John Farrow
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 Farrow, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- 1904-02-10 · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Died
- 1963-01-28
Known for
- Around the World in 80 Days (1956) — Screenplay
- Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) — Writer
- Hondo (1953) — Director
- The Big Clock (1948) — Director
- Tarzan Escapes (1936) — Co-Director
- His Kind of Woman (1951) — Director
- Where Danger Lives (1950) — Director
- The Sea Chase (1955) — Director
- Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948) — Director
- Five Came Back (1939) — Director
- Alias Nick Beal (1949) — Director
- Wake Island (1942) — Director
- Back from Eternity (1956) — Director
- Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942) — British Naval Officer (uncredited)
- Copper Canyon (1950) — Director
- Botany Bay (1952) — Director