- Was a mentor to actor Michael J. Fox.
- Dropped out of college and spent time in the 1960s and '70s waiting tables at The Village gate in Greenwich Village, hitchhiking around the world for over a year with his future wife Diane, a former stewardess. They also started a day care center with her in Northern California.
- His father, George, was a Post Office worker and his mother, Anne, was a bookkeeper in her father's hat company. His maternal grandparents lived downstairs and his grandmother proved to be remarkably influential in Goldberg's life: 'Anything that happened to me that's been good really goes back to Brooklyn and...my grandmother's apartment,' he once said.
- He and his wife Diana were, predictably, the models for the liberal parents Steven and Elyse Keaton on 'Family Ties (1982)(TV)'. Their daughter Shana Goldberg-Meehan would further use Gary as the inspiration for Jack Geller (Elliott Gould).
- Didn't own a computer.
- Father of Cailin Goldberg Meehan and Shana Silveri; father-in-law of Robert Dubbin and Scott Silveri.
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