David Farrar

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.

  • Title : David Farrar
  • Popularity : 3.098
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1908-08-21
  • Place of Birth : Forest Gate, London, England, UK
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David Farrar Movies

  • 1942
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    Went the Day Well?

    Went the Day Well?

    7.189 1942 HD

    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...

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  • 1954
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    The Black Shield of Falworth

    The Black Shield of Falworth

    6.2 1954 HD

    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...

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  • 1955
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    The Sea Chase

    The Sea Chase

    6.1 1955 HD

    As the Second World War breaks out, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich is about to leave Sydney, Australia with his vessel, the Ergenstrasse....

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  • 1959
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    Solomon and Sheba

    Solomon and Sheba

    6.3 1959 HD

    Near death, King David has a vision that his poet son, Solomon, should succeed him, rather than hot-headed Adonijah. Furious, Adonijah departs the...

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  • 1960
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    Beat Girl

    Beat Girl

    5.839 1960 HD

    When her architect father brings home a much younger new wife, rebellious and resentful teen Jenny goes to extreme lengths to sabotage their...

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  • 1947
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    Black Narcissus

    Black Narcissus

    7.529 1947 HD

    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...

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  • 1949
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    The Small Back Room

    The Small Back Room

    6.6 1949 HD

    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...

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  • 1962
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    The 300 Spartans

    The 300 Spartans

    6.4 1962 HD

    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...

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  • 1959
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    John Paul Jones

    John Paul Jones

    6.1 1959 HD

    The career of Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, from his youth in Scotland through his service to Catherine the Great of Russia.

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  • 1943
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    They Met in the Dark

    They Met in the Dark

    6.3 1943 HD

    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...

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  • 1947
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    Frieda

    Frieda

    5.3 1947 HD

    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...

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  • 1949
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    Diamond City

    Diamond City

    5.2 1949 HD

    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".

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  • 1950
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    Gone to Earth

    Gone to Earth

    6.1 1950 HD

    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...

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  • 1944
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    For Those in Peril

    For Those in Peril

    5 1944 HD

    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...

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  • 1955
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    Escape to Burma

    Escape to Burma

    5.8 1955 HD

    A fugitive in British Burma hides on a tea plantation, thanks to a mutual attraction with owner Gwen Moore.

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  • 1955
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    Pearl of the South Pacific

    Pearl of the South Pacific

    6.4 1955 HD

    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...

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  • 1943
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    Headline

    Headline

    5.5 1943 HD

    A crime reporter begins to investigate the disappearance of his bosses wife who had witnessed a murder.

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  • 1956
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    Lost

    Lost

    7 1956 HD

    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...

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  • 1950
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    Cage of Gold

    Cage of Gold

    6.6 1950 HD

    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.

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  • 1951
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    The Late Edwina Black

    The Late Edwina Black

    6.4 1951 HD

    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...

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  • 1945
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    The Echo Murders

    The Echo Murders

    4.5 1945 HD

    Detective Sexton Blake takes on Nazi spies while solving a series of crimes.

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  • 1959
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    Watusi

    Watusi

    5.7 1959 HD

    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...

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  • 1938
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    Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror

    Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror

    5.714 1938 HD

    Sexton Blake and Tinker foil criminal plot connected with the Tongs, and master-minded by "famous stamp collector" and millionaire.

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  • 1943
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    The Dark Tower

    The Dark Tower

    6.1 1943 HD

    While working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner.

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  • 1958
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    I Accuse!

    I Accuse!

    6.1 1958 HD

    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...

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  • 1945
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    Meet Sexton Blake

    Meet Sexton Blake

    5.5 1945 HD

    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...

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  • 1948
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    Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill

    Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill

    7.7 1948 HD

    A handsome young master at a boys school incurs the jealousy of an embittered colleague. From the novel by Hugh Walpole.

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  • 1954
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    Lilacs in the Spring

    Lilacs in the Spring

    5.5 1954 HD

    A young actress must decide which of two lovers will be her husband. She daydreams about each one to help her decide.

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  • 1941
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    Danny Boy

    Danny Boy

    5.2 1941 HD

    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...

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  • 1954
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    Duel in the Jungle

    Duel in the Jungle

    5.9 1954 HD

    An American insurance investigator is sent to Rhodesia to investigate the mysterious death of a diamond broker who drowned whilst diving off the...

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  • 1958
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    Son of Robin Hood

    Son of Robin Hood

    4.4 1958 HD

    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...

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  • 1939
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    Q Planes

    Q Planes

    5.8 1939 HD

    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...

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  • 1938
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    A Royal Divorce

    A Royal Divorce

    1 1938 HD

    The love affair between the French Emperor Napoleon and the lady Josephine leads through Napoleon's rise to power and their eventual divorce.

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  • 1951
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    The Golden Horde

    The Golden Horde

    4.8 1951 HD

    The Princess of Samarkand and an English knight confront the armies of Genghis Khan.

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  • 1942
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    Suspected Person

    Suspected Person

    5.5 1942 HD

    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...

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  • 1943
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    The Night Invader

    The Night Invader

    1 1943 HD

    Dick Marlow, a British agent, has parachuted into the occupied Netherlands to retrieve vital documents. Whilst on the trail of the papers, he poses...

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  • 1956
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    The Battle of the River Plate

    The Battle of the River Plate

    6.2 1956 HD

    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...

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  • 1937
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    Return of a Stranger

    Return of a Stranger

    5.5 1937 HD

    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...

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  • 1945
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    The World Owes Me a Living

    The World Owes Me a Living

    6 1945 HD

    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...

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  • 1944
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    The Hundred Pound Window

    The Hundred Pound Window

    1 1944 HD

    An accountant who has to take a second job working at a racetrack, soon becomes mixed up with a shady crowd.

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  • 1941
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    Sheepdog of the Hills

    Sheepdog of the Hills

    7 1941 HD

    Farmers are all losing their Sheep, all except 'Riggy's'. Is it because of his great sheepdog or something more sinister.

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  • 1946
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    Lisbon Story

    Lisbon Story

    5.7 1946 HD

    A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an atomic scientist.

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  • 1957
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    Woman and the Hunter

    Woman and the Hunter

    1 1957 HD

    When embittered safari guide David Kirby accepts a fateful commission to lead a hunting trip for wealthy and ruthless American Mitchell Gifford,...

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  • 1951
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    Night Without Stars

    Night Without Stars

    6.7 1951 HD

    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...

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  • 1962
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    The Webster Boy

    The Webster Boy

    1 1962 HD

    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.

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  • 1946
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    The Trojan Brothers

    The Trojan Brothers

    5 1946 HD

    Opposing ends of a pantomime horse where the 'head' dates a society lady while the 'tail' is unhappily married.

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