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John Farrow
Born
John Villiers Farrow

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation(s)Actor director, producer and screenwriter
Years active1927-1962
Spouse(s)Felice Lewin
Maureen O'Sullivan (1936-1963) (his death) 7 children

John Villiers Farrow, CBE (10 February 1904–27 January 1963)[1] 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.

Life and career

Farrow was born in Sydney, Australia, the son of Lucy Villiers (née Savage; 1869-1937), a dressmaker, and Joseph Farrow (1866-1949), a tailor's trimmer.[2][3] Farrow began writing while working as a sailor in the 1920s. He moved to Hollywood to work in films as a marine technical advisor and stayed on as a screenwriter. He wrote for films between 1927 and 1959, and also directed between 1934 and 1959. Farrow was also a writer of short stories and plays (Laughter Ends), as well as non-fiction (Pageant of the Popes, and biographies of St Thomas More and Father Damien).

He was married to actress Maureen O'Sullivan from 12 September 1936 until his death. He fathered four daughters: actresses Mia, Prudence, Stephanie, Tisa; three sons: Michael Namien (1939–1958), Patrick Joseph (1942–2009), John Charles (born 1946).[4] Maureen O'Sullivan was his second wife, after he converted to Catholicism and she received a papal dispensation to marry a divorcee.

He became an American citizen in 1947. In 1953 he was appointed an Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). He was also appointed him a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre by Pope Pius XI.

He died from a heart attack in Beverly Hills, California at the age of 58 and was buried in the Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City.

Awards and honors

Farrow was twice nominated for an Academy Award. He won the Oscar and Writers Guild of America Award for his adapted screenplay for Around the World in Eighty Days (1956).

He was nominated for an Oscar and won the 1942 New York Film Critics Circle Award for his direction of the rousing World War II battle drama Wake Island.

His star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is located at 6304 Hollywood Blvd.

Filmography

Director

Writer

  • White Gold (1927) (titles)
  • The Wreck of the Hesperus (1927) (story)
  • A Sailor's Sweetheart (1927)
  • Three Weekends (1928) (adaptation)
  • The Woman From Moscow (1928) (also titles)
  • The First Kiss (1928) (adaptation)
  • Ladies of the Mob (1928)
  • The Blue Danube (1928) (story)
  • The Showdown (1928) (titles)
  • The Bride of the Colorado (1928) (story)
  • The Four Feathers (1929) (titles)
  • The Wheel of Life (1929) (adaptation)
  • A Dangerous Woman (1929)
  • The Wolf Song (1929)
  • Inside the Lines (1930) (dialogue)
  • Shadow of the Law (1930)
  • The Bad One (1930) (story)
  • Seven Days' Leave (1930)
  • The Common Law (1931) (screen story)
  • A Woman of Experience (1931) (dialogue & screenplay)
  • The Impassive Footman (1932)
  • Don Quixote (1933) (English version)
  • The Spectacle Maker (1934) (as John Villiers Farrow)
  • Last of the Pagans (1935) (original story and screenplay) (as John Villiers Farrow)
  • Red, Hot and Blue (1949)
  • Ride, Vaquero! (1953) (uncredited)
  • Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
  • John Paul Jones (1959)

Producer

  • The Big Clock (1948)
  • Submarine Command (1951) (co-executive producer)
  • The Sea Chase (1955)
  • Back from Eternity (1956)
  • The Unholy Wife (1957)

Actor

References

  1. ^ According to the State of California. California Death Index, 1940-1997. Center for Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California. Searchable at http://www.familytreelegends.com/records/caldeaths
  2. ^ Hazlehurst, Cameron (2006). "Farrow, John Villiers (1904 - 1963)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 15 October 2010. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  3. ^ Who's who in Australia, Volume 14. The Herald. 1950. p. 252. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |coauthors= and |month= (help)
  4. ^ California Births 1905-1995

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