Known for
Acting
Credits
51
Gender
Man
Birthday
Aug 9, 1900
Day of death
May 6, 1990 (89)
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
Acting roles
Year | Movie / TV show / Other | Role |
---|---|---|
1956 | The Charlie Farrell Show | |
1952 | My Little Margie | Vern Albright |
1941 | The Deadly Game | Barry Scott |
1939 | Tail Spin | Bud |
1938 | Just Around the Corner | Jeff Hale |
1938 | Flight to Fame | Capt. Robert Lawrence |
1937 | Midnight Menace | Briant Gaunt |
1937 | Moonlight Sonata | Eric Molander |
1935 | Fighting Youth | Larry Davis |
1935 | Hollywood Hobbies | Himself |
1935 | Forbidden Heaven | Mr. Archer / Nibs |
1934 | The Big Shakedown | Jimmy Morrell |
1934 | Change of Heart | Chris Thring |
1934 | Falling in Love | Howard Elliott |
1933 | Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men | Adoniram 'Schlumpy' Schlump / Red Branahan |
1933 | Girl Without a Room | Tom Duncan |
1932 | Wild Girl | Billy, the Stranger |
1932 | After Tomorrow | Peter Piper |
1932 | Tess of the Storm Country | Frederick Garfield Jr. |
1932 | The First Year | Tommy Tucker |
1931 | The Man Who Came Back | Stephen Randolph |
1931 | Body and Soul | Mal Andrews |
1931 | Delicious | Larry Beaumont |
1931 | Heartbreak | John Merrick |
1931 | Merely Mary Ann | John Lonsdale |
1931 | The Flying Fool | Ponder |
1930 | City Girl | Lem Tustine |
1930 | Liliom | Liliom |
1930 | High Society Blues | Eddie Granger |
1930 | Song of Soho | Legionnaire |
1930 | The Princess and the Plumber | Charlie Peters / Albert Bowers |
1929 | Lucky Star | Timothy Osborn |
1929 | The River | Allen John Spender |
1929 | Sunny Side Up | Jack Cromwell |
1929 | Happy Days | Himself |
1928 | Street Angel | Gino |
1928 | The Red Dance | Grand Duke Eugen |
1928 | Fazil | Prince Fazil |
1927 | 7th Heaven | Chico |
1927 | The Rough Riders | Stewart Van Brunt |
1926 | Old Ironsides | The Commodore |
1926 | A Trip to Chinatown | Gayne Wilder |
1926 | The Gosh-Darn Mortgage | Joe Hoskins |
1926 | Sandy | Timmy |
1925 | The Freshman | Student Bell Ringer at Frolic (uncredited) |
1925 | Clash of the Wolves | Dave Weston |
1925 | Wings of Youth | Ted Spaulding |
1924 | Three Women | Reveler at Monkey Bar |
1923 | A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate | Man in Nightclub (uncredited) |
1923 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | (uncredited) |
1923 | The Ten Commandments | Israelite Slave (uncredited) |