William Dozier

(1908-1991) born in Omaha. Motion picture and television producer, talent agent, actor, educator, known as producer of various television series for CBS and ABC, founder of the independent Greenway Productions which produced the highly-rated "Batman" series in the mid-1960s for ABC-TV, arranged for production of the 1942 film Mrs. Miniver as well as Random Harvest and The Pied Piper, was married to actresses Joan Fontaine in 1946 and Ann Rutherford in 1953, the latter enduring nearly forty years. Consult Omaha World Herald Magazine, May 16, 1943, p. C-4 and Newsweek, February 5, 1968, p. 84 and Sunday World Herald Magazine of the Midlands, February 3, 1985, p. 6 and New York Times obituary, April 26, 1991, p. D-18 and Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television, Vol 10 (Gale, 1993) 146-147.

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