
Dustin Farnum
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dustin Lancy Farnum (May 27, 1874 – July 3, 1929) was an American singer, dancer, and actor on the stage and in silent films. Although he played a wide variety of roles, he tended toward westerns and became one of the biggest stars of the genre. He was born in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, the older brother of actor William Farnum, whom he closely resembled, and the lesser known silent film director Marshall Farnum (died 1917). He married Mary Cromwell in 1909 and they divorced in 1924. He then married Winifred Kingston. Winifred and he were the parents of radio actress Estelle "Dustine" Runyon (1925–1983). After great success in a number of stage roles, Farnum landed his first film role in 1914 in the movie Soldiers of Fortune, and later in Cecil B. DeMille's The Squaw Man. He died of kidney failure on July 3, 1929, in Manhattan, New York City, aged 55.
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David Garrick (1916)
as David Garrick

Strange Idols (1922)
as Angus MacDonald

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) (1942)
as Self (archive footage)

Oath-Bound (1922)
as Lawrence Bradbury

The Gentleman from Indiana (1915)
as John Harkless
Her Man (1924)
as Sledge

The Grail (1923)
as Chic Shelby

Kentucky Days (1923)
as Don Buckner

The Buster (1923)
as Bill Coryell

North of Fifty-Three (1917)
as 'Roaring Bill' Wagstaff

The Man Who Won (1923)
as Wild Bill

Big Happiness (1920)
as John Dant / James Dant

The Corsican Brothers (1920)
as Louis de Franchi / Fabien de Franchi

The Primal Law (1921)
as Brian Wayne

A Man's Fight (1919)
as Roger Carr

The Light of Western Stars (1918)
as Gene Stewart

The Call of the Cumberlands (1916)
as Samson South

A Man in the Open (1919)
as Sailor Jesse

Trail of the Axe (1922)
as Dave Malkern

A Son of Erin (1916)
as Dennis O'Hara

The Parson of Panamint (1916)
as Reverand Philip Pharo

The Squaw Man (1914)
as Capt. James Wynnegate

The Yosemite Trail (—)
as Jim Thorpe

The Virginian (1914)
as The Virginian

Iron to Gold (1922)
as Tom Curtis

Durand of the Bad Lands (1917)
as Dick Durand

The Flaming Frontier (1926)
as General George Armstrong Custer
Three Who Paid (1923)
as Riley Sinclairl

The Devil Within (1921)
as Captain Briggs

The Scarlet Pimpernel (1917)
as Sir Percy Blakeney

Captain Courtesy (1915)
as Leonardo Davis (Captain Courtesy)

The Spy (1917)
as Mark Quaintance

The Iron Strain (1915)
as 'Chuck' Hemingway

Davy Crockett (1916)
as Davy Crockett

Cameo Kirby (1914)
as 'Cameo' Kirby

Ben Blair (1916)
as Ben Blair
Soldiers of Fortune (1914)
as Robert Clay
The Lightning Conductor (1914)
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