Gary David Goldberg

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Gary David Goldberg (born June 25, 1944 in Brooklyn , New York , † June 23, 2013 in Montecito , California ) was an American film producer , screenwriter and film director .

Life

Goldberg grew up in a small apartment in New York and was raised primarily by his grandmother. He enrolled at Brandeis University in 1962 , and only graduated from San Diego State University in 1975 .

In order to finance his studies, he worked, among other things, as a waiter in a restaurant in Greenwich Village , where he met his future wife, the social scientist Diane Meehan , in 1969 . They married in the early 1970s and had two daughters. Shana Goldberg-Meehan became a screenwriter like her father and wrote for the sitcoms Friends , among others, and Joey Goldberg-Meehan's husband, Gary David Goldberg's son-in-law, is the television producer Scott Silveri . Cailin Goldberg , Goldberg's second daughter, became a freelance writer and now works for the Huffington Post .

Gary D. Goldberg began his work in Hollywood mid-1970s, when he began writing scripts for television series, including Lou Grant and M * A * S * H . He produced 12 episodes for Lou Grant from 1978 to 1979.

Goldberg's breakthrough came in 1982 when he started the sitcom Familienbande , for which he was able to win the then unknown actor Michael J. Fox as the lead actor. The series, which was produced in seven seasons until 1989, won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for numerous Emmys . Goldberg himself received two Emmys.

In 1989 Goldberg first directed a feature film, also produced and wrote the script. Dad was supposed to get an Oscar nomination in 1990 .

After Goldberg had to post a failure with the sitcom Champs in 1996 - the series was discontinued after only 12 episodes - he designed the television series Chaos City for which he was able to engage Michael J. Fox again. The series was shot until 2002.

Goldberg's last project was the comedy Frau mit Hund sucht ... Mann mit Herz , which he directed again in 2005.

After a long period of cancer, Goldberg died at the age of 68 in June 2013 in his home in Montecito, California .

Filmography

Director

script

Awards

Selection of film awards:

  • 1979: Emmy : Best Series - Drama, for: Lou Grant
  • 1987: Emmy : Best Screenplay for a Comedy Series for: Family Ties ( Family Ties )
  • 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1992: one Emmy nomination each
  • 1987: Humanitas Prize
  • 1990: Humanitarian Award, as part of the Women in Film Crystal Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 'Family Ties' creator Gary David Goldberg Dies at 68. In: The Hollywood Reporter , June 23, 2013. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Goldberg, Gary David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter, film producer, film director
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 2013
Place of death Montecito , California