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Charles Farrell

Charles Farrell

Born: 1900-08-09 • Walpole, Massachusetts, USA

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).

Filmography
The Deadly Game poster
The Deadly Game
1941 • Barry Scott
Tail Spin poster
Tail Spin
1939 • Bud
Just Around the Corner poster
Just Around the Corner
1938 • Jeff Hale
Flight to Fame poster
Flight to Fame
1938 • Capt. Robert Lawrence
Midnight Menace poster
Midnight Menace
1937 • Briant Gaunt
Moonlight Sonata poster
Moonlight Sonata
1937 • Eric Molander
Fighting Youth poster
Fighting Youth
1935 • Larry Davis
Forbidden Heaven poster
Forbidden Heaven
1935 • Mr. Archer / Nibs
No Image
Hollywood Hobbies
1935 • Himself
No Image
Falling in Love
1934 • Howard Elliott
Change of Heart poster
Change of Heart
1934 • Chris Thring
The Big Shakedown poster
The Big Shakedown
1934 • Jimmy Morrell
Girl Without a Room poster
Girl Without a Room
1933 • Tom Duncan
Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men poster
Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men
1933 • Adoniram 'Schlumpy' Schlump / Red Branahan
Tess of the Storm Country poster
Tess of the Storm Country
1932 • Frederick Garfield Jr.
Wild Girl poster
Wild Girl
1932 • Billy, the Stranger
The First Year poster
The First Year
1932 • Tommy Tucker
After Tomorrow poster
After Tomorrow
1932 • Peter Piper
Delicious poster
Delicious
1931 • Larry Beaumont
Heartbreak poster
Heartbreak
1931 • John Merrick
Merely Mary Ann poster
Merely Mary Ann
1931 • John Lonsdale
The Flying Fool poster
The Flying Fool
1931 • Ponder
Body and Soul poster
Body and Soul
1931 • Mal Andrews
The Man Who Came Back poster
The Man Who Came Back
1931 • Stephen Randolph
The Princess and the Plumber poster
The Princess and the Plumber
1930 • Charlie Peters / Albert Bowers
Liliom poster
Liliom
1930 • Liliom
High Society Blues poster
High Society Blues
1930 • Eddie Granger
Song of Soho poster
Song of Soho
1930 • Legionnaire
City Girl poster
City Girl
1930 • Lem Tustine
Sunny Side Up poster
Sunny Side Up
1929 • Jack Cromwell
The River poster
The River
1929 • Allen John Spender
Happy Days poster
Happy Days
1929 • Charles Farrell
Lucky Star poster
Lucky Star
1929 • Timothy Osborn
The Red Dance poster
The Red Dance
1928 • Grand Duke Eugen
Fazil poster
Fazil
1928 • Prince Fazil
Street Angel poster
Street Angel
1928 • Gino
The Rough Riders poster
The Rough Riders
1927 • Stewart Van Brunt
7th Heaven poster
7th Heaven
1927 • Chico
Old Ironsides poster
Old Ironsides
1926 • Boy
A Trip to Chinatown poster
A Trip to Chinatown
1926 • Gayne Wilder
Sandy poster
Sandy
1926 • Timmy
The Gosh-Darn Mortgage poster
The Gosh-Darn Mortgage
1926 • Joe Hoskins
Clash of the Wolves poster
Clash of the Wolves
1925 • Dave Weston
The Freshman poster
The Freshman
1925 • Student Bell Ringer at Frolic (uncredited)
No Image
Wings of Youth
1925 • Ted Spaulding
Three Women poster
Three Women
1924 • Reveler at Monkey Bar
The Ten Commandments poster
The Ten Commandments
1923 • Israelite Slave (uncredited)
A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate poster
A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
1923 • Man in Nightclub (uncredited)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame poster
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1923 • (uncredited)
Rosita poster
Rosita
1923 • Undetermined Bit Role (uncredited)