Paul Nagle
Lecturer
Paul Nagle most recently served as vice president and Head of Longform Television packaging at the William Morris Agency. He joined WMA in 1995 after serving as a production company, television studio and network creative executive. Among the packages for which he was responsible were at the critically acclaimed Emmy-nominated Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, which featured eight WMA clients, including Whoopi Goldberg and the late Whitney Houston; Rear Window starring the late Christopher Reeve; Rob Marshall’s directing debut, Annie; The Reagans mini-series; CBS’ acclaimed dual biopic Martin and Lewis and TNT’s Emmy-nominated Pirates of Silicon Valley. Nagle’s other agency credits include Emmy-winning Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadow; the Peabody Award-winning Having Our Say; The Beach Boys: An American Family; the innovative General Motors-USA Cable Network production The Last Ride; and such television series as Roswell and The Dead Zone. He worked extensively with the agency’s Book, Music and Corporate Consulting departments.
Nagle began his professional career in 1982 as a page at CBS Television City, where he was an usher on The Price is Right, $25,000 Pyramid and the second Bob Newhart Show. Later that year, he moved to the television and theatre production company the Catalina Production Group, where he rose from office messenger to serve as director of development for three years.
In 1986, Nagle began work for Leslie Moonves at Lorimar-Telepictures as Director of Movies and Miniseries. He served there for two years before going to Guber-Peters Entertainment, where he was named Vice-President, Television Production. While there, he worked on all longform and first-run syndicated programming. Nagle then joined the nascent FOX Network, then less than two years old, as Vice-President, Movies for Television and Mini-Series, hired to start Fox Night at the Movies. Over the next seven years he supervised the production of several dozen original movies including 12:01, The Haunted, Bonnie and Clyde: The True Story and The Invaders. He was responsible for the two highest-rated telefilms in the network’s history: The O.J. Simpson Story and Tornado!.
Nagle is a member of the Hollywood Radio & Television Society. He graduated from UCLA in 1982 with a degree in Communications Studies.
