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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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Academy Awards
Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
Known For
Around the World in Eighty Days
(1956)
Special Guest Director
Hondo
(1953)
Director
Tarzan Escapes
(1936)
Co-Director
Copper Canyon
(1950)
Director
Wake Island
(1942)
Director
The Sea Chase
(1955)
Director
Where Danger Lives
(1950)
Director
His Kind of Woman
(1951)
Director
Full Filmography
Directing
The Spectacle Maker
(1934)
Director
Tarzan Escapes
(1936)
Co-Director
Men in Exile
(1937)
Director
West of Shanghai
(1937)
Director
She Loved a Fireman
(1937)
Director
The Invisible Menace
(1938)
Director
My Bill
(1938)
Director
Little Miss Thoroughbred
(1938)
Director
Broadway Musketeers
(1938)
Director
Comet Over Broadway
(1938)
Director
Five Came Back
(1939)
Director
The Saint Strikes Back
(1939)
Director
Women in the Wind
(1939)
Director
Sorority House
(1939)
Director
Reno
(1939)
Director
Full Confession
(1939)
Director
A Bill of Divorcement
(1940)
Director
Married and in Love
(1940)
Director
Wake Island
(1942)
Director
Commandos Strike at Dawn
(1942)
Director
China
(1943)
Director
The Hitler Gang
(1944)
Director
You Came Along
(1945)
Director
Calcutta
(1946)
Director
Two Years Before the Mast
(1946)
Director
California
(1947)
Director
Blaze of Noon
(1947)
Director
Easy Come, Easy Go
(1947)
Director
Night Has a Thousand Eyes
(1948)
Director
The Big Clock
(1948)
Director
Beyond Glory
(1948)
Director
Alias Nick Beal
(1949)
Director
Red Hot and Blue
(1949)
Director
Where Danger Lives
(1950)
Director
Copper Canyon
(1950)
Director
His Kind of Woman
(1951)
Director
Submarine Command
(1951)
Director
Red Mountain
(1951)
Director
Botany Bay
(1952)
Director
Hondo
(1953)
Director
Ride, Vaquero!
(1953)
Director
Plunder of the Sun
(1953)
Director
A Bullet Is Waiting
(1954)
Director
The Sea Chase
(1955)
Director
Back from Eternity
(1956)
Director
Around the World in Eighty Days
(1956)
Special Guest Director
The Unholy Wife
(1957)
Director
John Paul Jones
(1959)
Director
Acting
King of the Khyber Rifles
(1953)
Cpl. Stuart (uncredited)
Forbidden Island
(1959)
Edward Stuart Godfrey
Writing
The Wreck of the Hesperus
(1927)
Writer
Ladies of the Mob
(1928)
Writer
The Blue Danube
(1928)
Story
The Woman from Moscow
(1928)
Screenplay
The First Kiss
(1928)
Adaptation
Wolf Song
(1929)
Writer
The Wheel of Life
(1929)
Screenplay
Seven Days Leave
(1930)
Writer
Inside the Lines
(1930)
Dialogue
The Bad One
(1930)
Story
Their Mad Moment
(1931)
Writer
A Woman of Experience
(1931)
Screenplay, Dialogue, and Adaptation
The Common Law
(1931)
Screenstory
The Impassive Footman
(1932)
Screenplay
The Spectacle Maker
(1934)
Writer
Last of the Pagans
(1935)
Screenplay
Mutiny on the Bounty
(1935)
Writer
Red Hot and Blue
(1949)
Screenplay
Around the World in Eighty Days
(1956)
Screenplay
John Paul Jones
(1959)
Writer
Production