Ivan Goff

Ivan Goff 17 April 1910 23 September 1999 was an Australian screenwriter best known for his collaborations with Ben Roberts including White Heat 1949 Man of a Thousand Faces 1957 Legend of the Lone Ranger 1981 and the pilot for Charlies Angels 1976 Goff was born in Perth the son of two concert musicians He attended Perth Boys High School 1922 and Perth Modern School 192326 and grew up in Claremont At 15 he began writing for a local newspaper but soon became dissatisfied with 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