About Herbie J Pilato

A Profile of the Author, Writer, Producer, and TV Personality

Herbie J Pilato is a writer, producer, TV personality, and author of over 14 books about classic TV shows and their stars. Those include RETRO ACTIVE TELEVISION, which the Los Angeles Book Festival just named Book of the Year. Pilato’s other books include MARY: THE MARY TYLER MOORE STORY, which Pete Hammond of Deadline.com called “…another one of Herbie J Pilato’s all-encompassing biographies.” Peter King of CBS News Radio hailed, “Herbie J Pilato is a true ‘keeper of the flame’ for classic TV. With MARY: THE MARY TYLER MOORE STORY, he’s given us an extensive, humanizing look at one of the medium’s biggest icons; the good, the bad, and sometimes, the ugly. But it’s real.” Pilato is a former actor who appeared on classic TV shows like The Golden Girls, and a former NBC Page who worked on The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson. In his book, NBC & ME: MY LIFE AS A PAGE IN A BOOK, Pilato shares the various experiences of working on several classic TV shows of the 1980s. As the author of two biographies of Bewitched TV star Elizabeth Montgomery (TWITCH UPON A STAR and THE ESSENTIAL ELIZABETH MONTGOMERY), Pilato has served as an executive producer, writer, and on-screen commentator for the acclaimed new Reelz TV documentary, ELIZABETH MONTGOMERY: A BEWITCHED LIFE. Pilato was recently profiled in Remind Magazine (published by TV Guide), and Closer…