Arch Nicholson (1941 – 24 February 1990) was an Australian film director. He was born in Melbourne and grew up in Western Australia, originally training to be a teacher. Seeing ''

Last Year at Marienbad ''Last Year at Marienbad'' (french: L'Année dernière à Marienbad; released in the United Kingdom as ''Last Year in Marienbad'') is a 1961 French New Wave#Left Bank, Left Bank film directed by Alain Resnais from a screenplay by Alain Robbe-Gril ...

'' made him want to become a filmmaker and he spent 12 years making documentaries at the

Commonwealth Film Unit Film Australia was a company established by the Government of Australia to produce films about Australia in 1973. Its predecessors were the Cinema and Photographic Branch (1913–38), the Australian National Film Board (1939–1955, under diff ...

such as ''The Russians''. He then began directing episodes of TV shows such as ''The Flying Doctors'' and ''Special Squad''. Nicholson was married to former Play School presenter Jan Kingsbury. He died of

amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neuron disease (MND) or Lou Gehrig's disease, is a neurodegenerative disease that results in the progressive loss of motor neurons that control voluntary muscles. ALS is the most comm ...

in 1990, aged 48.David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p88-89

Select Credits

*'' A Good Thing Going'' (1978) (TV movie) *'' Deadline'' (1982) *'' Buddies'' (1983) *''

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'' (1985) *''

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'' (1987) *'' Weekend with Kate'' (1990)

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* 1941 births 1990 deaths Film directors from Melbourne Deaths from motor neuron disease Neurological disease deaths in Australia {{Australia-film-director-stub