Born: 1910

Born in Australia, screenwriter Ivan Goff has spent most of his career in Hollywood, where he set up shop in 1940. Frequently working in collaboration with Ben_Roberts, Goff has worked on major films at virtually all the major studios. At Warners, he co-authored the screenplay of the James_Cagney melodrama White_Heat (1949); at 20th Century-Fox, he penned the "Last Leaf" segment for the 1952 omnibus feature O._Henry's_Full_House; and at Universal, he worked on the 1957 Lon Chaney biopic Man of a Thousand Faces, earning an Oscar nomination for his efforts. Also at Universal, he adapted his own stage play Portrait in Black to accommodate the talents of Lana_Turner and Anthony_Quinn. Extremely active in television, Ivan Goff has contributed scripts to such series as The_Rogues and Charlie's_Angels, and was an executive producer of Mannix (1967-73) and Nero_Wolfe (1981). Hal Erickson, Rovi


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