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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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Acting (2 movies)

5.7

King of the Khyber Rifles

1953

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Forbidden Island

1959

Directing (46 movies)

6.4

Where Danger Lives

1950

6.6

Hondo

1953

4.4

The Unholy Wife

1957

6.9

Alias Nick Beal

1949

6.6

His Kind of Woman

1951

6.7

Night Has a Thousand Eyes

1948

6.3

Calcutta

1946

6.1

The Sea Chase

1955

6.1

A Bullet Is Waiting

1954

5.9

Ride, Vaquero!

1953

5.8

Wake Island

1942

6.6

Back from Eternity

1956

6.2

Five Came Back

1939

5.4

The Saint Strikes Back

1939

7.3

The Big Clock

1948

5.9

John Paul Jones

1959

6.1

Plunder of the Sun

1953

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Beyond Glory

1948

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A Bill of Divorcement

1940

5.4

Commandos Strike at Dawn

1942

5.3

Copper Canyon

1950

6.7

California

1947

5.6

Submarine Command

1951

6.4

Red Mountain

1951

6.8

China

1943

3.8

The Invisible Menace

1938

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Married and in Love

1940

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Women in the Wind

1939

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West of Shanghai

1937

6.6

Botany Bay

1952

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Men in Exile

1937

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Sorority House

1939

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Red, Hot and Blue

1949

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Easy Come, Easy Go

1947

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Blaze of Noon

1947

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Reno

1939

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She Loved a Fireman

1937

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The Hitler Gang

1944

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You Came Along

1945

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Two Years Before the Mast

1946

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Full Confession

1939

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My Bill

1938

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Little Miss Thoroughbred

1938

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Broadway Musketeers

1938

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The Spectacle Maker

1934

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Comet Over Broadway

1938

Title	Year	Job
The Wreck of the Hesperus	1927	Writer
Ladies of the Mob	1928	Writer
The First Kiss	1928	Writer
The Woman from Moscow	1928	Screenplay
Wolf Song	1929	Writer
The Wheel of Life	1929	Screenplay
Seven Days Leave	1930	Writer
A Woman of Experience	1931	Screenplay
Their Mad Moment	1931	Writer
The Impassive Footman	1932	Screenplay
The Spectacle Maker	1934	Writer
Mutiny on the Bounty	1935	Writer
Last of the Pagans	1935	Screenplay
California	1947	Producer
Red, Hot and Blue	1949	Screenplay
His Kind of Woman	1951	Producer
The Sea Chase	1955	Producer
Back from Eternity	1956	Producer
Around the World in Eighty Days	1956	Screenplay
The Unholy Wife	1957	Producer
John Paul Jones	1959	Writer