David Farrar
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.
Solomon and Sheba
as PharaohNear death, King David has a vision that his poet son, Solomon, should succeed him, rather than...
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The 300 Spartans
as XerxesEssentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek...
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The Battle of the River Plate
as NarratorIn the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep...
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Black Narcissus
as Mr. DeanA group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The...
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The Small Back Room
as Sammy RiceAt the height of World War II, the Germans begin dropping a new type of booby-trapped bomb on...
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Went the Day Well?
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The Sea Chase
as Commander Jeff NapierAs the Second World War breaks out, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich is about to leave...
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The Black Shield of Falworth
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Q Planes
as Viking Bo'sunIn England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter...
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I Accuse!
as Mathieu DreyfusAlfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of...
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Pearl of the South Pacific
as Bully HagueTwo beachcombers with a yacht join woman-with-a-past Rita on a quest for black pearls on a...
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Gone to Earth
as John ReddinJennifer Jones plays Hazel Woods, a beautiful young English Gypsey girl who loves animals and in...
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For Those in Peril
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John Paul Jones
as John WilkesThe career of Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, from his youth in Scotland through...
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Diamond City
as Stafford ParkerSet in the diamond fields of South Africa, Stafford Parker is a lawman trying to maintain a...
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The Late Edwina Black
as Gregory BlackWhen a sickly Victorian woman dies suddenly, a postmortem reveals that her body contains a fatal...
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Beat Girl
as Paul LindenWhen her architect father brings home a much younger new wife, rebellious and resentful teen...
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Escape to Burma
as The SawbwaA fugitive in British Burma hides on a tea plantation, thanks to a mutual attraction with owner...
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The Dark Tower
as Tom DantonWhile working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner.
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Son of Robin Hood
as Des RochesTen years after the death of Robin Hood, the bandit of Sherwood Forest and defender of the...
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Cage of Gold
as BillThe love that Judy, a young painter, feels for Alan, a promising doctor to whom she is engaged,...
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Lost
as Detective Inspector CraigU.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that...
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They Met in the Dark
as Commander LippinscottA Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him...
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Frieda
as Robert DawsonAn RAF pilot who was shot down during WWII returns home to his English village with his new...
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Watusi
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Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
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Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
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Lilacs in the Spring
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The Golden Horde
as Sir Guy of DevonThe Princess of Samarkand and an English knight confront the armies of Genghis Khan.
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Duel in the Jungle
as Perry Henderson / Arthur HendersonAn American insurance investigator is sent to Rhodesia to investigate the mysterious death of a...
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A Royal Divorce
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Woman and the Hunter
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Return of a Stranger
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The World Owes Me a Living
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Danny Boy
as MartinA remake of Oswald Mitchell's own 1934 production, a story of Jayne Kaye (Ann Todd), a...
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The Webster Boy
as Paul WebsterA gambler comes out of prison, returns to his old-flame, and finds that she has a teenage son,...
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Headline
as 'Brookie ' BrooksA crime reporter begins to investigate the disappearance of his bosses wife who had witnessed a...
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Meet Sexton Blake
as Sexton BlakeThe famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find...
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The Echo Murders
as Sexton BlakeDetective Sexton Blake takes on Nazi spies while solving a series of crimes.
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Night Without Stars
as Giles GordonA partially blind Englishman retires to the French Riviera. He meets and falls for the Widow of...
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Lisbon Story
as David WarrenA musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save...
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Suspected Person
as Inspector ThompsonAfter a $50,000 heist in New York, two of the suspected robbers walk free from the courtroom and...
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