David Farrar

David Farrar

Born: August 21, 1908
Died: August 31, 1995
in Forest Gate, London, England, UK
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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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The 300 Spartans
Title: The 300 Spartans
Character: Xerxes
Released: August 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of his personal body guards from Sparta) to hold off an invading Persian army now thought to have numbered 250,000.
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The Webster Boy
Title: The Webster Boy
Character: Paul Webster
Released: June 1, 1962
Type: Movie
A gambler comes out of prison, returns to his old-flame, and finds that she has a teenage son, who begins to believe that the ex-con is his father.
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Beat Girl
Title: Beat Girl
Character: Paul Linden
Released: August 21, 1960
Type: Movie
When her architect father brings home a much younger new wife, rebellious and resentful teen Jenny goes to extreme lengths to sabotage their relationship.
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Solomon and Sheba
Title: Solomon and Sheba
Character: Pharaoh
Released: December 18, 1959
Type: Movie
Near death, King David has a vision that his poet son, Solomon, should succeed him, rather than hot-headed Adonijah. Furious, Adonijah departs the court, swearing he will become king. Other rulers are concerned that Solomon's benevolent rule and interest in monotheism will threaten their tyrannical, polytheistic kingdoms. The Queen of Sheba makes an agreement with the Egyptian pharaoh to corrupt Solomon for their mutual benefit.
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John Paul Jones
Title: John Paul Jones
Character: John Wilkes
Released: June 16, 1959
Type: Movie
The career of Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, from his youth in Scotland through his service to Catherine the Great of Russia.
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Watusi
Title: Watusi
Character: Rick Cobb
Released: March 25, 1959
Type: Movie
Alan Quartermain's son comes to Africa to find the treasure his father was unable to bring home.
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Son of Robin Hood
Title: Son of Robin Hood
Character: Des Roches
Released: November 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Ten years after the death of Robin Hood, the bandit of Sherwood Forest and defender of the Crown, the power-mad Duke Simon Des Roches plots to seize the British kingdom from its rightful heir, the boy prince, and only Robin's men stand in his way.
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I Accuse!
Title: I Accuse!
Character: Mathieu Dreyfus
Released: March 5, 1958
Type: Movie
Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an act of institutional anti-Semitism. Sent to prison, he becomes a cause célèbre for the novelist Émile Zola, who dubs it the "Dreyfus Affair." Eventually, Dreyfus is pardoned when the military cover-up is made public, and he returns to France. But his name is forever tarnished by the accusations of treason.
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Woman and the Hunter
Title: Woman and the Hunter
Character: David Kirby
Released: January 13, 1957
Type: Movie
When embittered safari guide David Kirby accepts a fateful commission to lead a hunting trip for wealthy and ruthless American Mitchell Gifford, tragedy soon intervenes and the big game hunt becomes a man hunt.
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The Battle of the River Plate
Title: The Battle of the River Plate
Character: Narrator
Released: October 30, 1956
Type: Movie
In the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open to supply the British Isles, facing the great danger posed by the many German warships, such as the Admiral Graf Spee, which are scouring the ocean for cargo ships to sink.
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Lost
Title: Lost
Character: Detective Inspector Craig
Released: January 31, 1956
Type: Movie
U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their 18-month-old son, Simon, has disappeared in London. He was last seen with their nanny, and the couple seemingly have no leads that might help police Detective Craig in his investigation. The media sensationalizes the incident, causing an unnecessary distraction as the couple prepares to confront the culprit face-to-face.
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Pearl of the South Pacific
Title: Pearl of the South Pacific
Character: Bully Hague
Released: September 16, 1955
Type: Movie
Two beachcombers with a yacht join woman-with-a-past Rita on a quest for black pearls on a secret island. Arrived, they find another white man has made himself high priest; but George, the latter's handome son, is fair game for Rita, who lands in the guise of a missionary! The inevitable conflict over the pearls brings violence and corruption to the quiet island.
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The Sea Chase
Title: The Sea Chase
Character: Commander Jeff Napier
Released: June 4, 1955
Type: Movie
As the Second World War breaks out, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich is about to leave Sydney, Australia with his vessel, the Ergenstrasse. Ehrlich, an anti-Nazi but proud German, hopes to outrun or out-maneuver the British warship pursuing him. Aboard his vessel is Elsa Keller, a woman Ehrlich has been ordered to return to Germany safely along with whatever secrets she carries. When Ehrlich's fiercely Nazi chief officer Kirchner commits an atrocity, the British pursuit becomes deadly.
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Escape to Burma
Title: Escape to Burma
Character: The Sawbwa
Released: April 9, 1955
Type: Movie
A fugitive in British Burma hides on a tea plantation, thanks to a mutual attraction with owner Gwen Moore.
