Sporting impeccable Hollywood lineage--Goldwyn is the grandson of legendary industry pioneer and long-time independent producer Samuel Goldwyn and son of successful independent producer/distributor Samuel Goldwyn Jr.--he rose from the proverbial mail room at the Ladd Company which he joined in 1981 to vice president of the company's creative affairs department two years later. Goldwyn also served as executive producer of "Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment" (1985) before joining MGM/UA as senior production vice president that year where he rose to executive vice president of worldwide production in 1988; while at MGM he shepherded such hits as "Moonstruck" (1987) and "A Fish Called Wanda" (1988) as well as overseeing production on "Fatal Beauty" (1987) "Masquerade" (1988), and "Daddy's Dyin'...Who's Got the Will" (1990). Joining Paramount in 1990, Goldwyn was closely involved with the production of "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" (1991) and "Wayne's World" (1992). In December 1991, he was named president of production of Paramount's Motion Picture Group overseeing the development and production of Paramount's films. By 1997, he was promoted to the newly created post of president, motion pictures and signed to a five-year contract. Married to actress Colleen Camp and brother of actor Tony Goldwyn.
Family
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Brother: Francis Sidney Howard. Born c. 1954
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Brother: Tony Goldwyn. Born May 20, 1960
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Daughter: Emily Grace Goldwyn. Born April 7, 1989
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Father: Samuel Goldwyn Jr. Born Sep. 7, 1926; was chairman and CEO of Samuel Goldwyn Company
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Grandfather: Samuel Goldwyn. Born Aug. 27, 1882 in Warsaw, Poland; died in 1974; legendary co-founder of Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company; his namesake company, The Goldwyn Company, merged with Metro Pictures and Louis B. Mayer Productions to form MGM; formed Samuel Goldwyn Productions in 1923 becoming the longest-running independent producer in Hollywood
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Grandmother: Frances Howard. Born in 1903; died in 1976; became second wife of Samuel Goldwyn in 1925
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Half-brother: Peter Samuel Elliott Goldwyn. Born July 18, 1979
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Half-sister: Elizabeth E Goldwyn. Born Dec. 25, 1976
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Mother: Jennifer Howard. Married Goldwyn s father in 1950; her second marriage; daughter of writer Sidney Howard
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Sister: Catherine Goldwyn. Born July 11, 1951
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Step-mother: Peggy Elliott. Married Samuel Goldwyn Jr in 1969
Education
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Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, history
Milestones
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1981 Became production assistant, then story editor, Ladd Company by December
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1981 Entered industry working in the mail room at the Ladd Company in July
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1983 Promoted to vice president of creative affairs, Ladd Company
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1985 Joined MGM/UA as senior vice president of production
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1988 Became executive vice president of worldwide production, MGM/UA
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1990 Moved to Paramount as executive vice president of production in November
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1991 Promoted to president of production, Paramount Motion Picture Group in December
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1997 Promoted to newly created position of president, motion pictures at Paramount and signed to a five-year contract
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2006 Executive produced the Showtime series, Dexter
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2007 Co-produced the Todd Haynes directed, I m Not There, about the life of Bob Dylan