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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1908-08-21 (116 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

1960

Beat Girl as Paul Linden

1959

John Paul Jones as John Wilkes
Watusi as Rick Cobb

1958

I Accuse! as Mathieu Dreyfus
Son of Robin Hood as Des Roches

1957

Woman and the Hunter as David Kirby

1956

Lost as Detective Inspector Craig

1955

The Sea Chase as Commander Jeff Napier
Escape to Burma as The Sawbwa

1954

The Black Shield of Falworth as Gilbert Blunt, Earl of Alban
Lilacs in the Spring as Charles King
Duel in the Jungle as Perry Henderson / Arthur Henderson

1951

The Late Edwina Black as Gregory Black
The Golden Horde as Sir Guy of Devon
Night Without Stars as Giles Gordon

1950

Gone to Earth as John Reddin
Cage of Gold as Bill

1949

The Small Back Room as Sammy Rice
Diamond City as Stafford Parker

1948

1947

Black Narcissus as Mr. Dean
Frieda as Robert Dawson

1946

Lisbon Story as David Warren
The Trojan Brothers as Sid Nichols

1945

The Echo Murders as Sexton Blake
Meet Sexton Blake as Sexton Blake

1944

The Hundred Pound Window as George Graham

1943

They Met in the Dark as Commander Lippinscott
Headline as 'Brookie ' Brooks
The Dark Tower as Tom Danton
The Night Invader as Dick Marlow

1942

Went the Day Well? as Lieutenant Jung
Suspected Person as Inspector Thompson

1941

Danny Boy as Martin
Sheepdog of the Hills as Reverend Michael Varney

1939

Q Planes as Viking Bo'sun

1938

A Royal Divorce as Louis Bonaparte

1937