Charles Farrell Ranked
A ranking of Charles Farrell's film performances.
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- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellBen BardA street cleaner saves a young woman's life, and the pair slowly fall in love until war intervenes.
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellGuinn 'Big Boy' WilliamsMary, a poor farm girl, meets Tim just as word comes that war has been declared.
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellMarjorie WhiteMolly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long Island mansion but is markedly less happy, since his fiancée Jane won't discourage her other admirers. Fleeing in his car, Jack ends up in an urban block party where he meets you-know-who.
- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsCharles FarrellMary DuncanDavid TorrenceA Chicago waitress falls in love with a Minnesota farmer, and decides to face a life in the country.
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsCharles FarrellMary DuncanIvan LinowA naïve young man is working on a logging camp beside a turbulent river. When it closes for winter, he opts to stay for the experience. He meets a woman who was the girlfriend of the outfit's boss--who was recently locked up for murder. This worldly lady and the innocent boy find a powerful attraction that builds to a violent climax.
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellNatalie KingstonA woman on the run from the law finds her past catching up to her just as she is on the verge of true happiness.
- DirectorRalph MurphyStarsCharles FarrellCharles RugglesMarguerite ChurchillYoung Tennessee painter Tom Duncan is thrilled to receive an art scholarship to Paris. When he arrives, he finds himself surrounded by a group of eclectic characters, as well as his beautiful new roommate Kay. Their potential relationship is soon threatened when fellow artists start to advise Tom to drink, and he falls in with a notorious gold-digger.
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsCharles FarrellRose HobartEstelle TaylorLiliom learns his wife is pregnant and robs a bank. During the getaway, he is killed and given a chance to return to Earth. He quickly learns the only way to make his wife and daughter happy is to leave them with cherished memories.
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsDolores Del RíoCharles FarrellIvan LinowNote: Contains Spoilers The story, set in Russia at the time of the Bolshevik Revolution, focuses on the relationship between three characters: Tasia (Dolores del Rio), a peasant girl; Grand Duke Eugene (Charles Farrell); and Ivan Petroff (Ivan Linow). Tasia has revolutionary sentiments which are strengthened by seeing the suffering of her father imprisoned by the Czarist authorities. She attracts the attention of Ivan Petroff, but evades an arranged marriage with him, to the relief of both (Ivan, hung over from prenuptial celebrations, misses the ceremony). While revolutionary agents stir up class hatred among the populace, Tasia meets Grand Duke Eugene, a nobleman who genuinely wishes to address the problems of the people. They fall in love, aware of the great social gulf dividing them (Eugene is betrothed to a noblewoman). The revolution begins (the "Red Dance" is described in an intertitle as the name for a bloody and irresponsible movement to grab power by revolutionaries not equipped to wield power), and the three main characters are separated. Tasia is courted by the revolution to assassinate a nobleman: having just witnessed the death of her father after his imprisonment by the Czarist authorities, she accepts the mission without knowing the identity of the victim. Her target is Grand Duke Eugene, and the day chosen is his wedding day. Her attempt fails, however, and she is sent into hiding. The story moves ahead a few years. Ivan has become a general in the revolutionary army, and Tasia is a dancer in a nightclub. Ivan and Tasia meet at the nightclub for the first time since their separation; he continues to love her, but also learns that Tasia loves Eugene. The revolutionary forces agree in a meeting that Eugene must be killed: Ivan, mad with jealousy about Tasia's love for the Grand Duke, accepts the assignment in her hearing. Tasia leaves to warn Eugene: Ivan follows closely behind. At the inn where Eugene is staying, Tasia tries to prevent Ivan from arresting Eugene, but Ivan protests that he is trying to protect him. However, Eugene is led off to execution by Ivan, where a firing squad apparently shoots him. The execution is simulated, however, and Ivan has indeed protected Eugene. Ivan's final act of generosity is to usher Eugene and Tasia to a waiting plane, within which they escape Russia for western Europe.
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellWilliam Collier Sr.When the high class Divine family meet the newly rich Grangers from Iowa as neighbors in New York and Eleanor Divine is attracted to Eddie Granger instead of the aristocratic pairing her mother wishes for her, the tension between the two families raises. While both fathers fight each other in business, their daughter and son get closer.
