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| Albert "Al" Schwartz | |
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| Vital Information | |
| Name: | Albert "Al" Schwartz |
| Birthname: | Albert Schwartz |
| Born: | November 29, 1910 |
| Birthplace: | Passaic, New Jersey, U.S. |
| deathplace: | Hollywood, California, U.S. |
| Career Information | |
| Occupation: | television writer |
| Family/Personal information | |
| Known for: | Emmy award winner, 1961 Wrote episodes for The Jackie Gleason Show, Gilligan's Island and Petticoat Junction, among other TV series |
| Character/Series involvement | |
| Series inolved with: | The Brady Bunch TV series |
| Job with series: | Wrote 14 episodes in Seasons 1-5 |
Albert "Al" Schwartz (29 November 1910 – 25 March 1988) wrote 14 episodes of The Brady Bunch TV series throughout the show's run on ABC-TV, beginning in Season 1 with the episode "Kitty Karry-All Is Missing"; his final episode was "Welcome Aboard" in Season 5. An Emmy Award-winning screenwriter, television producer, and director, Al was a writer for The Red Skelton Show,[1] where he and other writers won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series in 1961 and were nominated for the same award in 1962.[2] He also wrote scripts for The Jackie Gleason Show, The Milton Berle Show, Gilligan's Island, Petticoat Junction, and many other television shows and made-for-TV movies throughout the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.[3]
Earlier in his career, Schwartz wrote for Bob Hope's radio program, The Pepsodent Show Starring Bob Hope.[4]
He was the brother of Sherwood Schwartz, the creator and producer of Gilligan's Island, and Elroy Schwartz, a comedy and television writer.
References
- ↑ "Red Skelton Reveals His Secret Of Being Funny For 10 Years". St. Petersburg Times. August 4, 1960. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ndsmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GnkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7220,995695&dq=al-schwartz+red-skelton&hl=en. Retrieved 15 November 2013.
- ↑ "Red Skelton Show". Emmys. http://www.emmys.com/shows/red-skelton-show-1. Retrieved 14 November 2013.
- ↑ "Al Schwartz (1910-1988)". IMDb. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0777129/. Retrieved 14 November 2013.
- ↑ Nachman, Gerald (1998). Raised on Radio, p. 144. Pantheon Books, New York. ISBN 037540287x.
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