John Farrow

John Villiers Farrow,  KGCHS (10 February 190427 January 1963) was an Australian born 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. He was the father of Mia Farrow.