Ivan Moffat

Ivan Romilly Moffat 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. Moffat was the grandson of actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree. After studying at the London School of Economics, Moffat became a socialite and began to make films to promote the war effort.