Myron Nussbaum (he adopted "G." while in the Army, to avoid the "no middle initial" descriptor in roll call)[1] was born in New York City to a Jewish family on December 29, 1923,[1][2][3] and grew up in the Albany Park area of Chicago.
He married soon after he returned to Chicago following military service during World War II.
His Army assignments included being chief of the message center for General Dwight D. Eisenhower, in which he dispatched the official notification of Germany's surrender.
In the 1960s, he was active in a developing professional theatrical community in Chicago, meeting a young David Mamet in the process.
His films include Field of Dreams, House of Games, Things Change, Fatal Attraction and Men In Black.