Popular Hollywood leading man of late silents and early talkies. He is best remembered for his teaming with Janet Gaynor in 12 screen romances between 1927 and 1934. He retired from films in the early 1940s, but TV audiences of the 1950s would see him as Gale Storm's widower dad in the popular television series My Little Margie (1952).

Filmography

• The Charlie Farrell Show
• My Little Margie — Vern Albright
• 1941The Deadly Game — Barry Scott
• 1939Tail Spin — Bud
• 1938Flight to Fame — Capt. Robert Lawrence
• 1938Just Around the Corner — Jeff Hale
• 1937Midnight Menace — Briant Gaunt
• 1937Moonlight Sonata — Eric Molander
• 1935Fighting Youth — Larry Davis
• 1935Forbidden Heaven — Mr. Archer / Nibs
• 1934Change of Heart — Chris Thring
• 1934Falling in Love — Howard Elliott
• 1934The Big Shakedown — Jimmy Morrell
• 1933Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men — Adoniram 'Schlumpy' Schlump / Red Branahan
• 1933Girl Without a Room — Tom Duncan
• 1932After Tomorrow — Peter Piper
• 1932Tess of the Storm Country — Frederick Garfield Jr.
• 1932The First Year — Tommy Tucker
• 1932Wild Girl — Billy, the Stranger
• 1931Body and Soul — Mal Andrews
• 1931Delicious — Larry Beaumont
• 1931Heartbreak — John Merrick
• 1931Merely Mary Ann — John Lonsdale
• 1931The Flying Fool — Ponder
• 1931The Man Who Came Back — Stephen Randolph
• 1930City Girl — Lem Tustine
• 1930High Society Blues — Eddie Granger
• 1930Liliom — Liliom
• 1930Song of Soho — Legionnaire
• 1930The Princess and the Plumber — Charlie Peters / Albert Bowers
• 1929Happy Days — Charles Farrell
• 1929Lucky Star — Timothy Osborn
• 1929Sunny Side Up — Jack Cromwell
• 1929The River — Allen John Spender
• 1928Fazil — Prince Fazil
• 1928Street Angel — Gino
• 1928The Red Dance — Grand Duke Eugen
• 19277th Heaven — Chico
• 1927The Rough Riders — Stewart Van Brunt
• 1926A Trip to Chinatown — Gayne Wilder
• 1926Old Ironsides — Boy
• 1926Sandy — Timmy
• 1926The Gosh-Darn Mortgage — Joe Hoskins
• 1925Clash of the Wolves — Dave Weston
• 1925The Freshman — Student Bell Ringer at Frolic (uncredited)
• 1925Wings of Youth — Ted Spaulding
• 1924Three Women — Reveler at Monkey Bar
• 1923A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate — Man in Nightclub (uncredited)
• 1923Rosita — Undetermined Bit Role (uncredited)
• 1923The Hunchback of Notre Dame — (uncredited)
• 1923The Ten Commandments — Israelite Slave (uncredited)

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 1935Hollywood Hobbies — Himself