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Charles Farrell

Charles Farrell

Acting1900Walpole, Massachusetts, USA

Biography

Popular Hollywood leading man of late silents and early talkies. He is best remembered for his teaming with Janet Gaynor in 12 screen romances between 1927 and 1934. He retired from films in the early 1940s, but TV audiences of the 1950s would see him as Gale Storm's widower dad in the popular television series My Little Margie (1952).

Acting History

1952
My Little Margie
TVas Vern Albright
1941
The Deadly Game
as Barry Scott
1939
Tail Spin
as Bud
1938
Flight to Fame
as Capt. Robert Lawrence
1937
Moonlight Sonata
as Eric Molander
Midnight Menace
as Briant Gaunt
1935
Forbidden Heaven
as Mr. Archer / Nibs
Fighting Youth
as Larry Davis
1934
Falling in Love
as Howard Elliott
The Big Shakedown
as Jimmy Morrell
Change of Heart
as Chris Thring
1933
Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men
as Adoniram 'Schlumpy' Schlump / Red Branahan
Girl Without a Room
as Tom Duncan
1932
The First Year
as Tommy Tucker
After Tomorrow
as Peter Piper
Wild Girl
as Billy, the Stranger
Tess of the Storm Country
as Frederick Garfield Jr.
1931
Merely Mary Ann
as John Lonsdale
Delicious
as Larry Beaumont
Heartbreak
as John Merrick
The Man Who Came Back
as Stephen Randolph
Body and Soul
as Mal Andrews
1930
Liliom
as Liliom
Song of Soho
as Legionnaire
High Society Blues
as Eddie Granger
The Princess and the Plumber
as Charlie Peters / Albert Bowers
City Girl
as Lem Tustine
1929
Lucky Star
as Timothy Osborn
Sunny Side Up
as Jack Cromwell
Happy Days
as Charles Farrell
The River
as Allen John Spender
1928
The Red Dance
as Grand Duke Eugen
Fazil
as Prince Fazil
1927
7th Heaven
as Chico
The Rough Riders
as Stewart Van Brunt
1926
Sandy
as Timmy
A Trip to Chinatown
as Gayne Wilder
1925
The Freshman
as Student Bell Ringer at Frolic (uncredited)
Clash of the Wolves
as Dave Weston
Wings of Youth
as Ted Spaulding
1924
Three Women
as Reveler at Monkey Bar
1923
The Ten Commandments
as Israelite Slave (uncredited)
A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
as Man in Nightclub (uncredited)
Rosita
as Undetermined Bit Role (uncredited)

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Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
8/9/1900
Day of Death
5/6/1990
Place of Birth
Walpole, Massachusetts, USA