David Farrar
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David Farrar (21 August 1908 – 31 August 1995) was an English stage and film actor, born in Forest Gate, east London.
Three of his most notable film roles were leads in the Powell and Pressburger films Black Narcissus (1947), The Small Back Room (1949), and Gone to Earth (1950).
He retired in 1962. After the death of his wife Irene in 1976, he moved to South Africa to be with their daughter.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.5714 |
| Birthday | 1908-08-21 |
| Place of Birth | Forest Gate, London, England, UK |
| Also Known As |
1942
Went the Day Well?
7.16/78
The quiet village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops posing as Royal Engineers. Their task is to disrupt England's radar network in prepara...
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Went the Day Well?
1954
The Black Shield of Falworth
6.266/29
In the days of King Henry IV, stalwart young Myles and his sister Meg have been raised as peasants, without any knowledge of who their father really w...
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The Black Shield of Falworth
1955
The Sea Chase
6.186/51
As the Second World War breaks out, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich is about to leave Sydney, Australia with his vessel, the Ergenstrasse. Ehrli...
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The Sea Chase
1959
Solomon and Sheba
6.427/103
Near death, King David has a vision that his poet son, Solomon, should succeed him, rather than hot-headed Adonijah. Furious, Adonijah departs the cou...
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Solomon and Sheba
1960
Beat Girl
5.843/35
When her architect father brings home a much younger new wife, rebellious and resentful teen Jenny goes to extreme lengths to sabotage their relations...
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Beat Girl
1947
Black Narcissus
7.514/544
A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate in the region is hostile and the nuns are housed...
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Black Narcissus
1949
The Small Back Room
6.763/76
As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on 1943 Britain, the embittered expert who'll have to disarm them fights a private battle with alcohol.
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The Small Back Room
1962
The 300 Spartans
6.438/146
The 300 Spartans is an account of the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, in which the Greek Spartan King Leonidis, played by Richard Egan, led a remarkab...
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The 300 Spartans
1959
John Paul Jones
6.038/13
The career of Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, from his youth in Scotland through his service to Catherine the Great of Russia.
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John Paul Jones
1943
They Met in the Dark
6.357/14
A Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him into revealing some military secrets and he is court m...
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They Met in the Dark
1947
Frieda
5.647/17
An RAF pilot who was shot down during WWII returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who help...
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Frieda
1949
Diamond City
6/5
Set in the diamond fields of South Africa, Stafford Parker is a lawman trying to maintain a semblance of law and order in the "Wild South".
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Diamond City
1950
Gone to Earth
6.243/37
Hazel Woods, a beautiful and young Welsh girl, lives a wild, rustic life and loves animals — in particular, her pet fox. She is hotly desired by Jack...
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Gone to Earth
1944
For Those in Peril
6.111/9
A WWII flyer fails to join the RAF so he joins the Air - Sea Rescue instead. His boat is out in all conditions picking up downed pilots and taking the...
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For Those in Peril
1955
Escape to Burma
6.2/10
A fugitive in British Burma hides on a tea plantation, thanks to a mutual attraction with owner Gwen Moore.
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Escape to Burma
1955
Pearl of the South Pacific
6.214/14
Two beachcombers with a yacht join woman-with-a-past Rita on a quest for black pearls on a secret island. Arrived, they find another white man has mad...
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Pearl of the South Pacific
1943
Headline
7/5
A crime reporter begins to investigate the disappearance of his bosses wife who had witnessed a murder.
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Headline
1956
Lost
6.833/6
U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their 18-month-old son, Simon, has disappeared in London...
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Lost
1950
Cage of Gold
6.792/12
The love that Judy, a young painter, feels for Alan, a promising doctor to whom she is engaged, falters when Bill, an old friend, suddenly appears.
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Cage of Gold
1951
The Late Edwina Black
6.656/16
When a sickly Victorian woman dies suddenly, a postmortem reveals that her body contains a fatal dose of arsenic. Suspicion falls on her husband and h...
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The Late Edwina Black
1945
The Echo Murders
6.333/3
Detective Sexton Blake takes on Nazi spies while solving a series of crimes.
