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, Dr. Kildare - Sein erster Fall (1938), and directed several of them.
Although he directed several more films after that--including one of
Burt Lancaster's more enjoyable early swashbucklers, Frauenraub in Marokko (1951)--he mainly
concentrated on screenwriting, and in the mid-'50s turned to producing.
He retired from films in 1962.
