Nigel Paterson

Nigel Paterson is a Primetime Emmy Award-winning British television writer, director, and producer.

Biography Paterson began his career at the BBC as part of the production team on the 2001 series Walking with Beasts for which he shared the 2002 Primetime Emmy Award for Animated Program – More Than One Hour.

He co-wrote and co-directed the 2006 series Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial that re-enacted the Nuremberg Trials of prominent Nazi war criminals.

He directed and produced the 2007 Wolof Wrestling episode of the series Last Man Standing.

Filmography 2001 Walking with Beasts producer & director 2001 Triumph of the Beasts & The Beasts Within producer 2002 Human Instinct director 2003 Human Senses director 2004 Meet the Ancestors: The Hunt for Darwin's Beagle director 2004 Bermuda Triangle: Beneath the Waves director 2005 The Truth About Killer Dinosaurs director 2005 Horizon/Nova: The Ghost in Your Genes producer & director 2006 Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial director & writer 2007 Last Man Standing: Wolof Wrestling producer & director 2008 In Search of Medieval Britain producer 2008 James May's Big Ideas producer 2011 Planet Dinosaur producer & director 2016 The Beginning and End of the Universe producer & director