Dustin Farnum
Acting
1874-05-27 · Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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(38)
movieScreen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
as Self (archive footage) · 1942 · 0.0
movieThe Flaming Frontier
as General George Armstrong Custer · 1926 · 8.0
movieHer Man
as Sledge · 1924 · 8.0
movieKentucky Days
as Don Buckner · 1923 · 9.0
movieThe Grail
as Chic Shelby · 1923 · 9.0
movieThe Man Who Won
as Wild Bill · 1923 · 10.0
movieThe Buster
as Bill Coryell · 1923 · 8.0
movieThree Who Paid
as Riley Sinclairl · 1923 · 9.0
movieTrail of the Axe
as Dave Malkern · 1922 · 9.0
movieOath-Bound
as Lawrence Bradbury · 1922 · 9.0
movieStrange Idols
as Angus MacDonald · 1922 · 7.0
movieIron to Gold
as Tom Curtis · 1922 · 9.0
movieThe Devil Within
as Captain Briggs · 1921 · 9.0
movieThe Primal Law
as Brian Wayne · 1921 · 10.0
movieBig Happiness
as John Dant / James Dant · 1920 · 8.0
movieThe Corsican Brothers
as Louis de Franchi / Fabien de Franchi · 1920 · 8.0
movieA Man's Fight
as Roger Carr · 1919 · 10.0
movieA Man in the Open
as Sailor Jesse · 1919 · 10.0
movieThe Light of Western Stars
as Gene Stewart · 1918 · 0.0
movieThe Scarlet Pimpernel
as Sir Percy Blakeney · 1917 · 0.0
movieNorth of Fifty-Three
as 'Roaring Bill' Wagstaff · 1917 · 0.0
movieThe Spy
as Mark Quaintance · 1917 · 0.0
movieDurand of the Bad Lands
as Dick Durand · 1917 · 0.0
movieA Son of Erin
as Dennis O'Hara · 1916 · 7.5