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Ivan Romilly Moffat (18 February 1918 – 4 July 2002) was a British screenwriter, film producer and socialite who, with Fred Guiol, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for adapting Edna Ferber 's eponymous novel into the film Giant (1956).
Ivan Moffat. Writer: Giant. Ivan was a British screenwriter, socialite and producer. Nominated for an Academy Award with Fred Guiol for adapting Edna Ferber's G"Giant" and honored by the American Film Institute for his screenplays for "Shane" and "Giant".
- Writer, Producer, Director
- February 18, 1918
- Ivan Moffat
- July 4, 2002
Ivan Moffat. Writer: Giant. Ivan was a British screenwriter, socialite and producer. Nominated for an Academy Award with Fred Guiol for adapting Edna Ferber's G"Giant" and honored by the American Film Institute for his screenplays for "Shane" and "Giant".
- February 18, 1918
- July 4, 2002
Oct 18, 2004 · First, some back story: Ivan Moffat was the grandson of the eminent, sexually profligate Victorian actor/manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and the son of the equally...
Ivan Romilly Moffat (18 February 1918 – 4 July 2002) was a British screenwriter, film producer and socialite who, with Fred Guiol, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for adapting Edna Ferber 's eponymous novel into the film Giant (1956).
Oct 12, 2004 · Here is a fascinating portrait of Hollywood screenwriter Ivan Moffat, whose lonely, aristocratic childhood led to a precociously fashionable and sensual life in London’s High Bohemia in the late 1930s, service in director George Stevens’s World War II film documentary unit, and membership in Hollywood’s dazzling postwar expatriate community.
SIDELIGHTS: British-born screenwriter Ivan Moffat is perhaps best remembered for his work on the feature film Giant, a classic from 1956 that helped propel James Dean to icon status after the actor's 1955 death in a car accident.
