David Farrar
Born: 1908-08-21 in Forest Gate, London, England, UK
Died: 1995-08-31
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia David Farrar (21 August 1908 – 31 August 1995) was an English stage and film actor, born in Forest Gate, east London. Three of his most notable film roles were leads in the Powell and Pressburger films Black Narcissus (1947), The Small Back Room (1949), and Gone to Earth (1950). He retired in 1962. After the death of his wife Irene in 1976, he moved to South Africa to be with their daughter. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Farrar (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
1962
- The 300 Spartans as Xerxes
- The Webster Boy as Paul Webster
1960
- Beat Girl as Paul Linden
1959
- Solomon and Sheba as Pharaoh
- John Paul Jones as John Wilkes
- Watusi as Rick Cobb
1958
- I Accuse! as Mathieu Dreyfus
- The Son of Robin Hood as Des Roches
1957
- Woman and the Hunter as David Kirby
1956
- The Battle of the River Plate as Narrator
- Lost as Detective Inspector Craig
1955
- The Sea Chase as Commander Jeff Napier
- Escape to Burma as The Sawbwa
- Pearl of the South Pacific as Bully Hague
1954
- The Black Shield of Falworth as Gilbert Blunt, Earl of Alban
- Duel in the Jungle as Perry Henderson / Arthur Henderson
- Lilacs in the Spring as Charles King
1951
- The Golden Horde as Sir Guy of Devon
- The Late Edwina Black as Gregory Black
- Night Without Stars as Giles Gordon
1950
- Cage of Gold as Bill
- Gone to Earth as John Reddin
1949
- The Small Back Room as Sammy Rice
- Diamond City as Stafford Parker
1948
- Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill as David Traill
1947
- Black Narcissus as Mr. Dean
- Frieda as Robert Dawson
1946
- The Trojan Brothers as Sid Nichols
- Lisbon Story as David Warren
1945
- The World Owes Me a Living as Paul Collyer
- Meet Sexton Blake as Sexton Blake
- The Echo Murders as Sexton Blake
1944
- For Those in Peril as Murray
- The Hundred Pound Window as George Graham
1943
- The Night Invader as Dick Marlow
- They Met in the Dark as Commander Lippinscott
- The Dark Tower as Tom Danton
- Headline as 'Brookie ' Brooks
1942
- Went the Day Well? as Lieutenant Jung
- Suspected Person as Inspector Thompson
1941
- Sheepdog of the Hills as Reverend Michael Varney
- Danny Boy as Martin
1939
- Q Planes as Viking Bo'sun
1938
- Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror as Granite Grant
- A Royal Divorce as Louis Bonaparte
1937
- Return of a Stranger as Dr. Young