- DirectorMark SandrichStarsCharles FarrellWynne GibsonWilliam GarganWhen Aggie's boyfriend Red is sent to jail, she meets a mild-mannered man and decides to turn him into a real man.
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsCharles FarrellJoan BennettRalph BellamyBret Harte's story of Salomy Jane, a California mountain girl who is sought after by a number of men in the nearby small town of Redwood City. She is affected when two criminals are pursued by authorities: one for killing a hypocritical mayoral candidate, the other for robbing the Stagecoach.
- DirectorPhil RosenStarsCharles FarrellJune LangJohn MiljanThe FBI investigates the kidnapping of a munitions inventor.
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellEl BrendelA comic group of Europeans coming to the USA have romantic and immigration troubles.
- DirectorIrving CummingsStarsShirley TempleJoan DavisCharles FarrellShirley helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum-clearance project; the little miss dances with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. Based on Paul Gerard Smith's book "Lucky Penny."
- DirectorJames CruzeStarsCharles FarrellEsther RalstonWallace BeeryAn American fighting ship battles Barbary pirates in the Mediterranean in the 18th century.
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsCharles FarrellMarian NixonMinna GombellEngaged couple faces financial and family troubles that obstruct their marriage.
- DirectorLothar MendesStarsIgnacy Jan PaderewskiCharles FarrellMarie TempestMr. Paderewski performs classical piano works including Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata", which enhances the bond between two young lovers, just as his having previously played this same lovely melody had brought the girl's parents together.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsAlice FayeConstance BennettNancy KellyFlyer enters a cross-country aerial derby, becomes rival to a wealthy society flyer, competes in parachute jumps and has love affairs.
- DirectorJohn Francis DillonStarsCharles FarrellBette DavisRicardo CortezRacketeers flood the market with counterfeit cosmetics and drugs, causing some tragedies.
- DirectorSinclair HillStarsCharles FarrellFritz KortnerMargaret VynerWhen a reporter is killed under mysterious circumstances, the political cartoonist on his paper begins to investigate on his own. He finds that a vengeful industrialist may be trying to manipulate an international peace conference to stage a bombing attack on London.
- DirectorJohn G. BlystoneStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellJames DunnAfter graduating from a West Coast college, four friends fly to New York City to seek employment.
- DirectorAlfred SantellStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellDudley DiggesWhen Captain Howland decides that his daughter Tess is getting too old to continue to go to sea with him, they move into a small cottage on the coast of Maine, but not for long: local millionaire,Frederick Garfield lays a false claim to the property and has them evicted. Later, when Tess saves a young man about her age from drowning, she is dismayed to learn that he is Garfield's son. But when her father is jailed on a false-accusation charge of murder, the younger Garfield comes to their aid and proves that he is not just a younger edition of his curmudgeon father.
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsCharles FarrellGreta NissenJohn BolesAn Arab prince born and raised in the desert and a beautiful Frenchwoman from Paris fall in love and marry, but the tremendous differences in their backgrounds and the cultural differences between their two different societies put strains on their marriage that may well prove irreparable.
- DirectorCharles C. ColemanStarsCharles FarrellJulie BishopHugh SothernAn evil villain steals a newly invented death ray.
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellKenneth MacKennaA spoiled carefree rich kid gets into too much trouble for his father who sends him out on his own to prove himself capable of making a respectable man of himself.
- DirectorWilliam K. HowardStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellMinna Gombell"The First Year" was a 1920 play that originally ran on Broadway at the Little Theatre. The play was written by Frank Craven and produced by John Golden. It closed in 1922 after 760 performances. In 1932, a film adapted from the Craven play was written by Lynn Starling. The film starred Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, and was directed by William K. Howard. Gaynor and Farrell made almost a dozen films together, including Frank Borzage's classics "Seventh Heaven" (1927), "Street Angel" (1928), and "Lucky Star" (1929); Gaynor won the first Academy Award for Best Actress for the first two and F. W. Murnau's "Sunrise" (1927).
- DirectorAlfred SantellStarsCharles FarrellElissa LandiHumphrey BogartAndress, Watson, and Johnson are with a Royal Air Force squadron in France. When Watson is killed in combat, Andrews tries to return the letters Watson received from a girl called "Pom-Pom." There are two possibilities: one is Watson's widow; the other is a German spy.
