Richard Farnsworth

  • Name: Richard Farnsworth
  • Date of Birth: September 01, 1920
  • Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Mini-bio: Richard Farnsworth (September 1, 1920 – October 6, 2000) was an American actor. Born in Los Angeles, California, he began his film career as a stunt man, performing several horse riding stunts in such...( read more) films as the Marx Brothers' A Day at the Races at the age of 17. He received his first credit as "Dick Farnsworth" in Texas Across the River in 1966. Farnsworth's career was largely in Western films, although he did appear in the television miniseries Roots. In 1985 he appeared in the Canadian miniseries Anne of Green Gables, winning a Gemini Award for his performance as Matthew Cuthbert. He also won a Genie Award in 1983 for his performance as stagecoach robber Bill Miner in the Canadian film The Grey Fox. Another one of his prominent roles was as a suspicious sheriff in the film version of Stephen King's Misery.

In 1979 Farnsworth was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Comes a Horseman and in 1999 he was nominated for Best Actor for The Straight Story. Richard Farnsworth has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1560 Vine Street. In 1997, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Having been diagnosed with terminal cancer, Farnsworth committed suicide by shooting himself at his ranch in Lincoln, New Mexico. He is interred with his wife in the Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.
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  • kitteh1882
    kitteh1882
    I remember watching him in Lassie and then just recently I watched The Straight Story. I just love his personality. He just seemed to radiate kindness and warmth. Reminds me alot of my grandfather.
    posted 300 days ago
  • saltersheppard
    saltersheppard
    Always loved this guy. He had such a natural delivery...very soothing. He was great in The Natural. Just watched Anne of Green Gables. He was fantastic in it as well. He stared in a Lassie movie as well with Helen Slater. Again, he pulled off a convincing role as a stable grandfather role for the young boy.
    posted 387 days ago
  • jaysgrandmother
    jaysgrandmother
    I have been watching him for yearssss. I really liked him.He was a very good actor..{I'M a Western Fan}
    posted 563 days ago
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