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
- Watusi as Rick Cobb
- John Paul Jones as John Wilkes
1958
- Son of Robin Hood as Des Roches
- I Accuse! as Mathieu Dreyfus
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
- Duel in the Jungle as Perry Henderson / Arthur Henderson
- The Black Shield of Falworth as Gilbert Blunt, Earl of Alban
- Lilacs in the Spring as Charles King
1951
- The Golden Horde as Sir Guy of Devon
- Night Without Stars as Giles Gordon
- The Late Edwina Black as Gregory Black
1950
- Cage of Gold as Bill
- Gone to Earth as John Reddin
1949
- Diamond City as Stafford Parker
- The Small Back Room as Sammy Rice
1948
- Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill as David Traill
1947
- Frieda as Robert Dawson
- Black Narcissus as Mr. Dean
1946
- Lisbon Story as David Warren
- The Trojan Brothers as Sid Nichols
1945
- The Echo Murders as Sexton Blake
- Meet Sexton Blake as Sexton Blake
- The World Owes Me a Living as Paul Collyer
1944
- The Hundred Pound Window as George Graham
- For Those in Peril as Murray
1943
- Headline as 'Brookie ' Brooks
- The Dark Tower as Tom Danton
- They Met in the Dark as Commander Lippinscott
- The Night Invader as Dick Marlow
1942
- Suspected Person as Inspector Thompson
- Went the Day Well? as Lieutenant Jung
1941
- Danny Boy as Martin
- Sheepdog of the Hills as Reverend Michael Varney
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