William Farnum

Acting · 0.7 popularity

Age

150

Movies

123

Born: July 3, 1876 – June 5, 1953
From: Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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.

Works

123 films

Samson and Delilah

19496.6

Cleopatra

19346.1

Lone Star

19525.7

The Spoilers

19426.2

The Adventurer

19208.0

For Freedom

1918

A Woman's Face

19416.8

Sharad of Atlantis

19364.5

School for Girls

19347.5

The Crusades

19356.4

The Silver Bullet

19426.0

Captain Kidd

19456.3

American Empire

19425.0

The Corsican Brothers

19417.0

Samson

191510.0

Brass Commandments

19238.0

Heart Strings

19208.0

Jack and the Beanstalk

19525.7

The Perils of Pauline

19476.7

The Mummy's Curse

19445.5

Bride of Vengeance

19495.4

Maid of Salem

19376.2

If I Were King

19387.1

Adventures of Red Ryder

19406.7

Trail of Robin Hood

19506.3

Kit Carson

19406.1

Hollywood Story

19516.7

Git Along Little Dogies

19377.0

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2

19417.0

My Dog Shep

19466.3

Hi-Yo Silver

19407.0

Mr. Robinson Crusoe

19326.3

The Vigilantes Are Coming

19367.8

Tennessee Johnson

19426.4

Du Barry, Woman of Passion

19306.0

Santa Fe Stampede

19385.6

The Man from Bitter Roots

1916

The Eagle's Brood

19355.8

A Connecticut Yankee

19316.1

Hollywood Extra Girl

19357.5

A Tale of Two Cities

19174.8

The Painted Desert

19315.2

Between Men

19356.3

The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand

19365.2

The Lone Ranger

19387.0

Colorado Sunset

19397.0

The Secret of Treasure Island

19384.5

Convicted Woman

19404.6

Mexicali Rose

19397.0

The Battle of Hearts

1916

Frontier Badmen

19437.0

Gun Cargo

19498.0

The Pagan Lady

19314.0

Flaming Guns

19327.5

The Scarlet Letter

19345.1

Supernatural

19336.2

Les Misérables

19175.0

Without Compromise

19227.0

Good Dame

19347.0

South of the Border

19396.0

Shine On Harvest Moon

19385.0

Deep in the Heart of Texas

19427.5

Custer's Last Stand

19368.0

Powdersmoke Range

193510.0

Public Cowboy No. 1

19376.2

Ten Nights in a Bar-room

19315.6

Last of the Duanes

19416.5

A Soldier's Oath

1915

Men of Texas

19429.0

Custer's Last Stand

19365.3

Daughter of the West

19498.0

Rovin' Tumbleweeds

19395.7

Wildfire

19454.0

Rolling Home

19465.7

The Silver Streak

19346.9

God's Country

19467.0

The Brand of Hate

19345.8

The Conqueror

1917

The Kid Ranger

19364.5

Lone Star Ranger

19425.3

Gangs of Sonora

19418.0

The Spoilers

19146.2

The Man Who Fights Alone

19248.0

The Gunfighter

19238.0

The Joyous Trouble-Makers

19209.0

Drag Harlan

19209.0

Rough and Ready

1918

Law of the Sea

19316.3

Boss of Hangtown Mesa

194210.0

Tropical Nights

19288.0

If I Were King

192010.0

The Scuttlers

19207.0

Million Dollar Haul

19356.0

The Drifter

19326.0

The Last of the Duanes

191910.0

Happy Landing

193410.0

Today I Hang

19425.7

The Wide Open Spaces

19317.0

A Stage Romance

19227.0

Are We Civilized?

19346.0

Reckless Decision

19335.3

Moonshine Valley

19228.0

The Price of Silence

1917

The Sign of the Cross

19145.1

The Lone Star Ranger

19199.0

True Blue

1918

The Bondman

1916

Riders of the Purple Sage

1918

The Orphan

192010.0

Wings of the Morning

19194.0

Fires of Conscience

1916

The Wonderful Adventure

19151.0

The Irish Gringo

19358.0

Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles

19331.0

Perjury

192110.0

The Rainbow Trail

1918

The Man Hunter

19197.0

Wolves of the Night

19197.0

His Greatest Sacrifice

19214.5

American Methods

19171.0

When a Man Sees Red

1917

Shackles of Gold

19223.3

The Heart of a Lion

1917