Dorothy Cullman was an American television producer and philanthropist.
11 Facts About Dorothy Cullman
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Dorothy Cullman served on the boards of several arts-related organizations, and produced several television programs which were broadcast on WNET.
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Dorothy Cullman attended Rollins College in the 1930s for two years.
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Dorothy Cullman studied meteorology at New York University before joining the Navy in World War II, where he continued doing weather forecasting, and after the war started a weather service in New England.
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Dorothy Cullman pocketed $300 million when he sold the company in 1999.
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When discussing contributions to the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at the Lincoln Center, Dorothy Cullman said that funds were given honoring Brooke Astor, "to recognize her enormous contributions to poetry, the library and New York".
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Dorothy Cullman was responsible for devising what became a humanities center in the library, supported by 15 scholars and annual funding for research.
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Dorothy Cullman contributed to WNET, supporting several arts-related programs on shows such as Great Performances and American Masters.
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Dorothy Cullman died on April 6,2009, of a brain injury, prompted by an earlier fall she had suffered.
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In 2010, Lewis Dorothy Cullman married Louise Kerz Hirschfeld, the widow of Al Hirschfeld, an American caricaturist.
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Dorothy Cullman died in 2019 at Stamford Hospital in Connecticut at age 100.