John Farrow (February 10, 1904 – January 28, 1963) was an award-winning film director, producer and screenwriter.
Born John N.B. Villiers-Farrow in Sydney, Australia, John Farrow began writing while working as a sailor in the 1920s. He moved to Hollywood to work in films as a marine technical advisor and stayed on as a screenwriter. He wrote for films between 1927 and 1959, and also directed between 1934 and 1959. Farrow was also a writer of short stories and plays.
He's also remembered for being married to actress Maureen O'Sullivan. He fathered seven children, including actresses Mia Farrow, Stephanie Farrow, Tisa Farrow, and Prudence Farrow.
He died from a heart attack in Beverly Hills, California at the age of 58 and was buried in the Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City.
John Farrow (born November 8, 1853 in Verplanck, New York; died December 31, 1914 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey) was a catcher in Major League Baseball in the 19th century.
John Farrow wrote short stories and plays during his four-year career in the US Navy. In the late 1920s he came to Hollywood as a technical advisor for a film about Marines and stayed as a screenwriter, from Sailor's Sweetheart, A (1927) through Tarzan Escapes (1936). He married Tarzan's Jane, 'Maureen O'Sullivan (I)', in 1936. He began directing in 1937 (Men in Exile (1937) and West of Shanghai (1937)). He was injured while serving as 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 novels. He collaborated in the writing of several of his films and shared the Academy Award for Around the World in Eighty Days (1956).
