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Charles Farrell (6 August 1900 – 27 August 1988) was an
Irish
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Common meanings
* Someone or something of, from, or related to:
** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe
***Éire, Irish language name for the isle
** Northern Ireland, a constituent unit ...
stage
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Acting
* Stage (theatre), a space for the performance of theatrical productions
* Theatre, a branch of the performing arts, often referred to as "the stage"
* ''The Stage'', a weekly British theatre newspaper
* Sta ...
,
film
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and
television actor
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.
Born 6 August 1900 in
Dublin
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,
Ireland
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, Farrell moved to
America
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and appeared in a stock company in
Detroit
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when a child. In 1921 he moved to
England
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and made his first stage appearance at the
Coliseum
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.
His first film appearance was in
John Bunny
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and
Flora Finch
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comedies. Unlike his heroic American namesake, he was (later) cast in villainous film roles.
[ This contrasted with his frequent broadcasts of fairy tales on ]BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
Here i going to introduce about the best teacher of my life b BALAJI sir. He is the precious gift that I got befor 2yrs . How has helped and thought all the concept and made my success in the 10th board exam. ...
...
radio's ''
Children's Hour''.
Selected filmography
* ''
The Ring'' (1927) - Second (uncredited)
* ''Song of Soho'' (1930) - Legionnaire
* ''
The Man at Six
''The Man at Six'' is a 1931 British mystery film directed by Harry Hughes and starring Anne Grey, Lester Matthews and Gerald Rawlinson. It was released in America the following year under the alternative title ''The Gables Mystery''. It was pr ...
'' (1931) - George Wollmer
* ''
The Flying Fool'' (1931) - Ponder
* ''
Creeping Shadows
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'' (1931) - Chicago Joe
* ''Tonight's the Night: Pass It On'' (1931) - Williams
* ''
Money for Nothing'' (1932) - Digger
* ''
The Innocents of Chicago
''The Innocents of Chicago'' is a 1932 British comedy film directed by Lupino Lane and starring Henry Kendall, Binnie Barnes and Margot Grahame.
Production
The film was made by British International Pictures at Elstree Studios.Wood p.72 It was ...
'' (1932) - Smiler
* ''The House Opposite'' (1932) - Wharton
* ''
The Sign of Four
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Pl ...
'' (1932) - Funfair Patron (uncredited)
* ''
Jack's the Boy
''Jack's the Boy'' is a 1932 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge, Francis Lister and Peter Gawthorne. It became well known for its song "The Flies Crawled Up the Window", sung by Hulbert, wh ...
'' (1932) - Martin
* ''
Looking on the Bright Side
''Looking on The Bright Side'' is a 1932 British musical comedy film It was directed by Graham Cutts and Basil Dean and starring Gracie Fields, Richard Dolman and Julian Rose.
Plot summary
Gracie (Fields) and Laurie (Dolman) are lovers who ...
'' (1932) - Tough Man In Street (uncredited)
* ''
Lucky Ladies
''Lucky Ladies'' is a 1932 British comedy film directed by John Rawlins and starring Sydney Fairbrother, Emily Fitzroy and Tracy Holmes.
Plot summary
Some sisters inherit a large sum of money.
Cast
* Sydney Fairbrother as Angle Tuckett
* ...
'' (1932) - Bookmaker
* ''
Red Wagon'' (1933) - Milligan
* ''
The Stolen Necklace
''The Stolen Necklace'' is a 1933 British crime film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott and starring Lester Matthews, Joan Marion and Mickey Brantford. It was made as a quota quickie at Teddington Studios.Wood p.76
Cast
* Lester Matthews as Clive Wi ...
'' (1933) - Sailor
* ''
Wild Boy'' (1934) - Gang Member (uncredited)
* ''
Boys Will Be Boys'' (1935) - Louis Brown
* ''
Two Hearts in Harmony
''Two Hearts in Harmony'' is a 1935 British comedy drama film directed by William Beaudine and starring Bernice Claire, George Curzon and Enid Stamp-Taylor.
Plot
A singer becomes the governess to the son of a widowed aristocrat.
Cast
* Bern ...
'' (1935) - Charles Farrell
* ''
Under Proof
''Under Proof'' is a 1936 British comedy crime film directed by Roland Gillett and starring Betty Stockfeld, Tyrell Davis and Judy Kelly. The screenplay concerns a man who is threatened into joining a gang of smugglers.
