Charles Farrell(1900-1990)
- Actor
- Soundtrack
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).
- Awards
- 2 wins
Actor
- 1956
- 1952–1955
- 1941
- 1939
- 1938
- 1938
- 1937
- 1937
- The Flying Doctor
- Sandy Nelson
- 1936
- 1935
- 1935
- Trouble Ahead
- Howard Elliott
- 1934
- 1934
- 1934
- 1933
Soundtrack
- Height
- 6′ 2″ (1.88 m)
- Born
- Died
- May 6, 1990
- Palm Springs, California, USA(cardiac arrest)
- Spouse
- Virginia ValliFebruary 14, 1931 - September 24, 1968 (her death)
- Other worksHe acted in Pat Wallace and Guy Bolton's play, "The Sun Never Sets", at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, London, England with Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Todd Duncan, Adelaide Hall, Stewart Granger, Henry Oscar, Mackenzie Ward, Frank Cochrane, Shelagh Furley and Wally Patch in the cast. Basil Dean was the director.
- Publicity listings
- TriviaAn explosion on the set of the film that made him a star, Old Ironsides (1926), left a technician dead, several bystanders injured and blew out Farrell's eardrums, leaving him partially deaf for the rest of his life, something he was fairly careful not to let on.
- Quotes"Janet Gaynor and I were always receiving wedding-anniversary presents in the mail, care of the studio. The fans didn't even know what date our anniversary fell on, which is logical, since we were never married".
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