John Farrow
Also known as Jack Farrow
Film director, screenwriter and producer (1904–1963)
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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…
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- Forbidden Island — Edward Stuart Godfrey1959
- King of the Khyber Rifles — Cpl. Stuart (uncredited)1953
- Commandos Strike at Dawn — British Naval Officer (uncredited)1942
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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, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director in 1942 for Wake Island, and in 1957, he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Around the World in Eighty Days. He had seven children by his wife, actress Maureen O'Sullivan, including actress Mia Farrow.
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1904 births1963 deaths20th-century Australian screenwritersAustralian emigrants to the United StatesAustralian Roman CatholicsBest Adapted Screenplay Academy Award winnersBurials at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver CityConverts to Roman CatholicismFarrow familyFilm directors from CaliforniaFilm directors from SydneyMembers of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre