Ivan Goff (17 April 1910 - 23 September 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 ...
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Ivan Goff (17 April 1910 - 23 September 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...
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