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Douglas Schwartz | |
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Occupation(s) | Screenwriter, producer |
Notable work | The Wizard Baywatch |
Relatives | Sherwood Schwartz (uncle) Michael Berk (cousin) |
Douglas Schwartz is an American television screenwriter and series creator who, along with Michael Berk, worked as a writer on the television series Manimal , and multiple made for television movies. He is most famous for creating co-producing, and writing The Wizard , as well as creating and writing the earlier scripts of Baywatch , [1] [2] a series which exceeded a global audience of 1 billion people. He also developed Sheena , based on the comic book of the same name.
Douglas Schwartz, along with his collaborator Michael Berk, is a nephew of Sherwood Schwartz, who created the TV show Gilligan's Island . [1] [3]