1930 in television

The year 1930 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1930.

Global television events

Month	Day	Event
May	22	An audience at Proctor's Theatre in Schenectady, New York becomes the first to see a closed-circuit television signal projected onto a big screen.
July	14	For the first time in the United Kingdom, a television drama is broadcast. The drama is a production of Luigi Pirandello's The Man With the Flower in His Mouth ; it is broadcast by the BBC from Baird's studios at 133 Long Acre, London. [1]
November	5	Baird television transmissions at Hairdressing Fair of Fashion include the world's first television commercial for the Eugène Method of permanent hair waving.
Decmeber	7	W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts broadcasts the first television commercial in the United States, of I.J Fox Furriers during The Fox Trappers.

Births

• January 1 - Ty Hardin, U.S. actor (Bronco) (died 2017)
• January 3 - Robert Loggia, U.S. actor (died 2015)
• January 4 - Sorrell Booke, U.S. actor ( The Dukes of Hazzard ) (died 1994)
• January 6 - Vic Tayback, U.S. actor ( Alice ) (died 1990)
• January 15 - Edwin Sherin, U.S. director (died 2017)
• January 19 - Tippi Hedren, U.S. actress
• January 30 - Don Brockett, U.S. actor (died 1995)
• February 8 - Alejandro Rey, Argentinian-born actor ( The Flying Nun ) (died 1987)
• February 10 - Robert Wagner, U.S. actor ( It Takes a Thief , Switch , Hart to Hart )
• February 27 - Joanne Woodward, U.S. actress
• March 22
  • Pat Robertson, televangelist (died 2023)
  • Stephen Sondheim, U.S. composer (died 2021)
• March 30 - John Astin, U.S. actor ( The Addams Family )
• April 5 - Mary Costa, actress
• April 7 - Andrew Sachs, German-born British actor ( Fawlty Towers ) (died 2016)
• April 18 - Clive Revill, actor
• April 19 - Dick Sargent, U.S. actor ( Bewitched ) (died 1994)
• April 23 - Alan Oppenheimer, U.S. actor
• April 25 - Lynn Hamilton, U.S. actress ( Sanford and Son )
• April 28 - Carolyn Jones, U.S. actress ( The Addams Family ) (died 1983)
• May 10 - Pat Summerall, American football player and sportscaster (died 2013)
• May 17 - Frank Price, U.S. TV and film executive
• May 20 - Betty DeGeneres, American LGBT rights activist
• May 31 - Clint Eastwood, U.S. director and actor ( Rawhide )
• June 12 - Jim Nabors, U.S. actor, singer ( The Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. ) (died 2017)
• June 19 - Gena Rowlands, U.S. actress (died 2024)
• June 25 - George Murdock, actor (died 2012)
• June 27 - Ross Perot, American businessman and politician (died 2019)
• June 29 - Robert Evans, Actor (died 2019)
• July 14 - Polly Bergen, U.S. actress (died 2014)
• July 17 - Ray Galton, British writer (died 2018)
• July 28 - Horacio Gómez Bolaños, Mexican actor (died 1999)
• July 30 - Tony Lip, actor (died 2013)
• August 11 - Paul Soles, actor (died 2021)
• August 16
  • Frank Gifford, American football player and sportscaster (died 2015)
  • Robert Culp, U.S. actor ( I Spy ) (died 2010)
• August 25
  • Graham Jarvis, U.S. actor (died 2003)
  • Sean Connery, Actor (died 2020)
• August 28 -
  • Windsor Davies, British comedy actor ( It Ain't Half Hot Mum ) (died 2019)
  • Ben Gazzara, U.S. actor ( Run for Your Life ) (died 2012)
• September 7 - Sonny Rollins, Saxophonist
• September 11 - Cathryn Damon, U.S. actress (died 1987)
• September 16 - Anne Francis, U.S. actress ( Honey West ) (died 2011)
• September 23 - Ray Charles, U.S. singer, songwriter, pianist and composer (died 2004)
• September 27 - Bill Carruthers, U.S. television executive (died 2003)
• October 1 - Richard Harris, actor (died 2002)
• October 6 - Lou Cutell, U.S. actor (died 2021)
• October 19 - Fred Facey, U.S. radio and television announcer (died 2003)
• November 3
  • Larry Gelman, U.S. actor ( The Bob Newhart Show )
  • Lois Smith, U.S. actress
• November 5 - Richard Davalos, U.S. actor (died 2016)
• November 15 - Whitman Mayo, U.S. actor ( Sanford and Son ) (died 2001)
• November 24 - Nina Russell, U.S. writer, actress (died 2019) ^{[2] [3] [4]}
• November 2 - Peter Hall, English director (died 2017)
• December 4 - Ronnie Corbett, British comedian (died 2016)
• December 9 - Buck Henry, U.S. writer, actor, director (died 2020)
• December 12 - Bill Beutel, American television journalist (died 2006)
• December 17 - Armin Mueller-Stahl, actor
• December 21 - Phil Roman, U.S. animator
• December 24 - Julian Barry, U.S. screenwriter (died 2023)
• December 31 - Renate Hoy, U.S. actress (died 2024)

Deaths

• February 19 - Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton, Scottish electrical engineer who provided the theoretical basis for the electronic television, 66 ^[5]

References

1. Elen, Richard G. "TV Technology 2. Television on the Air". Screenonline . Retrieved February 7, 2007.
2. Miller, Quinlan (2019). Camp TV: Trans Gender Queer Sitcom History . Durham, NC: Duke University Press. p. 127. ISBN   9781478003038. "In Winchell-Mahoney Time, NBC, written by Nina Russel, Winchell hosted and played characters like Bonehead Smiff, Mr. Goody-Goody"
3. Lerner, Patricia Klein (September 9, 1988). "Valley News: Ventriloquist's Ex-Wife Fails to Get Share of $17.8-Million Award ". The Los Angeles Times . pt. II, p. 11. Retrieved April 22, 2025. "Tessie Nina Moore, who was married to the ventriloquist for 11 years, contended that she was entitled to $8.9 million of the judgment Metromedia was ordered to pay Winchell for destroying tapes of his popular "Winchel-Mahoney Time" children's television show. [...] When the couple divorced, Moore, who wrote and performed in the show, agreed to $1,500 as her share of the corporation the couple used for business matters, said her attorney, Robert A. Kahn."
4. "United States, Obituary Records, 2014-2023", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6126-RVL5  : Fri Nov 08 10:51:49 UTC 2024), Entry for Nina Tessie Moore and Jerry, 16 December 2019.
5. Oakes, Elizabeth (2009), A to Z of STS Scientists. Infobase publishing, pp. 51.