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John Farrow

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John Farrow

Born February 10, 1904 in Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaDied January 28, 196345 films

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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.

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Filmography

45 films as director
  1. 1959John Paul JonesDirector
  2. 1957The Unholy WifeDirector
  3. 1956Back from EternityDirector
  4. 1955The Sea ChaseDirector
  5. 1954A Bullet Is WaitingDirector
  6. 1953HondoDirector
  7. 1953Plunder of the SunDirector
  8. 1953Ride, Vaquero!Director
  9. 1952Botany BayDirector
  10. 1951Submarine CommandDirector
  11. 1951His Kind of WomanDirector
  12. 1950Where Danger LivesDirector
  13. 1950Copper CanyonDirector
  14. 1949Red, Hot and BlueDirector
  15. 1949Alias Nick BealDirector
  16. 1948Night Has a Thousand EyesDirector
  17. 1948Beyond GloryDirector
  18. 1948The Big ClockDirector
  19. 1947Blaze of NoonDirector
  20. 1947Easy Come, Easy GoDirector
  21. 1947CaliforniaDirector
  22. 1946CalcuttaDirector
  23. 1946Two Years Before the MastDirector
  24. 1945You Came AlongDirector
  25. 1944The Hitler GangDirector
  26. 1943ChinaDirector
  27. 1942Commandos Strike at DawnDirector
  28. 1942Wake IslandDirector
  29. 1940A Bill of DivorcementDirector
  30. 1940Married and in LoveDirector
  31. 1939RenoDirector
  32. 1939Full ConfessionDirector
  33. 1939Five Came BackDirector
  34. 1939Sorority HouseDirector
  35. 1939Women in the WindDirector
  36. 1939The Saint Strikes BackDirector
  37. 1938Comet Over BroadwayDirector
  38. 1938Broadway MusketeersDirector
  39. 1938My BillDirector
  40. 1938Little Miss ThoroughbredDirector
  41. 1938The Invisible MenaceDirector
  42. 1937She Loved a FiremanDirector
  43. 1937West of ShanghaiDirector
  44. 1937Men in ExileDirector
  45. 1934The Spectacle MakerDirector