John Farrow

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1904-02-10 (59 years old)

Deathday

1963-01-28

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Farrow, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

1953

King of the Khyber Rifles

as Cpl. Stuart (uncredited)

1959

Forbidden Island

as Edward Stuart Godfrey

Production

1950

1953

Hondo

as Director

1957

The Unholy Wife

as Director

1949

Alias Nick Beal

as Director

1951

1946

Calcutta

as Director

1955

The Sea Chase

as Director

1954

1953

Ride, Vaquero!

as Director

1942

Wake Island

as Director

1956

1939

Five Came Back

as Director

1939

1948

The Big Clock

as Director

1959

John Paul Jones

as Director

1953

1948

Beyond Glory

as Director

1940

1950

Copper Canyon

as Director

1947

California

as Director

1951

1951

Red Mountain

as Director

1943

China

as Director

1938

1940

1932

1939

1930

1937

West of Shanghai

as Director

1952

Botany Bay

as Director

1937

Men in Exile

as Director

1939

Sorority House

as Director

1949

Red, Hot and Blue

as Screenplay

1949

1947

1928

1947

Blaze of Noon

as Director

1939

Reno

as Director

1937

1929

Wolf Song

as Writer

1944

The Hitler Gang

as Director

1930

Inside the Lines

as Dialogue

1945

You Came Along

as Director

1951

1939

Full Confession

as Director

1928

1938

My Bill

as Director

1957

The Unholy Wife

as Producer

1935

Last of the Pagans

as Screenplay

1931

1928

1938

1931

1931

1931

1956

1956

Around the World in Eighty Days

as Special Guest Director

1936

Tarzan Escapes

as Co-Director

1928

The First Kiss

as Adaptation

1930

The Bad One

as Story

1931

The Common Law

as Screenstory

1934

1934

1959

1955

The Sea Chase

as Producer

1929

The Wheel of Life

as Screenplay

1947

California

as Producer

1938

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