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The Echo Murders
1959
Watusi
5.85/10
Following WWI, fortune hunter Allen Quartermain's son Harry travels to Africa to search for King Solomon's mines. He dons a special medallion given by...
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Watusi
1938
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
6/8
Sexton Blake and Tinker foil criminal plot connected with the Tongs, and master-minded by "famous stamp collector" and millionaire.
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Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
1943
The Dark Tower
6.188/16
While working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner.
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The Dark Tower
1958
I Accuse!
6.643/7
Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an ac...
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I Accuse!
1945
Meet Sexton Blake
6.833/3
The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man kille...
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Meet Sexton Blake
1948
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
7.611/9
A handsome young master at a boys school incurs the jealousy of an embittered colleague. From the novel by Hugh Walpole.
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Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
1954
Lilacs in the Spring
6/3
A young actress must decide which of two lovers will be her husband. She daydreams about each one to help her decide.
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Lilacs in the Spring
1941
Danny Boy
6.5/3
A remake of Oswald Mitchell's own 1934 production, a story of Jayne Kaye (Ann Todd), a successful singer in America who returns to Britain during the...
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Danny Boy
1954
Duel in the Jungle
6.357/7
An American insurance investigator is sent to Rhodesia to investigate the mysterious death of a diamond broker who drowned whilst diving off the coast...
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Duel in the Jungle
1958
The Son of Robin Hood
5.3/5
Ten years after the death of Robin Hood, the bandit of Sherwood Forest and defender of the Crown, the power-mad Duke Simon Des Roches plots to seize t...
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The Son of Robin Hood
1939
Q Planes
6.038/40
In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test aircraf...
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Q Planes
1938
A Royal Divorce
9/1
The love affair between the French Emperor Napoleon and the lady Josephine leads through Napoleon's rise to power and their eventual divorce.
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A Royal Divorce
1951
The Golden Horde
5.25/10
The Princess of Samarkand and an English knight confront the armies of Genghis Khan.
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The Golden Horde
1942
Suspected Person
6.667/3
After a $50,000 heist in New York, two of the suspected robbers walk free from the courtroom and they waste no time in heading to London in search of...
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Suspected Person
1943
The Night Invader
9/1
Dick Marlow, a British agent, has parachuted into the occupied Netherlands to retrieve vital documents. Whilst on the trail of the papers, he poses oc...
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The Night Invader
1956
The Battle of the River Plate
6.368/68
In the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open to supply the British Is...
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The Battle of the River Plate
1937
Return of a Stranger
6/3
James Martin and Carol Wall have plans to elope, but a fight with her father's solicitor ends in murder committed by an unknown third-party, and Marti...
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Return of a Stranger
1945
The World Owes Me a Living
8/2
When a British pilot is hospitalized after a plane crash, the woman he loves sits by his bedside and remembers, in flashbacks, key episodes from their...
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The World Owes Me a Living
1944
The Hundred Pound Window
9/1
An accountant who has to take a second job working at a racetrack, soon becomes mixed up with a shady crowd.
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The Hundred Pound Window
1941
Sheepdog of the Hills
8/3
Farmers are all losing their Sheep, all except 'Riggy's'. Is it because of his great sheepdog or something more sinister.
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Sheepdog of the Hills
1946
Lisbon Story
6.25/4
A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an atomic scientist.
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Lisbon Story
1957
Woman and the Hunter
8/1
When embittered safari guide David Kirby accepts a fateful commission to lead a hunting trip for wealthy and ruthless American Mitchell Gifford, trage...
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Woman and the Hunter
1951
Night Without Stars
7.25/4
A partially blind Englishman retires to the French Riviera. He meets and falls for the Widow of a French Resistance fighter but is horrified when he d...
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Night Without Stars
1962
The Webster Boy
10/1
A gambler comes out of prison, returns to his old-flame, and finds that she has a teenage son, who begins to believe that the ex-con is his father.
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The Webster Boy
1946
The Trojan Brothers
6.5/2
Opposing ends of a pantomime horse where the 'head' dates a society lady while the 'tail' is unhappily married.
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