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Austin Hoyt | |
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| Occupation | Film Producer |
| Spouse | Felicity Forbes Barber |
| Website | https://www.austinhoytproductions.net/ |
Austin Hoyt is an American producer, writer, and director.
Early Life
editHerbert Austin Aikins Hoyt was born June 20, 1937 in Buffalo, New York to Amie Dean Stimson and Captain John Davidson Hill Hoyt. He attended Nichols School in Buffalo and The Hill School in Pottstown, PA. and graduated from Yale University in 1959 with a BA in English.
Hoyt worked as a reporter for the Niagara Falls Gazette (1964-65) and a stringer for TIME’s Boston Bureau (1965-67). At WGHB Boston (1965-2003), he was a Producer and Executive Producer before founding his company, Austin Hoyt Productions.
Partial Filmography and Awards:
- "The Great Famine", 2011: Writers Guild award nomination.
- "Victory in the Pacific", 2005: Three Emmy nominations; US Department of State sponsored UK tour.
- American Experience,1999: Awarded an Emmy for his four-hour biography of Douglas MacArthur.
- American Experience's series of Presidential portraits - biographies of Ronald Reagan (1998) and Dwight Eisenhower (1993): Peabody Award.
- "The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie", 1997.
- Frontline Special Report "Crisis in Central America", 1985: Executive Producer, Peabody Award.
- "The Wildcatter", 1981: The premier program of the business series Enterprise.
- 1983 Vietnam: A Television History: "LBJ Goes to War (1964-1965)", and "Tet, 1968". "LBJ": Awarded an Emmy and a Writer's Guild of America Award.
- In Search of the Real America: A Challenge to the Chorus of Failure and Guilt, 1976, produced "There's No Business Like Big Business": Tuck Award for the Advancement of Economic Understanding.
- ZOOM, 1975: Executive producer.
- For the Public Broadcast Laboratory's (PBL) show he produced "Ronald Reagan at Yale", 1967, and "Multiply and Subdue the Earth", 1969.
- "LSD: Lettvin vs. Leary", NET Journal 1967.
Publications
edit- "Down the Back to the Arctic", Sports Illustrated, 1963.
- "Bill Levitt in his Own Words", 2011.
- "The Haunting Valley of the South Nahanni", expected in 2025.
White Water Achievements
edit- 1959: Hoyt organized an ascent of the S. Nahanni River with John Wadsworth and Henry Blagden in an 18' canoe and single kayak, perhaps the first since R.M. Patterson and Albert Faille's ascent in 1927.
- 1962: Completed a 620-mile descent of the Back River along with Tracy Perry, Kenneth Gregg and John Lentz across Canada's Barren Lands to the Arctic Ocean, the first since the Royal Navy and the Hudson's Bay Co in the mid 19th century.
- 1964: Joined the first recreational canoe descent of Quebec's Nottaway River with Corning Townsend, Al Zob and Jim Vanderleck.
Hoyt has been married to Felicity Forbes Barber since August 28, 2004. They live on an estuary off Buzzard's Bay in S. Dartmouth, MA.
Sources
edit- ^ "Biography". Austin Hoyt. Retrieved 2024-11-06.
- ^ "Austin Hoyt". Austin Hoyt. Retrieved 2024-11-06.
- ^ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0398447/