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David Farrar

David Farrar

Birthday: 1908-08-21 | Place of Birth: Forest Gate, London, England

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia David Farrar (21 August 1908 – 31 August 1995) was an English stage and film actor, born in Forest Gate, east London. Three of his most notable film roles were leads in the Powell and Pressburger films Black Narcissus (1947), The Small Back Room (1949), and Gone to Earth (1950). He retired in 1962. After the death of his wife Irene in 1976, he moved to South Africa to be with their daughter. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Farrar (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1962
The 300 Spartans

as    Xerxes

1960
Beat Girl

as    Paul Linden

1959
Son of Robin Hood

as    Des Roches

1959
John Paul Jones

as    John Wilkes

1959
Solomon and Sheba

as    Pharaoh

1959
Watusi

as    Rick Cobb

1956
Lost

as    Detective Inspector Craig

1955
Pearl of the South Pacific

as    Bully Hague

1955
The Sea Chase

as    Commander Jeff Napier

1955
Escape to Burma

as    The Sawbwa

1954
The Black Shield of Falworth

as    Gilbert Blunt, Earl of Alban

1954
Duel in the Jungle

as    Perry Henderson / Arthur Henderson

1952
The Wild Heart

as    Jack Reddin

1952
Gone to Earth

as    John Reddin

1951
The Golden Horde

as    Sir Guy of Devon

1950
Cage of Gold

as    Bill

1949
The Small Back Room

as    Sammy Rice

1949
Diamond City

as    Stafford Parker

1947
Black Narcissus

as    Mr. Dean

1947
Frieda

as    Robert Dawson

1945
They Met in the Dark

as    Commander Lippinscott

1945
The Echo Murders

as    Sexton Blake

1944
For Those in Peril

as    Murray

1943
The Dark Tower

as    Tom Danton