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.

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John Farrow was an Australian-American film director, producer, and screenwriter who became a prominent figure in classical Hollywood studio filmmaking.
He is known for directing acclaimed films like The Big Clock and His Kind of Woman, as well as winning an Academy Award for the screenplay of Around the World in 80 Days.