Ivan Goff was born on April 17, 1910 in Perth, Western Australia, Australia. He was a writer and producer, known for White Heat (1949), Charlie's Angels (2019) and Mannix (1967). He was married to Natalie Draper and Muriel Kathleen Davies. He died on September 23, 1999 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
Had a 39-year-long writing partnership with Ben Roberts, beginning in 1947.
One-time president of the Screen Writers Council of the Screen Writers Guild (subsequenty Writers Guild of America).
The son of two concert musicians. His first job was writing shipping news for a local Perth (Australia) newspaper. In Hollywood as a journalist and correspondent from the early 1930s.