Birthday:
08-21-1908
Deathday:
08-31-1995 (87 years)
Birthplace:
Forest Gate, London, England, UK
Biography
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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.
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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.
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Went the Day Well?
Act like Lieutenant Jung
event1942 star_border 7.2
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The quiet village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops posing as Royal Engineers. Their task is to disrupt England's radar network in preparation for a full scale German invasion. Once the villagers discover the true identity of the troops, they do whatever they can to thwart the Nazis plans.
The Black Shield of Falworth
Act like Gilbert Blunt, Earl of Alban
event1954 star_border 6.2
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In the days of King Henry IV, stalwart young Myles and his sister Meg have been raised as peasants, without any knowledge of who their father really was. But one day, they journey to Macworth Castle. There, Myles falls in love with Lady Anne Macworth, makes friends and enemies, and learns to be a knight.
The Sea Chase
Act like Commander Jeff Napier
event1955 star_border 6.1
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As the Second World War breaks out, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich is about to leave Sydney, Australia with his vessel, the Ergenstrasse. Ehrlich, an anti-Nazi but proud German, hopes to outrun or out-maneuver the British warship pursuing him. Aboard his vessel is Elsa Keller, a woman Ehrlich has been ordered to return to Germany safely along with whatever secrets she carries. When Ehrlich's fiercely Nazi chief officer Kirchner commits an atrocity, the British pursuit becomes deadly.
Solomon and Sheba
Act like Pharaoh
event1959 star_border 6.4
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Near death, King David has a vision that his poet son, Solomon, should succeed him, rather than hot-headed Adonijah. Furious, Adonijah departs the court, swearing he will become king. Other rulers are concerned that Solomon's benevolent rule and interest in monotheism will threaten their tyrannical, polytheistic kingdoms. The Queen of Sheba makes an agreement with the Egyptian pharaoh to corrupt Solomon for their mutual benefit.
Beat Girl
Act like Paul Linden
event1960 star_border 5.9
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When her architect father brings home a much younger new wife, rebellious and resentful teen Jenny goes to extreme lengths to sabotage their relationship.
Black Narcissus
Act like Mr. Dean
event1947 star_border 7.5
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A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate in the region is hostile and the nuns are housed in an odd old palace. They work to establish a school and a hospital, but slowly their focus shifts. Sister Ruth falls for a government worker, Mr. Dean, and begins to question her vow of celibacy. As Sister Ruth obsesses over Mr. Dean, Sister Clodagh becomes immersed in her own memories of love.
The Small Back Room
Act like Sammy Rice
event1949 star_border 6.7
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At the height of World War II, the Germans begin dropping a new type of booby-trapped bomb on England. Highly skilled but haunted bomb disposal officer Sammy Rice must overcome his personal demons to defeat this new threat.
The 300 Spartans
Act like Xerxes
event1962 star_border 6.4
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Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of his personal body guards from Sparta) to hold off an invading Persian army now thought to have numbered 250,000.
John Paul Jones
Act like John Wilkes
event1959 star_border 6.1
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The career of Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, from his youth in Scotland through his service to Catherine the Great of Russia.
They Met in the Dark
Act like Commander Lippinscott
event1943 star_border 6.3
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A Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him into revealing some military secrets and he is court martial. He vows to track her and her accomplices down.
Frieda
Act like Robert Dawson
event1947 star_border 5.3
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An RAF pilot who was shot down during WWII returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who helped him escape.
Diamond City
Act like Stafford Parker
event1949 star_border 5.2
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Set in the diamond fields of South Africa, Stafford Parker is a lawman trying to maintain a semblance of law and order in the "Wild South".
Gone to Earth
Act like John Reddin
event1950 star_border 6.2
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Jennifer Jones plays Hazel Woods, a beautiful young English Gypsey girl who loves animals and in particular her pet fox. She is hotly desired by Jack Reddin a fox hunting squire who vies for her affection and pursues her even after her marriage to the local pastor.
