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Richard W. Farnsworth (September 1, 1920 – October 6, 2000) was an American actor and stuntman. His film career began in 1937; however, he achieved his greatest success for his performances in The Grey Fox (1982) and The Straight Story (1999), for which he received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actor.
Farnsworth was born in Los Angeles, California, to a housewife mother and an engineer father. He was raised during the Great Depression. He lived with his aunt, mother, and two sisters in downtown Los Angeles after his father died when he was seven years old.
He was working as a stable hand at a polo field in Los Angeles for six dollars a week when he was offered a chance to make seven dollars a day plus a box lunch as a stuntman. In 1937, when he was sixteen, he started by riding horses in films such as The Adventures of Marco Polo with Gary Cooper. He performed several horse-riding stunts in such films as the Marx Brothers' A Day at the Races (1937) and Gunga Din (1939).
Straight Story (1999) - Richard Farnsworth
Straight Story (1999) - Richard Farnsworth
Norm Macdonald does Richard Farnsworth
Anne: Megan Interviews Richard
Comes a Horseman (1978) - Richard Farnsworth - James Caan - Bar Scene
Richard Farnsworth"s "Celebration of Life"
THE GREY FOX - "The Great Train Robbery" realization scene
Anne: Richard Farnsworth as Matthew Cuthbert
CELEBRITY CAUSE OF DEATH (PART #6)
Richard Farnsworth from Anne of Green Gables
Actors: Robert Brower (actor), Bigelow Cooper (actor), George Lessey (actor), Marc McDermott (actor), Charles Ogle (actor), Mary Fuller (actress), Miriam Nesbitt (actress), Bannister Merwin (writer), Charles Brabin (director),
Plot: An attaché at the embassy is in love with the ambassador's daughter Helen, and hopes to marry her. Meanwhile, a clerk at the same embassy is involved in a conspiracy with two foreign agents. When the clerk steals an important document, suspicion falls on the attaché. It is up to Helen to clear him and to recover the document.
Genres: Drama, Short,