- Born
- DiedSeptember 28, 2016 · Pennsylvania, USA (complications from Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease)
- Birth nameAgnes Cornelius Eckhardt
- Nicknames
- Aggie
- Queen of the Modern American Soap Opera
- Agnes Nixon was born on December 10, 1922 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was a writer and producer, known for All My Children (1970), One Life to Live (1968) and Guiding Light (1952). She was married to Robert Henry Adolphus Nixon. She died on September 28, 2016 in Pennsylvania, USA.
- SpouseRobert Henry Adolphus Nixon(April 6, 1951 - November 22, 1996) (his death, 4 children)
- She becames ABC's overall daytime consultant
- It was her hand that opened the All My Children (1970) photo album on the shows opening montage sequence from 1970-1989.
- When she went into labor and had to go to the hospital to deliver one of her children she brought her Dictaphone along so that she could continue working.
- During the 1960s she simultaneously wrote both Guiding Light (1952) & Another World (1964). This led to a few minor problems such as in the 445th episode of Another World (1964) she wrote in the script that the scene takes place "in the coffee shop of Cedar's Hospital" - Cedar's Hospital is the fictional hospital on Guiding Light (1952).
- Her classmates at Northwestern University included Cloris Leachman, Paul Lynde, Charlotte Rae, Charlton Heston, Martha Hyer and Patricia Neal.
- Once we were plotting an episode, and I looked down and saw that it was the 6,000th episode of 'All My Children.' So I said to the group, 'Hey, let's knock off and I'll take you to lunch.' When I had come back, for the first time in my life, I had forgotten that I was to have a telephone interview. So I called the reporter...and apologized profusely and explained that we discovered it was our 6,000th episode we were writing. She did some figuring and said: 'Do you realize that if you'd been writing nighttime, you would have been working for 240 years!'
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