Charles Farrell

Biography

Popular Hollywood leading man of late silents and early talkies. He is best remembered for his teaming with Janet Gaynor in 12 screen romances between 1927 and 1934. He retired from films in the early 1940s, but TV audiences of the 1950s would see him as Gale Storm's widower dad in the popular television series My Little Margie (1952).

Known For

Three Women
Three Women
A Trip to Chinatown
A Trip to Chinatown
The Gosh-Darn Mortgage
The Gosh-Darn Mortgage
Midnight Menace
Midnight Menace
Change of Heart
Change of Heart
Street Angel
Street Angel

Filmography

1956 The Charlie Farrell Show
as
1952 My Little Margie
as Vern Albright
1941 The Deadly Game
as Barry Scott
1939 Tail Spin
as Bud
1938 Just Around the Corner
as Jeff Hale
1938 Flight to Fame
as Capt. Robert Lawrence
1937 Midnight Menace
as Briant Gaunt
1937 Moonlight Sonata
as Eric Molander
1935 Fighting Youth
as Larry Davis
1935 Forbidden Heaven
as Mr. Archer / Nibs
1935 Hollywood Hobbies
as Himself
1934 Falling in Love
as Howard Elliott
1934 Change of Heart
as Chris Thring
1934 The Big Shakedown
as Jimmy Morrell
1933 Girl Without a Room
as Tom Duncan
1933 Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men
as Adoniram 'Schlumpy' Schlump / Red Branahan
1932 Tess of the Storm Country
as Frederick Garfield Jr.
1932 Wild Girl
as Billy, the Stranger
1932 The First Year
as Tommy Tucker
1932 After Tomorrow
as Peter Piper