Robert Reed Biography

Fast Facts

• Was writing and producing for local radio stations while still in high school
• Studied at Northwestern University and London's Royal Academy of the Dramatic Arts
• Made his television debut playing a lawyer in the 1960s drama The Defenders
• Replaced Robert Redford in the Broadway production of Barefoot in the Park
• Had an openly tumultuous relationship with Sherwood Schwartz, the creator of The Brady Bunch
• Schwartz claims that Reed felt the role of Mike Brady was "beneath him
• " Said that The Brady Bunch "was just as inconsequential as can be
• " Appeared concurrently in both The Brady Bunch and Mannix in the early 1970s
• Taught Shakespearean acting classes at UCLA not long before his death
• Made his last television appearance in 1992 as a guest on Jake and the Fatman