John Farrow(1904-1963)
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
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 s'évade (1936). He
married Tarzan's Jane,
Maureen O'Sullivan, in 1936.
He began directing in 1937
(Men in Exile (1937) and
À l'ouest de 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
Le tour du monde en 80 jours (1956).
