Emmy Award winner Sherwood Schwartz is the creative genius behind GILLIGAN'S ISLAND and THE BRADY BUNCH television shows. His career began in the late 1930s writing for the Bob Hope radio program. In the 1950s, he was working in television and it was on the Red Skelton Show that he met Dave O'Brien. Special thanks to Mr. Schwartz for his remembrances of Dave O'Brien. | ||
Want more info on Sherwood Schwartz - Wendy Winans has a website devoted to him and the Brady Bunch: http://www.bradyworld.com/ and a more detailed biography of Mr. Schwartz is at: http://www.bradyworld.com/cover/schwartz.htm. |
(From Old Corral collection) Above - Dave O'Brien as the fabled air hero in the cliffhanger CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT (Columbia, 1942). Below - two of the members of the original Texas Rangers' team for PRC - singing cowboy Jim Newill is on the left and Dave 'Tex' O'Brien on the right. O'Brien appeared in all 22 films in the series which were released from 1942-1945. (From Old Corral collection) |