On July 12, 2011, Sherwood Schwartz died peacefully in his sleep of natural causes. Schwartz's name was also mentioned in Netflix's "Sandy Wexler" in a conversation between Adam Sandler and Jennifer Hudson.Īmerican television producer Sherwood Schwartz dies aged 94
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Schwartz was portrayed by Aaron Lustig in the TV movie Surviving Gilligan's Island and by Michael Tucker in Growing Up Brady. Olive's reaction is to blurt out "Sherwood Schwartz" in frustration. When Olive demands that Paisley stop pushing the button, the next topic turns out to be related to cosmetology, which the usually dimwitted Paisley has genuine knowledge about. Farm episode " America Needs TalANT," Olive Doyle and Paisley Houndstooth become contestants on a game show named " The Brainy Bunch" (hosted by Barry Williams) and Paisley keeps pressing the buzzer with goofy answers. During the episode, the main character, Jimmy, loses his memory and his doctor advises him that unlike a sitcom, memory can't be regained by hitting someone on the head again and uses an episode of Gilligan's Island to illustrate the point. Then she points to an empty chair with a Gilligan-type sailor cap on it. In Raising Hope, Sherwood is indirectly mentioned during the opening scene of the second season as someone who "started each day with a song that perfectly recapped what was going on". Also, a Roseanne episode was entirely devoted to Gilligan's Island and was titled "Sherwood Schwartz: A Loving Tribute". On a Robin Hood-themed episode of The Beverly Hillbillies, a character states that Sherwood Forest is a relative of Sherwood Schwartz. Sherwood's play, Rockers, a comedy-drama had a production at Theatre West in honor of his 90th birthday. On 23 December 1941 he married his wife of 69 years Mildred and together they had four children (3 sons and 1 daughter): Donald, who became an ophthalmologist, Lloyd, who worked with his father and in show business, Ross, who became an attorney, and Hope Juber, a writer/producer. Sherwood Schwartz is the uncle of Douglas Schwartz, Bruce Schwartz and Judithe Randall. His younger brother, Elroy Schwartz (1923–2013), a comedy writer, became a principal screenwriter for Gilligan's Island and other series.
He was a younger brother of writer Al Schwartz. His parents were Herman and Rose Schwartz. Schwartz was born in Passaic to a Jewish family. He also appeared as himself in a 1995 episode of Roseanne titled "Sherwood Schwartz, A Loving Tribute", which also featured the four surviving "Gilligan's Island" cast members. This was the last time they were all together on television. In 1988, Schwartz appeared on The Late Show with Ross Shafer for a Gilligan's Island reunion, along with all seven castaways from Gilligan's Island.
He was also a guest at the 2004 TV Land Awards. He also took part in a "Creators" marathon on Nick at Nite in the late 1990s. TV appearances ĭuring the late 1990s and the 2000s, he made many appearances on TV talking about his series, on shows such as the CBS Evening News, 20/20, TV Land's Top Ten and A&E's Biography. He made them icons, and as a result he became a television icon. Syndication turned his two major successes into TV institutions with cultural relevance. He wrote the theme song for three of his shows: Gilligan's Island (co-wrote), It's About Time, and The Brady Bunch. He went on to create and produce Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch. Schwartz was a writer on the Armed Forces Radio Network before he got his break in television. He went on to write for Ozzie Nelson's The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet and other radio shows. I was faced with a major decision-writing comedy or starving to death while I cured those diseases. Then he asked me to join his writing staff. Schwartz recalled that Hope "liked my jokes, used them on his show and got big laughs. In need of employment, he began writing jokes for Bob Hope's radio program, for which Schwartz's brother, Al Schwartz, worked. He relocated from New York to southern California to pursue a Master of Science degree in Biology. Schwartz's entertainment career came "by accident".
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