Biography
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.
Awards & recognition
- Academy Award — Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay · 1957
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Holy Sepulchre
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Academy Award — Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay · 1957 · nominated
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- Academy Award — Best Director · 1943 · nominated
Filmography20 titles
Mutiny on the Bounty
The Big Clock
Seven Days Leave
China
His Kind of Woman
Alias Nick Beal
Around the World in 80 Days
Back from Eternity
Red Mountain
Hondo
Tarzan Escapes
Where Danger Lives
Plunder of the Sun
The Sea Chase
Ride, Vaquero!
Submarine Command
Copper Canyon
The Saint Strikes Back
Commandos Strike at Dawn
Inside the Lines