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David Dortort
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Screenwriter, Executive Producer Biography:"David Dortort" contributed to a number of feature films of the 1950s as a screenwriter, but it was as a producer on television that he made his lasting impact on popular culture. Although he couldn't have known it when he launched "Bonanza" in 1959, Dortort created one of the great iconic series on American television, and perhaps most popular "franchise" series this side of Star Trek. "David Dortort" had a strong interest in the American West as a boy during the 1920s, which he soon began indulging, in both his reading and his writing. Dortort attended City College in New York and, after earning a B.A., went to work for the city-owned radio station WNYC, and wrote stories for magazines in his spare time. He served four years in the military during World War II, and after returning to civilian life he decided to begin writing again. In 1947, he published a novel, Burial of the Fruit, dealing with... Full Biography
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