Cast
* Betty Stockfeld ...
'' (1936) - Spike
* ''
The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss'' (1936) - Scales
* ''
Lonely Road'' (1936) - Palmer
* ''
Treachery on the High Seas
''Treachery on the High Seas'', also known as ''Not Wanted on Voyage'', is a 1936 British comedy crime film directed by Emil E. Reinert and starring Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon and Charles Farrell. It is based on the play ''Murder in the Stalls'' b ...
'' (1936) - Logan
* ''
Jericho
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'' (1937) - Sergeant on Guard (uncredited)
* ''
Meet Mr. Penny'' (1938) - Jackson
* ''
The Rebel Son
''The Rebel Son'' is a 1938 British historical adventure film directed by Adrian Brunel and starring Harry Baur, Anthony Bushell and Roger Livesey. Patricia Roc also appears in her first screen role. It is a re-working by Alexander Korda of Gran ...
'' (1938) - Tovkatch
* ''Night Journey'' (1938) - Dave
* ''Jail Birds'' (1940) - Spike Nelson
* ''
Convoy
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'' (1940) - Walker
* ''
Dangerous Moonlight
''Dangerous Moonlight'' (US: ''Suicide Squadron'') is a 1941 British film, directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Anton Walbrook. Among the costumes, the gowns were designed by Cecil Beaton. The film is best known for its score written by ...
'' (1940) - First Cab Driver
* ''
Schweik's New Adventures
''Schweik's New Adventures'' is a 1943 British comedy film directed by Karel Lamač and starring Lloyd Pearson, Maggie Rennie, Richard Attenborough and Julien Mitchell. It is also known by the alternative title ''It Started at Midnight''. It was ...
'' (1943) - Czech nazi
* ''
Bell-Bottom George
''Bell-Bottom George'' is a 1943 black and white British comedy musical film, directed by Marcel Varnel, starring George Formby and Anne Firth. A wartime morale booster, it features the songs, "Swim Little Fish", "It Serves You Right", "If I H ...
'' (1944) - Jim Bennett
* ''
Meet Sexton Blake
''Meet Sexton Blake!'' is a 1945 British supporting feature drama film directed by John Harlow and starring David Farrar, Manning Whiley, Dennis Arundell, and John Varley. It was one of two films in which David Farrar played Sexton Blake, th ...
'' (1945) - Skipper
* ''
The Way to the Stars
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'' (1945) - American Orderly
* ''
Don Chicago
''Don Chicago'' is a 1945 British crime comedy film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Jackie Hunter, Joyce Heron and Claud Allister. It is based on the novel by C. E. Bechhofer Roberts.
Plot
An aspiring but timid gangster is forced to ...
'' (1945) - Don Dooley
* ''
This Man Is Mine'' (1946) - Canadian Sergeant (uncredited)
* ''
The Turners of Prospect Road
''The Turners of Prospect Road '' is a 1947 British drama film directed by Maurice J. Wilson and starring Wilfrid Lawson, Helena Pickard and Maureen Glynne. A pet greyhound wins a major race meeting.Gillett p.6 It was shot at Walton Studios. A ...
'' (1947) - Jack
* ''
They Made Me a Fugitive
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'' (1947) - Curley
* ''
Boys in Brown'' (1949) - Mr. Sykes (uncredited)
* ''
Night and the City
''Night and the City'' is a 1950 film noir directed by Jules Dassin and starring Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney and Googie Withers. It is based on the Night and the City (novel), novel of the same name by Gerald Kersh. Shot on location in Londo ...
'' (1950) - Mickey Beer
* ''
There Is Another Sun
''There Is Another Sun'', released in the United States as ''Wall of Death'', is a 1951 British drama film directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring Maxwell Reed, Laurence Harvey and Susan Shaw. It was produced by Ernest G. Roy. The film was shot a ...
'' (1951) - Simmonds
* ''
Madame Louise'' (1951) - Felling
* ''
The Crimson Pirate
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'' (1952) - Poison Paul
* ''
Miss Robin Hood
''Miss Robin Hood'' is a 1952 British comedy film directed by John Guillermin, and starring Margaret Rutherford and Richard Hearne. Other actors involved include Dora Bryan, James Robertson Justice, Peter Jones (actor), Peter Jones, Sid James, R ...
