Douglas Benton

Douglas Benton was born on Sep 24, 1925 in USA. Douglas Benton's big-screen debut came with A Howling in the Woods directed by Daniel Petrie in 1971. Douglas Benton is known for A Last Cry for Help directed by Hal Sitowitz, Linda Purl stars as Sharon Muir and Shirley Jones as Joan Muir. Douglas Benton has got 1 awards and 5 nominations so far. The most recent award Douglas Benton achieved is Primetime Emmy Awards. The upcoming new movie Douglas Benton plays is Victims which will be released on Jan 11, 1982.

Born in Hollis, Oklahoma, Douglas Benton was an oil field "roughneck, " a wartime bombardier/navigator cadet, a newscaster and an Associated Press bureau chief before moving to Hollywood and becoming story editor, associate producer and ultimately producer of TV's prestigious "General Electric Theater." His other TV producing credits include "Thriller, " "Dr. Kildare, " "The Rookies", "Police Woman", "Ironside", "The Name of the Game, " "The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.", "Magnum, P.I". and "Columbo", for which he won an Emmy.