- Born
- Birth nameBernard Hugo Goetz
- Nickname
- The Subway Vigilante
- Bernhard Goetz was born on November 7, 1947 in Queens, New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Silver Night (2005), Every Move You Make (2002) and Fame for 15 (2001).
- He is the youngest of the three surviving people mentioned by name in the 1989 Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire". The other two are Chubby Checker and Bob Dylan.
- Bernhard Willard Goetz (b. 18 April 1906) emigrated from Germany on 21 May 1928. He married Gertrude Karlsberg in August 1935.
- Has two older sisters.
- Lived at 48-30 Poyer Street in Elmhurst, Queens, New York until the age of 3 when his parents opened a dairy farm and bookbinding business in Rhinebeck, New York in 1950.
- Earned a bachelor's degree in electrical and nuclear engineering from NYU in 1969.
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