Charles Farrell
Acting
Biography
Popular Hollywood leading man of late silents and early talkies. He is best remembered for his teaming with Janet Gaynor in 12 screen romances between 1927 and 1934. He retired from films in the early 1940s, but TV audiences of the 1950s would see him as Gale Storm's widower dad in the popular television series My Little Margie (1952).
Born: August 9, 1900
Place of Birth: Walpole, Massachusetts, USA
Known For
Lucky Star
Mary, a poor farm girl, meets Tim just as word comes that war has been declared. Tim enlists in the army and goes to the battlefields of Europe, where he is wounded and loses the use of his legs. Home again, Tim is visited by Mary, and they are powerfully attracted to each other; but his physical handicap prevents him from declaring his love for her. Deeper complications set in when Martin, Tim's former sergeant and a bully, takes a shine to Mary.
City Girl
A waitress from Chicago falls in love with a man from rural Minnesota and marries him, with the intent of living a better life - but life on the farm has its own challenges.
7th Heaven
In 1910s Paris, a sewer worker disillusioned with Christianity feels his prayers have been answered when he chances upon a street waif and they fall in love.
The River
Passion carried an innocent boy and a worldly woman beyond the barriers of conscience.
Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men
Tough Aggie gives a street guy polish and a rich kid gumption.
Street Angel
A spirited young woman finds herself destitute and on the streets before joining a traveling carnival, where she meets a vagabond painter.
Moonlight Sonata
In this romantic tale Paderewski, the famed pianist, and two other plane crash survivors are guests of a Swedish baroness. Interwoven throughout this gentle and charming story are exquisite piano solos performed superbly by the elderly pianist, Paderewski.
Fighting Youth
A radical campus group persuades student Carol Arlington to lead a protest of a college's football team. She manages to recruit Larry Davis, even though he is a star player for State's team.
The Freshman
An unathletic college freshman ridiculed by his peers for his mannerisms strives to become popular by making the football team.
Sunny Side Up
Molly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long Island mansion but is markedly less happy, since his fiancée Jane won't discourage her other admirers. Fleeing in his car, Jack ends up in an urban block party where he meets you-know-who.
Filmography
as Vern Albright
as Barry Scott
as Bud
as Jeff Hale
as Capt. Robert Lawrence
as Briant Gaunt
as Eric Molander
as Larry Davis
as Mr. Archer / Nibs
as Chris Thring
as Jimmy Morrell
as Tom Duncan
as Adoniram 'Schlumpy' Schlump / Red Branahan
as Frederick Garfield Jr.
as Billy, the Stranger
as Tommy Tucker
as Peter Piper
as Larry Beaumont
as John Merrick
as John Lonsdale
as Ponder
as Mal Andrews
as Stephen Randolph
as Charlie Peters / Albert Bowers
as Liliom
as Eddie Granger
as Legionnaire
as Lem Tustine
as Jack Cromwell
as Allen John Spender
as Charles Farrell
as Timothy Osborn
as Grand Duke Eugen
as Prince Fazil
as Gino
as Stewart Van Brunt
as Chico
as Boy
as Gayne Wilder
as Timmy
as Joe Hoskins
as Dave Weston
as Student Bell Ringer at Frolic (uncredited)
as Reveler at Monkey Bar
as Israelite Slave (uncredited)
as Man in Nightclub (uncredited)
as (uncredited)
as Undetermined Bit Role (uncredited)