Dustin Farnum
Actor
- Born
- May 27, 1874 · Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, USA
- Died
- July 3, 1929 (age 55)
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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.
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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.
Known for
The Squaw Man
February 15, 1914
The Virginian
September 7, 1914
The Call of the Cumberlands
January 23, 1916
David Garrick
April 30, 1916
The Flaming Frontier
September 11, 1926
Davy Crockett
July 16, 1916
A Son of Erin
November 9, 1916
Strange Idols
May 28, 1922
The Buster
February 18, 1923
The Iron Strain
November 7, 1915
The Man Who Won
August 26, 1923
A Man's Fight
August 10, 1919
Acting38
- 1942Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) as Self (archive footage)
- 1926The Flaming Frontier as General George Armstrong Custer
- 1924Her Man as Sledge
- 1923Kentucky Days as Don Buckner
- 1923The Grail as Chic Shelby
- 1923The Man Who Won as Wild Bill
- 1923The Buster as Bill Coryell
- 1923Three Who Paid as Riley Sinclairl
- 1922Trail of the Axe as Dave Malkern
- 1922Oath-Bound