David Farrar
Known for Acting · 47 credits
- Born
- 1908-08-21
- Died
- 1995-08-31
- Place of birth
- Forest Gate, London, England, UK
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
David Farrar (21 August 1908 – 31 August 1995) was an English stage and film actor, born in Forest Gate, east London.
Three of his most notable film roles were leads in the Powell and Pressburger films Black Narcissus (1947), The Small Back Room (1949), and Gone to Earth (1950).
He retired in 1962. After the death of his wife Irene in 1976, he moved to South Africa to be with their daughter.
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Known For
Movies (47)
Solomon and Sheba
1959
as Pharaoh
Black Narcissus
1947
as Mr. Dean
The 300 Spartans
1962
as Xerxes
The Son of Robin Hood
1958
as Des Roches
John Paul Jones
1959
as John Wilkes
Woman and the Hunter
1957
as David Kirby
The Black Shield of Falworth
1954
as Gilbert Blunt, Earl of Alban
The Small Back Room
1949
as Sammy Rice
The Battle of the River Plate
1956
as Narrator
Frieda
1947
as Robert Dawson
Gone to Earth
1950
as John Reddin
The Sea Chase
1955
as Commander Jeff Napier
Escape to Burma
1955
as The Sawbwa
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
1948
as David Traill
Went the Day Well?
1942
as Lieutenant Jung
For Those in Peril
1944
as Murray
The Late Edwina Black
1951
as Gregory Black
Pearl of the South Pacific
1955
as Bully Hague
Q Planes
1939
as Viking Bo'sun
The Echo Murders
1945
as Sexton Blake
I Accuse!
1958
as Mathieu Dreyfus
Watusi
1959
as Rick Cobb
They Met in the Dark
1943
as Commander Lippinscott
Lost
1956
as Detective Inspector Craig
Diamond City
1949
as Stafford Parker
Beat Girl
1960
as Paul Linden
Lilacs in the Spring
1954
as Charles King
Duel in the Jungle
1954
as Perry Henderson / Arthur Henderson
Cage of Gold
1950
as Bill
Headline
1943
as 'Brookie ' Brooks
The Dark Tower
1943
as Tom Danton
The Hundred Pound Window
1944
as George Graham
The World Owes Me a Living
1945
as Paul Collyer
The Webster Boy
1962
as Paul Webster
Night Without Stars
1951
as Giles Gordon
The Golden Horde
1951
as Sir Guy of Devon
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
1938
as Granite Grant
Return of a Stranger
1937
as Dr. Young
Meet Sexton Blake
1945
as Sexton Blake
The Trojan Brothers
1946
as Sid Nichols
Danny Boy
1941
as Martin
Lisbon Story
1946
as David Warren
The Night Invader
1943
as Dick Marlow
Suspected Person
1942
as Inspector Thompson
A Royal Divorce
1938
as Louis Bonaparte
A Fighter Has Crashed
1943
Sheepdog of the Hills
1941
as Reverend Michael Varney
About David Farrar
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia David Farrar (21 August 1908 – 31 August 1995) was an English stage and film actor, born in Forest Gate, east London. Three of his most notable film roles were leads in the Powell and Pressburger films Black Narcissus (1947), The Small Back Room (1949), and Gone to Earth (1950). He retired in 1962. After the death of his wife Irene in 1976, he moved to South Africa to be with their daughter. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Farrar (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributo… With 47 credits spanning from 1937 to 1962, David Farrar has appeared in 47 films and 0 TV shows.
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- Solomon and Sheba (1959) — as Pharaoh
- Black Narcissus (1947) — as Mr. Dean
- The 300 Spartans (1962) — as Xerxes
- The Son of Robin Hood (1958) — as Des Roches
- John Paul Jones (1959) — as John Wilkes
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