Ivan Goff was an Australian screenwriter, best known for his collaborations with Ben Roberts including White Heat, Man of a Thousand Faces, Legend of the Lone Ranger, and the pilot for Charlie's Angels.
17 Facts About Ivan Goff
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Ivan Goff attended Perth Boys Central School and grew up in Claremont.
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Ivan Goff was working for The West Australian as a journalist but resigned from his job in April 1930 to travel to the US.
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Ivan Goff worked in several jobs, including as a bookie, while trying to break into journalism.
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Ivan Goff eventually found work with the Daily Mirror, which in the mid-1930s sent Goff to Los Angeles as the paper's Hollywood correspondent.
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Ivan Goff was linked romantically with fellow Australian expatriate, actor Constance Worth.
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Ivan Goff adapted the book The Story of San Michele although it was not made.
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Ivan Goff eventually became a staff writer at Republic Studios.
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Ivan Goff's work included uncredited contributions to several of the westerns in The Three Mesquiteers series, and a Gene Autry vehicle, Sunset in Wyoming.
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Ivan Goff was working on a picture called Stuff of Heroes for Jane Bryan.
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Ivan Goff wrote a film for Columbia, The Out for Movies.
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Ivan Goff was one of several writers on an A-picture, My Love Came Back and did some uncredited work on The Great Mr Nobody.
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Ivan Goff was an early writer on The Horn Blows at Midnight.
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Ivan Goff wrote a never-filmed script about an American soldier in Australia, Private Eddie Lawson.
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At the Astoria Studios, Ivan Goff met Ben Roberts, a fellow writer who had worked at Republic.
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Ivan Goff came up with an ending and suggested that they turn it into a play instead of a short story.
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Ivan Goff was credited on a comedy for PRC, The Captain from Kopenick.