Portrait of David Farrar

David Farrar

Acting

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia David Farrar (21 August 1908 – 31 August 1995) was an English stage and film actor, born in Forest Gate, east London. Three of his most notable film roles were leads in the Powell and Pressburger films Black Narcissus (1947), The Small Back Room (1949), and Gone to Earth (1950). He retired in 1962. After the death of his wife Irene in 1976, he moved to South Africa to be with their daughter. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Farrar (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born: August 21, 1908

Place of Birth: Forest Gate, London, England, UK

Filmography

1962
1962
The Webster Boy

as Paul Webster

1960
Beat Girl

as Paul Linden

1959
1959
John Paul Jones

as John Wilkes

1959
Watusi

as Rick Cobb

1958
Son of Robin Hood

as Des Roches

1958
I Accuse!

as Mathieu Dreyfus

1957
Woman and the Hunter

as David Kirby

1956
Lost

as Detective Inspector Craig

1955
1955
The Sea Chase

as Commander Jeff Napier

1955
Escape to Burma

as The Sawbwa

1954
Lilacs in the Spring

as Charles King

1954
The Black Shield of Falworth

as Gilbert Blunt, Earl of Alban

1954
Duel in the Jungle

as Perry Henderson / Arthur Henderson

1951
The Golden Horde

as Sir Guy of Devon

1951
Night Without Stars

as Giles Gordon

1951
The Late Edwina Black

as Gregory Black

1950
Gone to Earth

as John Reddin

1950
1949
Diamond City

as Stafford Parker

1949
The Small Back Room

as Sammy Rice

1948
1947
Frieda

as Robert Dawson

1947
Black Narcissus

as Mr. Dean

1946
Lisbon Story

as David Warren

1945
The Echo Murders

as Sexton Blake

1945
Meet Sexton Blake

as Sexton Blake

1945
1944
1943
Headline

as 'Brookie ' Brooks

1943
The Dark Tower

as Tom Danton

1943
They Met in the Dark

as Commander Lippinscott

1942
Went the Day Well?

as Lieutenant Jung

1942
Suspected Person

as Inspector Thompson

1941
Danny Boy

as Martin

1939
Q Planes

as Viking Bo'sun

1938
A Royal Divorce

as Louis Bonaparte

1937