Goldberg met
Ivan Reitman in 1966 while studying at
McMaster University. He starred in the 1968 short film
Orientation which was written and directed by Reitman. In 1969, he became a board member of the McMaster Film Board alongside Reitman,
Eugene Levy and Dennis Matheson. Goldberg worked together with Reitman for more than 30 years. Their collaborations included
Death Weekend (1976),
Heavy Metal (1981),
Feds (1988),
Junior (1994),
Space Jam (1996),
Private Parts (1997),
Commandments (1997), ''
Fathers' Day (1997), Six Days, Seven Nights (1998), Road Trip (2000), Evolution (2001), Killing Me Softly (2002), Old School (2003) and EuroTrip (2004). Goldberg would return to the franchise in 1987 as a writer on Meatballs III: Summer Job. He would again collaborate with Blum and Ramis to co-write the 1981 film Stripes which was directed by Reitman and starred Murray and Ramis, with Goldberg also serving as a producer. Goldberg and Blum co-wrote the film Feds'' which was also directed by Goldberg. Goldberg found success with his producing career after the mid-1990s. He served as an
executive producer on the animated TV shows
Beethoven and
Extreme Ghostbusters, and was nominated for an
Emmy Award for the 1996
television film The Late Shift on which he served as a co-executive producer. He was also a producer on all three films of
The Hangover series. ==Personal life and death==