Nicolas Noxon

Nicolas Noxon is an American documentary filmmaker. He has specialized in television programs dealing with history, science and the natural world. Noxon has produced television specials and series in association with ABC,David Wolper, Columbia Pictures Television, Metromedia, MGM, Survival Anglia, Time-Life and National Geographic Television. His productions have won many awards in television including several Emmys and numerous international honors.

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. 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.

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.

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.

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.

External links

Nicolas Noxon at IMDb