- According to Jeffrey Ruoff 's 2003 account in "An American Family: A Televised Life," Gilbert was raised in upscale Woodmere on NY's Long Island. His father was a copyright lawyer, his mother a housewife. He attended Andover prep school, then Harvard. He served in the Navy in the early 1950s, working as a production assistant on instructional films. He then worked briefly as an editor on "The March of Time" newsreels before joining NBC's Victory at Sea (1952) TV) series.
- Craig Gilbert, who created what is widely considered to have been the first reality television show, "An American Family," in 1973 and then all but disappeared from public view amid a storm of criticism and lasting, bitter disputes among its participants.
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