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John Farrow

Personal Information

Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Born / DiedFeb 10, 1904 (Died at 59)
Zodiac Sign♒Aquarius
Place of BirthSydney, New South Wales, Australia
Career Span1927 – 1963
Known Credits66 Titles
Official Links
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DirectingPopularity Score 0.9

John Farrow

Also known as:John Villiers Farrow
Total Works

66

66 movies • 0 shows

Avg Rating

6.4 / 10

across rated releases

Box Office

—

worldwide gross

Global Reach

#1

TMDB star index

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Farrow, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Signature Roles & Milestones

Around the World in 80 Days
6.7
Role: Screenplay
Mutiny on the Bounty
7.4
Role: Writer
Hondo
6.5
Hondo
1953•movie
Role: Director
The Big Clock
7.3
The Big Clock
1948•movie
Role: Director

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Full Filmography & Credits

Showing 66 titles featuring John Farrow

Around the World in 80 Days
6.7

Role: Screenplay

Mutiny on the Bounty
7.4

Role: Writer

Hondo
6.5
Hondo
1953•movie

Role: Director

The Big Clock
7.3
The Big Clock
1948•movie

Role: Director

Tarzan Escapes
6.9
Tarzan Escapes
1936•movie

Role: Co-Director

His Kind of Woman
6.8
His Kind of Woman
1951•movie

Role: Director

Where Danger Lives
6.4
Where Danger Lives
1950•movie

Role: Director

The Sea Chase
6.3
The Sea Chase
1955•movie

Role: Director

Night Has a Thousand Eyes
6.8

Role: Director

Five Came Back
6.3
Five Came Back
1939•movie

Role: Director

Alias Nick Beal
6.8
Alias Nick Beal
1949•movie

Role: Director

Wake Island
5.8
Wake Island
1942•movie

Role: Director

Back from Eternity
6.7
Back from Eternity
1956•movie

Role: Director

Commandos Strike at Dawn
5.5

as British Naval Officer (uncredited)

Copper Canyon
5.7
Copper Canyon
1950•movie

Role: Director

Botany Bay
6.6
Botany Bay
1952•movie

Role: Director

California
6.8
California
1947•movie

Role: Director

Ride, Vaquero!
6.1
Ride, Vaquero!
1953•movie

Role: Director

The Saint Strikes Back
5.8

Role: Director

The Unholy Wife
4.7
The Unholy Wife
1957•movie

Role: Director

Calcutta
6.4
Calcutta
1946•movie

Role: Director

Plunder of the Sun
6.3
Plunder of the Sun
1953•movie

Role: Director

Submarine Command
5.8
Submarine Command
1951•movie

Role: Director

A Bullet Is Waiting
6.3

Role: Director

China
6.9
China
1943•movie

Role: Director

John Paul Jones
6.0
John Paul Jones
1959•movie

Role: Director

King of the Khyber Rifles
5.9

as Cpl. Stuart (uncredited)

The Common Law
5.4
The Common Law
1931•movie

Role: Screenstory

The Invisible Menace
4.3

Role: Director

West of Shanghai
5.8
West of Shanghai
1937•movie

Role: Director

The Hitler Gang
6.3
The Hitler Gang
1944•movie

Role: Director

Inside the Lines
5.5
Inside the Lines
1930•movie

Role: Dialogue

Two Years Before the Mast
6.5

Role: Director

Wolf Song
5.1
Wolf Song
1929•movie

Role: Writer

My Bill
6.6
My Bill
1938•movie

Role: Director

The Spectacle Maker
6.2

Role: Director

Men in Exile
5.0
Men in Exile
1937•movie

Role: Director

Sorority House
7.3
Sorority House
1939•movie

Role: Director

A Bill of Divorcement
6.3

Role: Director

Married and in Love
5.7

Role: Director

The Impassive Footman
4.3

Role: Screenplay

Full Confession
5.6
Full Confession
1939•movie

Role: Director

Women in the Wind
6.8
Women in the Wind
1939•movie

Role: Director

Seven Days Leave
6.6
Seven Days Leave
1930•movie

Role: Writer

Red, Hot and Blue
6.2
Red, Hot and Blue
1949•movie

Role: Screenplay

Broadway Musketeers
4.4

Role: Director

A Woman of Experience
6.2

Role: Screenplay

Forbidden Island
6.2
Forbidden Island
1959•movie

as Edward Stuart Godfrey

Beyond Glory
8.0
Beyond Glory
1948•movie

Role: Director

Little Miss Thoroughbred
4.8

Role: Director

The Bad One
7.0
The Bad One
1930•movie

Role: Story

Blaze of Noon
5.7
Blaze of Noon
1947•movie

Role: Director

Reno
6.7
Reno
1939•movie

Role: Director

You Came Along
7.3
You Came Along
1945•movie

Role: Director

Last of the Pagans
6.7
Last of the Pagans
1935•movie

Role: Screenplay

Comet Over Broadway
5.7

Role: Director

She Loved a Fireman
7.5

Role: Director

Their Mad Moment
7.5
Their Mad Moment
1931•movie

Role: Writer

Easy Come, Easy Go
7.0
Easy Come, Easy Go
1947•movie

Role: Director

Ladies of the Mob
10.0
Ladies of the Mob
1928•movie

Role: Writer

The Wreck of the Hesperus
10.0

Role: Writer

The Blue Danube
10.0
The Blue Danube
1928•movie

Role: Story

The Woman from Moscow
8.0

Role: Screenplay

The First Kiss
9.0
The First Kiss
1928•movie

Role: Adaptation

The Wheel of Life
9.0
The Wheel of Life
1929•movie

Role: Screenplay

Three Week Ends
7.0
Three Week Ends
1928•movie

Role: Adaptation