Willis Goldbeck

Willis Goldbeck was born on Oct 24, 1898 in USA. Willis Goldbeck's big-screen debut came with Bluff directed by Sam Wood in 1924. Willis Goldbeck is known for The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance directed by John Ford, John Wayne stars as Tom Doniphon and James Stewart as Ransom Stoddard. The most recent award Willis Goldbeck achieved is Western Heritage Awards. The upcoming new movie Willis Goldbeck plays is The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance which will be released on Apr 22, 1962.

A former journalist, Willis 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.