Douglas S. Cramer

Douglas S. Cramer is one of the most successful producers in the history of television, and a well-known collector of modern art who has served on the boards of numerous museums. He began as a TV executive for Proctor & Gamble in the late 1950s after earning a Master's degree from Columbia University. He skyrocketed to prominence throughout the 1960s, serving as an Executive Vice President at 20th Century-Fox, head of Paramount TV (where he worked on The Brady Bunch (1969), Mission: Impossible (1966) and The Odd Couple (1970), among many others) and head of programming at ABC Television, where he was the boss of future moguls Barry Diller and Michael Eisner. In the late 1960s Cramer became an independent producer, creating TV movies and series. He went on to produce the first mini-series, QB VII (1974) (winner of multiple Emmys), over 100 made-for-TV movies and such successful such as The Love Boat (1977), Dynasty (1981), The Colbys (1985), Matt Houston (1982), Vega$ (1978), Wonder Wo