
Franklyn Farnum
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- June 5, 1878
- Died
- July 4, 1961 (aged 83)
- Birthplace
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Biography
Leading man in silent films until mid to late 1920s when Farnum transitioned to a character actor. Then later in life he remained in the film business as a paid extra in many films and TV shows.
Known For
Photos
Filmography

Parrish
Movie · as Party Guest (uncredited)

Cimarron
Movie · as Townsman (uncredited)

The Apartment
Movie · as Office Worker (uncredited)

The Hypnotic Eye
Movie · as Audience Member (uncredited)

Ice Palace
Movie · as Committee Member (uncredited)

Because They're Young
Movie · as Shopper with Cart (uncredited)

Wake Me When It's Over
Movie · as Pentagon Officer (uncredited)

The Mating Game
Movie · as Townsman (uncredited)

The Story on Page One
Movie · as Juror (uncredited)

The Blue Angel
Movie · as Blue Angel Customer (uncredited)

Pillow Talk
Movie · as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

Some Like It Hot
Movie · as Party Guest (uncredited)

The Gazebo
Movie · as TV Technician in Booth (uncredited)

King Creole
Movie · as Drugstore Lunch Counterman (uncredited)

Money, Women and Guns
Movie · as Postmaster (uncredited)

Some Came Running
Movie · as Passerby Outside Bar (uncredited)

The Tunnel of Love
Movie · as Party Guest (uncredited)

Home Before Dark
Movie · as New Year's Eve Party Reveller

She Devil
Movie · as Party Guest (uncredited)

My Man Godfrey
Movie · as Scavenger Hunter / Party Guest (uncredited)

An Affair to Remember
Movie · as Ballet Audience Member (uncredited)

Witness for the Prosecution
Movie · as Barrister (uncredited)

The Joker is Wild
Movie · as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

The Tin Star
Movie · as Townsman (uncredited)

Funny Face
Movie · as Guest at Duval's Fashion Show (uncredited)

Until They Sail
Movie · as Man Smoking Outside Courtroom (uncredited)

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Movie · as Barfly (uncredited)

Wild Is the Wind
Movie · as Passenger at Airport (uncredited)

Ten Thousand Bedrooms
Movie · as Party Guest (uncredited)

The Wings of Eagles
Movie · as Premier Guest (uncredited)

The Eddy Duchin Story
Movie · as Passerby (uncredited)

The First Texan
Movie · as Delegate (uncredited)

Cha-Cha-Cha Boom!
Movie · as Board of Directors

The Killing
Movie · as Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)

High Society
Movie · as Party Guest (uncredited)

Hollywood or Bust
Movie · as Audience Member

The Opposite Sex
Movie · as Patron at 21 (uncredited)

Around the World in 80 Days
Movie · as Extra (uncredited)

The Search for Bridey Murphy
Movie · as Druggist (Uncredited)

The Solid Gold Cadillac
Movie · as Dance Extra (uncredited)

Ransom!
Movie · as Townsman in Crowd (uncredited)

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
Movie · as Cafe Patron (uncredited)

My Sister Eileen
Movie · as Pedestrian (uncredited)

Illegal
Movie · as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)

Ten Wanted Men
Movie

Inside Detroit
Movie

Guys and Dolls
Movie · as Spectator at Hot Box Club (uncredited)

East of Eden
Movie · as Townsman at Carnival (uncredited)

The Square Jungle
Movie

Chicago Syndicate
Movie · as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

Wichita
Movie · as Townsman (uncredited)

A Lawless Street
Movie · as Townsman (uncredited)

Sincerely Yours
Movie · as Concert Attendee (uncredited)

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV · as Party Guest (uncredited) · 2 eps

Broken Lance
Movie · as Juror (uncredited)

Black Tuesday
Movie · as Reporter at Electrocution (uncredited)

A Star Is Born
Movie · as Ray (uncredited)

Black Widow
Movie · as Party Guest (uncredited)

White Christmas
Movie · as Club Patron (uncredited)

The Country Girl
Movie · as First-Nighter (uncredited)

