Gary Goldman

Gary Wayne Goldman (born November 17, 1944 in Oakland, California) is an American Film Producer, Director, Animator, Writer and voice actor, he is well known for working on films with Don Bluth like An American Tail and The Land Before Time. He was an animator at Disney before working at Sullivan Bluth Studios with Bluth. Goldman was born in Oakland, California and raised in Watsonville, California. As a youth, Goldman was active in sports, an in... more

Gary Wayne Goldman (born November 17, 1944 in Oakland, California) is an American Film Producer, Director, Animator, Writer and voice actor, he is well known for working on films with Don Bluth like An American Tail and The Land Before Time. He was an animator at Disney before working at Sullivan Bluth Studios with Bluth. Goldman was born in Oakland, California and raised in Watsonville, California. As a youth, Goldman was active in sports, an infielder in baseball and quarterback in high school football, he studied piano and enjoyed model-making and drawing. Before devoting himself entirely to the arts, he served as an electronics technician in the United States Air Force from 1962 to 1967, assigned duties in Japan and Germany. He received his Associate of Arts Degree in 1969 from Cabrillo College, and he graduated in December, 1971 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Life Drawing and Art History from the University of Hawaii. Goldman began his career in animation when he joined... less