Marshall Farnum (December 19, 1879 – February 19, 1917) was an American

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. The youngest of the three Farnum boys,

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.Liebman p.89 Having directed first on stage, from 1913 he established himself as a film director at prominent companies such as

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and World Film. He died of Tuberculosis at the age of thirty seven.

Selected filmography

* '' The Spoilers'' (1914, actor) * ''

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'' (1916) * '' The House of Mirrors'' (1916) * '' The Tides of Fate'' (1917)

References

Bibliography

* Roy Liebman. ''Broadway Actors in Films, 1894-2015''. McFarland, 2017.

External links

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portrait
of Marshall Farnum in The Virginian, 1910 (Univ. of Washington, Sayre collection)
findagrave.com
1879 births 1917 deaths American male stage actors Film directors from Massachusetts People from Natick, Massachusetts 20th-century deaths from tuberculosis Tuberculosis deaths in Arizona {{US-stage-actor-stub