Ivan Goff

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1910-04-17 (89 years old)

Deathday

1999-09-23

Place of Birth

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Ivan Goff

Biography

Ivan Goff (17 April 1910 – 23 September 1999) was an Australian screenwriter, best known for his collaborations with Ben Roberts including White Heat (1949), Man of a Thousand Faces (1957), Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981), and the pilot for Charlie's Angels (1976). Goff was born in Perth, the son of two concert musicians. He attended Perth Boys High School (1922) and Perth Modern School (1923-26), and grew up in Claremont. At 15, he began writing for a local newspaper, but soon became dissatisfied with 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,...

Production

1952

1950

Backfire

as Screenplay

1960

Midnight Lace

as Screenplay

1966

1957

1957

Band of Angels

as Screenplay

1956

Serenade

as Screenplay

1949

White Heat

as Screenplay

1953

1960

Portrait in Black

as Screenplay

1960

Portrait in Black

as Theatre Play

1951

Goodbye, My Fancy

as Screenplay

1941

Sunset in Wyoming

as Screenplay

2003

Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle

as Original Series Creator

1953

White Witch Doctor

as Screenplay

1949

Prejudice

as Writer

2000

Charlie's Angels

as Original Series Creator

1954

Green Fire

as Writer

1964

1940

My Love Came Back

as Screenplay

1952

Gift Horse

as Story

1941

I Was a Criminal

as Screenplay

1951

Come Fill the Cup

as Screenplay

1974

1976

1976

Charlie's Angels

as Producer

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