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John Villiers Farrow, CBE (10 February 1904 – 27 January 1963) was an Australian, later American, film director, producer and screenwriter. In 1957 he won the Academy Award for Best Writing / Best Screenplay for Around the World in Eighty Days and in 1942 he was nominated as Best Director for Wake Island.
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Filmography
all 71
Movies 71
Director 44
Writer 19
Producer 4
self 1
Director / Writer
John Paul Jones (1959)
Movie
Edward Stuart Godfrey
Forbidden Island (1959)
Movie
Director / Producer
The Unholy Wife (1957)
Movie
Screenplay / Special Guest Director
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
Movie
4.67
Director
Back from Eternity (1956)
Movie
Director / Producer
The Sea Chase (1955)
Movie
Director
A Bullet Is Waiting (1954)
Movie
Cpl. Stuart (uncredited)
King of the Khyber Rifles (1953)
Movie
Director
Hondo (1953)
Movie
Director
Plunder of the Sun (1953)
Movie
1
Director
Ride, Vaquero! (1953)
Movie
Director
Botany Bay (1952)
Movie
Director
Red Mountain (1951)
Movie
Director
Submarine Command (1951)
Movie
Director / Producer
His Kind of Woman (1951)
Movie
Director
Where Danger Lives (1950)
Movie
Director
Copper Canyon (1950)
Movie
Screenplay / Director
Red, Hot and Blue (1949)
Movie
Director
Alias Nick Beal (1949)
Movie
Director
Beyond Glory (1948)
Movie
Director
The Big Clock (1948)
Movie
Director
Blaze of Noon (1947)
Movie
Director
Easy Come, Easy Go (1947)
Movie
Director / Producer
California (1947)
Movie
Director
Calcutta (1946)
Movie
Director
You Came Along (1945)
Movie
Director
The Hitler Gang (1944)
Movie
Director
China (1943)
Movie
Director
Wake Island (1942)
Movie
Director
Married and in Love (1940)
Movie
Director
Reno (1939)
Movie
Director
Full Confession (1939)
Movie
Director
Five Came Back (1939)
Movie
Director
Sorority House (1939)
Movie
Director
Women in the Wind (1939)
Movie
Director
Comet Over Broadway (1938)
Movie
Director
Broadway Musketeers (1938)
Movie
Director
My Bill (1938)
Movie
Director
The Invisible Menace (1938)
Movie
Director
She Loved a Fireman (1937)
Movie
Director
West of Shanghai (1937)
Movie
Director
Men in Exile (1937)
Movie
Co-Director
Tarzan Escapes (1936)
Movie
5.25
Director
The Spectacle Maker (1934)
Movie
Screenstory
The Common Law (1931)
Movie
Writer
The Bad One (1930)
Movie
Writer
Wolf Song (1929)
Movie
Writer
The Showdown (1928)
Movie
Writer
White Gold (1927)
Movie
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1904-02-10
Deathday1963-01-28 (58 years old)
Birth NameJohn Villiers Farrow
Birth PlaceMarrickville, Australia
Height
RelationshipsMaureen O'Sullivan (1936 - 1963)
ChildrenPatrick Villiers Farrow, Stephanie Farrow, Prudence Farrow, Tisa Farrow, Mia Farrow
FatherJoseph Farrow
MotherLucy Savage
CitizenshipsAustralia, United States
AwardsKnight Grand Cross in the Order of the Holy Sepulchre, star on Hollywood Walk of Fame, Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
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