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 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).
