Richard Farnsworth

Born: 1920-09-01

Richard William Farnsworth (September 1, 1920 – October 6, 2000) was an American actor and stuntman. He is best known for his performances in Comes a Horseman (1978), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor; The Grey Fox (1982), for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama; Anne of Green Gables (1985); Misery (1990); and The Straight Story (1999), for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Farnsworth, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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as Salt Mine Slave / Gladiator / Slave General (uncredited)
Released: 1960-10-13

The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer...

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as Chariot Driver
Released: 1956-10-05

Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon...

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Gone with the Wind

as Soldier (uncredited)
Released: 1939-12-15

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical...

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as Manhunter (uncredited)
Released: 1973-12-16

A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful...

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The Getaway

as Slim
Released: 1994-02-11

Doc McCoy is put in prison because his partners chickened out and flew off without him after...

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Misery

as Buster
Released: 1990-11-30

After an accident, acclaimed novelist Paul Sheldon is rescued by a nurse who claims to be his...

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as Sheriff (uncredited)
Released: 1974-02-07

A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to...

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Anne of Green Gables

as Matthew Cuthbert
Released: 1985-12-01

At the turn of the century on Prince Edward Island, Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla...

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The Straight Story

as Alvin
Released: 1999-10-15

A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother...

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The Natural

as Red Blow
Released: 1984-05-11

An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to...

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Red River

as Dunston Rider (uncredited)
Released: 1948-08-26

Following the Civil War, headstrong rancher Thomas Dunson decides to lead a perilous cattle...

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The Wild One

as Man (uncredited)
Released: 1953-12-30

The Black Rebels Motorcycle Club ride into the small California town of Wrightsville, eager to...

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Duel at Diablo

as Wagon Driver #1 (uncredited)
Released: 1966-06-15

In Apache territory, a supply Army column heads for the next fort, an ex-scout searches for the...

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Into the Night

as Jack Caper
Released: 1985-02-22

Ed Okin used to have a boring life. He used to have trouble getting to sleep. Then one night, he...

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Mighty Joe Young

as Cowboy (uncredited)
Released: 1949-07-27

A young woman, Jill Young, grew up on her father's ranch in Africa, raising a large gorilla...

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The Two Jakes

as Earl Rawley
Released: 1990-08-10

Real estate developer Jake Berman hires private investigator and war veteran Jake Gittes for...

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The Cowboys

as Henry Williams
Released: 1972-01-13

When his cattlemen abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a...

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Gunga Din

as (uncredited)
Released: 1939-01-26

British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along...

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The Tin Star

as Posse Member (uncredited)
Released: 1957-10-23

An experienced bounty hunter helps a young sheriff learn the meaning of his badge.

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Ulzana's Raid

as Trooper
Released: 1972-10-27

A report reaches the US Army Cavalry that the Apache leader Ulzana has left his reservation with...

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The Flame and the Arrow

as Outlaw (uncredited)
Released: 1950-07-07

Dardo, a Robin Hood-like figure, and his loyal followers use a Roman ruin in Medieval Lombardy...

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Tom Horn

as John Coble
Released: 1980-03-28

A renowned former army scout is hired by ranchers to hunt down rustlers but finds himself on...

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Lassie

as Len Collins
Released: 1994-07-22

On their way to start a new life at a sheep farm in rural Virginia, the Turner family are halted...

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The Apple Dumpling Gang

as Mover
Released: 1975-07-01

A roving bachelor gets saddled with three children and a wealth of trouble when the youngsters...

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Highway to Hell

as Sam
Released: 1991-11-21

Charlie and Rachel run away from home to get married in Las Vegas. But they get attacked by a...

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Havana

as Professor
Released: 1990-12-11

During the revolution, a high-stakes gambler arrives in Cuba seeking to win big in poker games....

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The Violent Men

as Anchor Rider (uncredited)
Released: 1955-01-26

A former Union Army officer plans to sell out to Anchor Ranch and move east with his fiancée,...

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The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

as Outlaw
Released: 1972-12-18

Outlaw and self-appointed lawmaker Judge Roy Bean rules over an empty stretch of the West that...

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Comes a Horseman

as Dodger
Released: 1978-10-25

Ella Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt...

