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John Farrow (10 February 1904 – 28 January, 1963) was an award-winning film director, producer and screenwriter.

Born John Villiers Farrow in Sydney, Australia, John Farrow began writing while working as a sailor in the 1920s. He moved to Hollywood to work in films as a marine technical advisor and stayed on as a screenwriter. He wrote for films between 1927 and 1959, and also directed between 1934 and 1959.






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John Farrow (10 February 1904 – 28 January, 1963) was an award-winning film director, producer and screenwriter.

Born John Villiers Farrow in Sydney, Australia, John Farrow began writing while working as a sailor in the 1920s. He moved to Hollywood to work in films as a marine technical advisor and stayed on as a screenwriter. He wrote for films between 1927 and 1959, and also directed between 1934 and 1959. Farrow was also a writer of short stories and plays (Laughter Ends), as well as non-fiction (Pageant of the Popes, and biographies of St Thomas More
Thomas More

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 and Father Damien
Father Damien

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).

He is also remembered for being married to actress Maureen O'Sullivan
Maureen O'Sullivan

Maureen Paula O?Sullivan was an Ireland actor who was considered Ireland's first film star....
. He fathered seven children, including actresses Mia Farrow
Mia Farrow

Maria de Lourdes Villiers-Farrow , better known as Mia Farrow, is an United Statesn actress, singer and former Model . Farrow has appeared in more than forty films and won numerous awards, including a Golden Globe award , three British Academy of Film and Television Arts nominations, and a win for best actress at the San Sebastian Inter...
, Stephanie Farrow
Stephanie Farrow

Stephanie Margarita Farrow is the daughter of film director John Farrow and actress Maureen O'Sullivan. She is also the sister of actress Mia Farrow, and has five other siblings: John Charles Farrow, Tisa Farrow, Prudence Farrow, Patrick Farrow, and the late Michael Farrow....
, Tisa Farrow
Tisa Farrow

Theresa Magdalena 'Tisa' Farrow is an United States actor.Farrow, one of seven children, was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Irish-born actress Maureen O'Sullivan and Australian-born film director John Farrow....
, and Prudence Farrow
Prudence Farrow

Prudence Annevilliers Farrow is a younger sister of actress Mia Farrow and daughter of film director John Farrow and actress Maureen O'Sullivan....
. Maureen O'Sullivan was his second wife, after he converted to Catholicism
Catholicism

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 and she received a papal dispensation to marry a divorcee. Pope Pius XI
Pope Pius XI

Pope Pius XI , born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti, reigned as Pope from February 6, 1922, and as sovereignty of Vatican City from its creation as an independent state on February 11, 1929 until his death on February 10, 1939....
 later appointed him a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre
Order of the Holy Sepulchre

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.

He died from a heart attack
Myocardial infarction

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 in Beverly Hills, California
Beverly Hills, California

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 at the age of 58 and was buried in the Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City
Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City

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.

Awards and honors

Farrow was twice nominated for an Academy Award
Academy Awards

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. He won the Oscar and Writers Guild of America Award
Writers Guild of America

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 for his adapted screenplay for Around the World in Eighty Days
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 (1956).

He was nominated for an Oscar and won the 1942 New York Film Critics Circle Award for his direction of the rousing World War II battle drama Wake Island
Wake Island

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.

His star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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 is located at 6304 Hollywood Blvd.

Filmography


Director

  • John Paul Jones
    John Paul Jones (film)

    John Paul Jones is a 1959 in film biographical epic film about John Paul Jones. The film was made by Samuel Bronston Productions and released by Warner Bros.....
     (1959)
  • The Unholy Wife (1957)
  • Back from Eternity (1956)
  • The Sea Chase (1955)
  • A Bullet Is Waiting (1954)
  • Hondo
    Hondo (film)

    Hondo is a 1953 western film starring John Wayne. It is somewhat a retelling of Hamlet, in that Hondo kills a young boy's father, marries the boy's mother, and becomes a father figure for the boy....
     (1953)
  • Plunder of the Sun (1953)
  • Ride Vaquero! (1953)
  • Botany Bay (1953)
  • Submarine Command (1951)
  • His Kind of Woman
    His Kind of Woman

    His Kind of Woman is a black-and-white 1951 in film comedy drama film noir starring Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell. The film features supporting roles by Vincent Price, Raymond Burr, and Charles McGraw....
     (1951)
  • Copper Canyon (1950)
  • Where Danger Lives
    Where Danger Lives

    Where Danger Lives is a 1950 in film thriller film directed by John Farrow. The film was actress Faith Domergue's film debut. At the time, she was the latest of Howard Hughes' protegees....
     (1950)
  • Red, Hot and Blue (1949)
  • Alias Nick Beal (1949)
  • Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)
  • Beyond Glory (1948)
  • The Big Clock
    The Big Clock (1948 film)

