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Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 3, 1876
Died
June 5, 1953
Place of Birth
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
William Farnum
0.1 Popularity
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.
Known For
5.6
Tom Crockett
Lone Star
1952
5.6
The King
Jack and the Beanstalk
1952
6.6
Himself
Hollywood Story
1951
5.2
Bill Franum
Trail of Robin Hood
1950
6.5
Tubal
Samson and Delilah
1949
0.0
Board of Inquiry Chairman
Gun Cargo
1949
4.5
Conti Peruzzi
Bride of Vengeance
1949
0.0
Father Vallejo
Daughter of the West
1949
6.2
Western Saloon Set Hero
The Perils of Pauline
1947
5.0
Rodeo Official
Rolling Home
1946
Credits
Lone Star
as Tom Crockett
1952
5.6
Jack and the Beanstalk
as The King
1952
5.6
Hollywood Story
as Himself
1951
6.6
Trail of Robin Hood
as Bill Franum
1950
5.2
Samson and Delilah
as Tubal
1949
6.5
Gun Cargo
as Board of Inquiry Chairman
1949
0.0
Bride of Vengeance
as Conti Peruzzi
1949
4.5
Daughter of the West
as Father Vallejo
1949
0.0
The Perils of Pauline
as Western Saloon Set Hero
1947
6.2
Rolling Home
as Rodeo Official
1946
5.0
My Dog Shep
as Carter J. Latham Jr.
1946
6.0
God's Country
as Sandy McTavish
1946
6.0
Captain Kidd
as Capt. Rawson
1945
6.0
Wildfire
as Judge Polson
1945
1.0
The Mummy's Curse
as The Sacristan
1944
5.5
Frontier Badmen
as Dad Courtwright
1943
0.0
American Empire
as Louisiana Judge
1942
3.8
Tennessee Johnson
as Senator Huyler
1942
6.1
Deep in the Heart of Texas
as Colonel Mallory
1942
5.0
Boss of Hangtown Mesa
as Judge Ezra Binns
1942
0.0
The Silver Bullet
as Dr. Thad Morgan
1942
4.0
Men of Texas
as General Sam Houston
1942
0.0
The Spoilers
as Wheaton
1942
6.2
Lone Star Ranger
as Texas Ranger Major McNeil
1942
3.0
Today I Hang
as Warden Burke
1942
0.0
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
1941
6.0
The Corsican Brothers
as Priest
1941
6.7
Last of the Duanes
as Texas Ranger Major McNeill
1941
6.0
Gangs of Sonora
as Ward Beecham
1941
0.0
A Woman's Face
as Court Attendant
1941
6.9
Kit Carson
as Don Miguel Murphy
1940
6.1
Adventures of Red Ryder
as Colonel Tom Ryder
1940
5.5
Hi-Yo Silver
as Father McKim
1940
6.0
Convicted Woman
as Commissioner McNeill
1940
3.7
South of the Border
as Padre
1939
5.0
Rovin' Tumbleweeds
as Senator Timothy Nolan
1939
4.5
Colorado Sunset
as Sheriff George Glenn
1939
0.0
Mexicali Rose
as Padre Dominic
1939
6.0
Shine On Harvest Moon
as Milt Brower
1938
3.5
Santa Fe Stampede
as Dave Carson
1938
5.5
If I Were King
as General Barbezier
1938
6.8
The Secret of Treasure Island
as George Brennan Westmore (Editor)
1938
4.0
The Lone Ranger
as Father McKim
1938
6.0
Public Cowboy No. 1
as Sheriff Matt Doniphon
1937
6.0
Git Along Little Dogies
as Banker Maxwell
1937
6.0
Maid of Salem
as Crown Justice Sewall
1937
5.9
The Vigilantes Are Coming
as Father José
1936
5.5
Sharad of Atlantis
as Sharad
1936
4.2
The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand
as Gordon Gaunt
1936
4.8
Custer's Last Stand
as James Fitzpatrick
1936
0.0
The Kid Ranger
as Bill Mason
1936
3.7
Custer's Last Stand
as James Fitzpatrick
1936
4.5
The Irish Gringo
as Pop Wiley
1935
0.0
Between Men
as John Wellington / Rand
1935
5.0
The Eagle's Brood
as El Toro
1935
5.0
Powdersmoke Range
as Sam Oreham - Banker
1935
0.0
Hollywood Extra Girl
as Crusades Actor (uncredited)
1935
6.0
The Crusades
as Hugo, Duke of Burgundy
1935
6.2
Million Dollar Haul
as Mr. Mallory - Sheila's Dad
1935
5.0
The Silver Streak
as B.J. Dexter
1934
6.8
The Brand of Hate
as Joe Larkins
1934
4.5
Cleopatra
as Lepidus
1934
6.1
The Scarlet Letter
as Gov. Bellingham
1934
4.9
Happy Landing
as Col. Curtis
1934
0.0
Are We Civilized?
