1943 in television

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

• 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.

• 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)^[1]

• 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)^[2]
• 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^[3]
• 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

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