    The Big Clock is a film noir thriller directed by John Farrow, based on the The Big Clock by Kenneth Fearing. The black-and-white film is set in New York City and stars Ray Milland and Maureen O'Sullivan....
     (1948)
  • Blaze of Noon (1947)
  • Calcutta (1947)
  • Easy Come, Easy Go (1947)
  • California (1946)
  • Two Years Before the Mast (1946)
  • You Came Along (1945)
  • The Hitler Gang (1944)
  • China (1943)
  • Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942)
  • Wake Island
    Wake Island (1942 film)

    Wake Island is a 1942 film which tells the story of the United States military garrison on Wake Island and the Battle of Wake Island following the attack on Pearl Harbor....
     (1942)
  • A Bill of Divorcement
    A Bill of Divorcement

    A Bill of Divorcement is a United Kingdom play written by Clemence Dane that debuted in 1921 in London. Dane wrote it as a reaction to a law passed in Britain in the early 1920s that allowed insanity as grounds for a woman divorcing her husband....
     (1940)
  • Married and in Love (1940)
  • Reno (1939)
  • Full Confession (1939)
  • Five Came Back
    Five Came Back

    Five Came Back is a 1939 in film melodrama and a precursor of the disaster film genre. A B movie with an A-level cast and crew, the film boasts direction by John Farrow, photography by renowned film noir cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca, and a screenplay by Jerome Cady, Dalton Trumbo and Nathanael West....
     (1939)
  • Sorority House (1939)
  • Women in the Wind (1939)
  • The Saint Strikes Back (1939)
  • Comet Over Broadway (1938) (uncredited)
  • Broadway Musketeers (1938)
  • My Bill (1938)
  • Little Miss Thoroughbred (1938)
  • The Invisible Menace
    The Invisible Menace

    The Invisible Menace is a 1938 in film mystery film directed by John Farrow and starring Boris Karloff....
     (1938)
  • She Loved a Fireman (1937)
  • West of Shanghai
    West of Shanghai

    West of Shanghai is a 1937 in film adventure film directed by John Farrow and starring Boris Karloff....
     (1937)
  • Men in Exile (1937)
  • Tarzan Escapes (1936) (uncredited)
  • The Spectacle Maker (1934) (as John Villiers Farrow)


Writer


  • John Paul Jones (1959)
  • Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
  • Ride, Vaquero! (1953) (uncredited)
  • Red, Hot and Blue (1949)
  • Last of the Pagans (1935) (original story and screenplay) (as John Villiers Farrow)
  • The Spectacle Maker (1934) (as John Villiers Farrow)
  • Don Quixote (1933) (English version)
  • The Impassive Footman (1932)
  • The Common Law (1931) (screen story)
  • A Woman of Experience (1931) (dialogue & screenplay)
  • Inside the Lines (1930) (dialogue)
  • Shadow of the Law (1930)
  • The Bad One
    The Bad One

    The Bad One is a 1930 in film musical film directed by George Fitzmaurice, starring Dolores del R?o and featuring Boris Karloff....
     (1930) (story)
  • Seven Days' Leave (1930)
  • The Four Feathers
    The Four Feathers (1929 film)

    The Four Feathers is a 1929 in film war film directed by Merian C. Cooper and starring Fay Wray. It has the distinction of being one of the last major Hollywood pictures of the silent era....
     (1929) (titles)
  • The Wheel of Life (1929) (adaptation)
  • A Dangerous Woman (1929)
  • The Wolf Song (1929)
  • Three Weekends (1928) (adaptation)
  • The Woman From Moscow (1928) (also titles)
  • The First Kiss (1928) (adaptation)
  • Ladies of the Mob (1928)
  • The Blue Danube (1928) (story)
  • The Showdown (1928) (titles)
  • The Bride of the Colorado (1928) (story)
  • The Wreck of the Hesperus
    The Wreck of the Hesperus

    "The Wreck of the Hesperus" is a poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, first published in Ballads and Other Poems in 1842....
     (1927) (story)
  • A Sailor's Sweetheart (1927)
  • White Gold (1927) (titles)


Producer

  • The Unholy Wife (1957)
  • Back from Eternity (1956)
  • The Sea Chase (1955)
  • Submarine Command (1951) (co-executive producer)
  • The Big Clock
    The Big Clock

    The Big Clock is a 1946 thriller novel by Kenneth Fearing which was the basis for the feature films The Big Clock and No Way Out ....
     (1948)


Actor


  • Forbidden Island (1959) .... Stuart Godfrey
  • King of the Khyber Rifles (1953) (uncredited) .... Cpl. Stuart


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