Sherwood Schwartz
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"Sherwood Charles Schwartz" was an United States/American television producer/television Executive producer/producer. He worked on radio shows in the 1940s, and created the television series Gilligan's Island on Columbia Broadcasting System/CBS and The Brady Bunch on American Broadcasting Company/ABC. On March 7, 2008, Schwartz, at the time still active in his 90s, was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. That same year, Schwartz was also inducted into the Television Hall of Fame.

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He was, first of all, a good friend of mine; he wasn't just an actor who worked on my show.

He was a great actor, ... People think it's easy to fall down and get hit in the head with a coconut. And, every time, he'd find a different way to do that.

He was a complex man. He was not a guy who just slipped on banana peels. He knew most people thought of him as a funny guy who could do funny things. But he was really an intellectual at heart.

Gilligan's Island ... I knew that by assembling seven different people and forcing them to live together, the show would have great philosophical implications.

I knew that by assembling seven different people and forcing them to live together, the show would have great philosophical implications.

[Denver, however, never escaped being typecast as Gilligan.] That's the damaging thing about being terrific in what you do as an actor, ... Everybody wants you to be the same person.

The critics say it's a bad show, but there ain't no critic who can climb into people's windows and turn off their sets.

It was like Burns and Allen, and any twosome really. They fed off each other with physical stuff and vocal.

She looks terrific. She takes advantage of her celebrity to ask for things a normal girl wouldn't ask for. She's playing to win.