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Also Known As John Villiers Farrow
Born February 10, 1904 • Sydney • Australia
Died January 27, 1963 (aged 58) • Los Angeles • California
Awards And Honors Academy Award (1957)
Notable Works “A Bill of Divorcement” • “Alias Nick Beal” • “China” • “Easy Come, Easy Go” • “Five Came Back” • “His Kind of Woman” • “Hondo” • “John Paul Jones” • “Night Has a Thousand Eyes” • “Red, Hot and Blue” • “The Big Clock” • “The Unholy Wife” • “Two Years Before the Mast” • “Wake Island”
Notable Family Members spouse Maureen O’Sullivan • daughter Mia Farrow

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