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)

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
 * 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 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)
 * 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)