Work : Prize 17 August 1922 (Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame) chart Placidus Equal_H.
Relationship : Marriage 1947 (Margaret Hill)
Death:Death of Mate 1985 (Margaret Hill)
Work : Prize 1997 (Hall of Great Western Performers inductee)
Death:Death by Suicide 6 October 2000 (Shot himself, age 80) chart Placidus Equal_H.
American actor and stuntman, best known for his performances in The Grey Fox (1982), for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination, Anne of Green Gables (1985), Misery (1990), and The Straight Story (1999), for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. In 1937, at age 16, Farnsworth was working as a stable hand at a polo field in Los Angeles for six dollars a week when he was offered employment with better pay as a stuntman. He rode horses in films such as The Adventures of Marco Polo featuring Gary Cooper and performed horse-riding stunts in films including A Day at the Races (1937) and Gunga Din (1939). Farnsworth was employed on the set of Spartacus (1960) for eleven months where he drove a chariot. Farnsworth had a long marriage and had two children. After becoming a widower, he lived on a ranch in Lincoln, New Mexico. On 6 October 2000, after a long illness with metastatic prostate cancer, Farnsworth committed suicide by shooting himself at his ranch. He was 80. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less
Born: Wed Sep 01 1920 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Birth Place: Los Angeles, United States