Living It Up
Movie · as Man at Bus Depot (uncredited)

The Long, Long Trailer
Movie · as Trailer Park Man (uncredited)

Vicki
Movie · as Club Manager (uncredited)

Calamity Jane
Movie · as Barfly (uncredited)

The Story of Three Loves
Movie · as Man Departing Train

Scared Stiff
Movie · as Passerby (uncredited)

Destination Gobi
Movie · as Quartermaster General (uncredited)

Captain Pirate
Movie · as Dr. Le Grand (uncredited)

Fort Osage
Movie · as Settler (uncredited)

The Half-Breed
Movie · as Man Applauding in Saloon (uncredited)

The Steel Trap
Movie · as Plane Passenger (uncredited)

The Bad and the Beautiful
Movie · as Assistant on Set (uncredited)

Carrie
Movie · as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)

Phone Call from a Stranger
Movie

The Greatest Show on Earth
Movie · as Spectator (uncredited)

The Narrow Margin
Movie · as Train Passenger (uncredited)

This Woman Is Dangerous
Movie · as Assistant Gambling House Cashier (Uncredited)

Everything I Have Is Yours
Movie · as Tourist in Show (Uncredited)

The Las Vegas Story
Movie · as Casino Patron (uncredited)

The Turning Point
Movie · as Man in John's Office (uncredited)

Boots Malone
Movie · as Man at Horse Auction (uncredited)

You're in the Navy Now
Movie · as Officer

The Mating Season
Movie · as Board Member (uncredited)

The Strange Door
Movie

The Stooge
Movie · as Party Guest / Audience Member (uncredited)

Painting the Clouds with Sunshine
Movie · as Board Member (uncredited)

The Barefoot Mailman
Movie · as Townsman at Dance (uncredited)

The Groom Wore Spurs
Movie · as Reverend (uncredited)

Roadblock
Movie · as Elevator Passenger (uncredited)

A Place in the Sun
Movie · as Company Executive (uncredited)

Here Comes the Groom
Movie · as Passenger on Airplane (uncredited)

Love Nest
Movie · as Waiter (uncredited)

Strangers on a Train
Movie · as Party Guest (uncredited)

The Company She Keeps
Movie · as minor role (uncredited)

Tomorrow Is Another Day
Movie

Follow the Sun
Movie

The Day the Earth Stood Still
Movie · as Extra in Office Building Corridor (uncredited)

The Jackie Robinson Story
Movie · as Baseball Fan in Stands (uncredited)

All About Eve
Movie · as Sarah Siddons Awards Guest (uncredited)

When Willie Comes Marching Home
Movie · as Officer at Party (uncredited)

No Man of Her Own
Movie · as Train Passenger (uncredited)

Sunset Boulevard
Movie · as Undertaker
The Screen Writer
Movie · as Screenwriter (uncredited)

California Passage
Movie · as Townsman (uncredited)

Destination Moon
Movie · as Factory Worker (uncredited)

Destination Murder
Movie · as Arthur Mansfield

Woman on the Run
Movie · as Coroner (uncredited)

Pretty Baby
Movie · as Subway Commuter (uncredited)

Bright Leaf
Movie · as Man in Hotel Bar (uncredited)

The Second Woman
Movie · as Country Club Guest

Gun Crazy
Movie · as Cashier (uncredited)

Union Station
Movie · as Sleeping Train Passenger (uncredited)

Colt .45
Movie · as Townsman (uncredited)

The Toast of New Orleans
Movie · as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)

The Cisco Kid
TV · as Rancher (uncredited) · 1 ep

House of Strangers
Movie

Knock on Any Door
Movie · as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

The Lady Gambles
Movie · as Casino Patron (uncredited)

Massacre River
Movie · as Army Officer at Dance (uncredited)

The Heiress
Movie · as Dr. Isaacs (uncredited)

A Letter to Three Wives
Movie · as Country Club Member (uncredited)

My Friend Irma
Movie · as Maitre D' (uncredited)

Slightly French
Movie · as Marty Freeman (uncredited)

Alias Nick Beal
Movie · as Supporter

Johnny Allegro
Movie

The File on Thelma Jordon
Movie · as Grand Juryman / Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

