Background
Dorman, Edmund Lawrence was born on June 28, 1911 in Portland, Maine, United States. Son of Benjamin Robert and Rose Ada Dorman.
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Edmund Lawrence Dorman
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Education
Bachelor of Science, Harvard University, 1933, Bachelor of Laws, 1936.
Career
Founded Film Foundation of America (for dissemination of legal education through motion pictures in collaboration with Felix Frankfurter and Harvard Law School faculty), 1937. President American Institute Motion Pictures, New York City, 1939-1946. Created Nobel Science Series, Literature Series, Presidential Series (with leading candidates for presidency of the United States), Documentary Series (with Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann, others).
Feature motion pictures, confidential government films to further war effort, and documentary pictures for Department of State and Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, documentary features for Protestant Film Commission and International Committee of Young Men's Christian Association’s in collaboration with United States Military Academy, 1946-1949.
Vice president charge production United World Films (wholly owned subsidiary Universal-International-J. Arthur Rank Organisation, London). Formed Dorman Electronics for world-wide distribution television products, 1949, president
Merged interests with Remington Rand International division Sperry Rand Corporation, 1956. Now real estate executive Collins Tuttle and Company, since 1959.
President Bradd realty corporation, Houston, Edmund L. Dorman & Company.
New York City.
Achievements
Membership
Club: Harvard (New York City).
Connections
Married Marjorie Jane Phillips, January 9, 1942. Children: Thomas Benjamin, Robert Edgar.
