Acting
Community Rating
7.7
TMDB estimate
Born
May 27, 1874
Died
July 3, 1929 (age 55)
Born in
Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. 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.

The Yosemite Trail
as Jim Thorpe
TBA

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
as Self (archive footage)
1942

The Flaming Frontier
as General George Armstrong Custer
1926
Her Man
as Sledge
1924

Kentucky Days
as Don Buckner
1923

The Grail
as Chic Shelby
1923

The Man Who Won
as Wild Bill
1923

The Buster
as Bill Coryell
1923
Three Who Paid
as Riley Sinclairl
1923

Trail of the Axe
as Dave Malkern, Producer
1922

Oath-Bound
as Lawrence Bradbury
1922

Strange Idols
as Angus MacDonald
1922

Iron to Gold
as Tom Curtis
1922

The Devil Within
as Captain Briggs
1921

The Primal Law
as Brian Wayne
1921

Big Happiness
as John Dant / James Dant
1920

The Corsican Brothers
as Louis de Franchi / Fabien de Franchi
1920

A Man's Fight
as Roger Carr
1919

A Man in the Open
as Sailor Jesse
1919

The Light of Western Stars
as Gene Stewart
1918