For Those in Peril
Act like Murray
event1944 star_border 5.2
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A WWII flyer fails to join the RAF so he joins the Air - Sea Rescue instead. His boat is out in all conditions picking up downed pilots and taking them to safety.
Escape to Burma
Act like The Sawbwa
event1955 star_border 5.8
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A fugitive in British Burma hides on a tea plantation, thanks to a mutual attraction with owner Gwen Moore.
Pearl of the South Pacific
Act like Bully Hague
event1955 star_border 6.1
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Two beachcombers with a yacht join woman-with-a-past Rita on a quest for black pearls on a secret island. Arrived, they find another white man has made himself high priest; but George, the latter's handome son, is fair game for Rita, who lands in the guise of a missionary! The inevitable conflict over the pearls brings violence and corruption to the quiet island.
Headline
Act like 'Brookie ' Brooks
event1943 star_border 5.5
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A crime reporter begins to investigate the disappearance of his bosses wife who had witnessed a murder.
Lost
Act like Detective Inspector Craig
event1956 star_border 7
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U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their 18-month-old son, Simon, has disappeared in London. He was last seen with their nanny, and the couple seemingly have no leads that might help police Detective Craig in his investigation. The media sensationalizes the incident, causing an unnecessary distraction as the couple prepares to confront the culprit face-to-face.
Cage of Gold
Act like Bill
event1950 star_border 6.6
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The love that Judy, a young painter, feels for Alan, a promising doctor to whom she is engaged, falters when Bill, an old friend, suddenly appears.
The Late Edwina Black
Act like Gregory Black
event1951 star_border 6.4
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When a sickly Victorian woman dies suddenly, a postmortem reveals that her body contains a fatal dose of arsenic. Suspicion falls on her husband and her companion, who are lovers. Inspector Martin of Scotland Yard solves the mystery of her death... over a cup of tea.
The Echo Murders
Act like Sexton Blake
event1945 star_border 4.5
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Detective Sexton Blake takes on Nazi spies while solving a series of crimes.
Watusi
Act like Rick Cobb
event1959 star_border 5.7
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Following WWI, fortune hunter Allen Quartermain's son Harry travels to Africa to search for King Solomon's mines. He dons a special medallion given by his father from the Watusi tribe, who guard the mines. Along the way, Harry and his friend Rick meet and take with them Erica, daughter of a missionary killed by a local tribe.
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
Act like Granite Grant
event1938 star_border 5.7
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Sexton Blake and Tinker foil criminal plot connected with the Tongs, and master-minded by "famous stamp collector" and millionaire.
The Dark Tower
Act like Tom Danton
event1943 star_border 6.1
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While working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner.
I Accuse!
Act like Mathieu Dreyfus
event1958 star_border 6.1
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Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an act of institutional anti-Semitism. Sent to prison, he becomes a cause célèbre for the novelist Émile Zola, who dubs it the "Dreyfus Affair." Eventually, Dreyfus is pardoned when the military cover-up is made public, and he returns to France. But his name is forever tarnished by the accusations of treason.
Meet Sexton Blake
Act like Sexton Blake
event1945 star_border 5.5
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The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man killed during an air raid.
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
Act like David Traill
event1948 star_border 7.7
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A handsome young master at a boys school incurs the jealousy of an embittered colleague. From the novel by Hugh Walpole.
Lilacs in the Spring
Act like Charles King
event1954 star_border 5.5
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A young actress must decide which of two lovers will be her husband. She daydreams about each one to help her decide.
Danny Boy
Act like Martin
event1941 star_border 5.2
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A remake of Oswald Mitchell's own 1934 production, a story of Jayne Kaye (Ann Todd), a successful singer in America who returns to Britain during the Blitz to find her ex-husband and son who have fallen on hard times.
Duel in the Jungle
Act like Perry Henderson / Arthur Henderson
event1954 star_border 5.9
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An American insurance investigator is sent to Rhodesia to investigate the mysterious death of a diamond broker who drowned whilst diving off the coast. The broker was insured for $1 million so the insurers are suspicious.
