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David Farrar (21 August 1908 – 31 August 1995) was an English stage and film actor. His film roles include as the male lead in the Powell and Pressburger films Black Narcissus (1947), The Small Back Room (1949) and Gone to Earth (1950).
Actor: Black Narcissus. London-born David Farrar dropped out of school at 14 and became a writer for the Morning Advertiser newspaper; but it wasn't long before he decided to change careers and become an actor. He started out on the stage in 1932, and five years later made his film debut.
Actor: Black Narcissus. London-born David Farrar dropped out of school at 14 and became a writer for the Morning Advertiser newspaper; but it wasn't long before he decided to change careers and become an actor. He started out on the stage in 1932, and five years later made his film debut.
Sep 9, 1995 · David Farrar, a British actor whose dark and rather sinister good looks helped to vault him to fame and then helped to diminish it, died on Aug. 31 in South Africa, where he had lived in...
Sep 28, 1995 · David Farrar, actor: born London 21 August 1908; married 1931 Irene Elliot (died 1976; one daughter); died 31 August 1995.
Aug 31, 1995 · 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.
Mar 16, 2020 · Mar. David Farrar – Film Star with An Interesting and varied career. English star David Farrar was born on August 21, 1908, in Essex. When looking back at his childhood he writes: “Apparently showed some historical leanings from early age as I played Shakespearean roles at school.”
Actor. David Farrar, riding high in critical and popular esteem, went to Hollywood and, though he enjoyed the glamour, it ruined his career, via films such as The Golden Horde (US, d. George Sherman, 1951) and The Black Shield of Falworth (US, d. Rudolph Maté, 1954), usually in two-dimensional villain roles.
David Farrar was an English stage and film actor, born in Forest Gate, east London. He gained fame in the 1940s playing Sexton Blake in a pair of low budget thrillers which were enormously popular.
United States television viewers probably know him best for his portrayal of the strong, silent "Mr. Dean" in Black Narcissus and the "Black Duke" in Son of Robin Hood (1958). Farrar believes there were two major "might have beens" in his career.
