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John Villiers Farrow, KGCHS (10 February 1904 – 27 January 1963) 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.
- 1927–1962
- Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City
- Ronan Farrow (grandson)
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).
- January 1, 1
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- January 1, 1
- Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
Nov 8, 2021 · John Farrow: Hollywood’s Man in the Shadows is a new documentary that shines a light on the Australian artist who was once a mover and shaker in Tinseltown, but whose legacy went the way of the ...
- 3 min
- Luke Buckmaster
Mar 15, 2024 · John Farrow 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
- Michael Barson
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). He married Tarzan's Jane, Maureen O'Sullivan, in 1936. He began directing in ...
- February 10, 1904
- January 27, 1963
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Oct 29, 2021 · Hollywood director John Farrow carries his daughter Mia, aged 9, out of hospital after a 1954 polio scare. Getty. Even in film circles, John Farrow is pretty much unknown in Australia. But almost ...
Dec 15, 2023 · The 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.
