Douglas Schwartz

{{Short description|American television screenwriter and series creator}}

{{for|the American archaeologist|Douglas W. Schwartz}}

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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,{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/how-15-year-old-leonardo-905761|title=How a 15-Year-Old Leonardo DiCaprio Almost Ended Up on 'Baywatch,' and 6 Other Show Secrets|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=July 2016 |language=en|access-date=2020-03-31}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.culvercityobserver.com/story/2015/03/05/news/baywatch-is-coming-back/4613.html|title=Baywatch Is Coming Back|last=Observer|first=Culver City|website=Culver City Observer|access-date=2020-03-31}} 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 is a nephew of Sherwood Schwartz, who created the TV show Gilligan's Island.{{Cite web |url=https://obits.nola.com/us/obituaries/nola/name/sherwood-schwartz-obituary?pid=152513523 |title=Sherwood Schwartz Obituary |date=2011-07-12 |access-date=2022-08-07 |publisher=The Times-Picayune}}