David Dortort

Emerging from a New York City background and a history degree at City College of New York, Dortort entered television as a writer-director on The Public Defender in the mid-1950s before producing the western series The Restless Gun (1957-59). His most enduring contributions came as the architect behind NBC’s long-running westerns Bonanza (1959-73) and The High Chaparral (1967-71), with the latter… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources