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Mar 15, 2024 · spouse Maureen O’Sullivan. daughter Mia Farrow. 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.
John Farrow. Jump to Edit. Overview. Born. February 10, 1904 · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Died. January 27, 1963 · Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA (heart attack) 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.
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.
Dec 15, 2023 · John Farrow: Hollywood’s Man in the Shadows, 2020. Claude Gonzalez and Frans Vandenburg. 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.
Oct 29, 2021 · John Farrow, Maureen O’Sullivan and their children. Ronin. As well as directing movies starring Boris Karloff, Lucille Ball, Robert Mitchum, Lana Turner, Bette Davis and John Wayne, Farrow won an Oscar for co-writing the comedy Around The World In 80 Days (1956) after an earlier nomination for directing the war drama Wake Island (1942).
Aug 24, 2022 · John Farrow was an Australian who made over fifty films in Hollywood, but his legacy has been largely forgotten. Now he's the subject of a new documentary about his mysterious life. (Supplied)
Feb 1, 2021 · John Farrow - Hollywood's Man in the Shadows is the first documentary ever made about one of Hollywood's most prolific yet forgotten filmmakers John Villiers Farrow. Part mystery, part biography, part film noir - the documentary follows the stranger than fiction story of this Australian born, Oscar-winning filmmaker.
