David Farrar

from Forest Gate, London, England

Artwork for The 300 SpartansImage of David Farrar

Biography

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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.

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Timeline

1962Aged 54

  • Poster for The Webster Boy

    Paul Webster

  • Poster for The 300 Spartans

    Xerxes

1960Aged 52

  • Poster for Beat Girl

    Paul Linden

1959Aged 51

  • Poster for Watusi

    Rick Cobb

  • Poster for John Paul Jones

    John Wilkes

  • Poster for Solomon and Sheba

    Pharaoh

1958Aged 50

  • Poster for I Accuse!

    Mathieu Dreyfus

  • Poster for The Son of Robin Hood

    Des Roches

1957Aged 49

  • Poster for Woman and the Hunter

    David Kirby

1956Aged 48

  • Poster for Lost

    Detective Inspector Craig

  • Poster for The Battle of the River Plate

    Narrator

1955Aged 47

  • Poster for Escape to Burma

    The Sawbwa

  • Poster for The Sea Chase

    Commander Jeff Napier

  • Poster for Pearl of the South Pacific

    Bully Hague

1954Aged 46

  • Poster for Duel in the Jungle

    Perry Henderson / Arthur Henderson

  • Poster for The Black Shield of Falworth

    Gilbert Blunt, Earl of Alban

  • Poster for Lilacs in the Spring

    Charles King

1951Aged 43

  • Poster for The Late Edwina Black

    Gregory Black

  • Poster for Night Without Stars

    Giles Gordon

  • Poster for The Golden Horde

    Sir Guy of Devon

1950Aged 42

  • Poster for Cage of Gold

    Bill

  • Poster for Gone to Earth

    John Reddin

1949Aged 41

  • Poster for The Small Back Room

    Sammy Rice

  • Poster for Diamond City

    Stafford Parker

1948Aged 40

  • Poster for Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill

    David Traill

1947Aged 39

  • Poster for Black Narcissus

    Mr. Dean

  • Poster for Frieda

    Robert Dawson

1946Aged 38

1945Aged 37

  • Poster for The World Owes Me a Living

    Paul Collyer

  • Poster for Meet Sexton Blake

    Sexton Blake

  • Poster for The Echo Murders

    Sexton Blake

1944Aged 36

1943Aged 35

1942Aged 34

  • Poster for Suspected Person

    Inspector Thompson

  • Poster for Went the Day Well?

    Lieutenant Jung

1941Aged 33

1939Aged 31

  • Poster for Q Planes

    Viking Bo'sun

1938Aged 30

  • Poster for Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror

    Granite Grant

  • Poster for A Royal Divorce

    Louis Bonaparte

1937Aged 29

  • Poster for Return of a Stranger

    Dr. Young