- 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.
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