Dustin Farnum

Dustin Farnum

Born: May 27, 1874
Died: July 3, 1929
in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, USA
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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.

Movies for Dustin Farnum...

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Title: Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1942
Type: Movie
The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have died in those 25 years. Finally there are tributes to the Screen Snapshots series by Cecil De Mille, Walt Disney, Louella Parsons and Rosalind Russell.
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The Flaming Frontier
Title: The Flaming Frontier
Character: General George Armstrong Custer
Released: September 11, 1926
Type: Movie
Bob Langdon, a young Pony Express rider, is given an appointment to West Point, but is forced to leave the academy as the result of political intrigue stirred up by enemies of his friend, General George A. Custer. Bob returns to the west and is made a scout for Custer's 7th Cavalry. At the Battle of Little Big Horn, Custer sends Bob with a message for aid, and Bob becomes the only survivor of the battle.
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The Man Who Won
Title: The Man Who Won
Character: Wild Bill
Released: August 26, 1923
Type: Movie
Bill is a gambler, whose friend Scipio goes in search of his wife Jessie. Jessie, fed up with her life of poverty, has run off with the wealthy and villainous James. She has left behind her two children on James' promise that she can send for them later. Scipio leaves the tots with Bill when he goes on his search..
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The Buster
Title: The Buster
Character: Bill Coryell
Released: February 18, 1923
Type: Movie
In an attempt to try and tame young city girl Charlotte Rowland, Bill Coryell, a young rancher, plans a fake kidnapping party from which he is to rescue her. However, a bully interferes and incites her against Bill, but Charlotte discovers the ruse in time to save herself and Coryell.
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Three Who Paid
Title: Three Who Paid
Character: Riley Sinclairl
Released: January 7, 1923
Type: Movie
Three Who Paid is a 1923 American silent Western melodrama film directed by Colin Campbell, and starring Dustin Farnum, with Bessie Love and Frank Campeau. The film was based on the 1922 short story by George Owen Baxter,
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Iron to Gold
Title: Iron to Gold
Character: Tom Curtis
Released: March 12, 1922
Type: Movie
George Kirby steals a mining claim from Tom Curtis and forces him to become an outlaw. Years later, Curtis comes to the rescue when Anne Kirby is kidnapped by real outlaws, but when he finds out she is married to his enemy, he decides to hold her captive.
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The Devil Within
Title: The Devil Within
Character: Captain Briggs
Released: November 20, 1921
Type: Movie
Director Bernard J. Durning's silent seafaring romantic melodrama
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The Primal Law
Title: The Primal Law
Character: Brian Wayne
Released: September 11, 1921
Type: Movie
silent cowboy western starring Dustin Farnum as a rancher whose partner is killed by rustlers. He takes in his partner's young son, and begins to sell his ranch, but the boy finds oil on the land.
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The Corsican Brothers
Title: The Corsican Brothers
Character: Louis de Franchi / Fabien de Franchi
Released: February 22, 1920
Type: Movie
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A Man's Fight
Title: A Man's Fight
Character: Roger Carr
Released: August 10, 1919
Type: Movie
An impertinent son of a wealthy New Yorker, Roger Carr takes the blame for the murder of Norman Evans, whom Roger believes his sister Ethel shot when Evans assaulted her.
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A Man in the Open
Title: A Man in the Open
Character: Sailor Jesse
Released: February 23, 1919
Type: Movie
Sailor Jesse, shipwrecked off the Texas coast, naively becomes involved with a cattle rustler. Because the sheriff believes in his innocence, Jesse finds work as a cowboy, but soon becomes infatuated with Polly, the medium for fake hypnotist Bull Brooks, and marries her. When he learns that Polly married to win a bet, Jesse attempts to take her from the town's influences to open spaces, but Brooks falsely reports that she killed herself rather than go.
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The Light of Western Stars
Title: The Light of Western Stars
Character: Gene Stewart
Released: November 1, 1918
Type: Movie
