29 – Eric Idle, actor and comedian
March 31 - Christopher Walken, actor
April 2 - Antonio Sabàto Sr., actor
April 5 - Max Gail, actor
April 11 - Harley Race, professional wrestler
April 23 - Hervé Villechaize, actor
April 24 - Richard Sterban, singer
April 25 - Tony Christie, singer
April 26 - Gary Wright, singer
April 29 - Duane Allen, singer
April 30 - Bobby Vee, singer
May 10 - David Clennon, actor
May 12 - Linda Dano, actress
May 18 – Jimmy Snuka, pro wrestler
May 24 – Gary Burghoff, actor
May 27
*Bruce Weitz, actor
*Diane Pershing, actress
May 28 – Rod Holcomb, producer
May 30 – Charles Collingwood, actor
May 31
*Joe Namath, football player
*Sharon Gless, actress
June 1 - John Langley, creator of Cops
June 2 - Charles Haid, actor and director
June 3 - Camilla Sparv, actress
June 7
*"Superstar" Billy Graham, professional wrestler
*Ken Osmond, American actor and police officer
*Michael Pennington, English actor and director
June 13 – Malcolm McDowell, English actor
June 15 – Lee Shallat Chemel, producer
June 16 – Joan Van Ark, actress
June 17 – Newt Gingrich, politician
June 22 – Brit Hume, journalist
June 24 – Georg Stanford Brown, Cuban-American actor
June 26 – John Beasley, actor
July 2 – Lauri Peters, actress
July 3 – Kurtwood Smith, actor
July 4 – Geraldo Rivera, television host
July 8 – Ri Chun-hee, North Korean news presenter
July 9 – Suzanne Rogers, actress
July 11 – Susan Seaforth Hayes, actress
July 12 – Ernie Anastos, news anchor
July 23
*Lucy Lee Flippin, actress
*Bob Hilton, game show host
July 28 – Bill Bradley, basketball player and politician
July 29 – Roz Kelly, actress
August 2 – Max Wright, actor
August 6 – Michael Anderson Jr., actor
August 12 - Jim Storm, actor
August 13 - Lillian Hurst, actress
August 17 - Robert De Niro, actor
August 18 - Martin Mull, actor
August 27 - Tuesday Weld, actress
August 28 - David Soul, American-British actor and singer
August 30 - Altovise Davis, American actress
September 9 - Art LaFleur, American actor
September 21 - Jerry Bruckheimer, American film and television producer
September 25
*Lee Aaker, actor
*Josh Taylor, actor
*Robert Walden, actor
September 27 - Peter Simon, actor
October 6 - Michael Durrell, actor
October 8
*Chevy Chase, actor and comedian
*R. L. Stine, television producer
October 12 - Lin Shaye, actress
October 13 - Mike Barnicle, anchor
October 15
*Noreen Corcoran, actress
*Penny Marshall, actress and director
October 17 – Elaine Taylor, actress
October 27 – Carmen Argenziano, actor
October 29 – Don Simpson, film producer
November 4 – Chuck Scarborough, television journalist
November 6 – Ian Turpie, actor
November 12 – Wallace Shawn, actor
November 17 – Lauren Hutton, actress
November 20 – Veronica Hamel, actress
November 26 – Bruce Paltrow, television and film director
November 28 – Randy Newman, singer
December 1 – David Salzman, producer
December 11 – John Kerry, politician
December 12 – E. Jean Carroll, author
December 16 – Steven Bochco, writer-producer
December 23 – Harry Shearer, actor
December 27 – Cokie Roberts, political journalist
December 28 – Richard Whiteley, presenter
December 31 – Ben Kingsley, actor

Deaths

January 7 - Nikola Tesla, inventor of the Tesla coil