Ivan Goff
Screenwriter
Charlie's Angels...the ABC Television Network from 1976 to 1981 and was one of the most successful series of the 1970s. Charlie's Angels was created by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts and produced by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg. In pre-production, the... In this article: Charlie's Angels, Farrah Fawcett-Majors, Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith, Aaron Spelling, Shelley Hack, Cheryl Ladd, John Forsythe, and Kris Munroe |
-
Wikipedia | November 30, 2009
White Heat
...James Cagney, Virginia Mayo and Edmond O'Brien and featuring Margaret Wycherly, and Steve Cochran. Directed by Raoul Walsh from the Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts screenplay based on a story by Virginia Kellogg, it is considered one of the...
In this article: White Heat, Juice, American Film Institute, and Jimmy Neutron
-
Goodbye, My Fancy
...feature film starring Joan Crawford, Robert Young , and Frank Lovejoy in a light tale about a woman and her old flame. The screenplay by Ivan Goff was based upon a 1948 play by Kay Fanin. The film was directed by Vincent Sherman and produced...
In this article: Goodbye, My Fancy, Joan Crawford, Vincent Sherman, James Merrill, Robert Young, The Damned Don't Cry!, Warner Bros., and Frank Lovejoy
-
Moultrie Kelsall
...Royal Naval captain and a titled Lady who become romantically involved whilst at sea in Central America in 1807. The film was adapted by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts from the Hornblower book "Beat To Quarters" by C. S. Forester. In the same year,...
In this article: Moultrie Kelsall, BBC Television, Dog, Royal Navy, Harold Brighouse, Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N., and Michael Denison
-
Logan's Run
...editor and employed several other writers from ''Star Trek '' as well as the original novel's authors. The series was produced by Ivan Goff. To save money, the series depicted Logan and Jessica - still pursued by Francis (Randolph Powell)...
In this article: Logan's Run, Logan, Utah, Logan's Run, Superman Returns, Dan Harris, Bryan Singer, and Joel Silver
-
O. Henry's Full House
...screenplay by Richard L. Breen, it stars Dale Robertson and Richard Widmark. Directed by Jean Negulesco, from a screenplay by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts, it stars Anne Baxter, Jean Peters and Gregory Ratoff. Directed by Howard Hawks, from a...
In this article: O. Henry's Full House, Marilyn Monroe, Alfred Newman, Ben Roberts, Ben Hecht, Lamar Trotti, O. Henry, Andre Hakim, and 20th Century Fox
-
Midnight Lace
...is a 1960 American mystery -thriller film starring Doris Day and Rex Harrison, directed by David Miller . The screenplay by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts is based on the play Matilda Shouted Fire by Janet Green. The film was remade as a...
In this article: Midnight Lace and Doris Day
-
Ivan Goff
...top of the world!' in 1949's White Heat to 'Morning, Angels', 'Morning, Charlie', in the quintessential 1970s series Charlie's Angels, Ivan Goff enjoyed the longest Hollywood screenwriting career to out of any Australian to date. Goff was...
In this article: Ben Roberts, Warner Bros., White Heat, The Shadow, Oscar, Daily Mirror, Hollywood, and Ben Hecht
Trends
Loading...
More on Ivan Goff
Description from Wikipedia:
Ivan Goff (April 17 1910 - September 23 1999) was an Australian screenwriter.
From ‘Made it, Ma – top of the world!’ in 1949’s White Heat to ‘Morning, Angels’, ‘Morning, Charlie’, in the quintessential 1970s series Charlie’s Angels, Ivan Goff enjoyed the longest Hollywood screenwriting career to out of any Australian to date.
Goff was born in Perth in 1910, the son of two concert musicians. At 15, he began writing for a local newspaper, but soon became dissatisfied by the isolation he felt. "Living in Australia made me crazy," he later said in an interview. "It took a month for a book to get to Australia, a year for a play and forever for an idea."
Goff eventually moved to England and in 1933 he published a recollection of his voyage, No Longer Innocent. Goff worked in several jobs, including as a bookie, while trying to break into journalism. He eventually found work with the Daily Mirror, which in the mid-1930s sent Goff to Los Angeles as the paper’s Hollywood correspondent. He decided to settle there, and became a staff writer at Republic Studios, where his work included uncredited contributions to several of the westerns in The Three Mesquiteers series, and a Gene Autry vehicle, Sunset In Wyoming (1941). He also wrote a comedy at Warner Bros., My Love Came Back (1940).
At the end of the war, Roberts and Goff decided to remain as a team, and wrote Prejudice (1949), a short feature about anti-Semitism made by the Protestant Film Commission. They also wrote a screenplay based on a Ben Hecht story, The Shadow, which was never filmed, but which attracted the interest of Warner Bros. who hired them to rewrite a murder mystery, Backfire (1950). Their work on that film impressed the studio enough to sign them to a five-year contract.
From the Australian Writers' Guild.
Explore everything named Ivan Goff...
