The year 1960 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1960.
The year 1959 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1959.
John Gilling was an English film director and screenwriter, born in London. He was known for his horror movies, especially those he made for Hammer Films, for whom he directed The Shadow of the Cat (1961), The Plague of the Zombies (1966), The Reptile (1966) and The Mummy's Shroud (1967), Cross of the Devil (1975), among others.
George Duning was an American musician and film composer. He was born in Richmond, Indiana, and educated in Cincinnati, Ohio, at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, where his mentor was Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.
Russell Metty, A.S.C. was an American cinematographer who won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color, for the 1960 film Spartacus.
Chitragupt Shrivastava, better known as Chitragupt, was an Indian film music director in Hindi cinema and Bhojpuri cinema.
Football club de Nancy was a French association football team playing in the city of Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle. The team was founded in 1901 and dissolved in 1968. They won Ligue 2 once.
Arkady Ivanovich Chernyshev was a Russian ice hockey, football and bandy player, who played in the Soviet Top Hockey League. As a coach, he led Dynamo Moscow and the Soviet Union national ice hockey team. Chernyshev was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame in 1948, and the IIHF Hall of Fame in 1999.
Sir James Enrique Carreras was a British film producer and executive who, together with William Hinds, founded the British company Hammer Film Productions. His career spanned nearly 45 years, in multiple facets of the entertainment industry until retiring in 1972.
Enrique Gayoso Magalona Jr., popularly known as Pancho Magalona, was a Filipino actor from the 1940s to the 1970s.
Nerio Bernardi was an Italian film actor. He appeared in nearly 200 films between 1918 and 1970.
Folco Lulli was an Italian partisan and film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1946 and 1970. He was the elder brother of actor Piero Lulli.
Sven Rudolf Sidenius Gyldmark was a Danish film score composer. He was the brother of Hugo Gyldmark and Leonard who were also composers.
Peter Illing was an Austrian-born British film and television actor.
Keiji Sada is the stage name for a Japanese cinema actor active from the late-1940s to the early 1960s. His real name was Kanichi Nakai. He won the award for best actor at the 7th Blue Ribbon Awards for Anata Kaimasu and Taifū Sōdōki. He was the father of the actor Kiichi Nakai and actress Kie Nakai.
The Great Western Combination was a football league in south-central England.