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Birth Name: John N.B. Villiers-Farrow
Born: 10 February 1904 Died: 28 January 1963
Country of origin: 
Australia
Height: 5' 11"
Relationship Status: Married
Partner: Maureen O'Sullivan
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Show Business Families
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Published 11 years, 3 months ago
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Oscar Best Director Nominees
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Published 10 years, 9 months ago
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Hollywood Walk of Fame - F
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John Farrow wrote short stories and plays during his four-year career in the navy. In the late 1920s he came to Hollywood as a technical advisor for a film about Marines and stayed as a screenwriter, from A Sailor's Sweetheart (1927) through La fuga de Tarzán (1936). He married Tarzan's Jane, Maureen O'Sullivan, in 1936. He began directing in 1937 (Men in Exile (1937) and West of Shanghai (1937)). He was injured while serving as a Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Navy in World War II. After that he converted to Catholicism and wrote a biography of Thomas More, a history of the Papacy, a Tahitian/English dictionary and several
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| Rating: | 292 Watched |
2. Hondo (1953)
| Rating: | 63 Watched |
3. His Kind of Woman (1951)
| Rating: | 47 Watched |
4. The Big Clock (1948)
| Rating: | 43 Watched |
| Rating: | 33 Watched |
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3. John Paul Jones (1959)
| Rating: | 6 want to see |
4. Ride, Vaquero! (1953)
| Rating: | 8 Watched |
5. The Four Feathers (1929)
| Rating: | 5 want to see |
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1. King of the Khyber Rifles (1953)
| Rating: | 7 Watched |
2. Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942)
| Rating: | 3 Watched |
3. The Shrike (1955)
| Rating: | 2 want to see |
4. Forbidden Island (1959)
| 1 Watched |
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1. Empire
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