Gary Goldman

Gary Wayne Goldman (born November 17, 1944) is an American film producer, director, animator, writer and voice actor.

He is known for working on films with Don Bluth such as All Dogs Go to Heaven for his directorial debut, Anastasia, An American Tail, and The Land Before Time.

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.

His first assignment was as an in-betweener to legendary Disney animator Frank Thomas on the film Robin Hood.

Banjo the Woodpile Cat was later shown on ABC Television (June 1982), as a prime time special.

In August 1994, Goldman and Bluth returned from Ireland to head up the Fox Animation Studio located in Phoenix, Arizona where they shared creative leadership as producers and directors.

Also produced there was Bartok the Magnificent in 1999, and the animated science fiction post-apocalyptic film Titan A.E.

A fourth feature film, Africa, was in production when 20th Century Fox shut down its Phoenix animation facility.

The company established a website where they communicate with their audience on a personal level and provide animation information online.