{{Short description|Australian film director}} {{Use Australian English|date=June 2020}} {{Infobox person |name= Arch Nicholson |birth_date= 1941 |birth_place= Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |death_date= {{death year and age|1990|1941|2}} |death_place= Australia |occupation= Film director }}
'''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'' made him want to become a filmmaker and he spent 12 years making documentaries at the Commonwealth Film Unit such as ''The Russians''. He then began directing episodes of TV shows such as ''The Flying Doctors'' and ''Special Squad''.<ref>"Arch Nicholson", ''Cinema Papers'', May 1990 p5</ref>
Nicholson was married to former Play School presenter Jan Kingsbury.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0455479/bio|title = Janet Kingsbury| website=IMDb }}</ref>
He died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in 1990, aged 48.<ref name="stratton2">David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p88-89</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article213879104 |title=Memories of Arch Nicholson. |newspaper=Filmnews (Sydney, NSW : 1975 - 1995) |location=Sydney, NSW |date=1 March 1990 |accessdate=19 January 2016 |page=5 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
==Select Credits== *''A Good Thing Going'' (1978) (TV movie) *''Deadline'' (1982) *''Buddies'' (1983) *''Fortress'' (1985) *''Dark Age'' (1987) *''Weekend with Kate'' (1990)
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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0629774}} {{Arch Nicholson}} {{Authority control}}
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