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William Farnum is a Actor American born on 3 july 1876 at Boston (USA)
William Farnum (July 4, 1876 – June 5, 1953) was an American film actor.
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) and 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 Santschi coached Gary Cooper and William Boyd in the fight scene for the 1930 version of The Spoilers. Other actors influenced by the Farnum/Santschi 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. While 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.
The actor Dustin Hoffman was named after Farnum's brother Dustin.
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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) and 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 Santschi coached Gary Cooper and William Boyd in the fight scene for the 1930 version of The Spoilers. Other actors influenced by the Farnum/Santschi 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. While 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.
The actor Dustin Hoffman was named after Farnum's brother Dustin.
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Lone Star (1952)
, 1h34Directed by Vincent Sherman, John Waters
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Historical, Western
Actors Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Broderick Crawford, Ed Begley, Lionel Barrymore, Beulah Bondi
Roles Tom Crockett
Rating61%
Devereaux Burke gets a personal request from former President Andrew Jackson to help keep Texas from entering into annexation with Mexico. The movement is gaining favor because it is mistakenly believed that Texas pioneer Sam Houston supports it.
Jack and the Beanstalk (1952)
, 1h18Directed by Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films, Children's films
Actors Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, William Farnum, Dorothy Ford, Barbara Brown, Mel Blanc
Roles The King
Rating57%
Mr. Dinkle and Jack (Abbott and Costello) look for work at the Cosman Employment Agency. Jack makes advances to Cosman employee Polly (Dorothy Ford), but he is thwarted by the arrival of her boyfriend, a towering police officer. Polly assigns Dinkle and Jack to babysit for Eloise Larkin's brother and infant sister, while Eloise (Shaye Cogan) and her fiancé are out for the evening. The babysitting duties are complicated by the fact that Donald (David Stollery) is something of a prodigy, as well as a self-proclaimed "problem child". The dull-witted Jack is soon outclassed by the child, and an attempt to lull the boy to sleep by reading the fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk (Jack's "favorite novel") aloud fails when Jack stumbles over the larger words. Bemused by Jack's incompetence, Donald reads the story instead--a role-reversal made complete when Jack falls asleep as Donald reads. In his slumber, Jack dreams that he is the young Jack of the fairy tale.
Hollywood Story (1951)
, 1h16Directed by William Castle, Frederick Kohner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Richard Conte, Julie Adams, Richard Egan, Henry Hull, Fred Clark, Jim Backus
Roles Himself
Rating66%
New York theatrical producer Larry O'Brien (Conte) plans to found a motion picture company in Hollywood. He buys an old studio which was unused since the days of silent movies. There he's shown the office where a famous director was murdered twenty years earlier. Although there were many suspects the case hasn't been solved. O'Brian becomes fascinated by the subject and decides to make a film based on the case. To this end he begins interviewing the surviving participants and soon gets into danger himself. In the end it turns out that the murderer is the victim's jealous brother.
Trail of Robin Hood (1950)
Directed by William Witney
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Roy Rogers, William Farnum, Tom Tyler, Gordon Jones, Tom Keene, Jack Holt
Roles Bill Franum
Rating59%
Roy is a conservation agent preventing loggers from poaching Jack Holt's Christmas trees.
Bride of Vengeance (1949)
, 1h32Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Actors Paulette Goddard, John Lund, Macdonald Carey, Albert Dekker, John Sutton, Raymond Burr
Roles Conti Peruzzi
Rating56%
Samson and Delilah (1949)
, 2h11Directed by Cecil B. DeMille
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Adventure, Historical, Peplum, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Films based on the Bible, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, Henry Wilcoxon, Fay Holden
Roles Tubal
Rating67%
Samson, a Danite Hebrew placed under Nazirite vows from birth by his mother Hazelelponit, is engaged to a Philistine woman named Semadar. At their wedding feast, Samson loses a bet with his wedding guests because of Semadar and attacks thirty Philistines to strip them of their cloaks to pay his betting debt. When his deeds become known, Semadar and her father Tubal are killed; Samson becomes a hunted man and in his fury he begins fighting the Philistines. The Saran of Gaza imposes heavy taxes on the Danites, with the purpose of having Samson betrayed by his own people. The Saran's plan works, and frustrated Danites hand over Samson to the Philistines, much to the joy of Delilah, Semadar's younger sister. Samson is taken by Prince Ahtur, the military governor of the land of Dan, and a regiment of Philistine troops. En route back to Gaza, Ahtur decides to taunt Samson. Samson rips apart his chains and ropes and begins to combat the Philistines, toppling Ahtur's war chariot and using the jawbone of an ass to club the Philistine soldiers to death.
