William Farnum
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia William Farnum (July 4, 1876 in Boston, Massachusetts – June 5, 1953 in Hollywood, California) was a major movie actor. One of three brothers, Farnum grew up in a family of actors. He made his acting debut at the age of ten in Richmond, Virginia in a production of Julius Caesar, with Edwin Booth playing the title character. His first major success was as the title character of Ben-Hur in 1900 though replacing the original actor Edward Morgan who premiered the character in 1899. Later plays Farnum appeared in were the costume epic The Prince of India (1906), The White Sister (1909) starring Viola Allen, The Littlest Rebel (1911) co-starring his brother Dustin and a child actress named Mary Miles Minter(then nine years old) & Arizona (1913) with Dustin and stage beauty Elsie Ferguson. In The Spoilers in 1914, Farnum and Tom Santschi staged a classic movie fight which lasted for a full reel. In 1930, Farnum and Stantschi coached Gary Cooper and William Boyd in the fight scene for the 1930 version of The Spoilers. Other actors influenced by the Farnum scene were Milton Sills and Noah Beery in 1922 and Randolph Scott and John Wayne in 1942. From 1915 to 1925, Farnum devoted his life to motion pictures. When becoming one of the biggest sensations in Hollywood, he also became one of the highest-paid actors, earning $10,000 a week. Farnum's silent pictures the western Drag Harlan(1920) and the drama-adventure If I Were King(1921) survive from his years contracted to Fox Films. Farnum has a "Star" on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He was the younger brother of actor Dustin Farnum. He had another brother, Marshall Farnum, who was a silent film director and died in 1917. Description above from the Wikipedia article William Farnum, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
Samson and Delilah (1949)
as Tubal
The Spoilers (1942)
as Wheaton
Cleopatra (1934)
as Lepidus
Lone Star (1952)
as Tom Crockett
Jack and the Beanstalk (1952)
as The King
A Woman's Face (1941)
as Court Attendant
Captain Kidd (1945)
as Capt. Rawson
Sharad of Atlantis (1936)
as Sharad
For Freedom (1918)
as Robert Wayne
The Corsican Brothers (1941)
as Priest
Gun Cargo (1949)
as Board of Inquiry Chairman
The Crusades (1935)
as Hugo, Duke of Burgundy
The Mummy's Curse (1944)
as The Sacristan
Brass Commandments (1923)
as Stephen 'Flash' Lanning
The Adventurer (1920)
as Don Caesar de Bazan
Kit Carson (1940)
as Don Miguel Murphy
Samson (1915)
as Maurice Brachard
Trail of Robin Hood (1950)
as Bill Franum
The Perils of Pauline (1947)
as Western Saloon Set Hero
A Connecticut Yankee (1931)
as King Arthur / Inventor
If I Were King (1938)
as General Barbezier
Bride of Vengeance (1949)
as Conti Peruzzi
Heart Strings (1920)
as Pierre Fournel
Convicted Woman (1940)
as Commissioner McNeill
Maid of Salem (1937)
as Crown Justice Sewall
Tennessee Johnson (1942)
as Senator Huyler
American Empire (1942)
as Louisiana Judge
The Painted Desert (1931)
as Cash Holbrook
Hollywood Story (1951)
as Himself
The Silver Streak (1934)
as B.J. Dexter
Good Dame (1934)
as Judge Flynn
A Tale of Two Cities (1917)
as Charles Darnay / Sydney Carton
Adventures of Red Ryder (1940)
as Colonel Tom Ryder
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2 (1941)
Actor
School for Girls (1934)
as Charles Waltham
Hollywood Extra Girl (1935)
as Crusades Actor (uncredited)
The Pagan Lady (1931)
as Malcolm 'Mal' Todd
The Man from Bitter Roots (1916)
as Bruce Burt
South of the Border (1939)
as Padre
The Lone Ranger (1938)
as Father McKim
Les Misérables (1917)
as Jean Valjean
Gangs of Sonora (1941)
as Ward Beecham
The Eagle's Brood (1935)
as El Toro
A Soldier's Oath (1915)
as Pierre Duval
The Scarlet Letter (1934)
as Gov. Bellingham
The Silver Bullet (1942)
as Dr. Thad Morgan
Mr. Robinson Crusoe (1932)
as William Belmont
My Dog Shep (1946)
as Carter J. Latham Jr.
