title: 1955 Guild of Television Producers and Directors Awards
text: The 1955 Guild of Television Producers and Directors Awards were presented at the "Television Ball", held at the Savoy Hotel in London. They were the first major television awards of their kind in the United Kingdom. Following the Guild's merger with the British Film Academy they later became known as the British Academy Television Awards, under which title they are still given.
  
  Winners
  Actor
  Paul Rogers
  Actress
  Googie Withers
  Designer
  Michael Yates
  Personality
  Sir Mortimer Wheeler
  Production
  Christian Sampson
  Writer
  Iain McCormack
  Writers Award
  Iain McCormack
  
  References
  
  Sources
  Archive of winners on official BAFTA website (retrieved February 19, 2006).
  BAFTA entry at the Encyclopedia of Television  (retrieved February 19, 2006).
  
  External links
  http://awards.bafta.org/
  
  1955
  Guild of Television Producers and Directors Awards
  Guild of Television Producers and Directors Awards