Nicholas Lane Noxon was born in the year 1936 in the iconic city of London, England, to a father of Canadian descent and a mother of American origin.
He received his education at the prestigious Putney School in Putney, Vermont, followed by attendance at Antioch College in Ohio, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree.
Initially, Noxon worked as an editor for a Washington D.C.-based educational film company, before relocating to California and joining the renowned David Wolper Productions. During his tenure, he was involved in various documentary movie projects that were directly sold to television stations in the early 1960s, thereby bypassing the major broadcast networks.
This innovative approach to distributing movies, known as "syndication distribution," played a significant role in local television programming during the 1950s and 1960s, supplementing network-provided programming and programming originated at each local station.
Throughout his illustrious career, Nicholas Noxon was an integral part of the very first television documentaries sponsored by the National Geographic Society, and remained associated with these documentaries for numerous decades.
