His Kind of Woman
1951
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Birth name. John N.B. Villiers-Farrow. Height. 5′ 11″ (1.80 m) Mini Bio. 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).
Mar 15, 2024 · John Farrow (born February 10, 1904, Sydney, Australia—died January 27, 1963, Los Angeles, California, U.S.) Australian-born director and writer whose diverse film credits included film noirs, westerns, and historical adventures. Early life and work. Farrow traveled the world as a sailor before becoming a Hollywood screenwriter in the late 1920s.
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. Mia Farrow’s big-noting Oscar-winning dad came ...
John Villiers Farrow, KGCHS was an Australian film director, producer, and screenwriter. Spending a considerable amount of his career in the United States, in 1942 he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for Wake Island, and in 1957 he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Around the World in Eighty Days.
Feb 1, 2021 · John Farrow Hollywood's Man in the Shadows: Directed by Claude Gonzalez, Frans Vandenburg. With John Farrow. A documentary about one of Hollywood's most prolific yet forgotten filmmakers John Farrow. Part mystery, part biography, part film noir it follows the life and films of this Australian Oscar winning director.
Dec 15, 2023 · T he 2020 documentary on Australian-born filmmaker John Farrow by Claude Gonzalez and Frans Vandenburg is aptly titled “Hollywood’s Man in the Shadows.” Farrow was, and still is, largely unknown in his native country.
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.
