Dustin Farnum
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1874-05-27
Day of Death
1929-07-03 (55 years old)
Place of Birth
Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, USA
Dustin Farnum
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dustin Lancy Farnum (May 27, 1874 – July 3, 1929) was an American singer, dancer, and actor on the stage and in silent films. Although he played a wide variety of roles, he tended toward westerns and became one of the biggest stars of the genre.
He was born in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, the older brother of actor William Farnum, whom he closely resembled, and the lesser known silent film director Marshall Farnum (died 1917). He married Mary Cromwell in 1909 and they divorced in 1924. He then married Winifred Kingston. Winifred and he were the parents of radio actress Estelle "Dustine" Runyon (1925–1983).
After great success in a number of stage roles, Farnum landed his first film role in 1914 in the movie Soldiers of Fortune, and later in Cecil B. DeMille's The Squaw Man.
He died of kidney failure on July 3, 1929, in Manhattan, New York City, aged 55.
Known For
Acting
(1942)
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
as Self (archive footage)
(1926)
The Flaming Frontier
as General George Armstrong Custer
(1923)
The Man Who Won
as Wild Bill
(1923)
The Buster
as Bill Coryell
(1923)
Three Who Paid
as Riley Sinclairl
(1922)
Iron to Gold
as Tom Curtis
(1921)
The Primal Law
as Brian Wayne
(1921)
The Devil Within
as Captain Briggs
(1920)
The Corsican Brothers
as Louis de Franchi / Fabien de Franchi
(1919)
A Man's Fight
as Roger Carr
(1919)
A Man in the Open
as Sailor Jesse
(1918)
The Light of Western Stars
as Gene Stewart
(1917)
The Spy
as Mark Quaintance
(1917)
Durand of the Bad Lands
as Dick Durand
(1916)
Ben Blair
as Ben Blair
(1916)
The Parson of Panamint
as Reverand Philip Pharo
(1916)
David Garrick
as David Garrick
(1916)
A Son of Erin
as Dennis O'Hara
(1916)
The Call of the Cumberlands
as Samson South
(1916)
Davy Crockett
as Davy Crockett
(1915)
The Gentleman from Indiana
as John Harkless
(1915)
Captain Courtesy
as Leonardo Davis (Captain Courtesy)
(1915)
The Iron Strain
as 'Chuck' Hemingway
(1914)
The Virginian
as The Virginian
(1914)
The Squaw Man
as Capt. James Wynnegate
(1914)
Cameo Kirby
as 'Cameo' Kirby
(1914)