Willis Goldbeck

Willis Goldbeck
Born	(1898-10-24)October 24, 1898 New York City, New York, USA
Died	September 17, 1979(1979-09-17) (aged 80) Sag Harbor, New York, USA
Occupation(s)	Screenwriter, film director
Years active	1923-1962

Willis Goldbeck (October 24, 1898 – September 17, 1979) was an American screenwriter and film director. He wrote for 40 films between 1923 and 1962. He also directed ten films between 1942 and 1951. Willis graduated from Worcester Academy.

Willis Goldbeck was born in New York City, a former journalist, Goldbeck entered films as a screenwriter in the early 1920s. He wrote most of the "Dr. Kildare" series for MGM, starting with the first one, Young Dr. Kildare (1938), and directed several of them. Although he directed several more films after that—including one of Burt Lancaster's more enjoyable early swashbucklers, Ten Tall Men (1951)--he mainly concentrated on screenwriting, and in the mid-'50s turned to producing. He retired from films in 1962. He died September 17, 1979 in Sag Harbor, New York, a month before his 81st birthday.

Partial filmography

• Open All Night (1924)
• Mare Nostrum (1926)
• The Garden of Allah (1927)
• The Enemy (1927)
• Wednesday's Child (1934)
• Young Dr. Kildare (1938)
• Rationing (1944)
• Ten Tall Men (1951)
• Tiger by the Tail (1955)
• The Colossus of New York (1958)
• Sergeant Rutledge (1960)
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

External links

• Willis Goldbeck at IMDb