FILM DIRECTOR

John Farrow

1904 - 1963

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John Villiers Farrow, KGCHS (10 February 1904 – 27 January 1963) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Farrow has received more than 1,438,492 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). John Farrow is the 742nd most popular film director (up from 825th in 2019), the 125th most popular biography from Australia (up from 135th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Australian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, John Farrow ranks 742 out of 2,041. Before him are Gustav von Wangenheim, Fernando Trueba, Karl Freund, Ryan Murphy, Marc Forster, and František Vláčil. After him are Bob Rafelson, William Cameron Menzies, George Seaton, Jerry Schatzberg, Alexandre Trauner, and Rajko Grlić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, John Farrow ranks 177. Before him are Dmitri Ivanenko, Abraham Alikhanov, Vlado Perlemuter, Bogdan Kobulov, Robert Montgomery, and Fats Waller. After him are Vladimir Kokkinaki, Nancy Mitford, Alexander Gerschenkron, Mykola Bazhan, Andrew Marton, and Terence Fisher. Among people deceased in 1963, John Farrow ranks 114. Before him are Thoralf Skolem, Vsevolod Ivanov, Pingali Venkayya, Klára Dán von Neumann, József Nagy, and Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz. After him are Benny Moré, Gustav Machatý, Jean Decoux, Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, Nadejda Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven, and Mary Agnes Chase.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, John Farrow ranks 125 out of 1,143. Before him are Tony Roche (1945), Robert Menzies (1894), Daevid Allen (1938), Don Bradman (1908), Mark Webber (1976), and John Flanagan (1944). After him are Evonne Goolagong Cawley (1951), John Williams (1941), Raewyn Connell (1944), Yagan (1800), Albert Namatjira (1902), and Russell Mulcahy (1953).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Australia

Among film directors born in Australia, John Farrow ranks 8. Before him are George Miller (1945), Roger Donaldson (1945), Christopher Doyle (1952), John Pilger (1939), Baz Luhrmann (1962), and Bruce Beresford (1940). After him are Russell Mulcahy (1953), Phillip Noyce (1950), John Seale (1942), Fred Schepisi (1939), Leigh Whannell (1977), and Gillian Armstrong (1950).

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Filmography

Around the World in Eighty Days
Director
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
Oct 17o 19566.6 / 10
Hondo
Director
Army despatch rider Hondo Lane discovers a woman and her son living in the midst of warring Apaches, and he becomes their protector.
Nov 26o 19536.525 / 10
The Big Clock
Director
Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor has to post-pone a vacation with his wife, again, when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss Janoth to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence (albeit wrong) that he is the killer.
Mar 18o 19487.253 / 10