A friend of Dick Bailey is killed by a mysterious assailant, whom Dick suspects to be Stack, who is in league with the crooked sheriff. Out on a spree Dick swears he will marry the first woman he sees, who happens to be Ruth Hammond, sister of his dead friend, arriving to take charge of the Hammond ranch. Revolted by his rough proposal,she fires him as the Hammond foreman and she proceeds to the ranch. Stack informs her he has purchased the ranch for the payment of the back-due taxes, and she relents and rehires Dick and his friends to aid her in her fight against Stack.
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The Spy
Title: The Spy
Character: Mark Quaintance
Released: August 17, 1917
Type: Movie
An American is sent to Germany to unearth the identities of German agents operating in the U. S. He infiltrates the German secret service in an attempt to abscond with a list of undercover German operatives.
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Durand of the Bad Lands
Title: Durand of the Bad Lands
Character: Dick Durand
Released: August 12, 1917
Type: Movie
While out on a plundering expedition, outlaw Dick Durand comes upon a band of Indians attacking a group of settlers. Dick opens fire on the Indians, but before he forces them to flee, they kill everyone except three children and Durand himself.
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A Son of Erin
Title: A Son of Erin
Character: Dennis O'Hara
Released: November 9, 1916
Type: Movie
Dennis O'Hara is a poverty-stricken Irishman who believes that if he comes to America he will immediately land a job as a policeman. So he manages to scrape together the funds to get him to Manhattan, and leaves his sweetheart Katie O'Grady behind while he makes his fortune. Naturally he discovers that joining the force isn't as easy as he expected, and when he does finally get in, he winds up in trouble because of the graft collections of his boss.
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The Parson of Panamint
Title: The Parson of Panamint
Character: Reverand Philip Pharo
Released: September 3, 1916
Type: Movie
A tough preacher comes to the rip-roaring gold town of Panamint in hopes of reforming it. But disaster awaits.
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Davy Crockett
Title: Davy Crockett
Character: Davy Crockett
Released: July 16, 1916
Type: Movie
The story of the famous Tennessee frontiersman, soldier, scout, and Congressman who fought and died at the Alamo.
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David Garrick
Title: David Garrick
Character: David Garrick
Released: April 30, 1916
Type: Movie
The true story of the famed British actor David Garrick and his love for Ada Ingot.
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Ben Blair
Title: Ben Blair
Character: Ben Blair
Released: March 9, 1916
Type: Movie
After the death of his mother, young Ben Blair finds a safe home on John Rankin’s ranch. But when Rankin is murdered, the older Ben sets out to seek vengeance.
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The Call of the Cumberlands
Title: The Call of the Cumberlands
Character: Samson South
Released: January 23, 1916
Type: Movie
An aspiring New York painter returns home to the Kentucky mountains to settle a feud between two rival families.
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The Iron Strain
Title: The Iron Strain
Character: 'Chuck' Hemingway
Released: November 7, 1915
Type: Movie
The story is set in Alaska, where spoiled and pampered heiress Octavia Van Ness has come for her health. Here she meets 'Chuck' Hemingway, who despite his rough exterior is likewise a child of wealth, and a Yale graduate to boot. When Van Ness violently rejects his romantic overtures, Hemingway turns to an old Indian chum for advice. The Indian suggests rather chauvinistically that the way to win a headstrong girl is to "tame" her -- that is, treat 'er rough and make 'er like it.
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Captain Courtesy
Title: Captain Courtesy
Character: Leonardo Davis (Captain Courtesy)
Released: April 19, 1915
Type: Movie
A romantic melodrama set in old California.
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The Virginian
Title: The Virginian
Character: The Virginian
Released: September 7, 1914
Type: Movie
A good-natured but chivalrous cowboy romances the local schoolmarm and leads the posse that brings a gang of rustlers, which includes his best friend, to justice.
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The Squaw Man
Title: The Squaw Man
Character: Capt. James Wynnegate
Released: February 15, 1914
Type: Movie
Blamed for the theft of an orphans fund, Captain James Wynnegate flees to the West where he makes a new life with the Indian woman Nat-U-Rich.
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The Lightning Conductor
Title: The Lightning Conductor
Released: January 1, 1914
Type: Movie