Death of Sherwood Schwartz

November 14, 1916 - July 12, 2011
Los Angeles, California | Age 94

Creator of 'Brady Bunch,' 'Gilligan's Island' dies at 94
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DENISE PETSKI, The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) — 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.

Great niece Robin Randall said Schwartz died at 4 a.m. Tuesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he was being treated for an intestinal infection and underwent several surgeries. His wife, Mildred, and children had been at his side.

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