Dustin Farnum

Known for ActingBorn 1874-05-27Died 1929-07-03Hampton 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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Man Who Won

The Primal Law

A Man's Fight

A Man in the Open

Three Who Paid

The Grail

Kentucky Days

Iron to Gold

Trail of the Axe

Oath-Bound

The Devil Within

The Flaming Frontier

Her Man

The Buster

The Corsican Brothers

Big Happiness

A Son of Erin

Strange Idols

The Squaw Man

The Virginian

The Call of the Cumberlands

The Iron Strain

Davy Crockett

David Garrick

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

The Light of Western Stars

Durand of the Bad Lands

The Spy

The Scarlet Pimpernel

North of Fifty-Three

The Parson of Panamint

Ben Blair

Captain Courtesy

The Gentleman from Indiana

The Lightning Conductor

Cameo Kirby

Soldiers of Fortune

The Yosemite Trail