Sherwood Schwartz, Creator of <em>The Brady Bunch</em> and <em>Gilligan's Island</em>, Dead at 94
July 12, 2011, 1 p.m.
Sherwood Schwartz, the man who created The Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island, has died at the age of 94, TMZ is reporting.
Shewood Schwartz
Sherwood Schwartz, the man who created The Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island, has died at the age of 94, TMZ is reporting. Schwartz, who was born in New Jersey and moved to California for a masters in biology, went into entertainment "by accident" after Bob Hope liked some jokes he wrote to make a buck.
Schwartz managed to create not one but two of America's major television touchstones when he brought The Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island to the public, shows which he continued to support and discuss in public well after they left the air. His long career also included a time on The Red Skelton Hour (an experience he disliked so much that he wrote the Gilligan pilot as a way out) as well as Dusty's Trail, which he also created.
Schwartz died in his sleep of natural causes. He is survived by his wife of 69 years, Mildred Schwartz, and four children Don Schwartz, Lloyd J. Schwartz, Ross Schwartz and Hope Juber.
