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Berton "Bert" Schneider (May 5, 1933 – December 12, 2011) was an American film and television producer. He was responsible for several important and topical films of the late 1960s and early 1970s, including the road film Easy Rider (1969), directed by Dennis Hopper He was born Berton Schneider New York City, New York, the son of one-time Columbia Pictures president Abraham Schneider. The younger Schneider tended toward the rebellious politics of the day. Briefly a student at Cornell University, located in Ithaca, New York, he was expelled. His brother, Harold Schneider, would become a... MORE

Berton "Bert" Schneider (May 5, 1933 – December 12, 2011) was an American film and television producer. He was responsible for several important and topical films of the late 1960s and early 1970s, including the road film Easy Rider (1969), directed by Dennis Hopper He was born Berton Schneider New York City, New York, the son of one-time Columbia Pictures president Abraham Schneider. The younger Schneider tended toward the rebellious politics of the day. Briefly a student at Cornell University, located in Ithaca, New York, he was expelled. His brother, Harold Schneider, would become a film producer as well. In the early 1960s, he worked for Screen Gems, Columbia's television division. In 1965, Schneider formed a partnership with the film director Bob Rafelson, creating Raybert Productions. The duo brought to television The Monkees (1966–1968), a situation comedy about a fictional rock band (who became a real group, The Monkees, to meet public demand, and their own aspirations). The success of The Monkees allowed Schneider and Rafelson to break into feature films, first with the counterculture film Head (1968), starring The Monkees, directed by Rafelson and featuring a screenplay LESS