William Dozier

William Dozier

producer, actor, writer

William Dozier was born on Feb 13, 1908 in USA. William Dozier's big-screen debut came with Slave Girl directed by Charles Lamont in 1947. William Dozier is known for Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones directed by William A. Graham, Powers Boothe stars as Rev. Jim Jones and Ned Beatty as Rep. Leo Ryan. The upcoming new movie William Dozier plays is Batman vs. Two-Face which will be released on Oct 10, 2017.

William Dozier was an American TV and movie producer who made it to the top of the TV heap briefly in the mid-1960s with his show Batman (1966). Born on February 13, 1908 in Omaha, Nebraska, Dozier was also known for his wives. After divorcing his first wife, he was married to Oscar-winner Joan Fontaine from 1946 to 1951 and to movie star Ann Rutherford from 1953 to his death on April 23, 1991.In 1948, he and Fontaine launched Rampart Productions, which produced Max Ophüls' Lettre d'une inconnue (1948) starring his wife, and L'extravagante Mlle Dee (1948), which starred Fontaine and James Stewart. He served as executive producer on both pictures.Turning to TV as the new decade of the Fifties dawned, Dozier produced the series Danger (1950), which ran for five years from 1950-55. In the Fifties and Sixties, he continued his career as a TV producer, bringing to the tube the short-lived TV series Rod Brown of the Rocket Rangers (1953) (1953), The Loner (1965) (1965).In 1966, he achieved the height of TV success with "Batman" which ran for three seasons and was a cultural sensation. The TV show spun off a Batman (1966) feature film. That same year, he also launched , a modest success, and The Tammy Grimes Show (1966), a notorious flop that shot five episodes and was canceled after four.Dozier retired as a producer after the 1969 movie _The Big Bounce (1969) flopped, though he enjoyed a modest second career as an actor in the Seventies and early Eighties.

  • Birthday

    Feb 13, 1908
  • Place of Birth

    Omaha, Nebraska, USA

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