January 1926 in Film & Television History

Events in Film & TV

Jan 26 John Logie Baird gives the first public demonstration of television in his laboratory in London

Jan 2 Howard Caine, American actor (Brushfire), born in Nashville Tennessee (d. 1993)
Jan 5 Robert Earle, American TV host (GE College Bowl), born in Baldwin, New York (d. 2019)
Jan 6 Miklós "Mickey" Hargitay, Hungarian-American actor, bodybuilder and the 1955 Mr. Universe, born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 2006)
Jan 8 Soupy Sales [Milton Supman], American comedian, television, and radio personality, born in Franklinton, North Carolina (d. 2009)
Jan 11 Grant Tinker, American TV executive (NBC), born in Stamford, Connecticut (d. 2016)
Jan 11 Phil Sidey, broadcaster
Jan 14 Frank Aletter, American character actor (Mac-It's About Time, Tom-Nancy), born in Long Island, New York (d. 2009)
Jan 14 Warren Mitchell, English actor (Alf Garnett in Till Death Us Do Part), born in London, England (d. 2015)
Jan 15 Maria Schell, Austrian-Swiss star of German cinema (The Last Bridge, Gervaise), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 2005)
Jan 17 Moira Shearer, Scottish actress and ballerina (Red Shoes), born in Dunfermline Scotland (d. 2006)
Jan 17 Richard Michael Hills, comedy script writer
Jan 19 Fritz Weaver, actor (Josef-Holocaust, Day of the Dolphin), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 2016)

Jan 20 American actress (Hud, Subject Was Roses) and wife of Roald Dahl, born in Packard, Kentucky

Jan 21 Raf Reymen, Flemish actor (Huisvuil, Het glas water), born in Gent, Flanders, Belgium (d. 1990)
Jan 21 Stephen "Steve" Reeves, American professional bodybuilder, actor (Hercules, Goliath, Sandokan), and philanthropist, born in Glasgow, Montana (d. 2000)
Jan 24 Clyde Adler, American writer and voice actor (Soupy Sales Show - "White Fang"; "Black Tooth"), born in Oak Park, Illinois (d. 1993)
Jan 24 Georges Lautner, French director & screenwriter, born in Nice, France (d. 2013)
Jan 26 Fritz Spiegl, Austrian-British classical flautist, broadcaster, composer, and wit, born in Zurndorf, Austria (d. 2003)
Jan 27 Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (Cries & Whispers, Damned), born in Sollefteå, Sweden (d. 2004)
Jan 30 Lizbeth Webb, English soprano & stage actress, born in Reading, United Kingdom (d. 2013)

Jan 17 American comedian George Burns (28) weds American comedienne Gracie Allen (31), until her death in 1964

Jan 30 Barbara La Marr [Reatha Watson], American vaudeville and silent film actress (The White Moth), and screenwriter, dies from pulmonary tuberculosis and nephritis at 29