1876-07-03 Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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.
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Jack and the Beanstalk | The King | 1952-04-07 |
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Lone Star | Tom Crockett | 1952-10-24 |
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Hollywood Story | Himself | 1951-06-01 |
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Trail of Robin Hood | Bill Franum | 1950-12-15 |
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Gun Cargo | Board of Inquiry Chairman | 1949-10-05 |
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Bride of Vengeance | Conti Peruzzi | 1949-04-07 |
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Daughter of the West | Father Vallejo | 1949-02-15 |
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Samson and Delilah | Tubal | 1949-12-21 |
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The Perils of Pauline | Western Saloon Set Hero | 1947-07-04 |
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God's Country | Sandy McTavish | 1946-03-15 |
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Rolling Home | Rodeo Official | 1946-11-01 |
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My Dog Shep | Carter J. Latham Jr. | 1946-11-01 |
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Captain Kidd | Capt. Rawson | 1945-11-22 |
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Wildfire | Judge Polson | 1945-07-18 |
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The Mummy's Curse | The Sacristan | 1944-12-22 |
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Frontier Badmen | Dad Courtwright | 1943-08-05 |
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The Silver Bullet | Dr. Thad Morgan | 1942-08-05 |
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Deep in the Heart of Texas | Colonel Mallory | 1942-09-25 |
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The Spoilers | Wheaton | 1942-06-11 |
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Men of Texas | General Sam Houston | 1942-07-03 |
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Today I Hang | Warden Burke | 1942-01-09 |
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American Empire | Louisiana Judge | 1942-12-11 |
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Boss of Hangtown Mesa | Judge Ezra Binns | 1942-08-21 |
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Tennessee Johnson | Senator Huyler | 1942-12-01 |
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Lone Star Ranger | Texas Ranger Major McNeil | 1942-03-20 |
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The Corsican Brothers | Priest | 1941-11-28 |
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Gangs of Sonora | Ward Beecham | 1941-07-10 |
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A Woman's Face | Court Attendant | 1941-05-09 |
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Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2 | 1941-12-05 | |
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Last of the Duanes | Texas Ranger Major McNeill | 1941-09-26 |
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Convicted Woman | Commissioner McNeill | 1940-01-31 |
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Hi-Yo Silver | Father McKim | 1940-04-10 |
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Kit Carson | Don Miguel Murphy | 1940-08-30 |
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Adventures of Red Ryder | Colonel Tom Ryder | 1940-06-28 |
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Mexicali Rose | Padre Dominic | 1939-03-26 |
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Rovin' Tumbleweeds | Senator Timothy Nolan | 1939-11-16 |
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South of the Border | Padre | 1939-12-15 |
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Colorado Sunset | Sheriff George Glenn | 1939-07-30 |
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Santa Fe Stampede | Dave Carson | 1938-11-18 |
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The Lone Ranger | Father McKim | 1938-02-13 |
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If I Were King | General Barbezier | 1938-09-28 |
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The Secret of Treasure Island | George Brennan Westmore (Editor) | 1938-03-17 |
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Shine On Harvest Moon | Milt Brower | 1938-12-30 |
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Maid of Salem | Crown Justice Sewall | 1937-02-12 |
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Git Along Little Dogies | Banker Maxwell | 1937-03-27 |
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Public Cowboy No. 1 | Sheriff Matt Doniphon | 1937-06-11 |
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The Kid Ranger | Bill Mason | 1936-02-05 |
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Undersea Kingdom | Sharad | 1936-05-30 |
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Custer's Last Stand | James Fitzpatrick | 1936-04-02 |
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The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand | Gordon Gaunt | 1936-04-17 |
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The Vigilantes Are Coming | Father José | 1936-08-21 |
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Custer's Last Stand | James Fitzpatrick | 1936-01-02 |
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Million Dollar Haul | Mr. Mallory - Sheila's Dad | 1935-04-02 |
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Powdersmoke Range | Sam Oreham - Banker | 1935-09-27 |
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The Irish Gringo | Pop Wiley | 1935-12-01 |
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The Eagle's Brood | El Toro | 1935-10-25 |
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Hollywood Extra Girl | Crusades Actor (uncredited) | 1935-08-22 |
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Between Men | John Wellington / Rand | 1935-10-29 |
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The Crusades | Hugo, Duke of Burgundy | 1935-08-21 |
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The Brand of Hate | Joe Larkins | 1934-11-02 |
