Douglas S. Cramer, Exec Producer on "Wonder Woman," "Dynasty" and "The Love Boat," Dies at 89

He had a great ass, but ……..

Involved in soo many iconic television shows of the 1970s and 1980s.

Just read up on him I hadnt realised that he was family and one of us kind of thing!

I will miss him most for his great beauty.

He looks like he might be a QUEEN.

All the Love Boat people are dying. Someone check on Lauren Tewes!!!

r6 OMG You are right! didnt Jane Powell appear on Love Boat?

R5, yes:

"Survivors include his husband, artist Hugh Bush."

He married gossip columnist Joyce Haber in 1967 and they had two children. Their daughter committed suicide.

r9 Does he have any grandchildren?

I don’t believe so R10.

He had a son too who died when he was in his late 40s. By all accounts, he and the son were estranged

Thanks r11 So he has no surviving descendants? His bloodline has died out and his widower will get the bulk if not all of his inheritance? Is his hubby a lot younger and handsome?

The husband certainly looks younger. They bought waterfront property in Florida in January of this year for $8 million. I’m speculating as an investment.

Years and years of schlocky TV - Bravo.

Gave the public what they wanted, r14.

Oh Marcia, Marcia, Marcia

Douglas and the ex on Tattle Tales

Lynda Carter posted a nice tribute to him on her social media pages.

Cheers r13

Cramer was already a noted art collector during the run of the Love Boat. He personally asked Andy Warhol to make an appearance on the show, and Warhol agreed.

This is one of Warhol’s portraits of Cramer.

Another Warhol portrait

His husband is kind of attractive ... and now, I assume, Dynasty-level rich.

I know we're in a golden age of TV today. Sure.

But give me the 70s and 80s with Norman Lear, MTM, Carol Burnett, Aaron Spelling/Douglas S. Cramer, Knots Landing, Dallas, Dynasty, Falcon Crest, Cheers, and Family Ties.

Looks on the clumsy side, r22.

Is his cast part of the installation piece?

"I know we're in a golden age of TV today. Sure."

"Sure?" Who told you "we're in a golden age of tv?" You must be kidding. I can't believe anybody would really think the shit on tv today constitutes "a golden age."

R26, not saying we are; not saying we're not; everyone's entitled to their opinion.

Me? I love the stuff I grew up on.

Shockingly, Candy Spelling hasn't offered her condolences.

Hubby looks like he's packing.

What do you expect from the likes of her, r28?

I thought the Hugh Bush thing was a joke but it's real!

Does he have a hugh bush?

Hugh fucks like a champ.

Has Joan Collins commented?

He had something to do with "Life with Lucy", if Love Boat, etc. didn't epitomize bad tv enough then Lucy's last series has to be the capper.

Thank you Mr. Cramer for years of WW spinning in the backyard as a young gayling.

R34, Dame Joan hasn't commented, either. Looks like we're left with Maureen McCormack, who must have a "Death Watch" Google alert on.

r37 I listened to a podcast last year I think were Joan seemed to allude to some of the shows producers in her view screwing her and other cast members over in terms of royalty rights? I could be mistaken? But if so that would likely in Joans view made Douglas S Cramer one of the culprits.Therein might lie the explanation for her silence?

I don't know him.

I dunno maybe it’s just me, but how tragic to not only outlive both his children, but to have a fractured relationship with his son, and lose his daughter to suicide. I know, I know, “but he had all that money…”. Anyone know more?

Eww, who cares?

R13 His husband gives me the same grifter vibes as Andy Cohen

The Cramer family was a Greek Tragedy. Straight out of a Judith Krantz novel. Douglas Cramer was a fairly awful person...in that "I am a legendary TV producer and I get what I want" kind of way. He and Joyce Haber were quite the power couple at one time. But if Doug was awful, Joyce was amoral. She was Hedda Hopper's replacement and was 100% venal. She was widely viewed as the last influential gossip columnist. Joyce is 100% responsible for publishing what she knew to be a false story—blind item but completely obvious—in the LA Times about Jean Seberg being impregnated by a Black Panther. Seberg wasn't exactly stable but after that her career was completely over and her life went out of control and she was dead by 1979.

Joyce eventually died in 1993 after a very long and painful illness. She and Cramer had divorced by then. Doug recast himself as a playwright and artist in the 1990s. A year after Joyce's death Cramer hosted a small, clubby reading for a Roman a clef play he had written about her ("The Last Great Dish"). It was never produced but was supposed to have been vitriolic. Doug and Joyce had two children. Courtney died in 2004...at 33. Doug III at 48 in 2015. Courtney is buried in St. Louis with her paternal grandparents. Doug III in Forest Lawn with Joyce.

As far as Hugh Bush, he was a wannabe playwright at one time and his relationship with Doug began in about 1990 when Hugh was in his mid-twenties and Doug in his early sixties. Hugh was then recast as an artist and Doug became a first-rate art collector. They were based in River House in New York. Dealers kissed their asses, big time. For decades Hugh was referred to as Cramer's "collaborator," "friend," "client," etc. Only in later years did "partner," and then "husband" start. Doug has buckets of money. Probably more than Aaron Spelling. He was at it longer and better than Spelling. Candy Spelling had a wrapping room. Hugh Bush probably has a money counting room. Hugh stands to inherit it all.

He looks how I picture all Datalounge soap opera caftan queens.

R44, thanks for the dirt!

[quote]Just read up on him I hadnt realised that he was family and one of us kind of thing!

Are you blind? I've never seen that man before and had no idea who he was and I immediately knew. Jesus, look at that ONE picture and you know,

[quote]Shockingly, Candy Spelling hasn't offered her condolences.

She's the Susan Dey of rich widows.

r47 True. He has that Marcus Bachmann look.

What an incredibly successful career he had

Yes, R49! Definitely that Bachmann look.