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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 ...
John Farrow (1904-1963) was an Australian-born Hollywood filmmaker who won an Oscar for Around the World in 80 Days. He also wrote and produced several films, and married actress Maureen O'Sullivan, the mother of his seven children.
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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.
5 days ago · John Farrow was an 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.
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Aug 24, 2022 · A documentary about John Farrow, an Australian-born Oscar-winning filmmaker who hid his past from Hollywood. Learn about his life, career and family from the director and producer of the film.
John Farrow was a screenwriter, director and naval officer who married Maureen O'Sullivan, the star of Tarzan films. He wrote and directed several films, including Around the World in 80 Days, and had seven children with O'Sullivan.
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...
