- Not only produced Batman (1966), but also served as the show's uncredited narrator, delivering the memorable sign-off, "Same Bat-time, same Bat-channel." On the 1966 Original Television Soundtrack Album, for which he provided the liner notes, the narrator is identified as "Desmond Doomsday".
- Ex-brother-in-law of Olivia de Havilland.
- In the 1940s he was head of the Story Department at RKO.
- Ex-wife Joan Fontaine was the sister of Olivia de Havilland, who played Melanie in Gone with the Wind (1939). His widow, Ann Rutherford, played Carreen O'Hara, the sister of Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) in "GWTW".
- Was head of the writer's department at Paramount while such writers as Billy Wilder and Preston Sturges wrote for the studio.
- Father of Debbie Dozier, with Joan Fontaine.
- Father, with Katherine Foley, of Robert Dozier.
- Stepfather of Gloria May.
- Brother-in-law of Judith Arlen.
- He and his producing partner Howie Horwitz bought a teleplay from Robert A. Heinlein entitled "Century XXII" that was to be a pilot for a new science-fiction series. The script was shelved when Dozier and Horwitz decided to produce Batman (1966) instead but a copy of the manuscript has been preserved in the official Heinlein archives.
- Ex-son-in-law of Lilian Fontaine.
- Uncle of Benjamin Goodrich and Gisele Galante.
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