Life and career

Born in Los Angeles, Goetzman began his career as a child actor. In 1984, Gary Goetzman 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. In 1991, producer Goetzman and director Demme again collaborated together to make The Silence of the Lambs, garnering the top five Academy Awards including Best Picture.

In 1993, Goetzman was executive producer of Demme's Philadelphia, starring Tom Hanks, beginning a working relationship with Hanks who both went on to co-found The Playtone Company. Since then, Goetzman has produced hits such as "That Thing You Do", My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Polar Express, Charlie Wilson's War and the film version of Mamma Mia!. Goetzman has also received several Emmy's for HBO mini-series Band of Brothers, The Pacific, and John Adams.

Aside from producing films, Goetzman 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 Sisters

He currently sits on the National board of directors for the Producers Guild of America.

Filmography

As music supervisor

• Something Wild (1986)
• And God Created Woman (1988)
• Colors (1988)
• Married to the Mob (1988)
• Lost Angels (1989)
• Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989)
• Little Monsters (1989)
• True Believer (1989)
• Miami Blues (1990)
• The Prince of Pennsylvania (1990)
• A Shock to the System (1990)
• Catchfire (a.k.a. Backtrack) (1990)
• The Hot Spot (1990)
• Reversal of Fortune (1990)
• Queens Logic (1991)
• Point Break (1991)
• Until the End of the World (1991)
• Freejack (1992)
• Deep Cover (1992)
• Amos and Andrew (1993)

As producer

• Stop Making Sense (1984)
• Modern Girls (1986)
• Miami Blues (1990)
• The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
• Amos and Andrew (1993)
• Philadelphia (1993)
• Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
• That Thing You Do! (1995)
• Storefront Hitchcock (1998)
• Band of Brothers (2001) (TV)
• My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)
• The Polar Express (2004)
• Neil Young: Heart of Gold (2006)
• Big Love (2007) (TV)
• Evan Almighty (2007)
• Charlie Wilson's War (2007)
• The Great Buck Howard (2008)
• Mamma Mia! (2008)
• John Adams (2008) (TV)
• Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
• The Pacific (2010) (TV)
• Larry Crowne (2011)
• Electric City (2012) (TV)
• Game Change (2012) (TV)
• American Gods (2013) (TV)
• My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (2016)
• A Hologram for the King (2016)
• Sully (2016)
• The Circle (2016)
• Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
• Felt (2017)

[ Source: Wikipedia ]