Herbie J Pilato

Herbie J Pilato is a writer, producer, TV personality, singer/songwriter, actor, and the author of over 14 media tie-in/popular culture/celebrity biographies.

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Those include RETRO ACTIVE TELEVISION, which the Los Angeles Book Festival just named 2023’s Book of the Year (subsequently making Pilato “Author of the Year”).

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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.”

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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.”

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Pilato’s acting credits include classic TV shows like The Golden Girls, a former stand-in-dancer for the ’80s music series, Solid Gold, and a former NBC Page who worked on The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson.

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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.

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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 Reelz TV documentary, ELIZABETH MONTGOMERY: A BEWITCHED LIFE.

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Pilato has been profiled in Remind Magazine (published by TV Guide), and Closer Weekly Magazine, among other publications.

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In 2019, Pilato hosted and co-executive-produced his own classic TV talk show, THEN AGAIN WITH HERBIE J PILATO, which streamed on Amazon Prime, Amazon Prime UK, and Shout! Factory TV. Guests included actors Ed Asner, Burt Ward, Cindy Williams, Robert Conrad, David Selby, and more.

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In 2013, Pilato founded the Classic TV Preservation Society (CTVPS), a formal 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to the positive social influence of classic television programming.

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For more information, please visit HerbieJPilato.com.