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Douglas Netter is a United States television industry executive, his credits largely being in the field of science fiction. He is first credited as associate producer of the 1967 Matt Helm (Dean Martin) movie ''The Ambushers'' which involved a US-government built flying saucer. Between 1970 and 1975 Netter was the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at MGM Studios. It was a controversial period at the studio with many filmmakers unhappy with the treatment they received from Netter and studio president James Aubrey.〔Cinema Showdown: Film Makers Struggle With Major Studios For Creative Control Actors, Directors, Producers Assail Editing, Promotion: Some Sue Big Companies Takeover by the 'Inmates': Cinema Showdown: Film Makers Battle to Gain 'Creative' Control Wall Street Journal (1923 - Current file) (York, N.Y ) 29 Dec 1972: 1. 〕 In 1975 he produced the Dean Martin crime movie ''Mr. Ricco'', and in 1978 was co-producer of the African mercenary movie ''The Wild Geese''. The next year he began a period when he concentrated on the Western genre, producing ''The Sacketts'', a TV miniseries based on Louis L'Amour's Sackett family and serving as executive producer of the NBC TV movie ''Buffalo Soldiers''. Over the next two years he also executive produced ''Wild Times'' and L'Amour's ''The Cherokee Trail''. 1987 saw Netter's first involvement with J. Michael Straczynski, when he was producer of ''Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future'' that was story-edited and partially written by Straczynski, after which he was executive producer of the ''Babylon 5'' TV series and various spin-offs (sharing equal executive producer credit with Straczynski). A still photo of Netter portrayed the ''Babylon 5'' character of Earth Alliance President Luis Santiago (''The A-Z Guide to Babylon 5'', ISBN 0-440-22385-7). Netter was the executive producer for ''Babylon 5''. Between the third and fourth seasons, he founded and appointed himself CEO of Netter Digital, a CGI special effects company. Netter Digital then replaced Foundation Imaging as the special effects studio for the series, doing all the CGI work for the final season of that show, as well as several of the ''Babylon 5'' telefilms, and did all the effects for its short-lived spinoff, ''Crusade''. He was also an executive producer for the only season of ''Hypernauts'' in 1996. With the cancellation of ''Crusade'' in 1999, Netter Digital lost its only client. Unable to promptly replace it with other customers, the company went out of business in 2000. In 2006, Netter began executive producing ''Babylon 5: The Lost Tales'', the latest venture set in the ''Babylon 5'' universe. The direct-to-DVD publication was released on July 31, 2007. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Douglas Netter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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