The Perils of Pauline (1947)
, 1h36Directed by George Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Actors Betty Hutton, John Lund, Billy De Wolfe, William Demarest, Constance Collier, Frank Faylen
Roles Western Saloon Set Hero
Rating63%
Pearl White (Betty Hutton) is a frustrated factory worker who aspires to become a dramatic actress. She joins a touring theatrical troupe managed by handsome but pompous Mike (John Lund), but fame and fortune elude her because she's unable to suppress her natural rambunctiousness. In desperation, White takes a job at a movie studio, where she promptly finds herself in the middle of a slapstick pie fight. With the help of bombastic director Mac (William Demarest), top-hatted villain portrayer Timmy (Billy De Wolfe), and imperious dramatics coach Julia (Constance Collier), Pearl soon becomes world-famous as the star of such cliffhanging, tied-to-the-railroad-tracks serials as The Perils of Pauline.
Rolling Home (1946)
, 1h11Directed by William Berke
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Actors Jean Parker, Russell "Lucky" Hayden, Raymond Hatton, Pamela Blake, Jimmy Conlin, Jonathan Hale
Roles Rodeo Official
Rating58%
This script must be run from the command line
God's Country (1946)
, 1h4Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Western
Actors Robert Lowery, Buster Keaton, William Farnum, Stanley Andrews, Al Ferguson, Trevor Bardette
Roles Sandy McTavish
Rating58%
Lee Preston, aka Leland Bruce ('Robert LOwery'), kills a man in self-defense but flees to the redwood country when the law makes it a murder charge. There he meets Lynn O'Malley (Helen Gilbert, the niece of "Sandy" McTavish (William Farnum) who runs the trading post. Lee learns the reason why this is good trapping country is because the timber barons across the lake are ruthlessly cutting the trees and driving the animals across the river. The trappers appeal to him to take a petition to the Governor which would prohibit the timber people from coming to their side of the lake. At first, because he is a wanted man, he refuses but does so later for the sake of the people even though he knows it will lead to his arrest.
My Dog Shep (1946)
, 1h9Directed by Ford Beebe
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Tom Neal, William Farnum, Russell Simpson, Sarah Padden, Craig Reynolds, Al St. John
Roles Carter J. Latham Jr.
Rating60%
Captain Kidd (1945)
, 1h30Directed by Rowland V. Lee
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films
Actors Charles Laughton, Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton, John Carradine, Gilbert Roland, John Qualen
Roles Capt. Rawson
Rating62%
In 1699, William Kidd (Charles Laughton), a pirate who has recently captured the ship The Twelve Apostles and killed its crew, presents himself at the court of King William III (Henry Daniell) as an honest shipmaster seeking royal backing. With this backing, he recruits a crew from the inmates of Newgate and Marshalsea prisons, promising them a royal pardon at the end of their voyage. Among the new recruits is the quarrelsome, though cultured Adam Mercy (Randolph Scott), whom Kidd makes his new master gunner because of his claimed prior service with a famous pirate.
Wildfire (1945)
, 57minutesOrigin USA
Genres Western
Themes Films about animals, Films about horses
Actors Bob Steele, Sterling Holloway, John Miljan, Eddie Dean, Sarah Padden, Francis Ford
Roles Judge Polson
Rating54%
The Mummy's Curse (1944)
, 1h2Directed by Reginald Le Borg, Leslie Goodwins
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Actors Lon Chaney, Jr., Virginia Christine, Dennis Moore, Al Ferguson, Martin Kosleck, Boris Karloff
Roles The Sacristan
Rating54%
The Southern Engineering Company is trying to drain the swamp of Cajun Country for the public good. However, the efforts are being hampered by the superstitions of the workers, who believe the area to be haunted by the mummy and his bride.
Hangmen Also Die! (1943)
, 2h14Directed by Fritz Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Arno Frey, Anna Lee, Gene Lockhart
Roles Viktorin, patriote
Rating73%
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda (Brian Donlevy), a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich (Hans Heinrich von Twardowski), but his getaway car is discovered and therefore his planned safe house must reject him. When a woman he doesn't know, named Mascha (Anna Lee), deliberately misdirects German soldiers close to finding him, he seeks her home as an alternative safe house. This turns out to be the home of her father, history professor Stephen Novotny (Walter Brennan), whom the Nazis have banned from teaching. This plan works. But because the assassin now can't be found, the Nazi leaders in Prague decide to create an incentive for him to turn himself in or for others to do so. They arrange–with the help of fifth-columnist Emil Czaka (Gene Lockhart), a wealthy brewer–for 400 citizens, including Professor Novotny, to be executed, forty at a time, until the assassin is named. Through a complex series of events, however, the resistance manages to frame Czaka himself for the murder, but not before the Nazis have executed many of the hostages.
Frontier Badmen (1943)
, 1h13Directed by Ford Beebe
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Robert Paige, Anne Gwynne, Noah Beery, Jr, Diana Barrymore, Leo Carrillo, Andy Devine
Roles Dad Courtwright
Rating64%