Society of Film and Television Arts Television Awards 1961
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The 1961 Society of Film and Television Arts Television Awards, the United Kingdom
's premier television
awards ceremony. The awards later became known as the British Academy Television Awards
, under which name they are still given.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
's premier television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
awards ceremony. The awards later became known as the British Academy Television Awards
British Academy Television Awards
The British Academy Television Awards are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts . They have been awarded annually since 1954, and are analogous to the Emmy Awards in the United States.-Background:...
, under which name they are still given.
Winners
- Drama
- Andrew OsbornAndrew OsbornAndrew Osborn is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the South Adelaide Football Club in the South Australian National Football League ....
- Andrew Osborn
- Factual
- Tim HewatTim HewatTimothy Edward Patterson Hewat was an Australian television producer and journalist. He has been described as the "maverick genius of Granada television's current affairs in its formative years" and "one of the true greats of the medium."Born in New Zealand, he was raised in Australia and educated...
- Tim Hewat
- Additional
- David AttenboroughDavid AttenboroughSir David Frederick Attenborough OM, CH, CVO, CBE, FRS, FZS, FSA is a British broadcaster and naturalist. His career as the face and voice of natural history programmes has endured for more than 50 years...
- David Attenborough
- Light Entertainment (Production)
- George Inns
- Current Events
- Bill Allenby
- Light Entertainment (Performance)
- Eric SykesEric SykesEric Sykes, CBE is an English radio, television and film writer, actor and director whose performing career has spanned more than 50 years. He frequently wrote for and/or performed with many other leading comedy performers and writers of the period, including Tony Hancock, Spike Milligan, Peter...
- Eric Sykes
- Actor
- Rupert DaviesRupert DaviesRupert Davies was a British actor. He remains best known for playing the title role in the BBC's 1960s television adaptation of Maigret, based on the Maigret novels written by Georges Simenon....
- Rupert Davies
- Actress
- Ruth DunningRuth DunningRuth Dunning was a Welsh actress of stage, television, and film. She first came to prominence in the role of Gladys Grove in BBC Television's The Grove Family , also portraying that character in the 1955 film It's a Great Day...
- Ruth Dunning
- Desmond Davis Award for Services to Television
- Michael Barry