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Lilacs in the Spring
Title: Lilacs in the Spring
Character: Charles King
Released: December 21, 1954
Type: Movie
A young actress must decide which of two lovers will be her husband. She daydreams about each one to help her decide.
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The Black Shield of Falworth
Title: The Black Shield of Falworth
Character: Gilbert Blunt, Earl of Alban
Released: September 2, 1954
Type: Movie
In the days of King Henry IV, stalwart young Myles and his sister Meg have been raised as peasants, without any knowledge of who their father really was. But one day, they journey to Macworth Castle. There, Myles falls in love with Lady Anne Macworth, makes friends and enemies, and learns to be a knight.
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Duel in the Jungle
Title: Duel in the Jungle
Character: Perry Henderson / Arthur Henderson
Released: June 30, 1954
Type: Movie
An American insurance investigator is sent to Rhodesia to investigate the mysterious death of a diamond broker who drowned whilst diving off the coast. The broker was insured for $1 million so the insurers are suspicious.
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The Golden Horde
Title: The Golden Horde
Character: Sir Guy of Devon
Released: September 30, 1951
Type: Movie
The Princess of Samarkand and an English knight confront the armies of Genghis Khan.
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Night Without Stars
Title: Night Without Stars
Character: Giles Gordon
Released: April 3, 1951
Type: Movie
A partially blind Englishman retires to the French Riviera. He meets and falls for the Widow of a French Resistance fighter but is horrified when he discovers she is involved with smugglers and murderers.
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The Late Edwina Black
Title: The Late Edwina Black
Character: Gregory Black
Released: March 31, 1951
Type: Movie
When a sickly Victorian woman dies suddenly, a postmortem reveals that her body contains a fatal dose of arsenic. Suspicion falls on her husband and her companion, who are lovers. Inspector Martin of Scotland Yard solves the mystery of her death... over a cup of tea.
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Gone to Earth
Title: Gone to Earth
Character: John Reddin
Released: November 6, 1950
Type: Movie
Jennifer Jones plays Hazel Woods, a beautiful young English Gypsey girl who loves animals and in particular her pet fox. She is hotly desired by Jack Reddin a fox hunting squire who vies for her affection and pursues her even after her marriage to the local pastor.
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Cage of Gold
Title: Cage of Gold
Character: Bill
Released: October 23, 1950
Type: Movie
The love that Judy, a young painter, feels for Alan, a promising doctor to whom she is engaged, falters when Bill, an old friend, suddenly appears.
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Diamond City
Title: Diamond City
Character: Stafford Parker
Released: September 20, 1949
Type: Movie
Set in the diamond fields of South Africa, Stafford Parker is a lawman trying to maintain a semblance of law and order in the "Wild South".
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The Small Back Room
Title: The Small Back Room
Character: Sammy Rice
Released: February 21, 1949
Type: Movie
At the height of World War II, the Germans begin dropping a new type of booby-trapped bomb on England. Sammy Rice, a highly-skilled but haunted bomb-disposal officer, must overcome his personal demons to defeat this new threat.
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Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
Title: Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
Character: David Traill
Released: September 27, 1948
Type: Movie
A handsome young master at a boys school incurs the jealousy of an embittered colleague. From the novel by Hugh Walpole.
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Frieda
Title: Frieda
Character: Robert Dawson
Released: June 19, 1947
Type: Movie
A young German girl marries an Englishman and moves into his family's household during the last days of World War II. The family and community have conflicting feelings about her presence in the community, and as a result, the family is forced to face their own moral code as they deal with their own prejudices and fears about the seemingly innocent German girl. The war ends, and she finally seems to be accepted into the family and community when her Nazi brother shows up to create havoc.
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Black Narcissus
Title: Black Narcissus
Character: Mr. Dean
Released: May 26, 1947
Type: Movie
A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate in the region is hostile and the nuns are housed in an odd old palace. They work to establish a school and a hospital, but slowly their focus shifts. Sister Ruth falls for a government worker, Mr. Dean, and begins to question her vow of celibacy. As Sister Ruth obsesses over Mr. Dean, Sister Clodagh becomes immersed in her own memories of love.
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Lisbon Story
Title: Lisbon Story
Character: David Warren
Released: May 20, 1946
Type: Movie
A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an atomic scientist.
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The Trojan Brothers
Title: The Trojan Brothers
Character: Sid Nichols
Released: February 4, 1946
Type: Movie
Opposing ends of a pantomime horse where the 'head' dates a society lady while the 'tail' is unhappily married.
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The Echo Murders
Title: The Echo Murders
Character: Sexton Blake
Released: December 17, 1945
Type: Movie
Detective Sexton Blake takes on Nazi spies while solving a series of crimes.