'' (1952) - Police Constable (uncredited)
* ''
There Was a Young Lady'' (1953) - Arthur
* ''
Final Appointment
''Final Appointment'' is a 1954 British comedy thriller film directed by Terence Fisher, and starring John Bentley, Eleanor Summerfield and Hubert Gregg. It also features Arthur Lowe, later to become famous for his portrayal of Captain Main ...
'' (1954) - Percy
* ''
Out of the Clouds
''Out of the Clouds'' is a 1955 British drama film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Anthony Steel, Robert Beatty and James Robertson Justice. An Ealing Studios production, the film is composed of small stories dealing with the passenger ...
'' (1955) - Perce (Scarface) (uncredited)
* ''
The Hornet's Nest
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The film follows two journalists, Mike Boettcher and Carlos Boettcher (a father and son), embedded with a gro ...
'' (1955) - Posh Peterson
* ''
See How They Run'' (1955) - Basher
* ''
Stolen Assignment
''Stolen Assignment'' is a 1955 British comedy film directed by Terence Fisher and starring John Bentley and Hy Hazell. The film was produced by Francis Searle for Act Films Ltd, and was a sequel to Fisher's ''Final Appointment'' of the previ ...
'' (1955) - Percy Simpson
* ''
Morning Call'' (1957) - John Karver
* ''
The Diplomatic Corpse
''The Diplomatic Corpse'' is a 1958 British comedy thriller film directed by Montgomery Tully and starring Robin Bailey, Susan Shaw and Liam Redmond. It was produced as a second feature by ACT Films. The film's sets were designed by the art dire ...
'' (1958) - Percy Simpson
* ''
The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw
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'' (1958) - Bartender
* ''
Death Over My Shoulder
''Death Over My Shoulder '' is a 1958 British crime film directed by Arthur Crabtree based on a story by American journalist Alyce Canfield. The film stars Keefe Brasselle and his wife Arlene DeMarco one of The DeMarco Sisters.
Plot
When Jack ...
'' (1958) - Shiv Maitland
* ''
Hidden Homicide
''Hidden Homicide'' is a 1959 British mystery film directed by Anthony Young and written by Bill Luckwell and Anthony Young. It is based on the 1951 novel ''Death at Shinglestrand'' by Paul Capon. The film stars Griffith Jones (actor), Griffith J ...
'' (1959) - Mungo Peddy
* ''
Too Young to Love
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'' (1960) - Waiting Room Man
* ''
Operation Cupid'' (1960) - Charlie Stevens
* ''
Surprise Package'' (1960) - Nick Jamieson (uncredited)
* ''
The Girl Hunters'' (1963) - Joe Grissi
* ''
Chimes at Midnight
''Falstaff (Chimes at Midnight)'' ( Spanish: ''Campanadas a medianoche'') is a 1966 period comedy-drama film directed by and starring Orson Welles. The Spanish-Swiss co-production was released in the United States as ''Chimes at Midnight'' an ...
'' (1965)
* ''
Sebastian'' (1968) - Taxi Driver
* ''
Oh! What a Lovely War
''Oh! What a Lovely War'' is a 1969 British comedy musical war film directed by Richard Attenborough (in his directorial debut), with an ensemble cast, including Maggie Smith, Dirk Bogarde, John Gielgud, John Mills, Kenneth More, Laurence Oli ...
'' (1969) - Policeman (uncredited)
* ''
The Vampire Lovers
''The Vampire Lovers'' is a 1970 British Gothic horror film directed by Roy Ward Baker and starring Ingrid Pitt, Peter Cushing, George Cole, Kate O'Mara, Madeline Smith, Dawn Addams and Jon Finch. It was produced by Hammer Film Productions. ...
'' (1970) - Landlord
* ''
Countess Dracula
''Countess Dracula'' is a 1971 British Hammer horror film based on some of the legends surrounding the Countess Elizabeth Báthory.
The film was produced by Alexander Paal and directed by Peter Sasdy, both Hungarian émigrés working in Englan ...
'' (1971) - The Seller
* ''
The Abominable Dr. Phibes'' (1971) - Chauffeur
* ''
Valentino'' (1977) - Drunk (uncredited) (final film role)
References
External links
*
1900 births
1988 deaths
Irish male stage actors
Irish male film actors
20th-century Irish male actors
Male actors from Dublin (city)
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