Charles Farrell

Personal Info

Birthday

August 9, 1900

Day of Death

1990-05-06

(89 years old)

Place of Birth

Walpole, Massachusetts, USA

Also Known As

Charles David Farrell

Charlie Farrell

Charles Farrell

Biography

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).

Known For

My Little Margie

Street Angel

7th Heaven

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate

The Ten Commandments

The Freshman

Clash of the Wolves

Filmography

1941
The Deadly Game
as Barry Scott
1939
Tail Spin
as Bud
1938
Just Around the Corner
as Jeff Hale
Flight to Fame
as Capt. Robert Lawrence
1937
Midnight Menace
as Briant Gaunt
Moonlight Sonata
as Eric Molander
1935
Fighting Youth
as Larry Davis
Forbidden Heaven
as Mr. Archer / Nibs
Hollywood Hobbies
as Himself
1934
Falling in Love
as Howard Elliott
Change of Heart
as Chris Thring
The Big Shakedown
as Jimmy Morrell
1933
Girl Without a Room
as Tom Duncan
Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men
as Adoniram 'Schlumpy' Schlump / Red Branahan
1932
Tess of the Storm Country
as Frederick Garfield Jr.
Wild Girl
as Billy, the Stranger
The First Year
as Tommy Tucker
After Tomorrow
as Peter Piper
1931
Delicious
as Larry Beaumont
Heartbreak
as John Merrick
Merely Mary Ann
as John Lonsdale
The Flying Fool
as Ponder
Body and Soul
as Mal Andrews
The Man Who Came Back
as Stephen Randolph
1930
The Princess and the Plumber
as Charlie Peters / Albert Bowers
Liliom
as Liliom
High Society Blues
as Eddie Granger
Song of Soho
as Legionnaire
City Girl
as Lem Tustine
1929
Sunny Side Up
as Jack Cromwell
The River
as Allen John Spender
Happy Days
as Charles Farrell
Lucky Star
as Timothy Osborn
1928
The Red Dance
as Grand Duke Eugen
Fazil
as Prince Fazil
Street Angel
as Gino
1927
The Rough Riders
as Stewart Van Brunt
7th Heaven
as Chico
1926
Old Ironsides
as Boy
A Trip to Chinatown
as Gayne Wilder
Sandy
as Timmy
The Gosh-Darn Mortgage
as Joe Hoskins
1925
Clash of the Wolves
as Dave Weston
The Freshman
as Student Bell Ringer at Frolic (uncredited)
Wings of Youth
as Ted Spaulding
1924
Three Women
as Reveler at Monkey Bar
1923
The Ten Commandments
as Israelite Slave (uncredited)
A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
as Man in Nightclub (uncredited)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as (uncredited)