Producer Bert Schneider was behind a number of important and topical films of the late '60s and early '70s. The son of a high-ranking studio executive at Columbia Pictures, Schneider always tended toward the rebellious. He briefly attended Columbia University but was tossed out. The Columbia Pictures logo, used from 1993 to current. ... Columbia University is a private university in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. ...

Because of his radical activities, the army rejected him. In the early '60s, he went to work for Columbia's Screen Gems. In 1965, Schneider, Bob Rafelson, and eventually Steve Blauner teamed up to form BBS Productions. It was Schneider and Rafelson who brought the Monkees, a television rock group devised to present an American version of the Beatles, to network television. Screen Gems is an American subsidiary company of Columbia Pictures Corp. ... The Monkees in 1967 (left to right): Michael Nesmith, Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork The Monkees were a four-man band who appeared in an American television series of the same name, which ran on NBC from 1966 to 1968. ... The Beatles were a British pop and rock group from Liverpool. ...

Schneider and Rafelson broke into feature films with the pseudo-counterculture film Head (1968), starring the Monkees and featuring a screenplay penned by Jack Nicholson. They had their first major success with Easy Rider (1969) and followed it up with a series of groundbreaking films including Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show (1971) and Rafelson's The King of Marvin Gardens (1972) Movie poster for The Monkees 1968 feature film HEAD. Head is a motion picture released in 1968, starring TV rock group The Monkees (in credit order: Peter Tork, Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz and Michael Nesmith), and distributed by Columbia Pictures. ... Jack Nicholson, John Joseph Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is a highly successful, iconic American method actor. ... Easy Rider, 1969 Easy Rider is a 1969 road movie directed by Dennis Hopper which many see as representing the embodiment of the hippie lifestyle of the 1960s. ... Peter Bogdanovich (born July 30, 1939) is an American film director and writer, born in Kingston, New York. ... The Last Picture Show is a 1971 film directed by Peter Bogdanovich. ... The King of Marvin Gardens is an American crime-drama film in 1972 . ...

In 1975, Schneider earned a Best Documentary Oscar for Hearts and Minds (1974). Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... This article refers to the movie, for other uses see Hearts and Minds (disambiguation) Hearts and Minds is a 1974 Academy Award winning documentary directed by Peter Davis. ...

External links

• Bert Schneider Filmography at IMDB