Held top positions at Columbia Pictures, Fox and Sony Pictures before becoming the first top executive recruited by Sumner Redstone for the newly merged entertainment conglomerate forged by Viacom's $8.2 billion purchase of Paramount Communications.
Was named Pioneer of Year by the Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation in 2002.
Majored in industrial and labor relations at Cornell University, graduating in 1966.
Earned his law degree from NYU in 1969.
At the time of his death, he was an emeritus board of director at Expedia and a board member for such nonprofits as The Simon Wisenthal Center, the California Institute of the Arts and Claremont Graduate University.
Has two daughters, Tamar and Lauren.
Received the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Humanitarian Award in 1997.
Corporate lawyer at the Wall Street firm Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson before he was hired by Columbia Pictures as assistant general counsel in 1976.
Son of Selma Dolgen, a secretary for Zionist organizations and a Hadassah Hospital fundraiser, and Abe Dolgen, a Russian-born organizer and negotiator with the International Ladies Garment Workers Union in New York.