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The cast: Alan Hale Jr., as Skipper Jonas Grumby Bob Denver, as his klutzy assistant Gilligan Jim Backus and Natalie Schafer, as the rich snobs Thurston and Lovey Howell Tina Louise, as the bosomy movie star Ginger Grant Russell Johnson, as egghead science professor Roy Hinkley Jr. It was a Robinson Crusoe story about seven disparate travellers who are marooned on a deserted Pacific Island after their small boat wrecks in a storm. He went on to write for other radio and TV shows, including The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. (Nick Ut/Associated Press)Schwartz had given up a career in medical science to write jokes for Bob Hope's radio show. Writer/producer Sherwood Schwartz received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2008.
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Neither Gilligan nor Brady pleased the critics, but both managed to reverberate in viewers' heads through the years as few such series did, lingering in the language and inspiring parodies, spinoffs and countless standup comedy jokes. Success was the hallmark of Sherwood Schwartz's own career. Douglas Schwartz, who created the hit series Baywatch, called his uncle a longtime mentor and caring "second father" who helped guide him successfully through show business. Sherwood Schwartz was working on a big-screen version of Gilligan's Island, his nephew said. He continued to produce all the way up into his 90s." "Sherwood is an American classic, creating Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island - iconic shows that are still popular today. "They helped shape television in its early days," Douglas Schwartz said. Sherwood Schwartz and his brother, Al, started as a writing team in the 1950s, TV's "golden age" said Douglas Schwartz, the late Al Schwartz's son. 'I knew that by assembling seven different people and forcing them to live together, the show would have great philosophical implications'-Sherwood Schwartz on Gilligan's Island His wife, Mildred, and children have been at his side, said his nephew, Douglas Schwartz.
Schwartz was hospitalized at Cedars Sinai Medical Center about a week ago with an intestinal infection and underwent several surgeries. Great niece Robin Randall said Schwartz died at 4 a.m. Sherwood Schwartz, writer-creator of two of the best-remembered TV series of the 1960s and 1970s - Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch, has died at age 94. Back row from left are Judith Baldwin, Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer and Alan Hale Jr.
Front row from left are Bob Denver, Dawn Wells and Russell Johnson. The cast of Gilligan's Island are shown in 1978 photo.
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