Cover Up
Movie · as Delegate on Platform (Uncredited)

It's a Great Feeling
Movie · as Man at Train Station (uncredited)

Stage Struck
Movie · as Party Guest (uncredited)

Three Daring Daughters
Movie · as Ship Passenger (uncredited)

Big Town Scandal
Movie · as Squad Car Policeman (uncredited)

My Dear Secretary
Movie · as Nightclub Extra (uncredited)

Race Street
Movie · as Man (uncredited)

The Miracle of the Bells
Movie · as Worshiper

Assigned to Danger
Movie · as Mr. Norton (uncredited)

Johnny Belinda
Movie · as Man on Jury (uncredited)

Wallflower
Movie

The Big Clock
Movie · as (uncredited)

Albuquerque
Movie · as Barfly (uncredited)

Black Bart
Movie · as Al (uncredited)

Hollow Triumph
Movie · as Big Winner (uncredited)

Silver River
Movie · as Officer (uncredited)

I Remember Mama
Movie · as Drug Store Pharmacist (uncredited)

A Double Life
Movie · as Party Guest (uncredited)

Blondie in the Dough
Movie · as Premier Biscuit Co. Board Member (uncredited)

High Tide
Movie

They Won't Believe Me
Movie · as Man at Piano Concert (uncredited)

The Judge Steps Out
Movie · as Wedding Guest (uncredited)

Monsieur Verdoux
Movie · as Victim of the Stock Market Crash (uncredited)

Merton of the Movies
Movie · as Man Raising Theatre Curtain (uncredited)

Exposed
Movie · as Restaurant Patron

Daisy Kenyon
Movie · as Man Leaving Courtroom (uncredited)

Fun on a Weekend
Movie · as Poker Player (uncredited)
So You Want to Be in Pictures
Movie · as Man at Brown Derby with Sunglasses (uncredited)

I Walk Alone
Movie · as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

Road to Rio
Movie · as (uncredited)

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Movie · as Faculty Member (uncredited)

Gentleman's Agreement
Movie · as Party Guest

Yankee Fakir
Movie · as Bergin

The Gangster
Movie · as Passerby (uncredited)

Deception
Movie · as Restaurant Diner (uncredited)

Meet Me on Broadway
Movie · as Man in Audience (uncredited)

Sister Kenny
Movie · as Doctor at Medical Conference (uncredited)

The Jolson Story
Movie · as Man in Audience (uncredited)

Crack-Up
Movie · as Man on Train (Uncredited)

My Darling Clementine
Movie · as Townsman (uncredited)

I Love a Mystery
Movie · as Reporter (Uncredited)

Week-End at the Waldorf
Movie · as Hotel Guest / Nightclub Guest (uncredited)

Lady on a Train
Movie

Sunset in El Dorado
Movie · as Customer

The Lost Weekend
Movie · as Concert Attendee (uncredited)

Purity Squad
Movie · as Radio Station Man in Studio (uncredited)

Circumstantial Evidence
Movie · as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

Wonder Man
Movie · as Pelican Club Patron (uncredited)

Hangover Square
Movie

Two O'Clock Courage
Movie · as Club Patron (uncredited)

Fallen Angel
Movie · as Man Leaving Drugstore (uncredited)

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
Movie · as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

A Song to Remember
Movie · as Guest at Pleyel Hall Concert (uncredited)

Over 21
Movie · as Graduation Ceremony Spectator (uncredited)

The Great Flamarion
Movie · as Stage Manager (uncredited)

Incendiary Blonde
Movie · as Rodeo Spectator (uncredited)

Dick Tracy
Movie · as Bystander at Murder (uncredited)

Going My Way
Movie · as Church Usher (uncredited)

The Great Moment
Movie · as Massachusetts Medical Society Man (uncredited)

Call of the Rockies
Movie · as Miner

Saddle Leather Law
Movie · as Rancher (uncredited)

The White Cliffs of Dover
Movie · as Ball Guest (uncredited)

In Society
Movie · as Proprietor of Diner Stand (uncredited)

