Daniel Goldberg

Daniel Mitchell Goldberg (March 7, 1949 – July 12, 2023) was a Canadian film producer and screenwriter. He was a writer and producer on the films Meatballs and Stripes (1981). and received an Emmy Awards nomination for the film The Late Shift (1996). In 1969, he became a board member of the McMaster Film Board alongside Reitman, Eugene Levy and Dennis Matheson.

Goldberg worked together with Reitman for more than 30 years. Their collaborations included Death Weekend (1976), Heavy Metal (1981), Feds (1988), Junior (1994), Space Jam (1996), Private Parts (1997), Commandments (1997), Fathers' Day (1997), Six Days, Seven Nights (1998), Road Trip (2000), Evolution (2001), Killing Me Softly (2002), Old School (2003) and EuroTrip (2004). Goldberg would return to the franchise in 1987 as a writer on Meatballs III: Summer Job. He would again collaborate with Blum and Ramis to co-write the 1981 film Stripes which was directed by Reitman and starred Murray and Ramis, with Goldberg also serving as a producer. Goldberg and Blum co-wrote the film Feds which was also directed by Goldberg.

Goldberg found success with his producing career after the mid-1990s. He served as an executive producer on the animated TV shows Beethoven and Extreme Ghostbusters, and was nominated for an Emmy Award for the 1996 television film The Late Shift on which he served as a co-executive producer. He was also a producer on all three films of The Hangover series. He was married to Ilona Herzberg. Sound supervisor 1981 Heavy Metal Post-production supervisor 1994 Junior Second unit director Television