Charles Farrell

Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Born
August 9, 1900 (89 years old)
Died
May 6, 1990
Place of Birth
Walpole, Massachusetts, USA
Popular Genres
Drama Romance Comedy
Career Span
1923 – 1941

Charles Farrell

4 wins
6 nominations
4 Oscars
49 credits

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).

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Personal Info

Born
Aug 9, 1900
From
Walpole, Massachusetts, USA
Known For
Acting
Career
1923 – 1941

Award Recognition

4
Wins
6
Nominations
4
Oscars

Complete Filmography

1941

The Deadly Game as Barry Scott

1939

Tail Spin as Bud Award

1938

Flight to Fame as Capt. Robert Lawrence
Just Around the Corner as Jeff Hale

1937

Midnight Menace as Briant Gaunt
Moonlight Sonata as Eric Molander

1935

Fighting Youth as Larry Davis Award
Hollywood Hobbies as Himself
Forbidden Heaven as Mr. Archer / Nibs

1934

Change of Heart as Chris Thring Award
The Big Shakedown as Jimmy Morrell Award
Falling in Love as Howard Elliott

1933

Girl Without a Room as Tom Duncan
Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men as Adoniram 'Schlumpy' Schlump / Red Branahan

1932

Wild Girl as Billy, the Stranger Award
After Tomorrow as Peter Piper
The First Year as Tommy Tucker
Tess of the Storm Country as Frederick Garfield Jr.

1931

Body and Soul as Mal Andrews Award
Delicious as Larry Beaumont Award
The Man Who Came Back as Stephen Randolph
Heartbreak as John Merrick
Merely Mary Ann as John Lonsdale
The Flying Fool as Ponder

1930

City Girl as Lem Tustine Award
Liliom as Liliom Award
High Society Blues as Eddie Granger
The Princess and the Plumber as Charlie Peters / Albert Bowers
Song of Soho as Legionnaire

1929

Lucky Star as Timothy Osborn Award
Happy Days as Himself Award
Sunny Side Up as Jack Cromwell
The River as Allen John Spender

1928

Street Angel as Gino Award
Fazil as Prince Fazil Award
The Red Dance as Grand Duke Eugen

1927

7th Heaven as Chico Award
The Rough Riders as Stewart Van Brunt

1926

Old Ironsides as Boy Award
A Trip to Chinatown as Gayne Wilder
The Gosh-Darn Mortgage as Joe Hoskins
Sandy as Timmy

1925

The Freshman as Student Bell Ringer at Frolic (uncredited) Award
Clash of the Wolves as Dave Weston Award
Wings of Youth as Ted Spaulding

1924

Three Women as Reveler at Monkey Bar

1923

The Ten Commandments as Israelite Slave (uncredited) Award
A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate as Man in Nightclub (uncredited) Award
The Hunchback of Notre Dame as (uncredited) Award

Photos & Videos

Featured in Trailers

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Freshman

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