David Farrar
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1908-08-21
Day of Death
1995-08-31 (87 years old)
Place of Birth
Forest Gate, London, England, UK
David Farrar
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
Acting
(1962)
The Webster Boy
as Paul Webster
(1962)
The 300 Spartans
as Xerxes
(1960)
Beat Girl
as Paul Linden
(1959)
Solomon and Sheba
as Pharaoh
(1959)
Watusi
as Rick Cobb
(1959)
John Paul Jones
as John Wilkes
(1958)
I Accuse!
as Mathieu Dreyfus
(1958)
Son of Robin Hood
as Des Roches
(1957)
Woman and the Hunter
as David Kirby
(1956)
The Battle of the River Plate
as Narrator
(1956)
Lost
as Detective Inspector Craig
(1955)
Escape to Burma
as The Sawbwa
(1955)
The Sea Chase
as Commander Jeff Napier
(1955)
Pearl of the South Pacific
as Bully Hague
(1954)
Duel in the Jungle
as Perry Henderson / Arthur Henderson
(1954)
The Black Shield of Falworth
as Gilbert Blunt, Earl of Alban
(1954)
Lilacs in the Spring
as Charles King
(1951)
The Late Edwina Black
as Gregory Black
(1951)
The Golden Horde
as Sir Guy of Devon
(1951)
Night Without Stars
as Giles Gordon
(1950)
Cage of Gold
as Bill
(1950)
Gone to Earth
as John Reddin
(1949)
The Small Back Room
as Sammy Rice
(1949)
Diamond City
as Stafford Parker
(1948)
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
as David Traill
(1947)
Black Narcissus
as Mr. Dean
(1947)
Frieda
as Robert Dawson
(1946)
Lisbon Story
as David Warren
(1946)
The Trojan Brothers
as Sid Nichols
(1945)
The Echo Murders
as Sexton Blake
(1945)
Meet Sexton Blake
as Sexton Blake
(1945)
The World Owes Me a Living
as Paul Collyer
(1944)
For Those in Peril
as Murray
(1944)
The Hundred Pound Window
as George Graham
(1943)
Headline
as 'Brookie ' Brooks
(1943)
The Night Invader
as Dick Marlow
(1943)
The Dark Tower
as Tom Danton
(1943)
They Met in the Dark
as Commander Lippinscott
(1942)
Suspected Person
as Inspector Thompson
(1942)
Went the Day Well?
as Lieutenant Jung
(1941)
Danny Boy
as Martin
(1941)
Sheepdog of the Hills
as Reverend Michael Varney
(1939)
Q Planes
as Viking Bo'sun
(1938)
A Royal Divorce
as Louis Bonaparte
(1938)
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
as Granite Grant
(1937)
Return of a Stranger
as Dr. Young