Nicolas Noxon

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Nicolas Noxon
BornNicolas Lane Noxon
(1936-07-29)July 29, 1936
London, England
Died May 3, 2016(2016-05-03) (aged 79)
Westlake Village, California U.S.
Nationality American
Occupation Documentary filmmaker
Years active 1967-2016
Notable work Secrets of the Titanic
Children 4, including Marti and Christopher Noxon
Parent(s) Betty Lane
Gerald Noxon

Nicolas Lane Noxon (July 29, 1936 – May 3, 2016) was an American documentary filmmaker. He specialized in television programs dealing with history, science, and the natural world. Noxon produced television specials and series in association with ABC, David Wolper, Columbia Pictures Television, Metromedia, MGM, Survival Anglia, Time-Life, and National Geographic Television. [1] [2]

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Early life

Noxon was born in 1936 in London, England, [3] to a Canadian father, the writer and filmmaker Gerald Forbes Noxon, and an American mother, the painter Betty Lane. [3] [4] [5] :xiii He emigrated to the United States when he was less than a year and a half. [6]

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Betty Lane American painter

Betty Lane was an American artist.

Noxon graduated from the private boarding school The Putney School. In 1959, he received his B.A. from Antioch College.

The Putney School

The Putney School is an independent high school located in Putney, Vermont. The school was founded in 1935 by Carmelita Hinton on the principles of the Progressive Education movement and the teachings of its principal exponent, John Dewey. It is a co-educational, college-preparatory boarding school, with a day-student component, located 12 miles (19 km) outside of Brattleboro, Vermont. Emily Jones is the current director. The school enrolls approximately 225 students on a 500 acres (2.0 km2) hilltop campus with classrooms, dormitories, and a dairy farm on which all of its students work before graduating.

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Career

Noxon began his work on the National Geographic Specials in the mid-60s, producing and writing three of the first programs when they premiered on CBS.

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In 1967 he was co-founder of the Documentary Department at MGM, the first such organization in a major movie studio. There he produced and supervised many natural history documentaries as well as films on such diverse subjects as archaeology, forest fires, the history of the movies and early child development.

In 1978 Noxon returned to Geographic where he wrote and produced the Emmy Award winning documentary "The Great Whales" and "The Sharks", one of the highest rated programs ever aired on PBS. In 1982 he became a writer-producer on the series Ripley's Believe It or Not! which ran for four years on ABC. In 1986, he took part in Robert Ballard's expedition to explore the wreck of the Titanic . The film that resulted, Secrets of the Titanic , was for years the best-selling documentary released on videocassette and the original inspiration for James Cameron's feature film.

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In 1991 Noxon became Executive Producer of the National Geographic Specials and head of Geographic's West Coast production facility. Productions he supervised there have included "Wolves Of The Sea" and "Dragons Of Galapagos" both winners of the prestigious Golden Panda at the Wildscreen Film Festival, "Heroes of the High Frontier", awarded the Emmy Award for best informational or cultural special of 1999-2000 and "Adventures in Time", the two-hour National Geographic Millennium Special which achieved winning ratings and critical acclaim on NBC.

Noxon has long been associated with the National Geographic Specials, a series which has aired on the major television networks and which have been considered among the most popular group of programs aired on PBS.

Honors

His productions won many awards in television including several Emmys and numerous international honors. In 2009 he received the International Documentary Association Pioneer Award, which is presented annually to an individual who has made an indelible impression on the evolving art and craft of nonfiction filmmaking. [7]

Over the years the specials have won more than 400 awards including 58 Emmy Awards, four George Foster Peabody awards and two Dupont Columbia awards for Broadcast Journalism.

Personal life

In 1974, Noxon divorced Mary Straley, [8] with whom he had had four children. In 1978, Noxon married Nicky Nicholass. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ Barnes, Mike (4 May 2016). "Nicolas Noxon Dead: 'Titanic' Documentarian Was 79". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 6 May 2016.
  2. ↑ Gottlieb, Akiva (5 May 2016). "Nicolas Noxon, 1936-2016". International Documentary Association . Retrieved 6 May 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Nicolas Noxon - England and Wales Birth Registration Index". FamilySearch . Retrieved 6 May 2016.
  4. ↑ Noxon, Nicolas. "Betty Lane (1907-1996): A biography". Betty Lane. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
  5. ↑ Lowry, Malcolm; Noxon, Gerald; Tiessen, Paul (1988). The Letters of Malcolm Lowry and Gerald Noxon: 1940-1952. Vancouver B.C.: University of British Columbia Press. ISBN   978-0-77-480287-1. OCLC   246885314.
  6. ↑ "Nicolas Noxon - New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists, 1909". FamilySearch . Retrieved 6 May 2016.
  7. ↑ Fisher, Bob (Winter 2010). "2009 IDA Pioneer Award--Bringing Wildlife to the Small Screen: Nicolas Noxon". International Documentary Association . Retrieved 6 May 2016.
  8. ↑ "Nicolas L Noxon - California Divorce Index". FamilySearch . Retrieved 6 May 2016.
  9. ↑ "Nicky Nicholass - mentioned in the record of Nicholas L Noxon and Nicky Nicholass". FamilySearch . Retrieved 6 May 2016.
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