Winner

Danny Thomas

The Danny Thomas Show

Nominated

Jackie Gleason

The Jackie Gleason Show

Robert Cummings

My Hero

Richard Boone

Medic

Jack Webb

Dragnet

Winner

Robert Cummings

Studio One

Nominated

David Niven

Four Star Playhouse

Fredric March

The Best of Broadway

Thomas Mitchell

The Ford Television Theatre

Fredric March

Shower of Stars

Frank Lovejoy

Lux Video Theatre

Winner

Loretta Young

The Loretta Young Show

Nominated

Lucille Ball

I Love Lucy

Ann Sothern

Private Secretary

Eve Arden

Our Miss Brooks

Gracie Allen

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

Winner

Judith Anderson

Macbeth

Nominated

Beverly Garland

Medic

Ruth Hussey

Lux Video Theatre

Dorothy McGuire

Climax!

Claire Trevor

Lux Video Theatre

Eva Marie Saint

The Philco Television Playhouse

Ethel Barrymore

Climax!

Winner

Shower of Stars

Ralph Berger

Albert M. Pyke

Nominated

Four Star Playhouse

Duncan Cramer

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

Frank Durlauf

Schlitz Playhouse

Serge Krizman

Where's Raymond?

Claudio Guzmán

Winner

You Are There

Bob Markell

Nominated

Climax!

James Dowell Vance

Space Patrol

Carl Macauley

Shower of Stars

Robert Tyler Lee

The Dinah Shore Show

William T. Martin

Winner

This Is Your Life

Nominated

People Are Funny

What's My Line?

Masquerade Party

You Bet Your Life

Winner

Lassie

Nominated

Kukla, Fran and Ollie

Zoo Parade

Time for Beany

Art Linkletter and the Kids

Ding Dong School

Winner

The Jackie Gleason Show

June Taylor

Nominated

The Milton Berle Show

Louis Da Pron

Your Hit Parade

Tony Charmoli

Bob Herget

Max Liebman Spectaculars

Rod Alexander

Winner

Omnibus

Nominated

Person to Person

See It Now

Life Is Worth Living

Meet the Press

Winner

The Linkletter Show

Nominated

The Betty White Show

The Garry Moore Show

The Bob Crosby Show

The Robert Q. Lewis Show

Winner

Studio One

Franklin J. Schaffner

Nominated

Waterfront

Ted Post

The Loretta Young Show

Robert Florey

The United States Steel Hour

Alex Segal

Four Star Playhouse

Roy Kellino

Your Hit Parade

Clark Jones

Winner

Medic

Lester Shorr

Nominated

The Loretta Young Show

Norbert Brodine

Dragnet

Edward Colman

Schlitz Playhouse

George T. Clemens

Cavalcade of America

Harold E. Stine

My Little Margie

Walter Strenge

Winner

The United States Steel Hour

Nominated

The Philco Television Playhouse

Studio One

Medic

Four Star Playhouse

Nominated

Space Patrol

Cameron Pierce

The Jackie Gleason Show

Background

John Goetz

Walter O'Mears

Dan Zampino

Winner

Dinah Shore

Nominated

Gisele MacKenzie

Jo Stafford

Jane Froman

Peggy King

Winner

The Magical World of Disney

Nominated

Studio One

Medic

Shower of Stars

Light's Diamond Jubilee

Winner

Perry Como

Nominated

Tony Martin

Eddie Fisher

Frankie Laine

Gordon MacRae

Winner

Dragnet

Nominated

Racket Squad

Waterfront

I Led 3 Lives

Foreign Intrigue

Winner

John Daly

Nominated

Eric Sevareid

Clete Roberts

John Cameron Swayze

Douglas Edwards

Winner

Dragnet

Walter Schumann

Nominated

Medic

Victor Young

Shower of Stars

Bernard Herrmann

Amahl and the Night Visitors

Gian Carlo Menotti

Light's Diamond Jubilee

Victor Young

Winner

Light's Diamond Jubilee

Victor Young

Nominated

Satins and Spurs

Nelson Riddle

The Milton Berle Show

Walter Scharf

The Colgate Comedy Hour

Buddy Bregman

Shower of Stars

Gordon Jenkins

Winner

The Danny Thomas Show

Nominated

I Love Lucy

Desi Arnaz

Jess Oppenheimer

Private Secretary

Mister Peepers

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

Our Miss Brooks

Winner

Art Carney

The Jackie Gleason Show

Nominated

Don DeFore

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

William Frawley

I Love Lucy

Gale Gordon

Our Miss Brooks

Ben Alexander

Dragnet

Winner

Audrey Meadows

The Jackie Gleason Show

Nominated

Marion Lorne

Mister Peepers

Jean Hagen

The Danny Thomas Show

Bea Benaderet

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

Vivian Vance

I Love Lucy

Winner

The Magical World of Disney

Lynn Harrison

Grant K. Smith

Nominated

Schlitz Playhouse

George Amy

Medic

Jodie Copelan

Four Star Playhouse

Samuel E. Beetley

The Magical World of Disney

Chester W. Schaeffer

Winner

Dragnet

George Jay Nicholson

Nominated

Ramar of the Jungle

John A. Bushelman

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin

Stan Callahan

Waterfront

Cathey Burrow

Medic

Josef von Stroheim

Winner

The Magical World of Disney

Nominated

The Ed Sullivan Show

Your Hit Parade

The Jackie Gleason Show

The Jack Benny Program

The George Gobel Show

Winner

Stories of the Century

Nominated

Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

Death Valley Days

Annie Oakley

The Roy Rogers Show

Winner

The George Gobel Show

James B. Allardice

Jack Douglas

Hal Kanter

Harry Winkler

Nominated

The Jackie Gleason Show

Jackie Gleason

Mister Peepers

James Fritzell

Everett Greenbaum

The Jack Benny Program

George Balzer

Milt Josefsberg

Sam Perrin

John Tackaberry

The Danny Thomas Show

Danny Thomas

I Love Lucy

Jess Oppenheimer

Bob Carroll Jr.

Madelyn Davis

Winner

Studio One

Reginald Rose

Nominated

Four Star Playhouse

Leonard Freeman

Medic

James E. Moser

The Philco Television Playhouse

Paddy Chayefsky

Climax!

David Dortort

Winner

George Gobel

Nominated

Richard Boone

Walt Disney

Tennessee Ernie Ford

Michael O'Shea

Fess Parker

Preston Foster