Richard Farnsworth
Acting
Born 1920-09-01
Died 2000-10-06
Los Angeles, California, USA
111 credits
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1
Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead 1
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor 1
Awards
Nominated for 2 Academy Awards
Academy Awards 2 nominated
- 2000 Best Actor Nominated The Straight Story
- 1979 Best Supporting Actor Nominated Comes a Horseman
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won
- — star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Won
Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead 1 won
- 2000 Best Male Lead Won The Straight Story
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor 1 won
- 1999 Best Actor Won The Straight Story
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Richard William Farnsworth (September 1, 1920 – October 6, 2000) was an American actor and stuntman. He is best known for his performances in Comes a Horseman (1978), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor; The Grey Fox (1982), for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama; Anne of Green Gables (1985); Misery (1990); and The Straight Story (1999), for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
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Filmography
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Acting
43 credits
Little House on the Prairie
Bonanza
Golden Globe Awards
Maverick
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
The Big Valley
Highway to Heaven
Wanted: Dead or Alive
The High Chaparral
The Oscars
Gone with the Wind
The Rebel
Roots
The Ten Commandments
Misery
Spartacus
The Adventures of Kit Carson
Blazing Saddles
Papillon
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Getaway
The Natural
The Wonderful World of Disney
The Straight Story
CBS Summer Playhouse
Into the Night
Anne of Green Gables
The Cowboys
Red River
Anne of Green Gables
The Tin Star
The Wild One
Mighty Joe Young
Lassie
The Two Jakes
Ulzana's Raid
The Apple Dumpling Gang
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
Pocket Money
Havana
Rhinestone
Duel at Diablo
Gunga Din
Other credits
22 credits
State Trooper
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Cimarron Strip
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Papillon
How the West Was Won
High Plains Drifter
Cat Ballou
Red River
Fort Apache
The Grapes of Wrath
The Tin Star
Duel in the Sun
The War Wagon
The Front Page
Major Dundee
The Caine Mutiny
The Outlaw
The Indian Fighter
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
The War Lord
Duel at Diablo
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