Career
Foreign the financial analyist and writer (born 1946), see Robert Shiller. He worked extensively with fellow producer/screenwriter Bob Weiskopf on numerous television shows in the United States, including I Love Lucy (1955–1957) and All in the Family (1977–1979) on the Columbia Broadcasting System network. Schiller, born in San Francisco, California, began writing for television in 1950.
That same year, he wrote for two competing series, National Broadcasting Company"s The Jimmy Durante Show and Columbia Broadcasting System"s lieutenant"s Always January, starring Janis Paige as a widowed single mother in New York City.
During 1954–1955, Schiller was one of the writers for the Columbia Broadcasting System sitcom That"s My Boy, starring Eddie Mayehoff and Gil Stratton. Schiller"s producing credits include the Columbia Broadcasting System sitcoms The Good Guys and All"s Fair.
Schiller also penned radio scripts for such classic shows as Duffy"s Tavern, Abbott and Costello, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, The Mel Blanc Show, Sweeney and March, The Jimmy Durante Show, and December Bride, and then for television stars such as Danny Thomas, Editor Wynn, Garry Moore, and Red Buttons. Weiskopf, also a comedy writer, had just relocated to Los Angeles from New York City.
Schiller"s first wife recommended a school to his Weiskopf"s wife, and also mentioned that Schiller was looking for a partner.
The two writers first collaborated on a radio script for the Our Mission Brooks show before delving into the new medium of network television They wrote for popular 1950s shows such as Make Room for Daddy, The Bob Cummings Show, I Love Lucy, the television adaptation of the popular radio series My Favorite Husband, The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, The Ann Sothern Show (which they co-created), and Pete and Gladys. Further success would continue into the 1960s and 1970s with such series as The Lucy Show, The Red Skelton Show, The Good Guys (where they were also co-producers), The Phyllis Diller Show, The Carol Burnett Show, The Flip Wilson Show, Maude (which they also co-produced), All in the Family and its spinoff series, Archie Bunker"s Place.
Schiller"s first wife, Joyce Harris, died in 1965.
He has been married to second wife, actress Sabrina Scharf (née Trentman) since May 25, 1968. They have two children.
