Dustin Farnum
Biography
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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.
Filmography
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942
as Self (archive footage)
The Flaming Frontier
1926
as General George Armstrong Custer
- No poster
Her Man
1924
as Sledge
Kentucky Days
1923
as Don Buckner
The Grail
1923
as Chic Shelby
The Man Who Won
1923
as Wild Bill
The Buster
1923
as Bill Coryell
- No poster
Three Who Paid
1923
as Riley Sinclairl
Trail of the Axe
1922
as Dave Malkern
Oath-Bound
1922
as Lawrence Bradbury
Strange Idols
1922
as Angus MacDonald
Iron to Gold
1922
as Tom Curtis
The Devil Within
1921
as Captain Briggs
The Primal Law
1921
as Brian Wayne
Big Happiness
1920
as John Dant / James Dant
The Corsican Brothers
1920
as Louis de Franchi / Fabien de Franchi
A Man's Fight
1919
as Roger Carr
A Man in the Open
1919
as Sailor Jesse
The Light of Western Stars
1918
as Gene Stewart
The Scarlet Pimpernel
1917
as Sir Percy Blakeney
North of Fifty-Three
1917
as 'Roaring Bill' Wagstaff
The Spy
1917
as Mark Quaintance
Durand of the Bad Lands
1917
as Dick Durand
A Son of Erin
1916
as Dennis O'Hara