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David Farrar (21 August 190831 August 1995) was an English stage and film actor, born in Forest Gate, east London. He gained fame in the 1940s playing Sexton Blake in a pair of low-budget thrillers which were enormously popular. By 1945 he was receiving 800 fan letters a week. 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). In 1949 exhibitors voted him the ninth-most popular British star. Director Michael Powell once spoke of his handsome appearance and distinctive "violet eyes", and his exceptional timing in films. Powell also stated that had Farrar been more interested in cinema and cared more about his career he could have been a much more high-profile actor, as successful as any.〔''Black Narcissus'' (The Criterion Collection) (2001) DVD commentary〕 John Huston once offered him a part but it was given to Humphrey Bogart instead.〔 He retired in 1962. After the death of his wife Irene in 1976, he moved to South Africa to be with their daughter, Barbara. He died on 31 August 1995 in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 10 days after his 87th birthday. ==Filmography== * ''Return of a Stranger'' (1937) — Doctor Young * ''Silver Top'' (1938) * ''Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror'' (1938) * ''A Royal Divorce'' (1938) — Louis Bonaparte * ''Q Planes'' (1939) * ''Danny Boy'' (1941) — Martin * ''Sheepdog of the Hills'' (1941) * ''Penn of Pennsylvania'' (1941) * ''Suspected Person'' (1942) * ''Went the Day Well?'' (1942) — Lt. Jung, alias Lt. Maxwell * ''They Met in the Dark'' (1943) — Commander Lippinscott * ''The Dark Tower'' (1943) * ''The Night Invader'' (1943) — Dick Marlow * ''The Hundred Pound Window'' (1944) — George Graham * ''For Those in Peril'' (1944) — Murray * ''Headline'' (1944) * ''The World Owes Me a Living'' (1945) — Paul Collyer * ''Meet Sexton Blake'' (1945) — Sexton Blake * ''The Echo Murders'' (1945) — Sexton Blake * ''Lisbon Story'' (1946) — David Warren * ''The Trojan Brothers'' (1946) * ''Black Narcissus'' (1947) — Mr. Dean * ''Frieda'' (1947) — Robert * ''Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill'' (1948) — David Traill * ''Diamond City'' (1949) — Stafford Parker * ''The Small Back Room'' (1949) — Sammy Rice * ''Cage of Gold'' (1950) * ''Gone to Earth'' (1950) — John "Jack" Reddin * ''Night Without Stars'' (1951) * ''The Late Edwina Black'' (1951) — Gregory Black * ''The Golden Horde'' (1951) * ''The Black Shield of Falworth'' (1954) — Earl of Alban * ''Duel in the Jungle'' (1954) * ''Lilacs in the Spring'' (1954) * ''Escape to Burma'' (1955) * ''The Sea Chase'' (1955) * ''Pearl of the South Pacific'' (1955) * ''Lost'' (1956) — Detective Inspector Craig * ''The Battle of the River Plate'' (1956) — Narrator * ''Woman and the Hunter'' (1957) * ''I Accuse!'' (1958) * ''The Son of Robin Hood'' (1958) — Duke Simon Des Roches * ''John Paul Jones'' (1959) — John Wilkes * ''Watusi'' (1959) * ''Beat Girl'' (1959) — Paul Linden * ''Solomon and Sheba'' (1959) — Pharaoh (Siamun) * ''The Webster Boy'' (1962) * ''The 300 Spartans'' (1962) — King Xerxes 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「David Farrar (actor)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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