1932 in British television

Events

• 22 August – The BBC starts a regular experimental television service, using John Logie Baird's 30-line mechanical system.
• EMI demonstrate electronic television, with up to 3 times as many lines as Baird's mechanical system, to the BBC.

Births

• 12 January – Des O'Connor, television personality and singer (died 2020)
• 6 March – Jean Boht, née Dance, actress (died 2023)
• 17 April – Tony Bilbow, presenter and screenwriter
• 21 April – Bob Grant, comic actor (died 2003)
• 25 April – William Roache, actor (Coronation Street)
• 8 May – Phyllida Law, Scottish-born actress
• 22 June – Prunella Scales, actress (died 2025)
• 8 July – Brian Walden, journalist, broadcaster and member of parliament (died 2019)
• 2 August – Peter O'Toole, British-Irish-born actor (died 2013)
• 7 August – Edward Hardwicke, actor (died 2011)
• 9 August – Reginald Bosanquet, journalist and news presenter (died 1984)
• 20 August – Anthony Ainley, actor (died 2004)
• 21 August – Barry Foster, actor (Van der Valk) (died 2002)
• 4 September – Dinsdale Landen, actor (died 2003)
• 25 September – Brian Murphy, comedy actor (died 2025)
• 26 September – Andrew Gardner, journalist and newsreader (died 1999)
• 28 September – Jeremy Isaacs, producer and executive
• 30 October – Janice Willett, producer with ABC Weekend TV (died 2018)
• 20 November – Richard Dawson, comedian and game show host (died 2012)

References

References

1. (2006). "Penguin Pocket On This Day". Penguin Reference Library.
2. (23 November 2018). "Janice Willett Kay". Richmond and Twickenham Times.