Daniel Goldberg, frequent collaborator of Ivan Reitman and Todd Phillips, co-wrote and produced Bill Murray starring Stripes and Meatballs and has hosted other films including Space Jam , old school , road trip and The Hangover trilogy, is dead. he is74.
Goldberg died Wednesday in Los Angeles, along with his brother, Deuce Bigalow Screenwriter Harris Goldberg, told The Hollywood Reporter . “He’s a gentle, loving guy, and he’s my hero,” Harris said. “He was everything I measured myself against.”
There was no cause of death.
Survivors also include his wife, British Columbia native Ilona Herzberg, who produced the film People, including “River of the Wild” , Alvin Almighty , Waterworld,Rachel married and FBI , by Rebecca Comedy , starring Rebecca De Mornay and Mary Gross, was her husband’s only Hollywood-directed feature.
Born in Hamilton, Ontario , Goldberg is the eldest son of aerospace engineer Owen and artist Audrey.
He first met Reitman at 35 studied at McMaster University in his hometown, and was featured in the short film Orientation
》(587), Reitman wrote and directed. Fox bought it and made it available in Peter Yates’ John and Mary (1976), starring Dustin Hoffman and Mia Farrow.
and then the two get in trouble when they make Sexual Columbus (1968)) and was charged with making and showing an “obscene” film after one screening to the student body fine. Harris Goldberg said the experience “bonded them and made them successful together in show business”.
Danny followed Reitman to LA, and for decades the two would co-write, produce and/or direct “The Cabin by the Lake” (1969), meatballs (587), stripes (362 ), heavy metals (1979), FBI , Junior (1968), Space Jam (1996), Privacy section (
Commandments (1981), Father’s Day (1994), six days and seven nights (1994), road trip (1997), evolution (2001), kills softly I (2001), Old school (1998) and EuroTrip (1998).
For the small screen, Goldberg and Reitman were jointly nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie in produced HBO’s The Late Shift, they were also in the Saturday morning CBS cartoon Beethoven .
After making the road trip with Phillips at the helm, old school and gangster school (2002), Goldberg reunited with the director with great success the Hangover (2009 ), starring Zach Galifianakis , 2013 Bradley Cooper and Ed Helms grossed over $ million on a budget of $74 million.
Goldberg then produced Phillips’ The Hangover
at Sequel and made $ One million U.S. dollars74 millions, plus due date (2009), another comedy starring Galifianakis.
Survivors also include his sisters Kathy and Amy. 2011
