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, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director in 1942 for Wake Island, and in 1957, he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Around the World in Eighty Days. He had seven children by his wife, actress Maureen O'Sullivan, including actress Mia Farrow. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Farrow is the 660th most popular film director (up from 742nd in 2019), the 125th most popular biography from Australia (up from 126th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Australian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, John Farrow ranks 660 out of 2,041. Before him are Andrey Zvyagintsev, Corey Yuen, Daniel Schmid, Michel Deville, Robert Z. Leonard, and Nancy Meyers. After him are Michel Hazanavicius, Anthony Asquith, Ulrich Seidl, John Madden, Stephen Hopkins, and Sally Potter.

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Among people born in 1904, John Farrow ranks 166. Before him are Giulio Gaudini, A. H. M. Jones, Armando Castellazzi, Chen Boda, Salomėja Nėris, and Daniel Guérin. After him are Ciriaco Errasti, Giancarlo Cornaggia-Medici, Andrew Marton, Henry Russell, Aleksei Kapler, and Fats Waller. Among people deceased in 1963, John Farrow ranks 104. Before him are August Rei, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg, Pierre Blanchar, Cilly Aussem, and Ivan Bek. After him are Guy Burgess, Fernando Tambroni, Vissarion Shebalin, Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Mary Agnes Chase, and James Kirkwood Sr..

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, John Farrow ranks 125 out of 1,143. Before him are Terence Tao (1975), Mark Evans (1956), Roger Donaldson (1945), Norman Thomas Gilroy (1896), Baz Luhrmann (1962), and Ron Clarke (1937). After him are Jacki Weaver (1947), Mervyn Rose (1930), Samuel Alexander (1859), James Aldridge (1918), Al Lawrence (1930), and Richard Norton (1950).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Australia

Among film directors born in Australia, John Farrow ranks 5. Before him are George Miller (1945), Peter Weir (1944), Roger Donaldson (1945), and Baz Luhrmann (1962). After him are Christopher Doyle (1952), Russell Mulcahy (1953), Bruce Beresford (1940), Phillip Noyce (1950), John Seale (1942), Fred Schepisi (1939), and John Pilger (1939).

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