Editing Frank Packer (section)

{{short description|Australian media proprietor (1906–1974)}}
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{{Infobox person
| honorific_prefix   = [[Knight Bachelor|Sir]]
| name                      = Frank Packer 
| honorific_suffix          = {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|size=100%|KBE|OStJ}}
| image                     = Frank Packer 1968 (cropped).jpg
| caption                   = Packer in 1968
| birth_name                = Douglas Frank Hewson Packer
| birth_date                = {{birth date|df=yes|1906|12|03}}
| birth_place               = [[Kings Cross, New South Wales|Kings Cross]], [[Sydney]], [[New South Wales]], Australia
| death_date                = {{death date and age|df=yes|1974|05|01|1906|12|03}}
| death_place               = [[Royal Prince Alfred Hospital]], Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
| resting_place             = [[South Head General Cemetery|South Head Cemetery]], [[Vaucluse, New South Wales|Vaucluse]], Sydney
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| other_names               = 
| known_for                 = [[Australian Consolidated Press]]<br />[[Nine Network]]
| education                 = [[Sydney Church of England Grammar School]]
| employer                  = 
| occupation                = Media proprietor
| years active              = 1923–1972
| title                     = 
| height                    = 
| term                      = 
| predecessor               = 
| successor                 = 
| party                     = 
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| spouse                    = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|Gretel Bullmore |1934|1960}}
* {{marriage|Florence Vincent, nee Porges |1964|1974}}
}}
| partner                   = 
| children                  = [[Clyde Packer]] (eldest son)<br />[[Kerry Packer]] (youngest son)
| parents                   = [[Robert Clyde Packer|R. C. Packer]] (father)<br />Ethel Maude, née Hewson (mother)
| relatives                 = [[Packer family]]
| website                   = 
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}}

'''Sir Douglas Frank Hewson Packer''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|KBE|OStJ}} (3 December 1906{{spaced ndash}}1 May 1974), was an Australian [[media proprietor]] who controlled [[Australian Consolidated Press]] and the [[Nine Network]]. He was a patriarch of the [[Packer family]].