- DirectorVictor FlemingStarsNoah BeeryCharles FarrellGeorge BancroftThe story of the military unit organized by future U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt and its adventures in Cuba during the Spanish-American War of 1898.
- DirectorMiles ManderStarsCharles FarrellMary MaguireJames RaglanSandy, an adventurer in Australia, travels from place to place doing various jobs. At a sheep farm he meets Mary and they fall in love, but he runs away in the end. He later meets Dr. John Vaughan, who has sentimental problems of his own and takes a job as a flying doctor. Destiny will reunite the thee of them again.
- DirectorReginald BarkerStarsCharles FarrellCharlotte HenryBeryl MercerAfter he saves a distraught girl who tried to drown herself, a young man joins her and her group of homeless people living in London's Hyde Park during the Depression and tries to get them to help themselves out of their situations.
- DirectorNoel M. SmithStarsRin Tin TinNanetteCharles FarrellA fire in the mountains drive a wolf pack into a nearby desert where they will terrorize the local residents.
- DirectorHamilton MacFaddenStarsCharles FarrellJune MartelAndy DevineCommunist subversives try to take over a college.
- DirectorAlexander KordaJohn G. BlystoneStarsCharles FarrellMaureen O'SullivanH.B. WarnerA derogated prince hopes to restore his wealth and power by marrying off his daughter to royalty. Unfortunately, she has fallen in love with a young man who has been hired to fix the plumbing in their run-down castle.
- DirectorHenry KingStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellBeryl MercerOrphan drudge Mary Ann finds love and hope in the arms of a promising but poor composer, John Lonsdale.
- DirectorHarry BeaumontStarsMadge BellamyLeslie FentonHarrison FordSandy McNeil adopts strictly unconventional jazz ethics and against the wishes of her parents runs with a fast young set. An auto breakdown after a party places her in a embarrassing situation, and she grudgingly marries a wealthy suitor of her father's choice. When her husband's cruelty results in the death of her child, she leaves him and meets Ramon, an architect with whom she becomes infatuated. The return of his former mistress causes her to seek refuge with her cousin Judith, where she falls in love with Douglas, Judith's sweetheart. As Sandy refuses to return to Ramon, he shoots her and then kills himself. Douglas, taking the blame for her sake, is tried for murder, but Sandy rises from her sickbed and confesses in court; she capitulates after restoring Judith to Douglas.
- DirectorHerman C. RaymakerStarsHuntley GordonLouise FazendaWillard LouisTwo shop girls, Lizzie and Betty, meet a millionaire and a plumber at a beach resort and fall in love with them. However the villain is conspiring to steal Betty away from her husband and obtain his wealth.
- DirectorRobert P. KerrStarsEarle FoxeMargaret LivingstonJ. Farrell MacDonaldMillionaire and hypochondriac Welland Strong is given only six months to live and decides to take a trip. Aboard a Pullman, he runs afoul of a jealous bridegroom who mistakenly believes that Strong has been making love to his wife. John then arrives in San Francisco's Chinatown. There he meets a charming widow, and the excitement of pursuing her cures him. In the end, he wins the widow.
- DirectorEmmett J. FlynnStarsEthel ClaytonMadge BellamyCharles FarrellKatherine Manners discovers that her three daughters are running wild: Betty and Madelyne are having love affairs with unworthy men, and Gwen, a studious girl with an independent mind, is planning to marry Grantland Dobbs as soon as he obtains a divorce. All the girls have money of their own, and Mrs. Manners is forced to extreme measures to bring them back to their senses. She goes abroad and returns with a husband much younger than herself; she takes a swell apartment and begins to lead a wild life, giving herself up to drunkenness and reckless pleasures. Madelyne finally berates her mother for her unbecoming behavior, and Mrs. Manners then reveals that her drunkenness and frivolity have been feigned in order to show the three girls the errors of their ways. Mrs. Manners then introduces her "husband" as the girls' British cousin, and the girls return to normal ways and pleasures.
- DirectorMonty BanksStarsCharles FarrellMary LawsonGregory Ratoff