Hail the Conquering Hero
Movie · as Town Councilman (uncredited)

Crime Doctor
Movie · as Juror

Frontier Fury
Movie · as Bartender Homer (uncredited)

Appointment in Berlin
Movie · as R.A.F. Officer (uncredited)

I Married a Witch
Movie · as Country Club Guest (uncredited)

'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
Movie · as Policeman (uncredited)

Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Movie · as Chicago Businessman

Northwest Rangers
Movie · as Barfly

Silver Queen
Movie · as Creditor

Vaudeville Days
Movie · as Ticket Hawker (uncredited)

Men of the Sky
Movie · as Farmer (uncredited)

The Secret Code
Movie · as Federal Agent

Mr. Celebrity
Movie · as Court Officer (uncredited)

The Night of January 16th
Movie · as Juror (uncredited)

This Woman Is Mine
Movie · as Bit Role

Three Girls About Town
Movie · as Conventioneer Extra

Belle Starr
Movie · as Barfly (uncredited)

Meet John Doe
Movie · as (uncredited)

Buck Privates
Movie · as Officer (uncredited)

In the Navy
Movie · as Military Officer (uncredited)

Johnny Eager
Movie · as Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)

Million Dollar Baby
Movie

The Lady Eve
Movie · as Tailor in Montage (uncredited)

Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride
Movie · as Rancher

Charlie Chan in Panama
Movie · as Marine Officer

The Shadow
Movie · as Sparks

Under Texas Skies
Movie · as Townsman

Boom Town
Movie · as Alarmed Townsman (uncredited)

North West Mounted Police
Movie · as Townsman (uncredited)

Deadwood Dick
Movie · as Clayton

The House Across the Bay
Movie · as Prison Guard

Tin Pan Alley
Movie · as Man in Audience (uncredited)

The Son of Monte Cristo
Movie · as Friend of Von Neuhoff (Uncredited)

The Green Archer
Movie · as Pete

Hollywood Cavalcade
Movie · as Well-Wisher

Stagecoach
Movie · as Deputy Frank (uncredited)

Almost a Gentleman
Movie · as Juror

Reno
Movie · as Board Member

Cowboy from Brooklyn
Movie · as Rodeo Spectator

The Cowboy and the Lady
Movie · as Cowboy (uncredited)

Prison Train
Movie · as The Lawyer

Vivacious Lady
Movie · as Train Conductor #2 (uncredited)

In Early Arizona
Movie · as Spike

Romance of the Rockies
Movie · as Stone

The Emperor's Candlesticks
Movie · as Bidder (uncredited)

The Game That Kills
Movie · as Spectator (uncredited)

History Is Made at Night
Movie

You Only Live Once
Movie · as Plainclothesman (uncredited)

The Life of Emile Zola
Movie · as (uncredited)

The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand
Movie · as Nicky
The Broken Coin
Movie

Frontier Justice
Movie · as Lawyer George Lessin

What Becomes of the Children?
Movie · as Shelby

The Preview Murder Mystery
Movie · as James Deley

Custer's Last Stand
Movie · as Major Marcus Reno

Charlie Chan at the Circus
Movie · as Mike - Ticket Taker

The Silver Bullet
Movie · as Marshal Joe Mullane

Fighting Caballero
Movie · as Bartender

The Cowboy and the Bandit
Movie · as Crooked Dealer

Hop-a-long Cassidy
Movie · as Riley

The Ghost Rider
Movie · as Bullard

Gold Diggers of 1935
Movie · as Bartender (uncredited)

Powdersmoke Range
Movie · as Jim Reece

Page Miss Glory
Movie · as Dance Extra (uncredited)

Desert Mesa
Movie · as Jones

Super Speed
Movie · as Ralph Gray

Carrying the Mail
Movie · as Henchman Frank

Arizona Cyclone
Movie · as Carter, the Banker

Frontier Days
Movie · as George Wilson

Honor of the Range
Movie · as Saloonkeeper

Border Guns
Movie · as Fred Palmer

The Lone Rider
Movie · as Gore

Pals of the West
Movie · as Sheriff Ed Dawson

West of the Law
Movie · as Case aka Green

Neighbors' Wives
Movie · as (uncredited)

