He was the elder son of Sydney Goldman and his wife Agnes Peel, born at Rottingdean, and was educated at Harrow School.
[2] An organiser for the Association of Cinematograph Television and Allied Technicians, Goldman joined the Communist Party of Great Britain not long after his return from the USSR.
In the end Balcon sent him to Ireland, where he began to edit the very extensive accumulated takes developed in a "field laboratory" into a film, beginning with the final storm scene.
Ted Black and publicity man Hugh Findlay were liaison with the studio, and Balcon made concessions to Flaherty.
[15] A project of Monck's under the title Calling All Peoples, aimed at occupied Europe, involved Jiří Weiss and Laurie Lee.
[16] Monck helped Pat Jackson with approval at the early stages of the treatment of Western Approaches, which Ian Dalrymple went on to produce.
[3] He contributed to the monthly cinemagazine This Modern Age of the Rank Organisation, with the initial Homes for All in 1946, and Coal Crisis (issue 7 in 1947).
After a short period working for Alexander Korda in the later 1930s, he left the film industry in 1939, and settled on a farm in Sussex with his wife.
[3] He encouraged Bernard Gribble, then at Lewes Grammar School, to take up film as a career after a chance meeting in 1942/3 in a Sussex farmhouse.
[23] From the end of the 1960s he was interested in forage crop drying, setting up a company to market his Hayflaker system, based at Aldern Bridge House, Newbury, Berkshire.
[28] In the 1870s Bernard Goldmann, Sydney Goldman's father, lived for a period in Breslau with his family, and a tutor to the children, Dr. Monck, was stated to be an uncle.
[35] With his younger brother Victor, known as Penryn or Pen, John Monck inherited in 1958 on his father's death a collection of pictures.