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Dustin Lancy Farnum (May 27, 1874 – July 3, 1929) was an American singer, dancer, and actor on the stage and in silent films.[1] Although he played a wide variety of roles, he tended toward westerns and became one of the biggest stars of the genre.

Dustin Farnum
Farnum in 1914
Born	Dustin Lancy Farnum (1874-05-27)May 27, 1874 Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, U.S.
Died	July 3, 1929(1929-07-03) (aged 55) Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Silent film actor, singer, vaudeville performer
Years active	1914–1926
Spouses	Mary Cromwell ​ ​ (m. 1909; div. 1924)​ Winifred Kingston ​ ​ (m. 1924; his death 1929)​
Family	William Farnum (brother) Marshall Farnum (brother)

Biography

He was born the eldest of three boys on May 27, 1874 in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire,[1] the older brother of actor William Farnum, whom he closely resembled, and the lesser known silent film director Marshall Farnum (died 1917). He married Mary Cromwell in 1909 and they divorced in 1924.[2][3] He then married Winifred Kingston. Winifred Kingston and he were the parents of radio actress Estelle "Dustine" Runyon (1925–1983). After great success in a number of stage roles, Farnum landed his first film role in 1914 in the movie Soldiers of Fortune, and later in Cecil B. DeMille's The Squaw Man.^{[citation needed]}

Death

He died of kidney failure on July 3, 1929 at Post Graduate Hospital in Manhattan, aged 55.[1]

Filmography

Broadway plays

Legacy

According to an interview in the April 1975 edition of Playboy, Dustin Hoffman was named after Farnum. Additionally, according to an interview on Fresh Air with Terry Gross on NPR, on January 16, 2013, Dustin says his parents were expecting him to be a girl and did not have a boy's name picked out for him. When his mother did have another boy, and was pressured to give him a name, she picked the name Dustin from a magazine the other lady in her room was reading, which featured Dustin Farnum on the cover.[4]

References

External links

• Dustin Farnum at IMDb
• Dustin Farnum at the Internet Broadway Database
• Dustin Farnum at the British Film Institute
• Literature on Dustin Farnum

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Dustin Farnum (27 de mayo de 1874 - 3 de julio de 1929) fue un cantante, bailarín y actor estadounidense de la época del cine mudo.

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