Al Schwartz

Who was Al Schwartz?

Albert "Al" Schwartz was an American Emmy Award-winning screenwriter, television producer, and director. He was a writer for The Red Skelton Show, 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. He also wrote scripts for The Jackie Gleason Show, The Milton Berle Show, The Brady Bunch, Gilligan's Island, Petticoat Junction, The Brady Bunch, and other television shows and made-for-TV movies throughout the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.

He was the brother of Sherwood Schwartz, the creator and producer of Gilligan's Island, and Elroy Schwartz, a comedy and television writer.