Jesse J. Goldburg

{{Short description|American film producer}}

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| name = Jesse J. Goldburg

| image = Jesse J Goldburg - May 1925 EH.jpg

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| caption = Goldburg in 1925

| birth_date = October 21, 1881

| birth_place = New York, New York, United States

| death_date = August 27, 1959 (aged 77)

| death_place = Hollywood, California, United States

| othername =

| occupation = Writer, Producer

| yearsactive = 1915–1927 (film)

}}

Jesse J. Goldburg (1881 – 1959) was an American film script writer and film producer active during the silent era.Slide p.173 In 1924 he managed the low-budget company Independent Pictures Corp. based at a studio on Sunset Boulevard.Stephens and Wanamaker p.54[https://archive.org/details/movpicwor63movi/page/n132/mode/1up?view=theater "Goldberg Announces Independent's Plans" : "Independent Closes Inter-Ocean Deal"]. Moving Picture World, July 14, 1923, p. 159

The main stars of his Western films were Franklyn Farnum, Bill Cody and Bob Custer.{{cite web |url=https://www.b-westerns.com/goldburg.htm |title=Jesse J. Goldburg |website=B-Westerns.com |access-date=8 March 2025}} One of his later productions, No Man's Law included Oliver Hardy as a villain with an eye patch who meets his just deserts.

He produced films for other companies such as Beyond the Rockies for Robertson-Cole.{{Cite book |last=American Film Institute |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rlLbRAPOgP0C |title=The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States |date=1997 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-20969-5 |pages=55 |language=en}}

In 1937 he became the successful distributor for Edgar Rice Burroughs's 12-part serial The New Adventures of Tarzan with Herman Brix, when Burroughs-Tarzan Enterprises company had fallen into debt.