Netter, Douglas 1921–

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NETTER, Douglas 1921–

PERSONAL

Born 1921, in Seattle, WA; children: Kate.

Addresses: Office—Netter Digital Entertainment, 5200 Lankershim Blvd., Suite 280, North Hollywood, CA 91601.

Career: Producer. Netter Digital Entertainment, president and chairman; Todd A. O., general manager, 1955–57; worked at Samuel Goldwyn Productions, 1958–60; formed own company representing producers, 1961–67; worked at Jalem Productions, 1968–69; Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer, executive vice president and chief operating officer, 1969–75.

Awards, Honors: Emmy Award nomination (with others), outstanding informational series, 1993, for The Wild West.

CREDITS

Film Work:

Associate producer, The Ambushers, Sony Pictures Releasing, 1967.

Producer, Mr. Ricco, United Artists, 1975.

Coproducer, The Wild Geese, Allied Artists, 1978.

Television Executive Producer; Series:

Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, 1987.

Babylon 5, syndicated, 1994–1997.

Hypernauts, ABC, 1996.

Crusade, TNT, 1999.

Television Producer; Series:

Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future, Channel 5, 2004.

Television Producer; Movies:

(With Jim Byrnes), Louis L'Amour's "The Sacketts" (also known as The Sacketts and The Daybreakers), NBC, 1979.

Roughnecks, syndicated, 1980.

Wild Times, syndicated, 1980.

Television Executive Producer; Movies:

Babylon 5: The Gathering, syndicated, 1993.

Siringo, 1994.

Babylon 5: In the Beginning, TNT and syndicated, 1998.

Babylon 5: The River of Souls, TNT, 1998.

Babylon 5: Thirdspace, TNT, 1998.

Television Executive Producer; Pilots:

(With Jim Byrnes), The Buffalo Soldiers, NBC, 1979.

The Cherokee Trail, CBS, 1981.

Babylon 5: A Call to Arms, TNT, 1999.

Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers: To Live and Die in Starlight (also known as Legend of the Rangers: Babylon 5), Sci–Fi Channel, 2002.

Television Executive Producer; Specials:

The Wild West, syndicated, 1993.

Television Appearances; Specials:

Dean Martin: The E! True Hollywood Story, E! Entertainment Television, 1998.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

(Uncredited) President Luis Santiago, "Midnight on the Firing Line," Babylon 5, syndicated, 1994.

(Uncredited) President Luis Santiago, "Survivors," Babylon 5, syndicated, 1994.