William Farnum
Age: N/A | From: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Movie Involvements: 94
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
Biography
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.
Most Famous Work
Samson and Delilah
(1949) Tubal
The Mummy's Curse
(1944) The Sacristan
Cleopatra
(1934) Lepidus
The Spoilers
(1942) Wheaton
Kit Carson
(1940) Don Miguel Murphy
The Painted Desert
(1931) Cash Holbrook
Captain Kidd
(1945) Capt. Rawson
Supernatural
(1933) Nicky HammondActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1952 | Tom Crockett | |
| The King | ||
| 1951 | Himself | |
| 1950 | Bill Franum | |
| 1949 | Tubal | |
| Board of Inquiry Chairman | ||
| Conti Peruzzi | ||
| Father Vallejo | ||
| 1947 | Western Saloon Set Hero | |
| 1946 | Carter J. Latham Jr. | |
| Rodeo Official | ||
| Sandy McTavish | ||
| 1945 | Capt. Rawson | |
| Judge Polson | ||
| 1944 | The Sacristan | |
| 1943 | Dad Courtwright | |
| 1942 | Louisiana Judge | |
| Senator Huyler | ||
| Colonel Mallory | ||
| Judge Ezra Binns | ||
| Dr. Thad Morgan | ||
| General Sam Houston | ||
| Wheaton | ||
| Texas Ranger Major McNeil | ||
| Warden Burke | ||
| 1941 | N/A | |
| Priest | ||
| Texas Ranger Major McNeill | ||
| Ward Beecham | ||
| Court Attendant | ||
| 1940 | Don Miguel Murphy | |
| Colonel Tom Ryder | ||
| Father McKim | ||
| Commissioner McNeill | ||
| 1939 | Padre | |
| Senator Timothy Nolan | ||
| Sheriff George Glenn | ||
| Padre Dominic | ||
| 1938 | Milt Brower | |
| Dave Carson | ||
| General Barbezier | ||
| George Brennan Westmore (Editor) | ||
| Father McKim | ||
| 1937 | Sheriff Matt Doniphon | |
| Banker Maxwell | ||
| Crown Justice Sewall | ||
| 1936 | Father José | |
| Sharad | ||
| Gordon Gaunt | ||
| James Fitzpatrick | ||
| Bill Mason | ||
| James Fitzpatrick | ||
| 1935 | Pop Wiley | |
| John Wellington / Rand | ||
| El Toro | ||
| Sam Oreham - Banker | ||
| Crusades Actor | ||
| Hugo, Duke of Burgundy | ||
| Mr. Mallory - Sheila's Dad | ||
| 1934 | B.J. Dexter | |
| Joe Larkins | ||
| Lepidus | ||
| Gov. Bellingham | ||
| Col. Curtis | ||
| Paul Franklin, Sr. | ||
| Charles Waltham | ||
| Judge Flynn | ||
| 1933 | Squire Beamish | |
| Nicky Hammond | ||
| Rev. John MacDougall | ||
| 1932 | Henry Ramsey | |
| William Belmont | ||
| The Drifter | ||
| 1931 | U.S. Marshal | |
| Captain Len Andrews | ||
| Malcolm 'Mal' Todd | ||
| King Arthur / Inventor | ||
| Joe Morgan | ||
| Cash Holbrook | ||
| 1930 | Louis XV | |
| 1928 | N/A | |
| 1924 | John Marble | |
| 1923 | Billy Buell | |
| Stephen 'Flash' Lanning | ||
| 1922 | Dick Leighton | |
| Ned Connors | ||
| John Gibbs | ||
| 1921 | Richard Hall | |
| 1920 | Drag Harlan | |
| François Villon | ||
| 1919 | Buck Duane | |
| Steele | ||
| 1918 | Lassiter / Shefford | |
| Lassiter | ||
| Bob McKeever | ||
| Bill Stratton | ||
| 1917 | Jean Valjean | |
| Larry Smith | ||
| Sam Houston | ||
| Charles Darnay / Sydney Carton | ||
| 1916 | George Baxter | |
| Stephen Orry/Jason Orry | ||
| 1915 | Maurice Brachard | |
| 1914 | Marcus Superbus | |
| Roy Glenister | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
