He studied at the US Naval School of Photography and the Columbia School of Broadcasting. Schwartz appeared in the television series The Jamie Foxx Show, Caroline in the City, and In the House, the television documentary World War II: When Lions Roared (1994, with Ed Begley, Jr. and directed by Joseph Sargent), Rob Reiner's comedy The American President (1995, with Gail Strickland), the thriller Devil in a Blue Dress (1995, with Albert Hall), the television movie Van Helsing Chronicles (1997, starring Dan Gauthier), the movies Cotton Feaver and Jerry Rigged Inc, in a Pepsi commercial, and served as stand-in on the television project Firestorm.