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Charles Farrell

Charles Farrell

1900 – 1990·Walpole, Massachusetts, USA

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).

Filmography

The Freshman

The Freshman

1925Student Bell Ringer at Frolic (uncredited)
7th Heaven

7th Heaven

1927Chico
Fazil

Fazil

1928Prince Fazil
City Girl

City Girl

1930Lem Tustine