- AIP vice-president Samuel Z. Arkoff credits Nicholson with being the idea man at the company. He would come up with a great title and a campaign would be built around it. When that was all settled, they would get around to actually making the film.
- When he divorced his first wife Sylvia, her settlement included a portion of his stock in American-International Pictures. This reduced his status as an equal partner with Samuel Z. Arkoff.
- Before teaming up with Samuel Z. Arkoff, Nicholson was the sales manager at Realart Pictures. Realart was a company that bought the distribution rights to older films from other studios for a set period of time and re-released them.
- Grandfather of Joi Holmes.
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