William Farnum

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: Acting

Born: Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 1876-07-03

Died: 1953-06-05

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1914	The Spoilers	Roy Glenister	62
2	1914	The Sign of the Cross	Marcus Superbus	49
3	1915	Samson	Maurice Brachard	100
4	1915	The Wonderful Adventure	Martin Stanley	0
5	1916	The Bondman	Stephen Orry/Jason Orry	0
6	1916	Fires of Conscience	George Baxter	0
7	1917	The Price of Silence	Senator Frank Deering	0
8	1917	A Tale of Two Cities	Charles Darnay / Sydney Carton	48
9	1917	American Methods		0
10	1917	The Conqueror	Sam Houston	0
11	1917	When a Man Sees Red	Larry Smith	0
12	1917	Les Misérables	Jean Valjean	50
13	1917	The Heart of a Lion	Barney Kemper	0
14	1918	Rough and Ready	Bill Stratton	0
15	1918	True Blue	Bob McKeever	0
16	1918	Riders of the Purple Sage	Lassiter	0
17	1918	The Rainbow Trail	Lassiter / Shefford	0
18	1919	The Lone Star Ranger	Steele	0
19	1919	The Last of the Duanes	Buck Duane	0
20	1920	If I Were King	François Villon	0
21	1920	Drag Harlan	Drag Harlan	0
22	1921	His Greatest Sacrifice	Richard Hall	35
23	1921	Perjury	Robert Moore	0
24	1922	A Stage Romance	Edmund Kean	0
25	1922	Shackles of Gold	John Gibbs	10
26	1922	Moonshine Valley	Ned Connors	0
27	1922	Without Compromise	Dick Leighton	0
28	1923	Brass Commandments	Stephen 'Flash' Lanning	0
29	1923	The Gunfighter	Billy Buell	0
30	1924	The Man Who Fights Alone	John Marble	0
31	1928	Tropical Nights		0
32	1930	Du Barry, Woman of Passion	Louis XV	54
33	1931	The Painted Desert	Cash Holbrook	48
34	1931	Ten Nights in a Bar-room	Joe Morgan	43
35	1931	A Connecticut Yankee	King Arthur / Inventor	60
36	1931	The Pagan Lady	Malcolm 'Mal' Todd	25
37	1931	Law of the Sea	Captain Len Andrews	55
38	1931	The Wide Open Spaces	U.S. Marshal	0
39	1932	The Drifter	The Drifter	55
40	1932	Mr. Robinson Crusoe	William Belmont	61
41	1932	Flaming Guns	Henry Ramsey	60
42	1933	Reckless Decision	Rev. John MacDougall	45
43	1933	Supernatural	Nicky Hammond	60
44	1933	Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles	Squire Beamish	10
45	1934	Good Dame	Judge Flynn	55
46	1934	School for Girls	Charles Waltham	60
47	1934	Are We Civilized?	Paul Franklin, Sr.	40
48	1934	Happy Landing	Col. Curtis	0
49	1934	The Scarlet Letter	Gov. Bellingham	49
50	1934	Cleopatra	Lepidus	61
51	1934	The Brand of Hate	Joe Larkins	45
52	1934	The Silver Streak	B.J. Dexter	68
53	1935	Million Dollar Haul	Mr. Mallory - Sheila's Dad	50
54	1935	The Crusades	Hugo, Duke of Burgundy	62
55	1935	Hollywood Extra Girl	Crusades Actor (uncredited)	60
56	1935	Powdersmoke Range	Sam Oreham - Banker	0
57	1935	The Eagle's Brood	El Toro	50
58	1935	Between Men	John Wellington / Rand	50
59	1935	The Irish Gringo	Pop Wiley	0
60	1936	Custer's Last Stand	James Fitzpatrick	45
61	1936	The Kid Ranger	Bill Mason	37
62	1936	Custer's Last Stand	James Fitzpatrick	0
63	1936	The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand	Gordon Gaunt	48
64	1936	Sharad of Atlantis	Sharad	42
65	1936	The Vigilantes Are Coming	Father José	55
66	1937	Maid of Salem	Crown Justice Sewall	59
67	1937	Git Along Little Dogies	Banker Maxwell	60
68	1937	Public Cowboy No. 1	Sheriff Matt Doniphon	60
69	1938	The Lone Ranger	Father McKim	60
70	1938	The Secret of Treasure Island	George Brennan Westmore (Editor)	40
71	1938	If I Were King	General Barbezier	68
72	1938	Santa Fe Stampede	Dave Carson	55
73	1938	Shine On Harvest Moon	Milt Brower	35
74	1939	Mexicali Rose	Padre Dominic	60
75	1939	Colorado Sunset	Sheriff George Glenn	0
76	1939	Rovin' Tumbleweeds	Senator Timothy Nolan	45
77	1939	South of the Border	Padre	50
78	1940	Convicted Woman	Commissioner McNeill	37
79	1940	Hi-Yo Silver	Father McKim	60
80	1940	Adventures of Red Ryder	Colonel Tom Ryder	55
81	1940	Kit Carson	Don Miguel Murphy	61
82	1941	A Woman's Face	Court Attendant	69
83	1941	Gangs of Sonora	Ward Beecham	0
84	1941	Last of the Duanes	Texas Ranger Major McNeill	60
85	1941	The Corsican Brothers	Priest	67
86	1941	Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2		60
87	1942	Today I Hang	Warden Burke	0
88	1942	Lone Star Ranger	Texas Ranger Major McNeil	30
89	1942	The Spoilers	Wheaton	62
90	1942	Men of Texas	General Sam Houston	0
91	1942	The Silver Bullet	Dr. Thad Morgan	40
92	1942	Boss of Hangtown Mesa	Judge Ezra Binns	0
93	1942	Deep in the Heart of Texas	Colonel Mallory	50
94	1942	Tennessee Johnson	Senator Huyler	61
95	1942	American Empire	Louisiana Judge	38
96	1943	Frontier Badmen	Dad Courtwright	0
97	1944	The Mummy's Curse	The Sacristan	55
98	1945	Wildfire	Judge Polson	10
99	1945	Captain Kidd	Capt. Rawson	60
100	1946	God's Country	Sandy McTavish	60
101	1946	Rolling Home	Rodeo Official	50
102	1946	My Dog Shep	Carter J. Latham Jr.	60
103	1947	The Perils of Pauline	Western Saloon Set Hero	62
104	1949	Daughter of the West	Father Vallejo	0
105	1949	Bride of Vengeance	Conti Peruzzi	50
106	1949	Gun Cargo	Board of Inquiry Chairman	0
107	1949	Samson and Delilah	Tubal	65
108	1950	Trail of Robin Hood	Bill Franum	52
109	1951	Hollywood Story	Himself	66
110	1952	Jack and the Beanstalk	The King	56
111	1952	Lone Star	Tom Crockett	56

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