Ivan Goff

Screenwriter

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Birth Place

Australia

Died

September 23, 1999

Biography

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Ivan Goff, a talented screenwriter, brought to life many memorable characters on film. Goff's film career started with such writing credits as the musical comedy "My Love Came Back" (1940) with Olivia de Havilland, the musical "Sunset in Wyoming" (1941) with Gene Autry and the James Cagney crime flick "White Heat" (1949). He also appeared in "Backfire" (1950), "Goodbye, My Fancy" (1...

Filmography

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Charlie's Angels (2000)

The Captain of Koepenick (1941)

Dialogue Director

School Daze (1988)

Charlie's Angels (Reboot) (2019)

Source Material

Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003)

Source Material

The Legend Of The Lone Ranger (1981)

Photos & Videos

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Serenade (1956) -- (Movie Clip) La Danza

Midnight Lace (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Sexually Off The Track

Family & Companions

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Natalie Draper

Wife

Had four brothers.

Natalie Draper

Wife

Divorced.

Biography

Ivan Goff, a talented screenwriter, brought to life many memorable characters on film. Goff's film career started with such writing credits as the musical comedy "My Love Came Back" (1940) with Olivia de Havilland, the musical "Sunset in Wyoming" (1941) with Gene Autry and the James Cagney crime flick "White Heat" (1949). He also appeared in "Backfire" (1950), "Goodbye, My Fancy" (1951) and the adventure "Captain Horatio Hornblower" (1951) with Gregory Peck. Goff was nominated for a Writing (Story and Screenplay--Written Directly For the Screen) Academy Award for "Man of a Thousand Faces" in 1957. Goff was most recently credited in the Cameron Diaz box office smash action picture "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle" (2003). Goff continued to exercise his talent in the sixties through the early 2000s, taking on a mix of projects like "The Rogues" (NBC, 1964-65). Goff passed away in September 1999 at the age of 89.

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

Charlie's Angels (2000)

The Captain of Koepenick (1941)

Dialogue Director

Cast (Feature Film)

School Daze (1988)

Writer (Feature Film)

Charlie's Angels (Reboot) (2019)

Source Material

Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003)

Source Material

The Legend Of The Lone Ranger (1981)

The Killer Who Wouldn't Die (1976)

Charlie's Angels (1976)

Midnight Lace (1960)

Portrait in Black (1960)

Shake Hands with the Devil (1959)

Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)

Band of Angels (1957)

Serenade (1956)

Green Fire (1955)

Written for Screen by

King of the Khyber Rifles (1954)

White Witch Doctor (1953)

O. Henry's Full House (1952)

Screenplay of "The Last Leaf"

Goodbye, My Fancy (1951)

Come Fill the Cup (1951)

Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)

Backfire (1950)

White Heat (1949)

Prejudice (1949)

The Captain of Koepenick (1941)

Sunset in Wyoming (1941)

The Great Mr. Nobody (1941)

Contract Writer

My Love Came Back (1940)

Producer (Feature Film)

The Killer Who Wouldn't Die (1976)

Charlie's Angels (1976)

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

Charlie's Angels (2000)

Director (Special)

Time Express (1979)

Writer (Special)

Three For Danger (1967)

Producer (Special)

Time Express (1979)

Executive Producer

Special Thanks (Special)

Three For Danger (1967)

Life Events

Videos

Serenade (1956) -- (Movie Clip) La Danza Harry Bellaver as Tonio with Mario Lanza (as Damon) in a Northern California vineyard and he's secured an audition in San Francisco, prompting a performance of a famous patter song by Puccini, Dominic Frontiere the credited accordion player, lively direction by Anthony Mann, early in Lanza's last Hollywood feature, from Warner Bros., Serenade, 1956.

Midnight Lace (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Sexually Off The Track Having been harassed in the fog and now on the phone, American Kit (Doris Day) and English financier husband Tony (Rex Harrison) visit Scotland Yard where inspector Byrnes (John Williams) comments on local miscreants, in MIdnight Lace, 1960.

Band Of Angels (1957) -- (Movie Clip) She's A Bargain At Five Thousand Former Kentucky society girl Amantha (Yvonne De Carlo), who learned her mother was a slave, immediately after her father died bankrupt, is being sold as a slave at a New Orleans auction when Hamish Bond (Clark Gable, his first scene) strides in with an offer, Larry Blake the auctioneer, Robert Carson the beaten bidder, in Band Of Angels, 1957, from a Robert Penn Warren novel.

Band Of Angels (1957) -- (Movie Clip) I've Got A Past Ex-slave trader Bond (Clark Gable) dispatches Canavan (Torin Thatcher) from his New Orleans home when a storm blows up, then confesses his past to recently-purchased mixed-race slave Amantha (Yvonne De Carlo), who only recently learned of her own background, in Band Of Angels, 1957.

Band Of Angels (1957) -- The Cry Of Freedom Sitting for the first time with her owner, New Orleans gentleman Hamish Bond (Clark Gable), who purchased her out of compassion upon hearing that she’d been raised white, then sold as a slave when her father died bankrupt, Amantha (Yvonne de Carlo) is not convinced of his good will, as she meets his educated slave attaché, Rau Ru (Sidney Poitier, his first scene), in Band Of Angels, 1957.

Band Of Angels (1957) -- Man's Only True Joy Following a scene years earlier in which she was sent to a Cincinnati boarding school from her widowed father’s Kentucky plantation, now-grown Amantha (Yvonne De Carlo) in a letter to slave Sukie (Zelda Cleaver) tells of Miss Idell (Andrea King), her father (William Forrest) and heart-throb Seth (Rex Reason), in Band Of Angels, 1957.

Green Fire (1955) -- (Movie Clip) A Treacherous Woman Adventurer Mitchell (Stewart Granger) has maneuvered hostess Catherine (Grace Kelly) away from the other guests at her family's coffee plantation in Colombia, a tempestuous scene from Green Fire, 1955.

Green Fire (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Open, 1687 Opening credits and engineer Mitchell (Stewart Granger) discovering mineral clues, then getting spooked, in MGM's South American adventure Green Fire, 1955, co-starring Grace Kelly and Paul Douglas.

Green Fire (1955) -- (Movie Clip) You Were Very Lucky Attacked by bandits, mining engineer Mitchell (Stewart Granger) is taken in by Colombian coffee plantation owner Catherine (Grace Kelly), and the Padre (Robert Tafur) in an early scene from MGM's Green Fire, 1955.

Green Fire (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Thinking Like A Woman Beautiful when angry and on horseback, Cathy (Grace Kelly) tells off brother Don (John Ericson) and emerald mine partners Vic (Paul Douglas) and Rian (Stewart Granger) in MGM's Green Fire, 1955.

White Heat (1949) -- (Movie Clip) That Sound Funny To You? Deep cover cop Pardo (Edmond O'Brien) gets caught by his gangster boss Cody Jarrett (James Cagney) trying to sneak away from the hide-out, who then recalls his dead mother, in Raoul Walsh's White Heat, 1949.

White Heat (1949) -- (Movie Clip) She's Dead In the prison mess-hall, word comes to gangster Cody Jarrett (James Cagney) that his mother has passed, in a famous scene from Raoul Walsh's White Heat, 1949.

Family

Peter Goff

Brother

Had two children.

Kevin Goff

Son

Railroad worker.

Trevor Goff

Son

Married and divorced twice.

Brian Goff

Son

Had two.

Companions

Natalie Draper

Wife

Had four brothers.

Natalie Draper

Wife

Divorced.

Bibliography

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