Marshall Farnum (December 19, 1879 – February 19, 1917) was an American

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and film director. The youngest of the three Farnum boys,

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.Liebman p.89 Having directed first on stage, from 1913 he established himself as a film director at prominent companies such as Fox Film and World Film. He died of Tuberculosis at the age of thirty seven.

Selected filmography

* '' The Spoilers'' (1914, actor) * ''

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'' (1916) * '' The House of Mirrors'' (1916) * '' The Tides of Fate'' (1917)

References

Bibliography

* Roy Liebman. ''Broadway Actors in Films, 1894-2015''. McFarland, 2017.

External links

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portrait
of Marshall Farnum in The Virginian, 1910 (Univ. of Washington, Sayre collection)
findagrave.com
1879 births 1917 deaths American male stage actors American film directors People from Natick, Massachusetts 20th-century deaths from tuberculosis Tuberculosis deaths in Arizona {{US-stage-actor-stub