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Leonard Goldberg, Leonard J. Goldberg (born January 24, 1934, in New York) is an American film producer and television producer. He has his own production company, Mandy Films. He served as head of programming for ABC, and was president of 20th Century Fox. Goldberg is currently executive producer of the CBS series Blue Bloods, starring Tom Selleck, Donnie Wahlberg, and Bridget Moynahan.As a television producer he is known for producing several highly acclaimed television films, including the Peabody Award-winning Brians Song (1971) and The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976); the latter helping to launch John Travoltas career. He also produced a string of hit television series while in partnership with Aaron Spelling; the best-known being Charlies Angels, Hart to Hart, Starsky and Hutch, and Family. He produced the Oscar-nominated movie WarGames.He also produced the Emmy-winning television film Something About Amelia, which aired on ABC in 1984. It was one of the highest-rated television films, watched by around 60-70 million people.Goldberg served as president of Twentieth Century Fox where under his aegis the studio produced such critically acclaimed hit films as Broadcast News, Big, Die Hard, Wall Street, and Working Girl. Under his own banner Leonard Goldberg produced the successful motion picture features WarGames, Sleeping with the Enemy, Double Jeopardy, and Charlies Angels. Most recently, he produced Unknown starring Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones, and Frank Langella, due in theaters in February 2011.He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6901 Hollywood Boulevard and was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame in 2007.[edit] External linksLeonard Goldberg at the Internet Movie DatabaseThis article about an American film producer is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.v · d · eRetrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_GoldbergCategories: 1934 births | Living people | American film producers | American television producers | American businesspeople | American film producer stubsPersonal toolsLog in / create accountNamespacesArticleDiscussionVariantsViewsReadEditView historyActionsSearchNavigationMain pageContentsFeatured contentCurrent eventsRandom articleDonate to WikipediaInteractionHelpAbout WikipediaCommunity portalRecent changesContact WikipediaToolboxWhat links hereRelated changesUpload fileSpecial pagesPermanent linkCite this pagePrint/exportCreate a bookDownload as PDFPrintable versionLanguagesDeutschFrançaisSlovenčina This page was last modified on 24 January 2011 at 04:05.Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License;additional terms may apply.See Terms of Use for details.Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.Contact usPrivacy policyAbout WikipediaDisclaimers if ( window.isMSIE55 ) fixalpha(); if (window.runOnloadHook) runOnloadHook();