The Six Million Dollar Man and Classic TV with Herbie J Pilato
Herbie J Pilato BIO (photo by Dan Holm)
Herbie J Pilato is a writer, producer, director, singer/songwriter, and entertainment executive who was born and raised in Rochester, New York, across the street from the original home office of the Xerox Corporation, and up the block from the global main office of the Eastman Kodak Company. Pilato received his initial elementary education in Rochester at St. Peter and Paul’s Catholic School, two doors down from the Susan B. Anthony House. He graduated high school from Rochester’s Aquinas Institute, received a B.A. in Theatre Arts from Nazareth College of Rochester, studied Television and Film at UCLA, and served his Internship as an NBC Page in Burbank, CA. Today a resident of Los Angeles, Pilato has worked for Sony, Warner Bros., NBC/Universal, CNN, Bravo, TLC, E!, A&E, the Reelz Channel, and other film studios and TV networks. In 2010, he founded the Classic TV Preservation Society, a formal 5019(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to the positive social influence of classic television programming. Pilato’s extensive list of critically-acclaimed, media tie-in books includes MARY: THE MARY TYLER MOORE STORY, TWITCH UPON A STAR: THE BEWITCHED LIFE AND CAREER OF ELIZABETH MONTGOMERY. His upcoming new books include RETRO ACTIVE TELEVISION: AN IN-DEPTH PERSPECTIVE OF CLASSIC TV'S SOCIAL CIRCUITRY, THE 12 BEST SECRETS OF CHRISTMAS: A TREASURE HOUSE OF DECEMBER MEMORIES REVEALED, biographies of Sean Connery and Diana Rigg, and a combined book about George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. Pilato is also a Contributing Editor Emeritus for Larry Brody’s TVWriter.com, a Features Writer for the Television Academy and Emmys.com, hosts his own TV talk show, THEN AGAIN WITH HERBIE J PILATO (on Amazon Prime and Shout! Factory TV), and has recently recorded his second musical CD, CHRISTMASTIME WITH HERBIE J PILATO (which will be released with his Christmas book in December).
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