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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 73
Movies 73
Director 47
Writer 20
Producer 2
self 1
Self
John Farrow: Hollywood’s Man in the Shadows (2021)
Movie
Director
John Paul Jones (1959)
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Edward Stuart Godfrey
Forbidden Island (1959)
Movie
Director / Producer
The Unholy Wife (1957)
Movie
Director
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
Movie
4.67
Director
Back from Eternity (1956)
Movie
Director
Seven Wonders of the World (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)
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Director
Hondo (1953)
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Director
Plunder of the Sun (1953)
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1
Director
Ride, Vaquero! (1953)
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Director
Botany Bay (1952)
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Director
Red Mountain (1951)
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Director
Submarine Command (1951)
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Director
His Kind of Woman (1951)
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Director
Where Danger Lives (1950)
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Director
Copper Canyon (1950)
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Director
Red Hot and Blue (1949)
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Director
Alias Nick Beal (1949)
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Director
Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)
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Director
Beyond Glory (1948)
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Director
The Big Clock (1948)
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Director
Blaze of Noon (1947)
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Director
Easy Come, Easy Go (1947)
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Director
California (1947)
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Director
Calcutta (1946)
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Director
Two Years Before the Mast (1946)
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Director
You Came Along (1945)
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Director
The Hitler Gang (1944)
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Director
China (1943)
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Director
Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942)
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Director
Wake Island (1942)
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Director
A Bill of Divorcement (1940)
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Director
Married and in Love (1940)
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Director
Reno (1939)
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Director
Full Confession (1939)
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Director
Five Came Back (1939)
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Director
Sorority House (1939)
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Director
Women in the Wind (1939)
Movie
Director
The Saint Strikes Back (1939)
Movie
4.88
Director
Comet Over Broadway (1938)
Movie
Director
Broadway Musketeers (1938)
Movie
Director
My Bill (1938)
Movie
Director
Little Miss Thoroughbred (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
Director
Tarzan Escapes (1936)
Movie
5.25
Writer
Last of the Pagans (1935)
Movie
Writer
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Movie
4.33
Director
The Spectacle Maker (1934)
Movie
Writer
The Impassive Footman (1932)
Movie
Screenstory
The Common Law (1931)
Movie
Writer
Their Mad Moment (1931)
Movie
Writer
A Woman of Experience (1931)
Movie
Writer
Inside the Lines (1930)
Movie
Writer
Shadow of the Law (1930)
Movie
Writer
The Bad One (1930)
Movie
Writer
Seven Days Leave (1930)
Movie
Writer
The Wheel of Life (1929)
Movie
Writer
A Dangerous Woman (1929)
Movie
Writer
Wolf Song (1929)
Movie
Writer
Three Week Ends (1928)
Movie
Writer
The Woman from Moscow (1928)
Movie
Writer
The First Kiss (1928)
Movie
Writer
Ladies of the Mob (1928)
Movie
Writer
The Blue Danube (1928)
Movie
Writer
The Showdown (1928)
Movie
Writer
The Wreck of the Hesperus (1927)
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Writer
White Gold (1927)
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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 (1936-01-01 - 1963-01-01)
ChildrenPatrick Villiers Farrow, Stephanie Farrow, Prudence Farrow, Tisa Farrow, Mia Farrow
FatherJoseph Farrow
MotherLucy Savage
CitizenshipsAustralia, United States of America
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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