Daughter of the West (1949)
as Father Vallejo
Du Barry, Woman of Passion (1930)
as Louis XV
Shine On Harvest Moon (1938)
as Milt Brower
The Drifter (1932)
as The Drifter
Custer's Last Stand (1936)
as James Fitzpatrick
The Vigilantes Are Coming (1936)
as Father José
Powdersmoke Range (1935)
as Sam Oreham - Banker
The Brand of Hate (1934)
as Joe Larkins
Supernatural (1933)
as Nicky Hammond
Lone Star Ranger (1942)
as Texas Ranger Major McNeil
Santa Fe Stampede (1938)
as Dave Carson
Custer's Last Stand (1936)
as James Fitzpatrick
Wildfire (1945)
as Judge Polson
Last of the Duanes (1941)
as Texas Ranger Major McNeill
Fires of Conscience (1916)
as George Baxter
Rolling Home (1946)
as Rodeo Official
A Stage Romance (1922)
as Edmund Kean
Rough and Ready (1918)
as Bill Stratton
Git Along Little Dogies (1937)
as Banker Maxwell
Tropical Nights (1928)
Actor
The Spoilers (1914)
as Roy Glenister
Law of the Sea (1931)
as Captain Len Andrews
Deep in the Heart of Texas (1942)
as Colonel Mallory
The Wide Open Spaces (1931)
as U.S. Marshal
Rovin' Tumbleweeds (1939)
as Senator Timothy Nolan
Hi-Yo Silver (1940)
as Father McKim
Ten Nights in a Bar-room (1931)
as Joe Morgan
Flaming Guns (1932)
as Henry Ramsey
True Blue (1918)
as Bob McKeever
Colorado Sunset (1939)
as Sheriff George Glenn
Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles (1933)
as Squire Beamish
The Scuttlers (1920)
as Jim Landers
The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand (1936)
as Gordon Gaunt
Men of Texas (1942)
as General Sam Houston
Reckless Decision (1933)
as Rev. John MacDougall
The Man Who Fights Alone (1924)
as John Marble
The Gunfighter (1923)
as Billy Buell
God's Country (1946)
as Sandy McTavish
Million Dollar Haul (1935)
as Mr. Mallory - Sheila's Dad
Between Men (1935)
as John Wellington / Rand
Boss of Hangtown Mesa (1942)
as Judge Ezra Binns
The Secret of Treasure Island (1938)
as George Brennan Westmore (Editor)
Public Cowboy No. 1 (1937)
as Sheriff Matt Doniphon
The Conqueror (1917)
as Sam Houston
Riders of the Purple Sage (1918)
as Lassiter
The Battle of Hearts (1916)
as Martin Cane
Shackles of Gold (1922)
as John Gibbs
The Last of the Duanes (1919)
as Buck Duane
American Methods (1917)
as William Armstrong
If I Were King (1920)
as François Villon
His Greatest Sacrifice (1921)
as Richard Hall
Frontier Badmen (1943)
as Dad Courtwright
Mexicali Rose (1939)
as Padre Dominic
Without Compromise (1922)
as Dick Leighton
The Kid Ranger (1936)
as Bill Mason
The Lone Star Ranger (1919)
as Steele
Drag Harlan (1920)
as Drag Harlan
Moonshine Valley (1922)
as Ned Connors
Wolves of the Night (1919)
as Bruce Andrews
The Price of Silence (1917)
as Senator Frank Deering
The Joyous Trouble-Makers (1920)
as William Steele
Happy Landing (1934)
as Col. Curtis
The Orphan (1920)
as The Orphan
The Bondman (1916)
as Stephen Orry/Jason Orry
Today I Hang (1942)
as Warden Burke
Are We Civilized? (1934)
as Paul Franklin, Sr.
The Man Hunter (1919)
as George Arnold
Wings of the Morning (1919)
as Capt. Robert Anstruther
The Wonderful Adventure (1915)
as Martin Stanley
The Rainbow Trail (1918)
as Lassiter / Shefford
The Sign of the Cross (1914)
as Marcus Superbus
Perjury (1921)
as Robert Moore
When a Man Sees Red (1917)
as Larry Smith
The Heart of a Lion (1917)
as Barney Kemper
The Irish Gringo (1935)
as Pop Wiley