Society of Film and Television Arts Television Awards 1962

The 1962 Society of Film and Television Arts Television Awards, the United Kingdom

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
- David Rose
  David Rose
  David Rose was a British-born American songwriter, composer, arranger, pianist, and orchestra leader. His most famous compositions were "The Stripper", "Holiday for Strings", and "Calypso Melody"...
  
  , Charles Jarrott
  Charles Jarrott
  Charles Jarrott was a British film and television director. He was best known for costume dramas he directed for producer Hal B...

Factual
- Richard Cawston

Additional
- Geoffrey Cox
  Geoffrey Cox (journalist)
  Sir Geoffrey Sandford Cox, CNZM, CBE was a New Zealand-born newspaper and television journalist. He was a former editor and chief executive of ITN and a founder of News at Ten....

Light Entertainment (Production)
- Duncan Wood
  Duncan Wood
  Duncan Wood was a British comedy producer, director and writer. His best known achievements were to produce all of Tony Hancock's Half Hours for BBC TV during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and later, also with Hancock's former writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, the classic British sitcom...

Light Entertainment (Performance)
- Michael Bentine
  Michael Bentine
  Michael Bentine CBE was a British comedian, comic actor and founding member of the Goons. A Peruvian Briton by heritage as a result of his father's nationality, In 1971 Bentine received the Order of Merit of Peru because of his fund-raising work for the 1970 Great Peruvian...

Actor
- Harry H. Corbett
  Harry H. Corbett
  Harry H. Corbett OBE was an English actor.Corbett was best known for his starring role in the popular and long-running BBC Television sitcom Steptoe and Son in the 1960s and 70s...

Actress
- Brenda Bruce
  Brenda Bruce
  Brenda Bruce was a British actress. She had a long and successful career in the theatre, radio, film, and television.-Early life:Brenda Bruce was born in Manchester...

Desmond Davis Award for Services to Television
- Cecil McGivern
  Cecil McGivern
  Cecil McGivern CBE was a British broadcasting executive, who initially worked for BBC Radio before transferring to BBC Television in the late 1940s....

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