Born in New York City. Gomberg earned a bachelor's degree in cinema from USC in 1941. He spent World War II in the Air Force Motion Picture Unit in Hollywood. After the war, he was a contributor to Collier's and the Saturday Evening Post. In 1951, he received an Academy Award nomination for WHEN WILLIE COMES MARCHING HOME -- which was based on a story Gomberg originally wrote for Collier's -- and a Writers Guild of America nomination for SUMMER STOCK (1950). Other film writing credits include THE TOAST OF NEW ORLEANS (1950) and THE WILD AND THE INNOCENT (1959) Gomberg also created, produced and wrote the 1960s TV series "The Law and Mr. Jones." A major supporter of the ACLU, Gomberg organized members of the film industry to march with Martin Luther King Jr. in Alabama in the 1960s. In the 1990s, he turned his activist energies "to eliminating excessive, gratuitous or unpunished violence in films and television" as an organizer of Hollywood's Committee to End Violence.  Nominated for Writing (Motion Picture Story) 1950: WHEN WILLIE COMES MARCHING HOME 1 nomination