Biografia
Lloyd J. Schwartz has achieved success in television, film, and theatre. He began as a dialogue coach on his father Sherwood Schwartz's series, including "It's About Time," "Gilligan's Island," and "The Brady Bunch," before quickly advancing to producer. Together, they became the only father-son producing team in the industry. Prior to this, he was part of the black-and-white comedy duo Carruthers and Blood in the late 1960s. Lloyd has written and produced episodes for numerous series such as "The Brady Bunch," "Alice," "Love, American Style," "The Love Boat," "The A-Team," "The Munsters Today," "Safe at Home," and "Baywatch."
As an executive in current comedy at ABC, he oversaw shows like "Happy Days," "Laverne and Shirley," "Three's Company," and "What's Happening" before becoming a writer/producer on the latter. Two of his TV movies, "Rescue from Gilligan's Island" and "A Very Brady Christmas," were among the highest-rated TV movies of their respective years. He has also sold feature film scripts to Cheech and Chong and David Permut, with the script "Independence" currently in development.
Lloyd wrote and directed "One Dozen," a comedy based on his own play, and produced "The Brady Bunch Movie" and "A Very Brady Sequel." He has had forty-three plays produced, starting with his co-authorship of "The Nearlyweds," the first play written specifically for dinner theatre. Much like his television work, where he has written, produced, and directed mini-series, half-hour one-camera shows, three-camera shows, and hour-long dramas, Lloyd has been equally versatile in theatre, writing, producing, and directing comedies, dramas, and musicals.
Many of his plays are historical, covering 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," are performed at colleges nationwide. Alongside his wife Barbara Mallory, he founded Storybook Theatre of Los Angeles at Theatre West, where their plays have been staged for over 35 years. Lloyd has written the book, music, lyrics, and directed all 18 of those productions.
The latest Brady project, "A Very Brady Reconstruction," is set to air in 2019 with Lloyd as consulting producer, marking a continuous presence of Brady-related content on television across the 1960s, '70s, '80s, '90s, 2000s, 2010s, and the current decade.
