Dustin Farnum
Acting • Born 1874-05-27 – Died 1929-07-03
Biography
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.
Filmography
38 credits
David Garrick
Movie • 1916
David Garrick
Durand of the Bad Lands
Movie • 1917
Dick Durand
The Flaming Frontier
Movie • 1926
General George Armstrong Custer
The Buster
Movie • 1923
Bill Coryell
The Parson of Panamint
Movie • 1916
Reverand Philip Pharo
The Lightning Conductor
Movie • 1914
The Iron Strain
Movie • 1915
'Chuck' Hemingway
The Virginian
Movie • 1914
The Virginian
Davy Crockett
Movie • 1916
Davy Crockett
The Squaw Man
Movie • 1914
Capt. James Wynnegate
The Light of Western Stars
Movie • 1918
Gene Stewart
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Movie • 1942
Self (archive footage)
Captain Courtesy
Movie • 1915
Leonardo Davis (Captain Courtesy)
The Man Who Won
Movie • 1923
Wild Bill
The Spy
Movie • 1917
Mark Quaintance
A Man's Fight
Movie • 1919
Roger Carr
Iron to Gold
Movie • 1922
Tom Curtis
The Devil Within
Movie • 1921
Captain Briggs
Cameo Kirby
Movie • 1914
'Cameo' Kirby
The Gentleman from Indiana
Movie • 1915
John Harkless
Ben Blair
Movie • 1916
Ben Blair
A Man in the Open
Movie • 1919
Sailor Jesse
The Call of the Cumberlands
Movie • 1916
Samson South
The Corsican Brothers
Movie • 1920
Louis de Franchi / Fabien de Franchi
The Primal Law
Movie • 1921
Brian Wayne
A Son of Erin
Movie • 1916
Dennis O'Hara
Three Who Paid
Movie • 1923
Riley Sinclairl
Trail of the Axe
Movie • 1922
Dave Malkern
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Movie • 1917
Sir Percy Blakeney
North of Fifty-Three
Movie • 1917
'Roaring Bill' Wagstaff
Soldiers of Fortune
Movie • 1914
Robert Clay
Her Man
Movie • 1924
Sledge
Strange Idols
Movie • 1922
Angus MacDonald
The Grail
Movie • 1923
Chic Shelby
Oath-Bound
Movie • 1922
Lawrence Bradbury
Big Happiness
Movie • 1920
John Dant / James Dant
Kentucky Days
Movie • 1923
Don Buckner
The Yosemite Trail
Movie
Jim Thorpe