John Villiers Farrow, KGCHS (10 February 1904 – 27 January 1963) [2] was an Australian film director, producer, and screenwriter. Spending a considerable amount of his career in the United States, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director in 1942 for Wake Island , and in 1957, he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted ...

Jan 23, 2025 · John Farrow (born February 10, 1904, Sydney, Australia—died January 27, 1963, Los Angeles, California, U.S.) was an Australian-born director and writer whose diverse film credits included film noirs, westerns, and historical adventures.

John Farrow. Director: Around the World in 80 Days. John Farrow wrote short stories and plays during his four-year career in the navy. In the late 1920s he came to Hollywood as a technical advisor for a film about Marines and stayed as a screenwriter, from A Sailor's Sweetheart (1927) through Tarzan Escapes (1936).

John Farrow’s hour may be coming around at last. Although he directed scores of features between Men in Exile in 1937 and John Paul Jones in 1959, the prolific and versatile director has been oddly overlooked since 1963, when he died from a …

John Villiers Farrow was an eminent Australian-born American film director, screenwriter and producer who made immensely popular films within the film noir, western, and historical adventure genres that were trending in his era.

John Farrow was a colorful film writer-director who was married to actress Maureen O'Sullivan. The couple had seven children, including the actress Mia Farrow. Short story writing...

John Farrow. Director: Around the World in 80 Days. John Farrow wrote short stories and plays during his four-year career in the navy. In the late 1920s he came to Hollywood as a technical advisor for a film about Marines and stayed as a screenwriter, from A Sailor's Sweetheart (1927) through Tarzan Escapes (1936).

Oct 29, 2021 · John Farrow – Mia’s father – was a womaniser who directed almost 50 movies and won an Oscar. Now his colourful life has become a documentary.

A former naval officer, in Hollywood from 1927 as a scriptwriter, Farrow as a director turned out several well-crafted entertainments often marked by the imaginative use of...

Sep 22, 2024 · John Villiers Farrow, KGCHS (10 February 1904 – 27 January 1963) was an Australian-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.