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First Name

John

Last Name

Farrow

Date of Birth

10 February 1904

Height

71.5

Build

Slim

Hair Color

Blonde

Place of Birth

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Star Sign

Aquarius

Date of Death

28 January 1963

Place of Death

Beverly Hills, California, USA

Ethnicity

White

Religion

Roman Catholic

Gender

Male

Nationality

American

Wikipedia Text

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.

Couple Profile

John Farrow wrote short stories and plays during his four-year career in the US Navy. In the late 1920s he came to Hollywood as a technical advisor for a film about Marines and stayed as a screenwriter, from A Sailor`s Sweetheart (1927) through Tarzan Escapes (1936). He married Tarzan`s Jane, `Maureen O`Sullivan (I)`, in 1936. He began directing in 1937 (Men in Exile (1937) and West of Shanghai (1937)). He was injured while serving as Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Navy in World War II. After that he converted to Catholicism and wrote a biography of Thomas More, a history of the Papacy, a Tahitian/English dictionary and several novels. He collaborated in the writing of several of his films and shared the Academy Award for Around the World in Eighty Days (1956).

Couple Profile Source

www.imdb.com/name/nm0268513/bio

Full Name at Birth

John N.B. Villiers-Farrow

Count - Awards

Friend

Vincent Sherman

Age

Occupation Text

Director

Claim to Fame

Blaze of Noon