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Cause of death
  
Suicide

Home town
  
Residence
  
Name
  
Richard Farnsworth

Occupation
  
Actor

Role
  
Actor

Years active
  
1937–99


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Born
  
September 1, 1920 (
1920-09-01
)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Resting place
  
Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)Los Angeles, California34°08′42″N 118°19′12″E / 34.145°N 118.320°E / 34.145; 118.320

Died
  
October 6, 2000, Lincoln, New Mexico, United States

Spouse
  
Margaret Hill (m. 1947–1985)

Children
  
Diamond Farnsworth, Missy Farnsworth

Movies
  
The Straight Story, Misery, Anne of Green Gables, The Grey Fox, Comes a Horseman

Similar People
  
Alvin Straight, Colleen Dewhurst, Schuyler Grant, Kevin Sullivan, Megan Follows

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Richard W. Farnsworth (September 1, 1920 – October 6, 2000) was an American actor and stuntman. He is 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. His sudden death followed a long struggle with prostate cancer.

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Personal life

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Farnsworth was born on September 1, 1920 in Los Angeles, California, to a housewife mother and an engineer father. He was raised during the Great Depression. When he was seven, Farnsworth's father died. He then lived with his aunt, mother, and two sisters in Downtown Los Angeles.

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Farnsworth enjoyed a long marriage and had two children, Diamond and Missy. After becoming a widower, he lived on a ranch in Lincoln, New Mexico.

Stuntwork

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In 1937, 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.

Acting

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From stunt work, Farnsworth gradually moved into acting in Western movies. He made uncredited appearances in numerous films, including Gone with the Wind (1939), Red River (1948), The Wild One (1953), and The Ten Commandments (1956).

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Farnsworth received his first acting credit in 1963 and went on to act in western films and also television shows. He had a role in Roots (1977). In 1992, he co-starred with Wilford Brimley in The Boys of Twilight. His breakthrough came when he played stagecoach robber Bill Miner in the 1982 Canadian film The Grey Fox. He appeared as a baseball coach in The Natural (1984). In 1985 he was the brother to Marilla and father figure to Anne in Anne of Green Gables. Another prominent role was the suspicious sheriff in the film version of Stephen King's Misery (1990).

Farnsworth became well known in the Pacific Northwest as the groundskeeper who saw the mythical "Artesians" in the 1980s Olympia Beer advertising campaign.

Death

On October 6, 2000, after a long battle with metastatic prostate cancer, Farnsworth committed suicide by shooting himself at his ranch. He is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles in the Columbarium of Purity (N-63294) beside his wife, Margaret née Hill (1919–1985).

Awards and nominations

Comes a Horseman (1979)
  • National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor (won)
  • National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor (won) (tied with Robert Morley in Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?)
  • Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (nominated)
  • New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor (runner-up)
  • The Grey Fox (1982)
  • Genie Award for Best Performance by a Foreign Actor (won)
  • London Film Critics' Circle Award for Actor of the Year (won) (tied with James Mason in The Shooting Party)
  • Taormina Film Fest: Golden Mask (won)
  • Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama (nominated)
  • Anne of Green Gables (1985)
  • Gemini Award for Best Performance by a Supporting Actor (nominated)
  • Chase (1985)
  • Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film (nominated)
  • The Straight Story (1999)
  • Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival Award for Best Actor (won)
  • Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead (won)
  • New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor (won)
  • Academy Award for Best Actor (nominated)
  • Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor (nominated)
  • Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama (nominated)
  • Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor (nominated)
  • Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor (runner-up)
  • Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor (nominated)
  • Satellite Award for Best Actor Motion Picture – Drama (nominated)
  • Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor (runner-up)
  • Note: Farnsworth was inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1997. In addition, Farnsworth received a Hollywood Walk of Fame star for his contributions in the motion pictures on 1560 Vine Street on August 17, 1992.

    References

    Richard Farnsworth Wikipedia


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