Gary Goetzman

Gary Goetzman
Goetzman (right) with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg in 2010
Born	Gary Michael Goetzman[1] (1952-11-06) November 6, 1952 (age 68) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Producer, actor
Years active	1967–present

Gary Goetzman (born November 6, 1952) is an American film and television producer,^[2] and co-founder of the production company Playtone with actor Tom Hanks.

Life and career[]

Born in Los Angeles, Gary began his career as a child actor.

In 1984, he produced the Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense with director Jonathan Demme. That initiated a successful run as a music supervisor, on such films as Something Wild, Colors, Modern Girls and Married to the Mob, among many others.^[3] In 1991, producer Gary and director Demme again collaborated to make The Silence of the Lambs, which garnered the top five Academy Awards including Best Picture.

In 1993, Gary was executive producer of Demme's Philadelphia, starring Tom Hanks, beginning a working relationship with Hanks. Gary co-produced Hanks's 1996 directorial debut, That Thing You Do!. The two then co-founded Playtone in 1998. Since then, Gary has produced hit films including My Big Fat Greek Wedding, The Polar Express, Charlie Wilson's War and Mamma Mia!. Gary has also received several Emmy Awards for HBO mini-series Band of Brothers, The Pacific, John Adams, Game Change and Olive Kitteridge.

Aside from producing films, Gary has been known to play small parts in movies he is connected to.

He has also enjoyed a successful parallel career as a music composer and producer, working with such artists as Smokey Robinson, Natalie Cole, Jane Child, Thelma Houston, and The Staples Singers.

He currently sits on the National board of directors for the Producers Guild of America.^[4]

Gary is executive producer (with Tom Hanks and Mark Herzog) of the CNN exclusive documentary miniseries The Sixties (2014), The Seventies (2015) and The Eighties (2016).

Filmography[]

He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.

Film[]

As an actor

Music department

Soundtrack

Production manager

Thanks

Television[]

As an actor

Soundtrack

Miscellaneous crew

Thanks

References[]

External links[]

• Gary Goetzman at IMDb