William Dozier

Known for ProductionBorn 1908-02-13Died 1991-04-23Omaha, Nebraska, USA

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' Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)" starring his wife, and "You Gotta Stay Happy (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)" and "The Loner (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: The Movie (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.Read more

Movies & web series

Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1

The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood

Dick Tracy - The Plot To Kill NATO

Joker: Put on a Happy Face

Crisis in Mid-Air

Evening in Byzantium

Letter from an Unknown Woman

Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones

The Green Hornet

Harriet Craig

Slave Girl

Batman

Mission to Glory: A True Story

Guilty or Innocent: The Sam Sheppard Murder Case

Death Is My Neighbor

You Gotta Stay Happy

Two of a Kind

Back from Eternity

The Amazing Howard Hughes

Batman

Eight Is Enough

American Gigolo

The Loner

The Amazing Howard Hughes

Stage Struck

Not Just Another Affair

The Tammy Grimes Show

Batgirl

The Big Bounce

Evening in Byzantium

Batgirl Teaches Batman a Lesson About Equal Pay