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The Legend of the Lone Ranger

as Wild Bill Hickok
Released: 1981-08-06

When the young Texas Ranger, John Reid, is the sole survivor of an ambush arranged by the...

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Rhinestone

as Noah Ferris
Released: 1984-06-22

After a big-time country singer brags that she can turn anybody in to a country-singin' star,...

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Monte Walsh

as Cowboy
Released: 1970-10-02

Monte Walsh is an aging cowboy facing the ending days of the Wild West era. As barbed wire and...

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The Stalking Moon

as Man (uncredited)
Released: 1968-12-25

While moving a group of Apaches to a Native American reservation in Arizona, an American scout...

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The Grey Fox

as Bill Miner
Released: 1982-12-16

Old West highwayman Bill Miner, known to Pinkertons as "The Gentleman Bandit," is released in...

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Sam Whiskey

as Pete the Guard (uncredited)
Released: 1969-04-01

A widow hires an ex-gambler to retrieve gold bars from a sunken river boat in Colorado and...

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The Good Guys and the Bad Guys

as Workman (uncredited)
Released: 1969-10-10

An aging lawman and an aging outlaw join forces when their respective positions in society are...

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Texas Across the River

as Medicine Man
Released: 1966-10-26

The Louisiana wedding of debutante Phoebe Ann Naylor to Don Andrea de Baldasar, El Duce de la...

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This Is the Army

as Soldier (uncredited)
Released: 1943-08-14

In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank....

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A Lawless Street

as Townsman (uncredited)
Released: 1955-11-15

A Marshal must face unpleasant facts about his past when he attempts to run a criminal gang out...

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The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox

as Stagecoach driver
Released: 1976-04-01

A female hustler is chasing after rich men, but becomes repeatedly mixed up with a suave con man...

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Pocket Money

as Man (uncredited)
Released: 1972-02-01

Broke and in debt, an otherwise honest cowboy and his buddy get mixed up in some shady dealings...

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Resurrection

as Esco
Released: 1980-09-26

The story of a woman who survives the car accident which kills her husband, but discovers that...

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Independence Day

as Evan
Released: 1983-01-21

Mary Ann Taylor loves the comforts of her hometown in Mercury, Texas. She has a steady job as a...

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Skin Game

as Man in Saloon fight (uncredited)
Released: 1971-09-30

Quincy Drew and Jason O’Rourke, a pair of friends and con men—the former white, the latter a...

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Space Rage

as Colonel
Released: 1985-12-25

In this sci-fi/western film set two hundred years from now, a bank robber, Grange is captured...

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Wild Horses

as Chuck Reese
Released: 1985-11-12

An over-the-hill rodeo champion gets fired from his assembly line job in Texas. He and a buddy...

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The Adventures of Marco Polo

as Mongol Warrior (uncredited)
Released: 1938-04-07

The Venetian traveler Marco Polo meets Kublai Khan and foils a plotter with fireworks in...

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Ruckus

as Sheriff Jethro Pough
Released: 1981-03-01

Madoc County is a quiet and peaceful place until vagrant Kyle Hanson arrives. The people of...

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Sylvester

as John Foster
Released: 1985-03-15

Charlie is a 16-year-old orphan struggling to raise her two younger brothers when she endeavors...

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Chase

as Judge Grand Pettitt
Released: 1985-11-23

A big-city lawyer (Jennifer O'Neill) returns to her small hometown after her father's death to...

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Another Man, Another Chance

as Stagecoach Driver
Released: 1977-09-28

Young Jeanne falls in love with photographer Francis, who soon takes her with him when he...

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A Few Days at Weasel Creek

as Jason Stayvey
Released: 1981-10-21

Serio-comic road movie about a feisty girl who sets out for California and hitches a ride for...

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The Hard Man

as Posse Man (uncredited)
Released: 1957-12-01

A Texas Ranger turns deputy sheriff; a woman wants him to kill her cattle-baron husband.

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Travis McGee

as Van Harder
Released: 1983-05-18

Travis McGee is a world-weary private eye trying to help boat skipper friend Van Harder salvage...

