High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Berton "Bert" Schneider is an American movie producer, who was behind a number of important and topical films of the late-1960s and early-1970s. The son of Abraham Schneider, onetime president of Columbia Pictures, the younger Schneider tended toward the rebellious. He briefly attended Cornell University but was expelled. Because of his radical activities, the army rejected him. In the early Sixties, he went to work for Columbia's television division Screen Gems. In 1965, Schneider teamed up with Bob Rafelson to form Raybert Productions. It was Schneider and Rafelson who brought The Monkees, a situation comedy about a fictional rock band (who became a real group to meet public demand, and their own aspirations), to network television, in 1966.