Background
Willis Goldbeck was born in New York City, a former journalist, Goldbeck entered films as a screenwriter in the early 1920s.
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Willis Goldbeck was born in New York City, a former journalist, Goldbeck entered films as a screenwriter in the early 1920s.
Willis graduated from Worcester Academy.
He wrote for 40 films between 1923 and 1962. He also directed ten films between 1942 and 1951. He wrote most of the "Doctor Kildare" series for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, starting with the first one,, and directed several of them.
Although he directed several more films after that—including one of Burt Lancaster"s early swashbucklers, —he mainly concentrated on screenwriting, and in the mid-1950s 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.
