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John Villiers Farrow, KGCHS (10 February 1904 – 27 January 1963) was an Australian film director, producer, and screenwriter.
John Farrow. 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).
Jul 12, 2024 · John Farrow (born February 10, 1904, Sydney, Australia—died January 27, 1963, Los Angeles, California, U.S.) was an Australian-born director and writer whose diverse film credits included film noirs, westerns, and historical adventures.
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).
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.
Oct 6, 2021 · The 68th Sydney Film Festival: 03-14 November 2021Directed by Frans Vandenburg, Claude GonzalezThe enigmatic life and prolific Hollywood career of overlooked...
Aug 24, 2022 · John Farrow: Hollywood's Man in the Shadows is the first documentary ever made about enigmatic, Australian born, Oscar-winning filmmaker John Farrow, who went to the very top in Hollywood, but obscured his past from all who knew him.
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. Description above from the Wikipedia ...
Aug 5, 2017 · John Farrow, who died in Los Angeles aged 58 in 1963, had a colourful life that included sailing around the Pacific as a teenager, compiling an English-French-Tahitian dictionary, being arrested as an illegal alien in San Francisco while trying to pass as a Romanian consular official and serving as a commander in the Canadian Navy during World W...
Feb 1, 2021 · 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.
