Winner

Danny Thomas

The Danny Thomas Show

Nominated

Robert Cummings

My Hero

Richard Boone

Medic

Jackie Gleason

The Jackie Gleason Show

Jack Webb

Dragnet

Winner

Robert Cummings

Studio One

Nominated

David Niven

Four Star Playhouse

Fredric March

Shower of Stars

Frank Lovejoy

Lux Video Theatre

Thomas Mitchell

The Ford Television Theatre

Fredric March

The Best of Broadway

Winner

Loretta Young

The Loretta Young Show

Nominated

Ann Sothern

Private Secretary

Lucille Ball

I Love Lucy

Gracie Allen

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

Eve Arden

Our Miss Brooks

Winner

Judith Anderson

Macbeth

Nominated

Eva Marie Saint

The Philco Television Playhouse

Ethel Barrymore

Climax!

Ruth Hussey

Lux Video Theatre

Dorothy McGuire

Climax!

Beverly Garland

Medic

Claire Trevor

Lux Video Theatre

Winner

Shower of Stars

Ralph Berger

Albert M. Pyke

Nominated

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

Frank Durlauf

Four Star Playhouse

Duncan Cramer

Schlitz Playhouse

Serge Krizman

Where's Raymond?

Claudio Guzmán

Winner

You Are There

Bob Markell

Nominated

Climax!

James Dowell Vance

Shower of Stars

Robert Tyler Lee

The Dinah Shore Show

William T. Martin

Space Patrol

Carl Macauley

Winner

This Is Your Life

Nominated

What's My Line?

Masquerade Party

You Bet Your Life

People Are Funny

Winner

Lassie

Nominated

Ding Dong School

Zoo Parade

Art Linkletter and the Kids

Time for Beany

Kukla, Fran and Ollie

Winner

The Jackie Gleason Show

June Taylor

Nominated

Your Hit Parade

Tony Charmoli

Bob Herget

The Milton Berle Show

Louis Da Pron

Max Liebman Spectaculars

Rod Alexander

Winner

Omnibus

Nominated

Person to Person

Meet the Press

Life Is Worth Living

See It Now

Winner

The Linkletter Show

Nominated

The Garry Moore Show

The Robert Q. Lewis Show

The Betty White Show

The Bob Crosby Show

Winner

Studio One

Franklin J. Schaffner

Nominated

Your Hit Parade

Clark Jones

The United States Steel Hour

Alex Segal

The Loretta Young Show

Robert Florey

Four Star Playhouse

Roy Kellino

Waterfront

Ted Post

Winner

Medic

Lester Shorr

Nominated

Schlitz Playhouse

George T. Clemens

Dragnet

Edward Colman

The Loretta Young Show

Norbert Brodine

My Little Margie

Walter Strenge

Cavalcade of America

Harold E. Stine

Winner

The United States Steel Hour

Nominated

The Philco Television Playhouse

Studio One

Four Star Playhouse

Medic

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

Light's Diamond Jubilee

Medic

Studio One

Shower of Stars

Winner

Perry Como

Nominated

Eddie Fisher

Gordon MacRae

Frankie Laine

Tony Martin

Winner

Dragnet

Nominated

I Led 3 Lives

Foreign Intrigue

Waterfront

Racket Squad

Winner

John Daly

Nominated

John Cameron Swayze

Douglas Edwards

Clete Roberts

Eric Sevareid

Winner

Dragnet

Walter Schumann

Nominated

Shower of Stars

Bernard Herrmann

Amahl and the Night Visitors

Gian Carlo Menotti

Medic

Victor Young

Light's Diamond Jubilee

Victor Young

Winner

Light's Diamond Jubilee

Victor Young

Nominated

The Milton Berle Show

Walter Scharf

The Colgate Comedy Hour

Buddy Bregman

Shower of Stars

Gordon Jenkins

Satins and Spurs

Nelson Riddle

Winner

The Danny Thomas Show

Nominated

Mister Peepers

Our Miss Brooks

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

I Love Lucy

Desi Arnaz

Jess Oppenheimer

Private Secretary

Winner

Art Carney

The Jackie Gleason Show

Nominated

Don DeFore

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

William Frawley

I Love Lucy

Ben Alexander

Dragnet

Gale Gordon

Our Miss Brooks

Winner

Audrey Meadows

The Jackie Gleason Show

Nominated

Vivian Vance

I Love Lucy

Marion Lorne

Mister Peepers

Jean Hagen

The Danny Thomas Show

Bea Benaderet

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

Winner

The Magical World of Disney

Lynn Harrison

Grant K. Smith

Nominated

Medic

Jodie Copelan

Four Star Playhouse

Samuel E. Beetley

Schlitz Playhouse

George Amy

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

Medic

Josef von Stroheim

Waterfront

Cathey Burrow

Winner

The Magical World of Disney

Nominated

The Jack Benny Program

The Jackie Gleason Show

The George Gobel Show

The Ed Sullivan Show

Your Hit Parade

Winner

Stories of the Century

Nominated

The Roy Rogers Show

Death Valley Days

Annie Oakley

Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

Winner

The George Gobel Show

James B. Allardice

Jack Douglas

Hal Kanter

Harry Winkler

Nominated

The Danny Thomas Show

Danny Thomas

Mister Peepers

James Fritzell

Everett Greenbaum

I Love Lucy

Jess Oppenheimer

Bob Carroll Jr.

Madelyn Davis

The Jack Benny Program

George Balzer

Milt Josefsberg

Sam Perrin

John Tackaberry

The Jackie Gleason Show

Jackie Gleason

Winner

Studio One

Reginald Rose

Nominated

Four Star Playhouse

Leonard Freeman

Climax!

David Dortort

Medic

James E. Moser

The Philco Television Playhouse

Paddy Chayefsky

Winner

George Gobel

Nominated

Walt Disney

Preston Foster

Richard Boone

Michael O'Shea

Fess Parker

Tennessee Ernie Ford