David Farrar

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1908-08-21 (87 years old)

Deathday

1995-08-31

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Farrar (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

1942

Went the Day Well?

as Lieutenant Jung

1954

The Black Shield of Falworth

as Gilbert Blunt, Earl of Alban

1955

The Sea Chase

as Commander Jeff Napier

1959

1960

Beat Girl

as Paul Linden

1947

Black Narcissus

as Mr. Dean

1949

The Small Back Room

as Sammy Rice

1962

1959

John Paul Jones

as John Wilkes

1943

They Met in the Dark

as Commander Lippinscott

1947

Frieda

as Robert Dawson

1949

Diamond City

as Stafford Parker

1950

Gone to Earth

as John Reddin

1944

1955

Escape to Burma

as The Sawbwa

1955

1943

Headline

as 'Brookie ' Brooks

1956

Lost

as Detective Inspector Craig

1950

1951

The Late Edwina Black

as Gregory Black

1945

The Echo Murders

as Sexton Blake

1959

Watusi

as Rick Cobb

1943

The Dark Tower

as Tom Danton

1958

I Accuse!

as Mathieu Dreyfus

1945

Meet Sexton Blake

as Sexton Blake

1948

1954

Lilacs in the Spring

as Charles King

1941

Danny Boy

as Martin

1954

Duel in the Jungle

as Perry Henderson / Arthur Henderson

1958

Son of Robin Hood

as Des Roches

1939

Q Planes

as Viking Bo'sun

1938

A Royal Divorce

as Louis Bonaparte

1951

The Golden Horde

as Sir Guy of Devon

1942

Suspected Person

as Inspector Thompson

1943

The Night Invader

as Dick Marlow

1937

1945

1944

The Hundred Pound Window

as George Graham

1941

Sheepdog of the Hills

as Reverend Michael Varney

1946

Lisbon Story

as David Warren

1957

Woman and the Hunter

as David Kirby

1951

Night Without Stars

as Giles Gordon

1962

The Webster Boy

as Paul Webster

1946

The Trojan Brothers

as Sid Nichols

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