William Farnum
Born: 1876-07-03 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Died: 1953-06-05
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
1952
- Lone Star as Tom Crockett
- Jack and the Beanstalk as The King
1951
- Hollywood Story as Himself
1950
- Trail of Robin Hood as Bill Franum
1949
- Samson and Delilah as Tubal
- Bride of Vengeance as Conti Peruzzi
- Gun Cargo as Board of Inquiry Chairman
- Daughter of the West as Father Vallejo
1947
- The Perils of Pauline as Western Saloon Set Hero
1946
- God's Country as Sandy McTavish
- Rolling Home as Rodeo Official
- My Dog Shep as Carter J. Latham Jr.
1945
- Captain Kidd as Capt. Rawson
- Wildfire as Judge Polson
1944
- The Mummy's Curse as The Sacristan
1943
- Frontier Badmen as Dad Courtwright
1942
- The Spoilers as Wheaton
- American Empire as Louisiana Judge
- Tennessee Johnson as Senator Huyler
- The Silver Bullet as Dr. Thad Morgan
- Men of Texas as General Sam Houston
- Today I Hang as Warden Burke
- Boss of Hangtown Mesa as Judge Ezra Binns
- Deep in the Heart of Texas as Colonel Mallory
- Lone Star Ranger as Texas Ranger Major McNeil
1941
- A Woman's Face as Court Attendant
- The Corsican Brothers as Priest
- Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
- Gangs of Sonora as Ward Beecham
- Last of the Duanes as Texas Ranger Major McNeill
1940
- Convicted Woman as Commissioner McNeill
- Kit Carson as Don Miguel Murphy
- Adventures of Red Ryder as Colonel Tom Ryder
- Hi-Yo Silver as Father McKim
1939
- Colorado Sunset as Sheriff George Glenn
- Mexicali Rose as Padre Dominic
- Rovin' Tumbleweeds as Senator Timothy Nolan
- South of the Border as Padre
1938
- The Lone Ranger as Father McKim
- If I Were King as General Barbezier
- Santa Fe Stampede as Dave Carson
- Shine On Harvest Moon as Milt Brower
- The Secret of Treasure Island as George Brennan Westmore (Editor)
1937
- Maid of Salem as Crown Justice Sewall
- Git Along Little Dogies as Banker Maxwell
- Public Cowboy No. 1 as Sheriff Matt Doniphon
1936
- Custer's Last Stand as James Fitzpatrick
- The Vigilantes Are Coming as Father José
- Sharad of Atlantis as Sharad
- Custer's Last Stand as James Fitzpatrick
- The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand as Gordon Gaunt
- The Kid Ranger as Bill Mason
1935
- The Crusades as Hugo, Duke of Burgundy
- Million Dollar Haul as Mr. Mallory - Sheila's Dad
- Between Men as John Wellington / Rand
- The Eagle's Brood as El Toro
- The Irish Gringo as Pop Wiley
- Powdersmoke Range as Sam Oreham - Banker
- Hollywood Extra Girl as Crusades Actor (uncredited)
1934
- Cleopatra as Lepidus
- The Scarlet Letter as Gov. Bellingham
- The Silver Streak as B.J. Dexter
- The Brand of Hate as Joe Larkins
- School for Girls as Charles Waltham
- Good Dame as Judge Flynn
- Are We Civilized? as Paul Franklin, Sr.
- Happy Landing as Col. Curtis
1933
- Supernatural as Nicky Hammond
- Reckless Decision as Rev. John MacDougall
- Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles as Squire Beamish
1932
- Flaming Guns as Henry Ramsey
- Mr. Robinson Crusoe as William Belmont
- The Drifter as The Drifter
1931
- A Connecticut Yankee as King Arthur / Inventor
- The Painted Desert as Cash Holbrook
- Law of the Sea as Captain Len Andrews
- The Wide Open Spaces as U.S. Marshal
- Ten Nights in a Bar-room as Joe Morgan
- The Pagan Lady as Malcolm 'Mal' Todd
1930
- Du Barry, Woman of Passion as Louis XV
1928
1924
- The Man Who Fights Alone as John Marble
1923
- Brass Commandments as Stephen 'Flash' Lanning
- The Gunfighter as Billy Buell
1922
- A Stage Romance as Edmund Kean
- Moonshine Valley as Ned Connors
- Shackles of Gold as John Gibbs
- Without Compromise as Dick Leighton
1921
- His Greatest Sacrifice as Richard Hall
- Perjury as Robert Moore
1920
- Drag Harlan as Drag Harlan
- Heart Strings as Pierre Fournel
- The Adventurer as Don Caesar de Bazan
- The Scuttlers as Jim Landers
- The Orphan as The Orphan
- If I Were King as François Villon
- The Joyous Trouble-Makers as William Steele
1919
- The Lone Star Ranger as Steele
- The Man Hunter as George Arnold
- Wolves of the Night as Bruce Andrews
- The Last of the Duanes as Buck Duane
- Wings of the Morning as Capt. Robert Anstruther
1918
- Riders of the Purple Sage as Lassiter
- True Blue as Bob McKeever
- The Rainbow Trail as Lassiter / Shefford
- Rough and Ready as Bill Stratton
- For Freedom as Robert Wayne
1917
- When a Man Sees Red as Larry Smith
- A Tale of Two Cities as Charles Darnay / Sydney Carton
- The Conqueror as Sam Houston
- The Heart of a Lion as Barney Kemper
- American Methods as William Armstrong
- Les Misérables as Jean Valjean
- The Price of Silence as Senator Frank Deering
1916
- The Battle of Hearts as Martin Cane
- The Bondman as Stephen Orry/Jason Orry
- Fires of Conscience as George Baxter
- The Man from Bitter Roots as Bruce Burt
1915
- The Wonderful Adventure as Martin Stanley
- A Soldier's Oath as Pierre Duval
- Samson as Maurice Brachard
1914
- The Spoilers as Roy Glenister
- The Sign of the Cross as Marcus Superbus