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SHERWOOD SCHWARTZ
Born in Passaic, New Jersey, in 1916, and after studying pre-med at N.Y.U, SHERWOOD SCHWARTZ changed careers and started writing professionally on "The Bob Hope Radio Show" in 1939 with his brother, Al. After four years with Bob Hope, Sherwood joined the Armed Forces Radio Service (A.F.R.S.) for four years, writing shows like "G.I. Journal," "Command Performance," and "Mail Call," etc and worked with just about every major star in the entertainment world.
After the war, he went back to radio and "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet." In radio he has also written for Danny Thomas, Alan Young and "The Beulah Show."
Then came television.
In his long career in TV (59 years), Sherwood Schwartz has written, re-written, and/or produced more than 700 TV shows, starting with "I Married Joan," "The Red Skelton Show," and "My Favorite Martian," before creating, writing, and producing series of his own.
Sherwood received the highest honor in television, the Emmy Award, in 1961 for "The Red Skelton Show," and the following year, another Emmy nomination.
His scripts have the unique distinction of receiving five consecutive nominations for awards from the Writers Guild of America in comedy, variety, and play adaptation, receiving the award the WGA award in the comedy category.
In 1963, Sherwood created, wrote and produced "Gilligan's Island," a TV series which has become a cult classic.
"Gilligan's Island" led to three two-hour TV movies. One of them, "Rescue from Gilligan's Island," was the first of the so-called "reunion shows" and was the highest rated movie-of-the-week in 1978.
In 1969, Sherwood created, wrote and produced "The Brady Bunch," television's first blended family show. It, too, has become a cult classic, leading to several reunion shows.
In 1988, Sherwood and his son Lloyd, wrote and produced a two-hour TV film, "A Very Brady Christmas," which was the highest rated TV film of that year. Since that time, Sherwood and Lloyd became the first…if not the only father/son producing team in television history.
In 1994, Sherwood and Lloyd, produced the feature film, "The Brady Bunch Movie," for Paramount followed by "A Very Brady Sequel."
On March 12, 2004, "Gilligan's Island" received the annual "Pop Culture" award from TV Land. That same week, Sherwood was awarded the prestigious William S. Paley Award with "A Salute to Sherwood Schwartz."
In 2007, "The Brady Bunch" was also awarded TV Land's "Pop Culture" award. That same year, along with Lloyd, and Sherwood's daughter, Hope Juber, Sherwood produced "Still Brady After All These Years: A Thirty-Five Year Anniversary Special" which won a daytime Emmy Nomination.
In March, 2008, Sherwood received a star on the Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame as well as entering the Television Academy Hall of Fame in November of that same year.
In addition to TV and films, Sherwood has written several produced plays. Among them, "Mr. and Mrs.," a comedy; "The Trial of Othello," a courtroom drama; "Gilligan's Island: The Musical," (written with Lloyd and with music and lyrics by Hope, and her husband, Laurence Juber.) Sherwood's play, "Rockers," a comedy-drama had a production at Theatre West in honor of his 90th birthday. "Gilligan's Island: The Musical" concluded a national tour in 2009 and is scheduled to open on Broadway.
In June, 2008, a new musical "A Very Brady Musical" written by Lloyd and Hope with music and lyrics by Hope and Laurence Juber and executive-produced by Sherwood had its world premiere at Theatre West to outstanding reviews and packed houses.
Sherwood Schwartz co-wrote the theme song for "Gilligan's Island" with George Wyle and co-wrote the themes song for "The Brady Bunch" with Frank DeVol. Each of these songs is always in the top ten most famous theme songs in television history.
"Gilligan's Island: The Motion Picture" is in development at Warner Brothers.
Sherwood is a member of the Writers Guild of America, the Dramatists Guild and A.S.C.A.P, the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers.
He has been married to Mildred for sixty-eight years which he considers his greatest accomplishment. They have four children, Donald an ophthalmologist, Lloyd, Ross, an attorney who has recently written the independent movie, "Bottle Shock," and Hope. Mildred and Sherwood have eight grandchildren, Juli, Jill, Jackie, Andy, Becky, Nico, Ilsey, and Elliot as well as four great-grandchildren, Rachel, Sarah, Evan and Aidan,
Sherwood's grandson, Andy, is a writer who has been on the writing staff of "Scrubs," making the Schwartzes tri-generational members of the Writers Guild.
Which is Sherwood's favorite project? The next one.
