Acting · Walpole, Massachusetts, USA · Born August 9, 1900
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).
The Charlie Farrell Show
1956
TVMy Little Margie
1952
as Vern Albright
MovieThe Deadly Game
1941
as Barry Scott
MovieTail Spin
1939
as Bud
MovieJust Around the Corner
1938
as Jeff Hale
MovieFlight to Fame
1938
as Capt. Robert Lawrence
MovieMidnight Menace
1937
as Briant Gaunt
MovieMoonlight Sonata
1937
as Eric Molander
MovieFighting Youth
1935
as Larry Davis
MovieForbidden Heaven
1935
as Mr. Archer / Nibs
Hollywood Hobbies
1935
as Himself
Falling in Love
1934
as Howard Elliott
MovieChange of Heart
1934
as Chris Thring
MovieThe Big Shakedown
1934
as Jimmy Morrell
MovieGirl Without a Room
1933
as Tom Duncan
MovieAggie Appleby, Maker of Men
1933
as Adoniram 'Schlumpy' Schlump / Red Branahan
MovieTess of the Storm Country
1932
as Frederick Garfield Jr.
MovieWild Girl
1932
as Billy, the Stranger
MovieThe First Year
1932
as Tommy Tucker
MovieAfter Tomorrow
1932
as Peter Piper
MovieDelicious
1931
as Larry Beaumont
MovieHeartbreak
1931
as John Merrick
MovieMerely Mary Ann
1931
as John Lonsdale
MovieThe Flying Fool
1931
as Ponder
MovieBody and Soul
1931
as Mal Andrews
MovieThe Man Who Came Back
1931
as Stephen Randolph
MovieThe Princess and the Plumber
1930
as Charlie Peters / Albert Bowers
MovieLiliom
1930
as Liliom
MovieHigh Society Blues
1930
as Eddie Granger
MovieSong of Soho
1930
as Legionnaire
MovieCity Girl
1930
as Lem Tustine
MovieSunny Side Up
1929
as Jack Cromwell
MovieThe River
1929
as Allen John Spender
MovieHappy Days
1929
as Charles Farrell
MovieLucky Star
1929
as Timothy Osborn
MovieThe Red Dance
1928
as Grand Duke Eugen
MovieFazil
1928
as Prince Fazil
MovieStreet Angel
1928
as Gino
MovieThe Rough Riders
1927
as Stewart Van Brunt
Movie7th Heaven
1927
as Chico
MovieOld Ironsides
1926
as Boy
MovieA Trip to Chinatown
1926
as Gayne Wilder
MovieSandy
1926
as Timmy
MovieThe Gosh-Darn Mortgage
1926
as Joe Hoskins
MovieClash of the Wolves
1925
as Dave Weston
MovieThe Freshman
1925
as Student Bell Ringer at Frolic (uncredited)
Wings of Youth
1925
as Ted Spaulding
MovieThree Women
1924
as Reveler at Monkey Bar
MovieThe Ten Commandments
1923
as Israelite Slave (uncredited)
MovieA Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
1923
as Man in Nightclub (uncredited)
MovieThe Hunchback of Notre Dame
1923
as (uncredited)
MovieRosita
1923
as Undetermined Bit Role (uncredited)