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Are We Civilized? | Paul Franklin, Sr. | 1934-06-05 |
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School for Girls | Charles Waltham | 1934-03-22 |
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The Scarlet Letter | Gov. Bellingham | 1934-09-18 |
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The Silver Streak | B.J. Dexter | 1934-12-21 |
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Happy Landing | Col. Curtis | 1934-09-01 |
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Cleopatra | Lepidus | 1934-10-05 |
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Good Dame | Judge Flynn | 1934-03-16 |
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Reckless Decision | Rev. John MacDougall | 1933-01-01 |
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Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles | Squire Beamish | 1933-07-13 |
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Supernatural | Nicky Hammond | 1933-04-21 |
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The Drifter | The Drifter | 1932-01-10 |
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Flaming Guns | Henry Ramsey | 1932-12-22 |
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Mr. Robinson Crusoe | William Belmont | 1932-08-19 |
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Law of the Sea | Captain Len Andrews | 1931-12-15 |
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Ten Nights in a Bar-room | Joe Morgan | 1931-03-01 |
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The Painted Desert | Cash Holbrook | 1931-01-18 |
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A Connecticut Yankee | King Arthur / Inventor | 1931-04-06 |
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The Pagan Lady | Malcolm 'Mal' Todd | 1931-09-07 |
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The Wide Open Spaces | U.S. Marshal | 1931-12-28 |
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Du Barry, Woman of Passion | Louis XV | 1930-10-10 |
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Tropical Nights | 1928-12-10 | |
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The Man Who Fights Alone | John Marble | 1924-09-15 |
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The Gunfighter | Billy Buell | 1923-09-02 |
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Brass Commandments | Stephen 'Flash' Lanning | 1923-01-28 |
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Without Compromise | Dick Leighton | 1922-10-29 |
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A Stage Romance | Edmund Kean | 1922-03-05 |
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Shackles of Gold | John Gibbs | 1922-04-30 |
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Moonshine Valley | Ned Connors | 1922-08-27 |
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Perjury | Robert Moore | 1921-08-14 |
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His Greatest Sacrifice | Richard Hall | 1921-04-17 |
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The Joyous Trouble-Makers | William Steele | 1920-07-01 |
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Drag Harlan | Drag Harlan | 1920-10-24 |
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The Orphan | The Orphan | 1920-05-01 |
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If I Were King | François Villon | 1920-08-09 |
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The Scuttlers | Jim Landers | 1920-12-12 |
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The Adventurer | Don Caesar de Bazan | 1920-02-09 |
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Heart Strings | Pierre Fournel | 1920-01-18 |
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Wings of the Morning | Capt. Robert Anstruther | 1919-11-24 |
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The Man Hunter | George Arnold | 1919-02-23 |
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Wolves of the Night | Bruce Andrews | 1919-08-10 |
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The Lone Star Ranger | Steele | 1919-06-29 |
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The Last of the Duanes | Buck Duane | 1919-09-14 |
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Riders of the Purple Sage | Lassiter | 1918-09-01 |
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True Blue | Bob McKeever | 1918-05-05 |
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The Rainbow Trail | Lassiter / Shefford | 1918-10-27 |
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For Freedom | Robert Wayne | 1918-12-29 |
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Rough and Ready | Bill Stratton | 1918-03-24 |
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A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Darnay / Sydney Carton | 1917-03-10 |
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American Methods | William Armstrong | 1917-04-30 |
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Les Misérables | Jean Valjean | 1917-12-03 |
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The Price of Silence | Senator Frank Deering | 1917-01-08 |
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When a Man Sees Red | Larry Smith | 1917-10-28 |
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The Conqueror | Sam Houston | 1917-09-16 |
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The Heart of a Lion | Barney Kemper | 1917-12-15 |
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The Battle of Hearts | Martin Cane | 1916-05-21 |
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The Bondman | Stephen Orry/Jason Orry | 1916-03-20 |
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The Man from Bitter Roots | Bruce Burt | 1916-07-03 |
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Fires of Conscience | George Baxter | 1916-09-25 |
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The Wonderful Adventure | Martin Stanley | 1915-09-27 |
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Samson | Maurice Brachard | 1915-01-01 |
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A Soldier's Oath | Pierre Duval | 1915-12-19 |
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The Sign of the Cross | Marcus Superbus | 1914-12-21 |
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The Spoilers | Roy Glenister | 1914-04-10 |
