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William Farnum (July 4, 1876 – June 5, 1953) was an American film actor. ==Biography== One of three brothers, Farnum grew up in a family of actors. He made his acting debut at the age of ten in Richmond, Virginia in a production of ''Julius Caesar'', with Edwin Booth playing the title character. His first major success was as the title character of ''Ben-Hur'' in 1900 though replacing the original actor Edward Morgan who premiered the character in 1899. Later plays Farnum appeared in were the costume epic ''The Prince of India'' (1906), ''The White Sister'' (1909) starring Viola Allen, ''The Littlest Rebel'' (1911) co-starring his brother Dustin and a child actress named Mary Miles Minter (then nine years old) and ''Arizona'' (1913) with ''Dustin'' and stage beauty Elsie Ferguson. In ''The Spoilers'' in 1914, Farnum and Tom Santschi staged a classic movie fight which lasted for a full reel. In 1930, Farnum and Santschi coached Gary Cooper and William Boyd in the fight scene for the 1930 version of ''The Spoilers''. Other actors influenced by the Farnum/Santschi scene were Milton Sills and Noah Beery in 1922 and Randolph Scott and John Wayne in 1942.〔Griffith, Richard, &Arthur Mayer, ''The Movies'' (Bonanza Books, 1957), pp. 98-99〕 From 1915 to 1925, Farnum devoted his life to motion pictures. While becoming one of the biggest sensations in Hollywood, he also became one of the highest-paid actors, earning $10,000 a week. Farnum's silent pictures the western ''Drag Harlan'' (1920) and the drama-adventure ''If I Were King'' (1921) survive from his years contracted to Fox Films. The actor Dustin Hoffman was named after Farnum's brother Dustin. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Farnum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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