1. Gordon Hyatt is the son of Mr and Mrs S G Hyatt of Lee, Massachusetts.
15 Facts About Gordon Hyatt
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Gordon Hyatt is married to author Carole Hyatt, and they have one daughter, Ariel.
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In 1961, Gordon Hyatt began writing and producing documentaries for WCBS-TV, the CBS flagship television station in New York City.
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Gordon Hyatt's critically praised 1961 film Our Vanishing Legacy is cited as the first prime time broadcast advocating historical preservation efforts in New York City.
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In 1962, Gordon Hyatt worked with reporter Robert Trout to produce a documentary on mansions and residential architecture in Manhattan.
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Later Gordon Hyatt produced and wrote A Question of Values, reporting on the evolution of the luxury apartment in Manhattan.
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Gordon Hyatt worked with Trout on the 1964 documentary Reflections on the Fair, a critical review of the 1964 New York World's Fair focusing on four different pavilions.
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Gordon Hyatt wrote an article for the Columbia Journalism Review regarding this experience.
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From 1974 to 1976, Gordon Hyatt was the executive producer of The 51st State, a WNET a weekly television news series focusing on New York City.
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Gordon Hyatt continued producing into the 1990s, producing a WNET special on energy conservation titled Smart Choices and a TLC educational program about Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn.
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In 1980, Gordon Hyatt was appointed to the Art Commission of the City of New York by mayor Ed Koch.
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Gordon Hyatt directed a Hawthorne exhibition at the Lenox Library and produced "Hawthorne Revisited'" on October 9,2004, which was a gala at Ozawa Hall featuring Mike Wallace, Jane Fonda, David Strathairn and Marisa Tomei.
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In October 2012, Gordon Hyatt conceived and produced "Celebrating Moby-Dick," a South Street Seaport Museum benefit performance featuring actors Matthew Broderick, Jonathan Epstein and John Douglas Thompson representing characters in Herman Melville's novel with narration by author and historian Nathaniel Philbrick.
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Gordon Hyatt served on the Chesterwood Council, an organization dedicated to the preservation of Chesterwood, the estate and studio of American sculptor Daniel Chester French.
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Gordon Hyatt's 1966 documentary about photographer John Albok, titled John Albok's New York, won a CINE Golden Eagle award, was nominated for a New York Emmy, and was a finalist for the Martin Luther King Jr.