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John Villiers Farrow, KGCHS (10 February 1904 – 27 January 1963) was an Australian film director, producer, and screenwriter.
John Farrow (1904-1963) was an Australian-born Hollywood filmmaker who won an Oscar for Around the World in 80 Days. He also wrote and produced several films, and married actress Maureen O'Sullivan, the mother of his seven children.
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- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- January 1, 1
- Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
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.
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).
- February 10, 1904
- January 27, 1963
May 7, 2024 · John Farrow was an Australian-born director and writer whose diverse film credits included film noirs, westerns, and historical adventures. Farrow traveled the world as a sailor before becoming a Hollywood screenwriter in the late 1920s. He helped pen the scripts for such films as Ladies of the Mob.
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Aug 24, 2022 · A documentary about the life and career of John Farrow, an Australian-born filmmaker who made over fifty films in Hollywood, but hid his past from his colleagues. Learn about his achievements, his family, and his secrets in this podcast.
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. Description above from the Wikipedia ...