as Paul Franklin, Sr.
1934
4.0
School for Girls
as Charles Waltham
1934
6.0
Good Dame
as Judge Flynn
1934
5.5
Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles
as Squire Beamish
1933
1.0
Supernatural
as Nicky Hammond
1933
6.0
Reckless Decision
as Rev. John MacDougall
1933
4.5
Flaming Guns
as Henry Ramsey
1932
6.0
Mr. Robinson Crusoe
as William Belmont
1932
6.1
The Drifter
as The Drifter
1932
5.5
🎬
The Wide Open Spaces
as U.S. Marshal
1931
0.0
Law of the Sea
as Captain Len Andrews
1931
5.5
The Pagan Lady
as Malcolm 'Mal' Todd
1931
2.5
A Connecticut Yankee
as King Arthur / Inventor
1931
6.0
Ten Nights in a Bar-room
as Joe Morgan
1931
4.3
The Painted Desert
as Cash Holbrook
1931
4.8
Du Barry, Woman of Passion
as Louis XV
1930
5.4
Tropical Nights
1928
0.0
The Man Who Fights Alone
as John Marble
1924
0.0
The Gunfighter
as Billy Buell
1923
0.0
Brass Commandments
as Stephen 'Flash' Lanning
1923
0.0
Without Compromise
as Dick Leighton
1922
0.0
Moonshine Valley
as Ned Connors
1922
0.0
Shackles of Gold
as John Gibbs
1922
1.0
🎬
A Stage Romance
as Edmund Kean
1922
0.0
Perjury
as Robert Moore
1921
0.0
His Greatest Sacrifice
as Richard Hall
1921
3.5
Drag Harlan
as Drag Harlan
1920
0.0
If I Were King
as François Villon
1920
0.0
The Last of the Duanes
as Buck Duane
1919
0.0
The Lone Star Ranger
as Steele
1919
0.0
The Rainbow Trail
as Lassiter / Shefford
1918
0.0
Riders of the Purple Sage
as Lassiter
1918
0.0
True Blue
as Bob McKeever
1918
0.0
Rough and Ready
as Bill Stratton
1918
0.0
The Heart of a Lion
as Barney Kemper
1917
0.0
Les Misérables
as Jean Valjean
1917
5.0
When a Man Sees Red
as Larry Smith
1917
0.0
The Conqueror
as Sam Houston
1917
0.0
American Methods
1917
0.0
A Tale of Two Cities
as Charles Darnay / Sydney Carton
1917
4.8
The Price of Silence
as Senator Frank Deering
1917
0.0
Fires of Conscience
as George Baxter
1916
0.0
The Bondman
as Stephen Orry/Jason Orry
1916
0.0
The Wonderful Adventure
as Martin Stanley
1915
0.0
🎬
Samson
as Maurice Brachard
1915
10.0
The Sign of the Cross
as Marcus Superbus
1914
4.9
The Spoilers
as Roy Glenister
1914
6.2