His Kind of Woman
1951
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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 ...
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).
Nov 8, 2021 · John Farrow: the star Australian director who Hollywood forgot. A new documentary examines Mia Farrow’s father, a prolific film-maker from Marrickville with a backstory stranger than...
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.
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.
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).
