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Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 21, 1908
Died
August 31, 1995
Place of Birth
Forest Gate, London, England, UK
David Farrar
0.4 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
6.4
Xerxes
The 300 Spartans
1962
0.0
Paul Webster
The Webster Boy
1962
5.8
Paul Linden
Beat Girl
1960
6.4
Pharaoh
Solomon and Sheba
1959
5.9
John Wilkes
John Paul Jones
1959
5.7
Rick Cobb
Watusi
1959
4.4
Des Roches
Son of Robin Hood
1958
6.1
Mathieu Dreyfus
I Accuse!
1958
0.0
David Kirby
Woman and the Hunter
1957
6.3
Narrator
The Battle of the River Plate
1956
Credits
The 300 Spartans
as Xerxes
1962
6.4
The Webster Boy
as Paul Webster
1962
0.0
Beat Girl
as Paul Linden
1960
5.8
Solomon and Sheba
as Pharaoh
1959
6.4
John Paul Jones
as John Wilkes
1959
5.9
Watusi
as Rick Cobb
1959
5.7
Son of Robin Hood
as Des Roches
1958
4.4
I Accuse!
as Mathieu Dreyfus
1958
6.1
Woman and the Hunter
as David Kirby
1957
0.0
The Battle of the River Plate
as Narrator
1956
6.3
Lost
as Detective Inspector Craig
1956
7.0
Pearl of the South Pacific
as Bully Hague
1955
6.1
The Sea Chase
as Commander Jeff Napier
1955
6.1
Escape to Burma
as The Sawbwa
1955
5.9
Lilacs in the Spring
as Charles King
1954
5.5
The Black Shield of Falworth
as Gilbert Blunt, Earl of Alban
1954
6.2
Duel in the Jungle
as Perry Henderson / Arthur Henderson
1954
5.9
The Golden Horde
as Sir Guy of Devon
1951
4.8
Night Without Stars
as Giles Gordon
1951
6.7
The Late Edwina Black
as Gregory Black
1951
6.4
Gone to Earth
as John Reddin
1950
6.2
Cage of Gold
as Bill
1950
6.6
Diamond City
as Stafford Parker
1949
5.2
The Small Back Room
as Sammy Rice
1949
6.7
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
as David Traill
1948
7.7
Frieda
as Robert Dawson
1947
5.1
Black Narcissus
as Mr. Dean
1947
7.5
Lisbon Story
as David Warren
1946
5.7
🎬
The Trojan Brothers
as Sid Nichols
1946
5.0
The Echo Murders
as Sexton Blake
1945
4.5
Meet Sexton Blake
as Sexton Blake
1945
5.5
The World Owes Me a Living
as Paul Collyer
1945
6.0
For Those in Peril
as Murray
1944
5.8
🎬
The Hundred Pound Window
as George Graham
1944
0.0
🎬
The Night Invader
as Dick Marlow
1943
0.0
Headline
as 'Brookie ' Brooks
1943
6.3
The Dark Tower
as Tom Danton
1943
6.1
They Met in the Dark
as Commander Lippinscott
1943
6.3
Went the Day Well?
as Lieutenant Jung
1942
7.2
Suspected Person
as Inspector Thompson
1942
5.5
🎬
Sheepdog of the Hills
as Reverend Michael Varney
1941
7.0
Danny Boy
as Martin
1941
5.2
Q Planes
as Viking Bo'sun
1939
5.9
A Royal Divorce
as Louis Bonaparte
1938
0.0
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
as Granite Grant
1938
5.7
Return of a Stranger
as Dr. Young
1937
5.5