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 , tragically died of cancer. Also tragic was the suicide of Courtney Cramer before the age of 30, and the estrangement of Cramer's son Douglas S. Cramer III. Despite this personal turmoil, Cramer's career skyrocketed him to the heights of a TV mogul, making him worth an estimated $300 million at his zenith, with his $100-million modern art collection counted among the largest in the world. Once the owner of numerous enviable estates around the world, Cramer has since scaled back to Manhattan, Martha's Vineyard, and Roxbury, where he now lives with Hugh Bush.
Was at one point the head of Paramount Television, the TV arm of Paramount Pictures.
