William Farnum

🎂 Data nașterii: 1876-07-03 (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)

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.

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Gun Cargo

American Empire

Mr. Robinson Crusoe

A Woman's Face

The Lone Star Ranger

Captain Kidd

The Scarlet Letter

Hollywood Story

Moonshine Valley

True Blue

The Rainbow Trail

When a Man Sees Red

The Eagle's Brood

The Secret of Treasure Island

God's Country

Santa Fe Stampede

Fires of Conscience

The Drifter

His Greatest Sacrifice

Supernatural

A Connecticut Yankee

If I Were King

Git Along Little Dogies

Between Men

Shine On Harvest Moon

The Perils of Pauline

Convicted Woman

Rough and Ready

The Pagan Lady

Public Cowboy No. 1

The Spoilers

The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand

Are We Civilized?

The Vigilantes Are Coming

The Sign of the Cross

The Silver Bullet

Custer's Last Stand

Adventures of Red Ryder

The Brand of Hate

The Silver Streak

Gangs of Sonora

The Lone Ranger

Happy Landing

The Painted Desert

Brass Commandments

The Wide Open Spaces

The Gunfighter

Samson and Delilah

Lone Star

Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles

Last of the Duanes

The Crusades

Reckless Decision

Flaming Guns

Mexicali Rose

South of the Border

The Kid Ranger

Trail of Robin Hood

American Methods

Bride of Vengeance

Deep in the Heart of Texas

Frontier Badmen

Rovin' Tumbleweeds

Rolling Home

Maid of Salem

Million Dollar Haul

Undersea Kingdom

Today I Hang

Kit Carson

Ten Nights in a Bar-room

Hi-Yo Silver

The Man Who Fights Alone

The Conqueror

Daughter of the West

Men of Texas

Boss of Hangtown Mesa

Lone Star Ranger

Custer's Last Stand