George Page

George Henson Page (March 31, 1935 – June 28, 2006) was an American journalist, author, and television host, who was known for his love of nature and his unique and mellifluous voice. He created the PBS series Nature, hosting and narrating it from its beginning in 1982 until his retirement in 1998.

Biography Page was also the director of Science and Natural History Programming at the PBS station Thirteen/WNET. In between seasons of Nature, he also hosted and narrated two series: The Brain (1983) and The Mind (1988).

Prior to his time with PBS, Page had a long career in broadcast journalism, mostly at NBC. He covered the Vietnam War in 1968 as a foreign correspondent and directed a documentary "We Won't Go" that explores the draft resisters. In 1990, Emory University, the school Page had graduated from in 1957, awarded him with the honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters, citing his "contributions to science education in the United States". In 1998, Page retired from PBS Nature after illness of throat cancer. George Page died of cancer on June 28, 2006, in Equinunk, Pennsylvania.