Dustin Farnum

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Dustin Lancy Farnum (May 27, 1874 - July 3, 1929) was an American singer, dancer, and actor in silent films.

Career

After a great success in a number of stage roles, in 1914 Farnum landed his first film role in the movie Soldiers of Fortune, and later in Cecil B. DeMille's The Squaw Man. Although he played a wide variety of roles, he tended toward westerns and became one of the biggest stars of the genre. He was married to actress Winifred Kingston. He was the older brother of actor William Farnum, whom he closely resembled, and the lesser known silent film director Marshall Farnum (died 1917). He also was the father of (with Winifred Kingston) late radio actress Estelle "Dustine" Runyon (1925-1983). Modern actor Dustin Hoffman was named after him.

Filmography

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dustin_Farnum#Filmography

Broadway Plays

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dustin_Farnum#Broadway_Plays

Trivia

According to an interview in the April 1975 edition of Playboy Magazine, Dustin Hoffman was named after Dustin Farnum. Additionally, according to an interview on Fresh Air with Terry Gross on NPR, on January 16, 2013, Dustin says his parents were expecting him to be a girl and did not have a boy's name picked out for him. When his Mother was pressured to give him a name, she picked the name Dustin from a magazine the other lady in her room was reading, which featured Dustin Farnum on the cover.