Mia farrow
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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 Tarzan Escapes (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 novels. He collaborated in the writing of several of his films and shared the Academy Award for Around the World in 80 Days (1956).
BornFebruary 10, 1904
DiedJanuary 27, 1963(58)
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John Farrow: Ingenious Filmmaker, Incorrigible Fabulist, Impossible Person(Preview)
by David Sterritt
John Farrow’s hour may be coming around at last. Although he directed scores of features between Men in Exile in 1937 and John Paul Jones in 1959, the prolific and versatile director has been oddly overlooked since 1963, when he died from a heart attack at the young age of fifty-eight. Today he’s best known as the father of movie star Mia Farrow and the grandfather of crusading journalist Ronan Farrow, who have kept the family name very much in view. But he made respected pictures in an array of genres, from Five Came Back (1939) and Two Years Before the Mast (1946) to The Big Clock (1948) and The Sea Chase (1955). Hollywood talents on the level of John Wayne, Alan Ladd, and Ray Milland worked with him repeatedly, and Maureen O’Sullivan, who acted in several of his movies, was his wife and the mother of their seven children. He earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Director with Wake Island (1942) and shared an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay
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Australian Dictionary of Biography
John Villiers Farrow (1904-1963), screenwriter and film director, was born on 10 February 1904 at Marrickville, Sydney, and christened Jack, son of native-born parents Joseph Farrow, a tailor's trimmer, and his wife Lucy, née Savage (d.1907), a dressmaker. In 1908 Joseph married Ethel McEnerney who died in 1912, after giving birth to their daughter. Leaving the children with his mother and sister, Joseph served in the Australian Imperial Force in 1915-16. Jack was educated at Newtown Public School and Fort Street Boys' High School (February 1917 to June 1918), then began a career in accountancy. He claimed to have run away to sea in an American barquentine, sailed 'all over the Pacific', and fought in revolts in Nicaragua and Mexico. He gained an enduring love of yachting. Reaching the United States of America, he enrolled at the Jesuits' St Ignatius College (University of San Francisco) in 1923, but left after one month.
A chance voyage in the South Seas with the film-maker Robert Flahertyaroused Farrow's interest in writing for the screen. Re
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