# 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 (Kurt Hinzmann, former director of Fernsehsender "Paul Nipkow") after an agreement between Telefunken and Compagnie des Compteurs, with a (German) 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 (ABC) 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 (1943–1947; renamed The Voice of Firestone, broadcast from 1949 to 1963).
* April 18 - Your Victory Garden debuts on W2XVW (Dumont) (1943)

## Television shows

| Series | Debut | Ended | Network |
| Your Victory Garden | April 18, 1943 | May 9, 1943 | Dumont |
| The Voice of Firestone Televues | 1943 | 1947 | NBC |

## Births

* January 1
** Don Novello, actor (Saturday Night Live)
** Stanley Kamel, actor (d. 2008)
* January 13 – Richard Moll, actor (Night Court, Batman: The Animated Series, Mighty Max) (d. 2023)
* January 14 - Holland Taylor, actress (The Practice, Two and a Half Men)
* January 18 - Paul Angelis, actor (d. 2009)
* January 23 – Gil Gerard, actor (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)
* January 24 – Sharon Tate, actress, model (d. 1969)
* January 26 - Kathryn Leigh Scott, actress (Dark Shadows)
* January 28 – John Beck, actor (Flamingo Road)
* January 31 - Peter McRobbie, actor (Law & Order, Daredevil)
* February 1 - Tina Sloan, actress (Guiding Light)
* February 3 - Blythe Danner, actress (Huff)
* February 5 - Michael Mann, producer
* February 8 - Creed Bratton, actor (The Office)
* February 17 – Claire Malis, actress (d. 2012)
* February 25 - George Harrison, English singer-songwriter, The Beatles (d. 2001)
* February 27 – Mary Frann, actress (Newhart) (d. 1998)
* March 8
** Susan Clark, Canadian actress (Webster)
** Lynn Redgrave, actress (d. 2010)
* March 9 - Charles Gibson, American broadcast television anchor
* March 16 – Susan Bay, actress
* March 18 – Kevin Dobson, actor (Kojak) (d. 2020)
* March 23 - Alan Kalter, announcer (d. 2021)
* March 25 - Paul Michael Glaser, actor and director (Starsky & Hutch)
* March 28 - Conchata Ferrell, actress (Two and a Half Men) (d. 2020)
* March 29 – Eric Idle, actor and comedian (Monty Python's Flying Circus)
* March 31 - Christopher Walken, actor
* April 2 - Antonio Sabàto Sr., actor (d. 2021)
* April 5 - Max Gail, actor (Barney Miller)
* April 11 - Harley Race, professional wrestler (d. 2019)
* April 23 - Hervé Villechaize, actor (d. 1993)
* April 24 - Richard Sterban, singer
* April 25 - Tony Christie, singer
* April 26 - Gary Wright, singer (d. 2023)
* April 29 - Duane Allen, singer
* April 30 - Bobby Vee, singer (d. 2016)
* May 10 - David Clennon, actor (thirtysomething)
* May 12 - Linda Dano, actress (One Life to Live, Another World)
* May 18 – Jimmy Snuka, pro wrestler (d. 2017)
* May 24 – Gary Burghoff, actor (M*A*S*H)
* May 27
** Bruce Weitz, actor (Hill Street Blues)
** Diane Pershing, actress (Batman: The Animated Series, She-Ra: Princess of Power)
* May 28 – Rod Holcomb, producer (d. 2024)
* May 30 – Charles Collingwood, actor
* May 31
** Joe Namath, football player
** Sharon Gless, actress (Cagney & Lacey)
* June 1 - John Langley, creator of Cops (d. 2021)
* June 2 - Charles Haid, actor and director (Hill Street Blues)
* June 3 - Camilla Sparv, actress
* June 7
** Ken Osmond, American actor and police officer (Leave It to Beaver) (d. 2020)
** Michael Pennington, English actor and director
* June 13 – Malcolm McDowell, English actor (Mozart in the Jungle, Franklin & Bash, Metalocalypse, Superman: The Animated Series)
* June 15 – Lee Shallat Chemel, producer
* June 16 – Joan Van Ark, actress (Knots Landing)
* June 17 – Newt Gingrich, politician
* June 22 – Brit Hume, journalist
* June 24 – Georg Stanford Brown, Cuban-American actor (The Rookies)
* June 26 – John Beasley, actor (Everwood) (d. 2023)
* July 2 – Lauri Peters, actress
* July 3 – Kurtwood Smith, actor (That '70s Show, Regular Show, The Zeta Project)
* July 4 – Geraldo Rivera, television host
* July 8 – Ri Chun-hee, North Korean news presenter
* July 9 – Suzanne Rogers, actress (Days of Our Lives)
* July 11 – Susan Seaforth Hayes, actress (Days of Our Lives, The Young and the Restless)
* July 12 – Ernie Anastos, news anchor
* July 23
** Lucy Lee Flippin, actress (Little House on the Prairie)
** Bob Hilton, game show host
* July 28 – Bill Bradley, basketball player and politician
* July 29 – Roz Kelly, actress (Happy Days)
* August 2 – Max Wright, actor (ALF) (d. 2019)
* August 6 – Michael Anderson Jr., actor
* August 12 - Jim Storm, actor (Dark Shadows)
* August 13 - Lillian Hurst, actress (Lost)
* August 17 - Robert De Niro, actor
* August 18 - Martin Mull, actor (Roseanne, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Danny Phantom) (d. 2024)
* August 27 - Tuesday Weld, actress (The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis)
* August 28 - David Soul, American-British actor and singer (Starsky & Hutch) (d. 2024)
* August 30 - Altovise Davis, American actress (d. 2009)
* September 9 - Art LaFleur, American actor (d. 2021)
* September 21 - Jerry Bruckheimer, American film and television producer
* September 25
** Lee Aaker, actor (The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin) (d. 2021)
** Josh Taylor, actor (Days of Our Lives, The Hogan Family)
** Robert Walden, actor (Lou Grant, Brothers, Happily Divorced)
* September 27 - Peter Simon, actor (Guiding Light)
* October 6 - Michael Durrell, actor (Guiding Light)
* October 8
** Chevy Chase, actor and comedian (Saturday Night Live, Community)
** R. L. Stine, television producer
* October 12 - Lin Shaye, actress
* October 13 - Mike Barnicle, anchor
* October 15
** Noreen Corcoran, actress (d. 2016)
** Penny Marshall, actress and director (Laverne and Shirley) (d. 2018)
* October 17 – Elaine Taylor, actress
* October 27 – Carmen Argenziano, actor (Stargate SG-1) (d. 2019)
* October 29 – Don Simpson, film producer (d. 1996)
* November 4 – Chuck Scarborough, television journalist
* November 6 – Ian Turpie, actor (d. 2012)
* November 12 – Wallace Shawn, actor
* November 17 – Lauren Hutton, actress
* November 20 – Veronica Hamel, actress (Hill Street Blues)
* November 26 – Bruce Paltrow, television and film director (d. 2002)
* 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 (Hill Street Blues) (d. 2018)
* December 23 – Harry Shearer, actor (Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons)
* December 27 – Cokie Roberts, political journalist (d. 2019)
* December 28 – Richard Whiteley, presenter (d. 2005)
* December 31 – Ben Kingsley, actor

## Deaths

* January 7 - Nikola Tesla, inventor of the Tesla coil (born 1856)