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Desperado: The Outlaw Wars

as Sheriff Campbell
Released: 1989-10-10

Duell McCall visits his old girlfriend, Nora, and learns that she gave birth to his child. He...

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Arena

as Cowboy
Released: 1953-06-24

Left by his wife, a vain rodeo star picks up a floozy and rides a bad Brahman bull.

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Kevin Sullivan's Classic

as Self - Matthew Cuthbert (archive footage)
Released: 2006-01-01

A look at the Anne of Green Gables film trilogy by Kevin Sullivan - Anne of Green Gables (1985),...

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The Soul of Nigger Charley

as Walker
Released: 1973-05-15

After the end of the Civil War, Charley fights against a group of Southern soldiers seeking to...

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Louis L'Amour's The Cherokee Trail

as Ridge Fenton
Released: 1981-05-21

In the late 19th Century, Mary Breydon, a widow, and Peggy Breydon, her daughter manage a...

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Honky Tonk

as Driver
Released: 1974-04-01

In the wild west con-man 'Candy' Johnson heads to Nevada to set up his own gambling den and...

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Strange New World

as Elder
Released: 1975-07-13

In the near future, a group of scientists living in a space ship wake up from a hibernation...

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Waltz Across Texas

as Frank Walker
Released: 1982-10-01

A wildcatter and a geologist prospect for oil and love in West Texas.

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Best Friends for Life

as Will Harper
Released: 1998-01-18

Sarah and Harriet have been best friends since childhood. They married at the same time, had...

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Bonanza

as Tate
First aired: 1959-09-12

The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch...

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Bonanza

as Troy
First aired: 1959-09-12

The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch...

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Maverick

as Stage Driver (uncredited)
First aired: 1957-09-22

The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers...

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Maverick

as Clint (uncredited)
First aired: 1957-09-22

The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers...

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Little House on the Prairie

as uncredited
First aired: 1974-09-11

Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael...

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Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

as Trooper
First aired: 1956-10-05

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American...

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The High Chaparral

as Lloyd
First aired: 1967-09-10

The High Chaparral is an American Western-themed television series starring Leif Erickson and...

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The Big Valley

as Bolin
First aired: 1965-09-15

The Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15,...

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The Big Valley

as Businessman
First aired: 1965-09-15

The Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15,...

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Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee
First aired: 1944-01-20

An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and...

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Highway to Heaven

as uncredited
First aired: 1984-09-19

A probationary angel is sent back to Earth to team up with an ex-cop and help people.

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Wanted: Dead or Alive

as Rance
First aired: 1958-09-06

Wanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the...

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Wanted: Dead or Alive

as Hal
First aired: 1958-09-06

Wanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the...

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State Trooper

as uncredited
First aired: 1956-09-25

State Trooper is an American crime drama set in the 1950s American West, starring Rod Cameron as...

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The Oscars

as Self
First aired: 1953-03-19

An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The...

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The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

as uncredited
First aired: 1951-04-15

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is an American Western television series which ran for eight...

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Cimarron Strip

as uncredited
First aired: 1967-09-07

Cimarron Strip is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from September 1967 to...

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Roots

as Trumbull
First aired: 1977-01-23

The epic tale of celebrated Pulitzer-prize winning author Alex Haley's ancestors as portrayed in...

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The Rebel

as Trooper
First aired: 1959-10-04

The Rebel is a 76-episode American western television series starring Nick Adams that debuted on...

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The Adventures of Kit Carson

as uncredited
First aired: 1951-08-11

The Adventures of Kit Carson is an American Western series that aired in syndication from August...

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Anne of Green Gables

as Matthew Cuthbert
First aired: 1985-12-01

When Anne Shirley arrives at the Cuthbert’s Farm on Prince Edward Island, she is a precocious,...

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CBS Summer Playhouse

as Carl
First aired: 1987-06-12

CBS anthology series airing unsold television pilots during the summer season.

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The Wonderful World of Disney

as Farmer
First aired: 1954-10-27

Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different...

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The Fire Next Time

as Frank Morgan
First aired: 1993-04-18

In the near future, the unrelenting heat waves and coastal flooding brought on by the greenhouse...

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Anne auf Green Gables

as uncredited
First aired: 1986-11-02

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