Preceded in death by his wife Alexandra Dane, who died in 1991, Dor-Ner is survived by his girlfriend, three daughters, and four grandsons. After his Nieman Fellowship in 1976-77, he rejoined WGBH and stayed there until his retirement in 2009. Following his graduation, he returned to Israel to work as a camera operator, producer, and director for various entertainment and documentary programs for several years. After serving in the Israeli army, Dor-Ner began his career in 1966 as a news cameraman at WGBH while earning a degree in communications at Boston University. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. He worked on celebrated programs such as “Apollo 13: To the Edge and Back,” “People’s Century,” “Columbus and the Age of Discovery,” “War and Peace in the Nuclear Age,” and “Arabs and Israelis,” along with more than a dozen films for “Nova,” “Frontline,” and “American Experience.” Throughout his career, Dor-Ner and the programs he produced won awards including a duPont-Columbia award and multiple Emmys and George Foster Peabody awards.īorn in Poland shortly before the Germans took the city in 1941, Dor-Ner and his mother escaped to Israel his father and most of his immediate family members were killed by the Nazis. Columbus and the Age of Discovery (The New Book Of Knowledge) by Zvi Dor-Ner, William Scheller. He was 75.ĭor-Ner spent 30 years at WGBH, Boston’s PBS affiliate, starting as a cameraman and going on to produce several award-winning series and historical documentaries. Zvi Dor-Ner, a longtime WGBH executive producer and NF ’77, died April 6 at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts from pancreatic cancer.
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