Background
Loxton was born in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, the son of Bill Loxton & Binkie Loxton (née Pattullo). He grew up in England where his father was a Wing Commander in the Royal Air Force.
Loxton was born in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, the son of Bill Loxton & Binkie Loxton (née Pattullo). He grew up in England where his father was a Wing Commander in the Royal Air Force.
Upon moving to the United States of America in 1966, he joined the production staff of W National Educational Television, the major New York public-television affiliate. In 1972, he founded television Laboratory, a program for artists to create video works through an artist-in-residence program In addition to serving as the director of the television Laboratory from 1972 through 1984, Loxton developed the Nonfiction television series, which produced works such as Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang, I Remember Harlem and The Times of Harvey Milk.
Loxton was the executive producer of Nonfiction television from 1978 through 1983.
Loxton was the executive producer of programs for the Great Performances, NET Playhouse and American Playhouse series. award, cable television"s equivalent of an Emmy, for best original drama, for Countdown to Looking Glass, about a United States-Soviet confrontation in the Middle East. He was co-executive producer, with Frederick Barzyk, of the The Lathe of Heaven which is a 1979 film (released in 1980) based on the 1971 science fiction novel The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin.
In addition, he was director of drama for the Great Performances series and senior executive producer for specials, both at W National Educational Television. He was executive producer of Tales From the Hollywood Hills, a critically acclaimed series shown under the auspices of Great Performances. When he became ill, he had just begun production of Childhood, a six-part documentary for the Public Broadcasting Service.
He died of pancreatic cancer at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan in 1989.
His obituary was published in The New York Times.