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Known For

Directing

Known Credits

Gender

Male

Birthday

1904-02-10

Deathday

1963-01-28 (58 years old)

Place of Birth

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

John Farrow

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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.

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Known For

5.7%

King of the Khyber Rifles

Dec 23, 1953

5.7%

Forbidden Island

Mar 1, 1959

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Acting

1959

Forbidden Island as Edward Stuart Godfrey

1953

King of the Khyber Rifles as Cpl. Stuart (uncredited)

Directing

1959

John Paul Jones as Director

1957

The Unholy Wife as Director

1956		Around the World in Eighty Days as Special Guest Director
1956		Back from Eternity as Director

1955

The Sea Chase as Director

1954

A Bullet Is Waiting as Director

1953		Hondo as Director
1953		Plunder of the Sun as Director
1953		Ride, Vaquero! as Director

1952

Botany Bay as Director

1951		Submarine Command as Director
1951		Red Mountain as Director
1951		His Kind of Woman as Director

1950		Where Danger Lives as Director
1950		Copper Canyon as Director

1949		Red, Hot and Blue as Director
1949		Alias Nick Beal as Director

1948		Night Has a Thousand Eyes as Director
1948		Beyond Glory as Director
1948		The Big Clock as Director

1947		Blaze of Noon as Director
1947		Easy Come, Easy Go as Director
1947		California as Director

1946		Calcutta as Director
1946		Two Years Before the Mast as Director

1945

You Came Along as Director

1944

The Hitler Gang as Director

1943

China as Director

1942		Commandos Strike at Dawn as Director
1942		Wake Island as Director

1940		A Bill of Divorcement as Director
1940		Married and in Love as Director

1939		Reno as Director
1939		Full Confession as Director
1939		Five Came Back as Director
1939		Sorority House as Director
1939		Women in the Wind as Director
1939		The Saint Strikes Back as Director

1938		Comet Over Broadway as Director
1938		Broadway Musketeers as Director
1938		My Bill as Director
1938		Little Miss Thoroughbred as Director
1938		The Invisible Menace as Director

1937		She Loved a Fireman as Director
1937		West of Shanghai as Director
1937		Men in Exile as Director

1936

Tarzan Escapes as Co-Director

1934

The Spectacle Maker as Director

Production

1957

The Unholy Wife as Producer

1956

Back from Eternity as Producer

1955

The Sea Chase as Producer

1951

His Kind of Woman as Producer

1947

California as Producer

Writing

1959

John Paul Jones as Writer

1956

Around the World in Eighty Days as Screenplay

1949

Red, Hot and Blue as Screenplay

1935		Last of the Pagans as Screenplay
1935		Mutiny on the Bounty as Writer

1934

The Spectacle Maker as Writer

1932

The Impassive Footman as Screenplay

1931		The Common Law as Screenstory
1931		Their Mad Moment as Writer
1931		A Woman of Experience as Adaptation
1931		A Woman of Experience as Screenplay
1931		A Woman of Experience as Dialogue

1930		Inside the Lines as Dialogue
1930		The Bad One as Story
1930		Seven Days Leave as Writer

1929		The Wheel of Life as Screenplay
1929		Wolf Song as Writer

1928		The Woman from Moscow as Screenplay
1928		The First Kiss as Adaptation
1928		Ladies of the Mob as Writer
1928		The Blue Danube as Story

1927

The Wreck of the Hesperus as Writer