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Meet Sexton Blake
Title: Meet Sexton Blake
Character: Sexton Blake
Released: February 5, 1945
Type: Movie
The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man killed during an air raid.
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The World Owes Me a Living
Title: The World Owes Me a Living
Character: Paul Collyer
Released: January 1, 1945
Type: Movie
When a British pilot is hospitalized after a plane crash, the woman he loves sits by his bedside and remembers, in flashbacks, key episodes from their life together.
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For Those in Peril
Title: For Those in Peril
Character: Murray
Released: June 1, 1944
Type: Movie
A WWII flyer fails to join the RAF so he joins the Air - Sea Rescue instead. His boat is out in all conditions picking up downed pilots and taking them to safety.
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The Hundred Pound Window
Title: The Hundred Pound Window
Character: George Graham
Released: April 3, 1944
Type: Movie
An accountant who has to take a second job working at a racetrack, soon becomes mixed up with a shady crowd.
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The Night Invader
Title: The Night Invader
Character: Dick Marlow
Released: December 5, 1943
Type: Movie
Dick Marlow, a British agent, has parachuted into the occupied Netherlands to retrieve vital documents. Whilst on the trail of the papers, he poses occasionally as an American journalist and a Gestapo officer. He meets and falls in love with a Dutch woman who professes solidarity with the British, but matters become complicated and dangerous when it transpires that the woman's brother is in possession of the documents Dick Marlow needs, and is far less kindly disposed towards the British than his sister – or is she?
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Headline
Title: Headline
Character: 'Brookie ' Brooks
Released: November 16, 1943
Type: Movie
A crime reporter begins to investigate the disappearance of his bosses wife who had witnessed a murder.
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The Dark Tower
Title: The Dark Tower
Character: Tom Danton
Released: October 18, 1943
Type: Movie
While working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner.
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They Met in the Dark
Title: They Met in the Dark
Character: Commander Lippinscott
Released: August 11, 1943
Type: Movie
A Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him into revealing some military secrets and he is court martial. He vows to track her and her accomplices down.
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Went the Day Well?
Title: Went the Day Well?
Character: Lieutenant Jung
Released: December 7, 1942
Type: Movie
The quiet village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops posing as Royal Engineers. Their task is to disrupt England's radar network in preparation for a full scale German invasion. Once the villagers discover the true identity of the troops, they do whatever they can to thwart the Nazis plans.
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Suspected Person
Title: Suspected Person
Character: Inspector Thompson
Released: June 1, 1942
Type: Movie
After a $50,000 heist in New York, two of the suspected robbers walk free from the courtroom and they waste no time in heading to London in search of the missing loot. This means bad news for their former accomplice Jim Raynor, who has the money hidden away not least because they're not the only ones on his tail; Scotland Yard is also on the case...
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Sheepdog of the Hills
Title: Sheepdog of the Hills
Character: Reverend Michael Varney
Released: December 22, 1941
Type: Movie
Farmers are all losing their Sheep, all except 'Riggy's'. Is it because of his great sheepdog or something more sinister.
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Danny Boy
Title: Danny Boy
Character: Martin
Released: August 25, 1941
Type: Movie
A remake of Oswald Mitchell's own 1934 production, a story of Jayne Kaye (Ann Todd), a successful singer in America who returns to Britain during the Blitz to find her ex-husband and son who have fallen on hard times.
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Q Planes
Title: Q Planes
Character: Viking Bo'sun
Released: February 21, 1939
Type: Movie
In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test aircraft which have disappeared without a trace while over the ocean on their maiden flights; unaware, as they are, that a spy ring has been shooting the planes down with a ray machine hidden aboard a salvage vessel which is on hand to haul the downed aircraft aboard, crews and all.
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A Royal Divorce
Title: A Royal Divorce
Character: Louis Bonaparte
Released: September 21, 1938
Type: Movie
The love affair between the French Emperor Napoleon and the lady Josephine leads through Napoleon's rise to power and their eventual divorce.
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Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
Title: Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
Character: Granite Grant
Released: February 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Sexton Blake and Tinker foil criminal plot connected with the Tongs, and master-minded by "famous stamp collector" and millionaire.
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Return of a Stranger
Title: Return of a Stranger
Character: Dr. Young
Released: October 3, 1937
Type: Movie
James Martin and Carol Wall have plans to elope, but a fight with her father's solicitor ends in murder committed by an unknown third-party, and Martin is hunted for the crime, knowing the solicitor was alive when he left him. Carol refuses to speak to him, and he escapes on a ship to South Africa. There, he is the victim of an accident that disfigures his face, and he returns to England to clear his name, believing he won't be recognized. Other than by everybody who knew him, it turns out.