Mark of the Spur
Movie · as Sheriff Jake Ludlow

The Reckless Rider
Movie · as Sheriff

The Honor of the Press
Movie · as Mr. Sampson, publisher of 'The Herald'

Human Targets
Movie · as Sheriff

Three Rogues
Movie · as Nelson

Left Over Ladies
Movie · as Benson

Oklahoma Jim
Movie · as Army Captain
Hell's Valley
Movie · as Manuel Valdez

The Third Alarm
Movie · as Fire Department Captain

Dames Ahoy
Movie · as Master of Ceremonies

See America Thirst
Movie · as Master of Ceremonies (uncredited)

Beyond the Rio Grande
Movie · as Joe Kemp

Beyond the Law
Movie · as Army Lieutenant

The Drug Store Cowboy
Movie · as Marmaduke Grandon

The Bandit Tamer
Movie · as William Warren

Battling Brewster
Movie · as Battling Jack Brewster

A Desperate Adventure
Movie

A Two Fisted Tenderfoot
Movie · as Ted Ransom

Crossed Trails
Movie · as Tom Dawson

Baffled
Movie · as Dick Osborne

Courage
Movie · as Allen Jennings

It Happened Out West
Movie

Gun-Shy
Movie · as James Brown
The Firebrand
Movie · as Bill Holt

Gold Grabbers
Movie
Smiling Jim
Movie · as Smiling Jim / Frank Harmon

The Hunger of the Blood
Movie · as Maslun

The Fighting Stranger
Movie · as Australia Joe

The Last Chance
Movie · as Rance Sparr

The White Masks
Movie · as Jack Bray
The Raiders
Movie · as Pvt. Fitzgerald, RCMP

The Struggle
Movie · as Dick Storm

The Galloping Devil
Movie · as Andy Green

Vanishing Trails
Movie · as Silent Joe

The Land of Jazz
Movie
Go-Get-Em Garringer
Movie · as Garringer

The Virtuous Model
Movie · as Edward Dorin
Breezy Bob
Movie
Hell's Fury Gordon
Movie
Brother Bill
Movie · as William (Bill) Dexter

Cupid's Roundup
Movie
The Uphill Climb
Movie · as Ford Cameron

When Pals Fall Out
Movie · as Lonesome
Shackles of Fate
Movie
Vengeance and the Girl
Movie · as Jim Westgard Jr.
The Cowboy and the Rajah
Movie

The Puncher and the Pup
Movie
The Two Doyles
Movie · as Donald Doyle / Jerry Doyle

The Desert Rat
Movie · as Steve Lanyon - aka The Desert Rat

Fast Company
Movie · as Lawrence Percival Van Huyler
In Judgment of...
Movie · as Dr. John O'Neill

Vanity Pool
Movie · as Drew Garrett

$5,000 Reward
Movie · as Dick Arlington

The Fighting Grin
Movie · as Billy Kennedy

The Rough Lover
Movie · as Richard Bolton / Spike O'Brien

The Empty Cab
Movie · as Henry Egbert Xerxes

The Scarlet Car
Movie · as Billy Winthrop
The Empty Gun
Movie · as Robber

Anything Once
Movie · as Teddy Crosby

The Car of Chance
Movie · as Arnold Baird

The Clean-Up
Movie · as Stuart Adams

The Clock
Movie · as Jack Tempest

Bringing Home Father
Movie · as Peter Drake

The Devil's Pay Day
Movie · as Gregory Van Houten

The Man Who Took a Chance
Movie · as Monty Gray

A Stormy Knight
Movie · as John Winton

The Winged Mystery
Movie · as Capt. August Sieger / Louis Siever
The Heart of a Show Girl
Movie · as Frank Masterson
The Woman He Feared
Movie · as John Gray
Little Partner
Movie · as James Allis

A Stranger from Somewhere
Movie · as Sam Brockton / 'Dippy' Lewis

Love Never Dies
Movie · as Felix, the Man

