Dustin Farnum
Also Known As: Dustin Lancy Farnum
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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, USA
Birthday: May 27, 1874
Deathday: July 03, 1929
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Gender: Male
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David Garrick
Overview: The true story of the famed British actor David Garrick and his love for Ada Ingot.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-30
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Durand of the Bad Lands
Overview: While out on a plundering expedition, outlaw Dick Durand comes upon a band of Indians attacking a group of settlers. Dick opens fire on the Indians, but before he forces them to flee, they kill everyone except three children and Durand himself.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-08-12
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The Flaming Frontier
Overview: Bob Langdon, a young Pony Express rider, is given an appointment to West Point, but is forced to leave the academy as the result of political intrigue stirred up by enemies of his friend, General George A. Custer. Bob returns to the west and is made a scout for Custer's 7th Cavalry. At the Battle of Little Big Horn, Custer sends Bob with a message for aid, and Bob becomes the only survivor of the battle.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-11
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The Buster
Overview: In an attempt to try and tame young city girl Charlotte Rowland, Bill Coryell, a young rancher, plans a fake kidnapping party from which he is to rescue her. However, a bully interferes and incites her against Bill, but Charlotte discovers the ruse in time to save herself and Coryell.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-18
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The Parson of Panamint
Overview: A tough preacher comes to the rip-roaring gold town of Panamint in hopes of reforming it. But disaster awaits.
Genres: Action Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-03
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The Lightning Conductor
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-01
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The Iron Strain
Overview: The story is set in Alaska, where spoiled and pampered heiress Octavia Van Ness has come for her health. Here she meets 'Chuck' Hemingway, who despite his rough exterior is likewise a child of wealth, and a Yale graduate to boot. When Van Ness violently rejects his romantic overtures, Hemingway turns to an old Indian chum for advice. The Indian suggests rather chauvinistically that the way to win a headstrong girl is to "tame" her -- that is, treat 'er rough and make 'er like it.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-07
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The Virginian
Overview: A good-natured but chivalrous cowboy romances the local schoolmarm and leads the posse that brings a gang of rustlers, which includes his best friend, to justice.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-07
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Davy Crockett
Overview: The story of the famous Tennessee frontiersman, soldier, scout, and Congressman who fought and died at the Alamo.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-16
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The Squaw Man
Overview: Blamed for the theft of an orphans fund, Captain James Wynnegate flees to the West where he makes a new life with the Indian woman Nat-U-Rich.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-02-15
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The Light of Western Stars
Overview: A friend of Dick Bailey is killed by a mysterious assailant, whom Dick suspects to be Stack, who is in league with the crooked sheriff. Out on a spree Dick swears he will marry the first woman he sees, who happens to be Ruth Hammond, sister of his dead friend, arriving to take charge of the Hammond ranch. Revolted by his rough proposal,she fires him as the Hammond foreman and she proceeds to the ranch. Stack informs her he has purchased the ranch for the payment of the back-due taxes, and she relents and rehires Dick and his friends to aid her in her fight against Stack.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-11-01
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Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Overview: The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have died in those 25 years. Finally there are tributes to the Screen Snapshots series by Cecil De Mille, Walt Disney, Louella Parsons and Rosalind Russell.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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Captain Courtesy
Overview: A romantic melodrama set in old California.
Genres: Western Action History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-19
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The Man Who Won
Overview: Bill is a gambler, whose friend Scipio goes in search of his wife Jessie. Jessie, fed up with her life of poverty, has run off with the wealthy and villainous James. She has left behind her two children on James' promise that she can send for them later. Scipio leaves the tots with Bill when he goes on his search..
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-26
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The Spy
Overview: An American is sent to Germany to unearth the identities of German agents operating in the U. S. He infiltrates the German secret service in an attempt to abscond with a list of undercover German operatives.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-08-17
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A Man's Fight
Overview: An impertinent son of a wealthy New Yorker, Roger Carr takes the blame for the murder of Norman Evans, whom Roger believes his sister Ethel shot when Evans assaulted her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-10
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Iron to Gold
Overview: George Kirby steals a mining claim from Tom Curtis and forces him to become an outlaw. Years later, Curtis comes to the rescue when Anne Kirby is kidnapped by real outlaws, but when he finds out she is married to his enemy, he decides to hold her captive.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-12
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The Devil Within
Overview: Director Bernard J. Durning's silent seafaring romantic melodrama
Genres: Drama Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-20
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Cameo Kirby
Overview: Cameo Kirby is a 1914 American drama silent film directed by Oscar Apfel and written by Clara Beranger and William C. deMille. The film stars Dustin Farnum, Fred Montague, James Neill, Jode Mullally, Winifred Kingston and Dick La Reno. It is based on the play Cameo Kirby by Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson. The film was released on December 24, 1914, by Paramount Pictures.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-24
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The Gentleman from Indiana
Overview: After a spectacular college football career, John Harkless leaves the university to pursue a place in Indiana politics. He buys the failing Plattville Herald and, using the newspaper to expose various illegal activities, sets out to rid the county of all mobsters and corrupt officials.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-28
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Ben Blair
Overview: After the death of his mother, young Ben Blair finds a safe home on John Rankin’s ranch. But when Rankin is murdered, the older Ben sets out to seek vengeance.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-09
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A Man in the Open
Overview: Sailor Jesse, shipwrecked off the Texas coast, naively becomes involved with a cattle rustler. Because the sheriff believes in his innocence, Jesse finds work as a cowboy, but soon becomes infatuated with Polly, the medium for fake hypnotist Bull Brooks, and marries her. When he learns that Polly married to win a bet, Jesse attempts to take her from the town's influences to open spaces, but Brooks falsely reports that she killed herself rather than go.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-23
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The Call of the Cumberlands
Overview: An aspiring New York painter returns home to the Kentucky mountains to settle a feud between two rival families.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-23
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The Corsican Brothers
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Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-02-22
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The Primal Law
Overview: silent cowboy western starring Dustin Farnum as a rancher whose partner is killed by rustlers. He takes in his partner's young son, and begins to sell his ranch, but the boy finds oil on the land.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-11
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A Son of Erin
Overview: Dennis O'Hara is a poverty-stricken Irishman who believes that if he comes to America he will immediately land a job as a policeman. So he manages to scrape together the funds to get him to Manhattan, and leaves his sweetheart Katie O'Grady behind while he makes his fortune. Naturally he discovers that joining the force isn't as easy as he expected, and when he does finally get in, he winds up in trouble because of the graft collections of his boss.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-11-09
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Three Who Paid
Overview: Three Who Paid is a 1923 American silent Western melodrama film directed by Colin Campbell, and starring Dustin Farnum, with Bessie Love and Frank Campeau. The film was based on the 1922 short story by George Owen Baxter,
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-07
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