- Was 'blacklisted' for a time while in Hollywood.
- Educated at Harvard and the London School of Economics.
- Grandson of RADA founder Herbert Beerbohm Tree
- His friends included Elizabeth Taylor, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre.
- In 1943, Moffat enlisted in the U.S. Army as a writer in the Signal Corps, known as the "Hollywood Irregulars". Subsequently worked as assistant to the director George Stevens at Paramount.
- Daughter with 'Caroline Blackwood'
- Great-nephew of Max Beerbohm
- Modified a substantial part of The Great Escape (1963), but chose to forgo a credit.
- Son of actress/poet Iris Tree and photographer 'Curtis Moffat'.
- Ivan Moffat was father of Ivana Lowell (as acknowledged by her in interviews and in his obituary 2002), who was born to Lady Caroline Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood during her second marriage to Israel Citkowicz. Ivana later assumed the name Lowell, during her mother's third marriage to poet Robert Lowell. [Lady Caroline Blackwood, a society writer, was once married to painter Lucian Freud; her elder surviving daughter Evgenia is wife of actor Julian Sands].
- Served as the model for Patrick in Christopher Isherwood's novel "A Meeting By the River".
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