Greg Gold
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Greg Gold was a director best known for helming the 1987 music video for the hit song “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life,” performed by Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes, which was featured in the film Dirty Dancing.
The track won the Oscar for best original song in 1988 and the Grammy for best pop performance by a duo or group with vocals. It also spent a week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in November 1987.
Gold was also a co-founder of Propaganda Films in 1986 along with David Fincher, Steve Golin, Dominic Sena, Sigurjon Sighvatsson and Nigel Dick. The company became known for producing music videos, and was acquired by PolyGram Filmed Entertainment in 1991.
Gold also contributed to television, most notably as the writer and executive producer of the 2005 television movie Painkiller Jane, about a young female soldier who is exposed to a biochemical weapon that gives her self-healing powers. The movie starred Emmanuelle Vaugier as the title character, as well as Eric Dane, Richard Roundtree and Tate Donovan.
Greg Gold was a director best known for helming the 1987 music video for the hit song “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life,” performed by Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes, which was featured in the film Dirty Dancing.
The track won the Oscar for best original song in 1988 and the Grammy for best pop performance by a duo or group with vocals. It also spent a week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in November 1987.
Gold was also a co-founder of Propaganda Films in 1986 along with David Fincher, Steve Golin, Dominic Sena, Sigurjon Sighvatsson and Nigel Dick. The company became known for producing music videos, and was acquired by PolyGram Filmed Entertainment in 1991.
Gold also contributed to television, most notably as the writer and executive producer of the 2005 television movie Painkiller Jane, about a young female soldier who is exposed to a biochemical weapon that gives her self-healing powers. The movie starred Emmanuelle Vaugier as the title character, as well as Eric Dane, Richard Roundtree and Tate Donovan.
Earlier in his career Gold served as a second assistant director on the 1983 short film “I Am a Hotel,” made for Canadian television. Essentially a long-form music video, the 25-minute musical featured five songs by Leonard Cohen and interwove the story of a hotel’s guests and staff.
Gold also worked with k.d. lang, Quincy Jones, Aretha Franklin and Smokey Robinson. He was married to Grammy Award-winning songwriter and producer Sharon Robinson, a frequent collaborator of Cohen.
Gold died October 23, 2015. He was 64.
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