---
name: "Ivan Goff"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ivan-goff"
fi1m_id: "ivan-goff"
imdb_id: "nm0324578"
tmdb_id: 57624
wikidata_id: "Q3156109"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "17 April 1910"
died: "23 September 1999"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T04:36:50.480156+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Ivan Goff

## Identity

Ivan Goff

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ivan-goff
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ivan-goff
- **IMDb ID:** nm0324578
- **TMDB ID:** 57624
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3156109
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Goff, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3156109, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0324578/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/57624

Writer. Born 17 April 1910 in Perth, Western Australia, Australia. Died 23 September 1999.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 17 April 1910, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- **Died:** 23 September 1999
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Goff, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3156109, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0324578/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/57624

## Biography

Ivan Goff was an Australian screenwriter. Born in Perth in 1910, he worked as a journalist before moving to Hollywood, where he became a correspondent for British newspapers in the 1930s. He began his screenwriting career in the early 1940s.

Goff's long collaboration with Ben Roberts, which lasted nearly forty years, produced the screenplay for *White Heat* (1949), as well as scripts for *Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.* (1951), *Man of a Thousand Faces* (1957) and *Midnight Lace* (1960). The pair created the television series *Charlie's Angels* (1976) and produced *Mannix* (1967–75). Goff served as president of the screen writers council of the Screen Writers Guild. He died in Santa Monica, California, in 1999.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, theguardian.com, nytimes.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *White Heat* (1949), Fi1m 86, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/white-heat.md)

## Complete filmography (38)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Charlie's Angels* (2011), series, Creator
- *Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle* (2003), Original Series Creator
- *Charlie's Angels* (2000), Original Series Creator
- *Nero Wolfe* (1981), series, Executive Producer
- *The Legend of the Lone Ranger* (1981), Screenplay
- *Time Express* (1979), series, Producer, Creator
- *Logan's Run* (1977), series, Producer
- *Charlie's Angels* (1976), series, Creator
- *Charlie's Angels* (1976), Writer, Producer
- *Diagnosis: Murder* (1974), Writer
- *Mannix* (1967), series, Writer, Producer
- *Ironside* (1967), series, Writer
- *The Second Sin* (1966), Writer
- *Preview Tonight* (1966), series, Creator
- *Affetmeyen Kadın* (1964), Writer
- *The Rogues* (1964), series, Writer, Creator
- *Burke's Law* (1963), series, Creator
- *Midnight Lace* (1960), Screenplay
- *Portrait in Black* (1960), Theatre Play, Screenplay
- *Shake Hands with the Devil* (1959), Writer
- *Man of a Thousand Faces* (1957), Screenplay
- *Band of Angels* (1957), Screenplay
- *Serenade* (1956), Screenplay
- *Green Fire* (1954), Writer
- *King of the Khyber Rifles* (1953), Screenplay
- *White Witch Doctor* (1953), Screenplay
- *O. Henry's Full House* (1952), Screenplay
- *Gift Horse* (1952), Story
- *Come Fill the Cup* (1951), Screenplay
- *Goodbye, My Fancy* (1951), Screenplay
- *Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.* (1951), Screenplay
- *Backfire* (1950), Screenplay
- *Prejudice* (1949), Writer
- *White Heat* (1949), Screenplay — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/white-heat.md)
- *Sunset in Wyoming* (1941), Screenplay
- *I Was a Criminal* (1941), Screenplay
- *My Love Came Back* (1940), Screenplay
- *Charlie's Angels*, Original Series Creator

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1958: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *Man of a Thousand Faces*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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