Born in Toronto, Canada in May 1927 of English parents, Luxton and his family returned to London, where they endured The Blitz during the early 1940s.
[1] His experiences as a teenage actor led him to the forces broadcasting system, where he trained as an operator and announcer.
[1][2] Post-war, the only job he could find was as a junior announcer in Port Arthur, now part of Thunder Bay, in 1948.
[1] Luxton graduated from the Lorne Greene Academy of Radio Arts in Toronto in 1950,[3] and was hired in 1950 by CKWS-AM in Kingston, Ontario as an announcer.
Luxton worked at the station as an announcer on shows such as The Amazing World of Kreskin, when it was produced at CJOH, and as co-host of the long-running Morning Magazine in the 1970s and 1980s.