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John Villiers Farrow was an eminent Australian-born American film director, screenwriter and producer who made immensely popular films within the film noir, western, and historical adventure genres that were trending in his era. A man of many talents, he was a gifted individual who excelled in various fields. His parents were of English ancestry.
Farrow, John V. (1904-1963). Director, guionista, productor y novelista de cine estadounidense, de origen australiano, cuyo nombre completo era John Villiers Farrow, nacido en Sydney el 10 de febrero de 1904 y fallecido en Beverly Hills (California) el 27 de enero de 1963.
John Farrow foi marinheiro e chegou em Hollywood na condição de roteirista. Escreveu diversos livros, entre os quais um dicionário taitiano - francês - inglês, romances, biografias e uma peça de teatro. Casou-se com a atriz Maureen O'Sullivan em 1936, com quem teve sete filhos, entre os quais a atriz Mia Farrow.
1 de feb. de 2021 · Overview. John Farrow: Hollywood’s Man in the Shadows is the first documentary ever made about one of Hollywood’s most prolific yet forgotten filmmakers, John Villiers Farrow (1904 -1963). Part mystery, part biography, part film noir – the documentary follows the stranger than fiction story of this Australian born, Oscar-winning filmmaker.
8 de nov. de 2021 · The majority of Farrow’s early script credits are not particularly well remembered today, even amongst buffs; the more notable include The Four Feathers (1929), several early Gary Cooper and Clara Bow films, and Tarzan Escapes (1936). Farrow had more status than a typical Hollywood screenwriter for several reasons.
John Villiers Farrow, KGCHS was an Australian film director, producer, and screenwriter. Spending a considerable amount of his career in the United States, in 1942 he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for Wake Island, and in 1957 he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Around the World in Eighty Days.
During the postwar era, Farrow turned out some of his finest directorial efforts, including the stylish noir exercise The Big Clock (1948), the grim fantasy Alias Nick Beal (1949), the lampoonish adventure yarn His Kind of Woman (1951) and the excellent John Wayne western Hondo (released in 3-D in 1953).
