Events in Film & TV
- Apr 1 KXMC TV channel 13 in Minot, ND (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
TV Guide's First Issue
Apr 3 American magazine "TV Guide" publishes 1st issue; cover features photo of Lucille Ball's new born baby boy, Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV (later professionally known as Desi Arnaz, Jr.)
- Apr 4 KFDA TV channel 10 in Amarillo, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
- Apr 5 WEYI TV channel 25 in Saginaw, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting
- Apr 10 "House of Wax" 1st color 3-D movie, premieres in New York
- Apr 12 KFDX TV channel 3 in Wichita Falls, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
- Apr 14 WHYN (now WGGB) TV channel 40 in Springfield-Holyoke, MA (ABC) begins
- Apr 15 WHP TV channel 21 in Harrisburg, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
- Apr 16 WAND TV channel 17 in Decatur, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting
- Apr 19 WAFB TV channel 9 in Baton Rouge, LA (CBS) begins broadcasting
- Apr 23 "Shane", directed by George Stevens and based on the 1949 novel by Jack Schaefer, starring Alan Ladd and Jean Arthur premieres
- Apr 23 WCOV TV channel 20 in Montgomery, Alabama (IND/CBS) begins broadcasting
- Apr 29 6th Cannes Film Festival: "The Wages of Fear" directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot wins the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film
- Apr 29 The first U.S. experimental 3D-TV broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV
Birthdays in Film & TV
- Apr 2 Debralee Scott, American actress (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman - "Cathy"; Angie), born in Elizabeth, New Jersey (d. 2005)
- Apr 6 Patrick Doyle, Scottish film composer (Artemis Fowl; Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire; Thor), born in Uddingston, Scotland
- Apr 14 Eric Tsang, Hong Kong actor, director and TV host (Super Trio series), born in Hong Kong
- Apr 16 Jay O. Sanders, American actor (Meeting Venus, V I Warshawski), born in Austin, Texas
- Apr 18 Rick Moranis, Canadian actor (SCTV; Spaceballs; Ghostbusters; Honey I Shrunk the Kids), born in Toronto, Ontario
- Apr 19 Ruby Wax, British actress (Girls on Top), born in Evanston, Illinois
- Apr 22 Steve Bond, Haifa Israel, actor (General Hospital, To Die For)
- Apr 23 James Russo, American actor (My Own Private Idaho;China Girl), born in NYC, New York
- Apr 24 Eric Bogosian, American actor (Talk Radio), born in Woburn, Massachusetts
- Apr 27 Arielle Dombasle, American-French singer and actress, born in Norwich, Connecticut