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LlOYD J. SCHWARTZ
Besides his extensive career in all media, Lloyd J. Schwartz and his father, Sherwood Schwartz, are one of the only…if not the only…father-son producing teams in television. Having been raised in a show-business family, the younger Schwartz began his own career as a writer for "Love: American Style" and "Alice" and as part of a white/black comedy team while still in college at UCLA. By that time he had already been a dialogue coach on the series "It's About Time" and "Gilligan's Island." When that position opened on "The Brady Bunch," he signed on. During the five-year run of that iconic series, Schwartz moved to associate producer, director and producer. At age 25, he was the youngest producer in network television.
After "The Brady Bunch" Sherwood and Lloyd co-created and produced "Big John, Little John," a Saturday morning show for NBC. He became a network executive at ABC and supervised four of the top five shows in the country: "Happy Days," "Laverne and Shirley," "What's Happening!!" and "Three's Company." Schwartz then became the producer of "What's Happening!!" and created "Harper Valley P.T.A." with Sherwood for television. This was followed by a tenure as head of comedy development at Paramount TV.
During these years, there were always Gilligan and Brady projects. With Sherwood, Lloyd served as writer and executive producer of all the variations of "The Brady Bunch" including "The Brady Girls Get Married," "The Brady Brides," "A Very Brady Christmas," and "The Bradys." He also produced three "Gilligan's Island" TV movies: "Rescue from Gilligan's Island," "The Castaways on Gilligan's Island," and "The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island." Both "Rescue from Gilligan's Island," and "A Very Brady Christmas" were the highest rated TV movies of their respective years. Lloyd and Sherwood wrote "Gilligan's Island: The Musical" for the stage which has had sixty productions nationally and internationally and has just completed a national tour in 2009. Words and music are by Hope and Laurence Juber. Hope is Lloyd's sister, and he frequently writes with her. Laurence is Hope's husband.
Yet another version of Gilligan was the high-rated "The Real Gilligan's Island" for TBS in 2007 for which Lloyd was co-creator and executive producer.
Completing a Brady tour of the major networks, Lloyd was executive producer and co-writer of the "The Brady Bunch in the White House" on Fox which he co-wrote with Hope. He received an Emmy nomination for "Still Brady After All These Years," the 35th Anniversary special produced for TV Land. Interspersed with all of his Brady and Gilligan activities, he wrote the pilot for "The Munsters Today" and served as executive producer and wrote episodes of "The A Team," "Love Boat," "Baywatch" and other series.
In the feature world, Lloyd has produced "The Brady Bunch Movie," and "A Very Brady Sequel," He has wrote and produced his first independent feature, "Good-night Jackie" and wrote and directed "One Dozen," a feature based on his stage play of the same name.
Lloyd has had 32 produced plays. With Wendell Burton, he co-wrote "The Nearlyweds," considered the first play specifically written for dinner theatre. He won Valley Theatre League Awards for best comedy for "Much A Dieux" and for best lyrics and book for his musical "You & Me." Two of his historical plays, "The Great Adventure," about Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, and "An Evening with John Wilkes Booth," have enjoyed great acclaim. Lloyd has developed his John Wilkes Booth play into a miniseries, which was sold to CBS as "The Brothers Booth." With Lloyd as executive producer, "The Great Adventure" has been taped for KLCS in 2008 and is now part of the curriculum for the Los Angeles City School System and has won a Telly Award and an Aurora Award. His play for high schools, "Final Exam" was a finalist in the prestigious Beverly Hills Theatre League Awards and had its world premiere at South El Monte High School. In October 2005, his play "The Phantom of the Opery" had its world premiere at the Centerstage Theatre Company in Birmingham, Alabama.
In June of 2008, "A Very Brady Musical" debuted at Theatre West. It is co-written with Hope Juber, has words and music by Hope and Laurence Juber, and was directed by Lloyd and won seven Valley Theatre Awards including best production and best director.
His murder mystery comedy "Bard of Blood" will have its stage premiere in Lincoln, Nebraska in the fall of 2010.
Lloyd's son, Andy, has been a writer on "Scrubs" for four years which makes Lloyd, his father, and his son one of the only three generation WGA members.
With his wife, Barbara, Lloyd co-founded The Storybook Theatre of Los Angeles twenty-five years ago, and has written, composed, and/or directed all 18 of their original productions. He has personally won 20 Valley Theatre League Awards for those shows, and he and his wife have been honored by the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives and the City of Los Angeles for their contributions to the youth of Los Angeles as well as winning one of the inaugural Red Carpet Awards from Women in Theatre. In 2009, "Los Angeles Magazine" named Storybook Theatre the best children's theatre in the city.
Sherwood and Lloyd have written "Brady, Brady, Brady," a behind-the-scenes look at the history of "The Brady Bunch." It is published by Running Press and will be in bookstores beginning in September of 2010.
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