Born: Established: 17 Apr 1910 Perth, Western Australia, ; Died: Ceased: 23 Sep 1999 Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California,
A contemporary review of the London performance offers the following synopsis:
'The rich shipowner's widow is a good hater, and Miss Diana Wynyard, a fashionable portrait painter's study in black, presents her various hates with measure and tact, enveloping them all in her own personal stillness and beauty. She has hated her husband, and she and a calmly murderous doctor with Mr. Hugh Williams's charming fireside manner have hastened his end. She hates her former lover, Mr. Ronald Squire imperially disguised and unusually solemn under the compulsion to utter more cautious threats than soft insincerities. She hates her step-daughter, a pleasant girl pleasantly played by Miss Ann Leon. It is a wonder that the step-daughter is alive at the end, for what the widow hates the doctor cold-bloodedly destroys. They are driven by hate and fear to go on destroying until, except for the step-daughter and a few minor characters, they have no one left but themselves to destroy.'
'Piccadilly Theatre. "Portrait in Black",' The Times, 31 May 1946, p.6.
3.6055512'Mystery melodrama about love between a beautiful young married woman and the doctor of her bedridden husband ending with murder.'
Source: British Film Institute (http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/46813). (Sighted: 16/9/2013)
3.6055512'Based on the "Captain of Kopenick" incident of 1906, when an unemployed cobbler, in order to get a passport, dresses as a staff officer and takes over the town hall only to find it has no passport office. Because he is taken for a military officer everybody obeys him without question. His cheek ultimately gets him a passport.'
Source: British Film Institute (http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/248560). (Sighted: 17/9/2013)
3.6055512'Gangster film/melodrama. A psychopathic criminal, obsessed with his mother, is befriended and betrayed by an undercover policeman whom he meets in jail.'
Source: British Film Institute (http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/57918). (Sighted: 17/9/2013)
3.6055512Goff and Roberts worked extensively in television, including episodes of:
Bourbon Street Beat (1960)
Ironside (1968)
The Danny Thomas Hour (1968)
Mannix (1973-1974)
Goff and Roberts also created a range of television shows, including:
The Rogues (1964-1965)
My Friend Tony (1969)
Time Express (1979)
Charlie's Angels (1976-1981)
Goff and collaborator Roberts are sometimes credited with the script for the 1970 telemovie The Lawyer, but their roles are unclear, since the 'official' script-writers (the ones who appear on advertising posters and in the credits) are Sidney J. Furie and Harold Buchman.
Goff and Roberts are credited as producers and with 'story' on the telemovie (and failed TV pilot) The Killer Who Wouldn't Die (1976), but did not actually write the screenplay.