Douglas S. Cramer

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Douglas S. Cramer is an American television producer.

Cramer began his career in advertising, serving as a broadcast supervisor on Lever Brothers and General Foods programs at Ogilvy & Mather in New York City. In 1962, he became Director of Program Planning at ABC Television. In 1966, he became vice president of television program development at 20th Century Fox; he later became executive vice president in charge of production for Paramount Television, in which he was responsible for such now-legendary shows as The Odd Couple, The Brady Bunch and Mission: Impossible. In 1971 he formed his own production company and in 1976 joined the production firm of prolific television producer Aaron Spelling.

Cramer is perhaps best known as an executive producer on the long-running 1980s series Dynasty, its spin-off series The Colbys and the 1991 miniseries Dynasty: The Reunion. He has collaborated on many projects with Spelling, and has produced 20 of the 22 miniseries adaptations of Danielle Steel's novels (the exceptions being 1992's Jewels and the first, 1983's Now and Forever).

Cramer was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Special - Drama or Comedy in 1975 for QB VII, and again for Outstanding Drama Series in 1982 for Dynasty.^[1]

Cramer provides audio commentary for the pilot episode of the Wonder Woman television series starring Lynda Carter on the Region 1 DVD for the first season.

Cramer is one of America's leading collectors of contemporary art; works from his collections have been shown at some of the leading art museums in the United States, and have been auctioned at Sotheby's. Cramer was one of the founders of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and was president of its board of trustees from 1990 to 1993. ^[2] He has since returned to the East Coast, where he resides in Connecticut.