Lloyd J. Schwartz has had a highly successful career spanning television, motion pictures, and theatre. His journey began as a dialogue coach on his father Sherwood Schwartz's series, including "It's About Time," "Gilligan's Island," and "The Brady Bunch." He quickly rose to the position of producer and, along with his father, became the only father-son producing team in the industry.
Schwartz's early career also included being part of a black-white comedy team, Carruthers and Blood, in the late 1960s. He went on to write and/or produce episodes of numerous television series, including "The Brady Bunch," "Alice," "Love: American Style," "The Love Boat," "The A-Team," "The Munsters Today," "Safe at Home," and "Baywatch," among others.
In addition to his work in television, Schwartz was an executive in current comedy at ABC, overseeing popular shows such as "Happy Days," "Laverne and Shirley," "Three's Company," and "What's Happening." He later became a writer-producer on "Happy Days" and was responsible for two of the highest-rated TV movies of the year, "Rescue from Gilligan's Island" and "A Very Brady Christmas."
Schwartz has also sold feature film scripts to Cheech and Chong and David Permut, with one script, "Independence," currently in development. He has written and directed the comedy "One Dozen," based on his play of the same name, and produced "The Brady Bunch Movie" and "A Very Brady Sequel."
In theatre, Schwartz has been equally versatile, writing, producing, and directing comedies, dramas, and musicals. Many of his plays are historical, and he has produced plays about notable figures such as John Wilkes Booth, Mary Walker, Mark Twain, Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Rasputin, and Marshal Petain.
Two of his one-person plays, "Independence" and "An Evening with John Wilkes Booth," have been performed at colleges around the country. He and his wife, Barbara Mallory, founded Storybook Theatre of Los Angeles at Theatre West, where they have produced 18 shows over the past 35 years. Lloyd has written the book, music, lyrics, and/or directed all of these shows.
Schwartz's most recent project is "A Very Brady Reconstruction," which is set to air in 2019 with Lloyd as consulting producer. This marks the latest iteration in the long-running "Brady" franchise, which has been on the air in various forms since the 1960s.
