1929 in British television

This is a list of British television related events in 1929.

Births

 * 17 February – Patricia Routledge, actress
 * 21 February – James Beck, actor (died 1973)
 * 24 March – Francis Essex, television producer (died 2009)
 * 5 April – Nigel Hawthorne, actor (died 2001)
 * 14 April – Gerry Anderson, puppeteer, television producer and director (died 2012)
 * 18 April – Peter Jeffrey, actor (died 1999)
 * 25 May – Arthur Montford, Scottish sports journalist (died 2014)
 * 26 May – Lloyd Reckord, Jamaican-born actor (died 2015)
 * 9 July – Christopher Morahan, director and production executive (died 2017)
 * 19 July – Denis Goodwin, comedy scriptwriter (suicide 1975)
 * 30 August – Ian McNaught-Davis, television presenter (died 2014)
 * 14 September – Michael Peacock, television executive (died 2019)
 * 25 September – Ronnie Barker, comic actor (died 2005)
 * 27 November – Alan Simpson, comedy scriptwriter (died 2017)
 * 16 December – Nicholas Courtney, actor (Doctor Who) (died 2011)
 * 25 December – Stuart Hall, journalist and television presenter
 * 26 December – Irene Shubik, television drama producer (died 2019)
 * 31 December – David Nixon, magician and television personality (died 1978)