Son of Robin Hood
Act like Des Roches
event1958 star_border 4.4
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Ten years after the death of Robin Hood, the bandit of Sherwood Forest and defender of the Crown, the power-mad Duke Simon Des Roches plots to seize the British kingdom from its rightful heir, the boy prince, and only Robin's men stand in his way.
Q Planes
Act like Viking Bo'sun
event1939 star_border 5.9
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In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test aircraft which have disappeared without a trace while over the ocean on their maiden flights; unaware, as they are, that a spy ring has been shooting the planes down with a ray machine hidden aboard a salvage vessel which is on hand to haul the downed aircraft aboard, crews and all.
A Royal Divorce
Act like Louis Bonaparte
event1938
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The love affair between the French Emperor Napoleon and the lady Josephine leads through Napoleon's rise to power and their eventual divorce.
The Golden Horde
Act like Sir Guy of Devon
event1951 star_border 4.8
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The Princess of Samarkand and an English knight confront the armies of Genghis Khan.
Suspected Person
Act like Inspector Thompson
event1942 star_border 5.5
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After a $50,000 heist in New York, two of the suspected robbers walk free from the courtroom and they waste no time in heading to London in search of the missing loot. This means bad news for their former accomplice Jim Raynor, who has the money hidden away not least because they're not the only ones on his tail; Scotland Yard is also on the case...
The Night Invader
Act like Dick Marlow
event1943
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Dick Marlow, a British agent, has parachuted into the occupied Netherlands to retrieve vital documents. Whilst on the trail of the papers, he poses occasionally as an American journalist and a Gestapo officer. He meets and falls in love with a Dutch woman who professes solidarity with the British, but matters become complicated and dangerous when it transpires that the woman's brother is in possession of the documents Dick Marlow needs, and is far less kindly disposed towards the British than his sister – or is she?
The Battle of the River Plate
Act like Narrator
event1956 star_border 6.2
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In the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open to supply the British Isles, facing the great danger posed by the many German warships, such as the Admiral Graf Spee, which are scouring the ocean for cargo ships to sink.
Return of a Stranger
Act like Dr. Young
event1937 star_border 5.5
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James Martin and Carol Wall have plans to elope, but a fight with her father's solicitor ends in murder committed by an unknown third-party, and Martin is hunted for the crime, knowing the solicitor was alive when he left him. Carol refuses to speak to him, and he escapes on a ship to South Africa. There, he is the victim of an accident that disfigures his face, and he returns to England to clear his name, believing he won't be recognized. Other than by everybody who knew him, it turns out.
The World Owes Me a Living
Act like Paul Collyer
event1945 star_border 6
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When a British pilot is hospitalized after a plane crash, the woman he loves sits by his bedside and remembers, in flashbacks, key episodes from their life together.
The Hundred Pound Window
Act like George Graham
event1944
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An accountant who has to take a second job working at a racetrack, soon becomes mixed up with a shady crowd.
Sheepdog of the Hills
Act like Reverend Michael Varney
event1941 star_border 7
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Farmers are all losing their Sheep, all except 'Riggy's'. Is it because of his great sheepdog or something more sinister.
Lisbon Story
Act like David Warren
event1946 star_border 5.7
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A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an atomic scientist.
Woman and the Hunter
Act like David Kirby
event1957
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When embittered safari guide David Kirby accepts a fateful commission to lead a hunting trip for wealthy and ruthless American Mitchell Gifford, tragedy soon intervenes and the big game hunt becomes a man hunt.
Night Without Stars
Act like Giles Gordon
event1951 star_border 6.7
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A partially blind Englishman retires to the French Riviera. He meets and falls for the Widow of a French Resistance fighter but is horrified when he discovers she is involved with smugglers and murderers.
The Webster Boy
Act like Paul Webster
event1962
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A gambler comes out of prison, returns to his old-flame, and finds that she has a teenage son, who begins to believe that the ex-con is his father.
The Trojan Brothers
Act like Sid Nichols
event1946 star_border 5
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Opposing ends of a pantomime horse where the 'head' dates a society lady while the 'tail' is unhappily married.
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