From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dustin Lancy Farnum (May 27, 1874 – July 3, 1929) was an American singer, dancer, and actor on the stage and in silent films. Although he played a wide variety of roles, he tended toward westerns and became one of the biggest stars of the genre. He was born in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, 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. He then married Winifred Kingston. Winifred 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. He died of kidney failure on July 3, 1929, in Manhattan, New York City, aged 55.

Filmography

• 1926The Flaming Frontier — General George Armstrong Custer
• 1924Her Man — Sledge
• 1923Kentucky Days — Don Buckner
• 1923The Buster — Bill Coryell
• 1923The Grail — Chic Shelby
• 1923The Man Who Won — Wild Bill
• 1923Three Who Paid — Riley Sinclairl
• 1922Iron to Gold — Tom Curtis
• 1922Oath-Bound — Lawrence Bradbury
• 1922Strange Idols — Angus MacDonald
• 1922Trail of the Axe — Dave Malkern, Producer
• 1921The Devil Within — Captain Briggs
• 1921The Primal Law — Brian Wayne
• 1920Big Happiness — John Dant / James Dant
• 1920The Corsican Brothers — Louis de Franchi / Fabien de Franchi
• 1919A Man in the Open — Sailor Jesse
• 1919A Man's Fight — Roger Carr
• 1918The Light of Western Stars — Gene Stewart
• 1917Durand of the Bad Lands — Dick Durand
• 1917North of Fifty-Three — 'Roaring Bill' Wagstaff
• 1917The Scarlet Pimpernel — Sir Percy Blakeney
• 1917The Spy — Mark Quaintance
• 1916A Son of Erin — Dennis O'Hara
• 1916Ben Blair — Ben Blair
• 1916David Garrick — David Garrick
• 1916Davy Crockett — Davy Crockett
• 1916The Call of the Cumberlands — Samson South
• 1916The Parson of Panamint — Reverand Philip Pharo
• 1915Captain Courtesy — Leonardo Davis (Captain Courtesy)
• 1915The Gentleman from Indiana — John Harkless
• 1915The Iron Strain — 'Chuck' Hemingway
• 1914Cameo Kirby — 'Cameo' Kirby
• 1914Soldiers of Fortune — Robert Clay
• 1914The Lightning Conductor
• 1914The Squaw Man — Capt. James Wynnegate
• 1914The Virginian — The Virginian
• The Yosemite Trail — Jim Thorpe

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 1942Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) — Self (archive footage)