Events in Film & TV
- Jul 2 The Jenkins Television Corporation (owned by Charles Jenkins) goes on air with W3XK, the first television broadcasting station in the USA
Film & TV History
Jul 3 John Logie Baird demonstrates the first colour television transmission in London
- Jul 12 1st televised tennis match
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Jul 29 Test footage first created for Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" with Mickey Mouse
Birthdays in Film & TV
- Jul 2 Estelita Rodriguez, Cuban actress (Rio Bravo, Cuban Fireball, Havana Rose), born in Guanajay, Cuba (d. 1966)
- Jul 2 Line Renaud [Jacqueline Ente], French pop and cabaret singer, actress, and AIDS activist, born in Pont-de-Nieppe, France
- Jul 2 Pavel Kohout, Czech director and author (Poor Murderer)
- Jul 5 Warren Oates, American actor (Dillinger, East of Eden, Stoney Burke), born in Depoy, Muhlenberg County (d. 1982)
- Jul 7 Patricia Hitchcock, British-American actress, born in London, England (d. 2021)
- Jul 8 Norma Donaldson, American stage and screen singer and actress (Across 110th Street; Poetic Justice; The Young And The Restless), born in Harlem, New York (d. 1994)
- Jul 9 Vince Edwards, American actor, director, and singer (Ben Casey, The Devil's Brigade, Matt Lincoln, Firehouse), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1996)
- Jul 12 Kathy Staff [Minnie Higginbottom], British actress (Mary Reilly, Last of the Summer Wine, Open All Hours), born in Dukinfield, Cheshire, England (d. 2008)
- Jul 12 Sir Alastair Burnet [James William Alexander Burnet], British journalist and broadcaster (News at Ten), Born in Sheffield, England (d. 2012)
- Jul 13 Bob Crane, American DJ and actor (Hogan's Heroes; The Donna Reed Show), born in Waterbury, Connecticut (d. 1978)
- Jul 14 Nancy Olson, American actress (Absent-Minded Professor, Pollyanna), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Jul 14 Pierre Olaf [Trivier], French actor (Camelot, Don't Drink the Water, Kraft Music Hall), born in Caudéran, Bordeaux (d. 1995)
- Jul 21 Chuck Low, American actor (Goodfellas; Once Upon A Time In America), born in New York City (d. 2017)
- Jul 21 Sky Low Low [Marcel Gauthier], Canadian professional wrestler, born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 1998)
- Jul 22 Orson Bean, American actor and comedian (To Tell the Truth), born in Burlington, Vermont (d. 2020)
- Jul 25 Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (The Rites of May), born in Pagsanjan, Philippines (d. 1988)
Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999)
Jul 26 American director (2001 A Space Odyssey, Dr Strangelove, Lolita), born in The Bronx NY
Deaths in Film & TV
- Jul 21 Ellen Alice Terry, British Shakespearean actress and director (Imperial Theatre), dies at 81
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