Dustin Farnum
Acting
Born 1874-05-27
Died 1929-07-03
Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, USA
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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.
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Filmography
Acting
37 credits
Her Man
David Garrick
Oath-Bound
The Grail
The Buster
Strange Idols
Kentucky Days
Big Happiness
Trail of the Axe
The Primal Law
The Corsican Brothers
Iron to Gold
A Son of Erin
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
North of Fifty-Three
The Parson of Panamint
The Spy
The Devil Within
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Virginian
The Squaw Man
A Man in the Open
Soldiers of Fortune
Ben Blair
The Gentleman from Indiana
The Flaming Frontier
The Call of the Cumberlands
The Man Who Won
Three Who Paid
Davy Crockett
The Light of Western Stars
Captain Courtesy
Cameo Kirby
The Yosemite Trail
A Man's Fight
The Iron Strain
Durand of the Bad Lands
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