David Farrar
Birthday: 1908-08-21
Place of Birth: Forest Gate, London, England, UK
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Farrar (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Went the Day Well?
The quiet village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops posing as Royal Engineers. Their tas...
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The Black Shield of Falworth
In the days of King Henry IV, stalwart young Myles and his sister Meg have been raised as peasants, ...
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The Sea Chase
As the Second World War breaks out, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich is about to leave Sydney, ...
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Solomon and Sheba
Near death, King David has a vision that his poet son, Solomon, should succeed him, rather than hot-...
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Beat Girl
When her architect father brings home a much younger new wife, rebellious and resentful teen Jenny g...
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Black Narcissus
A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climat...
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The Small Back Room
As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on 1943 Britain, the embittered expert who'll have to disa...
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The 300 Spartans
Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (3...
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John Paul Jones
The career of Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, from his youth in Scotland through his s...
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They Met in the Dark
A Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him into...
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Frieda
An RAF pilot who was shot down during WWII returns home to his English village with his new bride. T...
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Diamond City
Set in the diamond fields of South Africa, Stafford Parker is a lawman trying to maintain a semblanc...
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Gone to Earth
Hazel Woods, a beautiful and young Welsh girl, lives a wild, rustic life and loves animals — in part...
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For Those in Peril
A WWII flyer fails to join the RAF so he joins the Air - Sea Rescue instead. His boat is out in all ...
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Escape to Burma
A fugitive in British Burma hides on a tea plantation, thanks to a mutual attraction with owner Gwen...
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Pearl of the South Pacific
Two beachcombers with a yacht join woman-with-a-past Rita on a quest for black pearls on a secret is...
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Headline
A crime reporter begins to investigate the disappearance of his bosses wife who had witnessed a murd...
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Lost
U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their ...
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Cage of Gold
The love that Judy, a young painter, feels for Alan, a promising doctor to whom she is engaged, falt...
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The Late Edwina Black
When a sickly Victorian woman dies suddenly, a postmortem reveals that her body contains a fatal dos...
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The Echo Murders
Detective Sexton Blake takes on Nazi spies while solving a series of crimes....
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Watusi
Following WWI, fortune hunter Allen Quartermain's son Harry travels to Africa to search for King Sol...
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Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
Sexton Blake and Tinker foil criminal plot connected with the Tongs, and master-minded by "famous st...
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The Dark Tower
While working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner....
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I Accuse!
Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason an...
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Meet Sexton Blake
The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find some ...
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Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
A handsome young master at a boys school incurs the jealousy of an embittered colleague. From the no...
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Lilacs in the Spring
A young actress must decide which of two lovers will be her husband. She daydreams about each one to...
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Danny Boy
A remake of Oswald Mitchell's own 1934 production, a story of Jayne Kaye (Ann Todd), a successful si...
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Duel in the Jungle
An American insurance investigator is sent to Rhodesia to investigate the mysterious death of a diam...
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Son of Robin Hood
Ten years after the death of Robin Hood, the bandit of Sherwood Forest and defender of the Crown, th...
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Q Planes
In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team u...
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A Royal Divorce
The love affair between the French Emperor Napoleon and the lady Josephine leads through Napoleon's ...
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The Golden Horde
The Princess of Samarkand and an English knight confront the armies of Genghis Khan....
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Suspected Person
After a $50,000 heist in New York, two of the suspected robbers walk free from the courtroom and the...
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The Night Invader
Dick Marlow, a British agent, has parachuted into the occupied Netherlands to retrieve vital documen...
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The Battle of the River Plate
In the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the At...
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Return of a Stranger
James Martin and Carol Wall have plans to elope, but a fight with her father's solicitor ends in mur...
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The World Owes Me a Living
When a British pilot is hospitalized after a plane crash, the woman he loves sits by his bedside and...
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The Hundred Pound Window
An accountant who has to take a second job working at a racetrack, soon becomes mixed up with a shad...
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Sheepdog of the Hills
Farmers are all losing their Sheep, all except 'Riggy's'. Is it because of his great sheepdog or som...
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Lisbon Story
A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an ...
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Woman and the Hunter
When embittered safari guide David Kirby accepts a fateful commission to lead a hunting trip for wea...
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Night Without Stars
A partially blind Englishman retires to the French Riviera. He meets and falls for the Widow of a Fr...
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The Webster Boy
A gambler comes out of prison, returns to his old-flame, and finds that she has a teenage son, who b...
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The Trojan Brothers
Opposing ends of a pantomime horse where the 'head' dates a society lady while the 'tail' is unhappi...
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