Hotmail
 Interviews & Clips News Awards & Nominations  |
|
Mike Farrell
:
Overview
 Avg.User Rating:  80 RatingsRate this person:
Director, Producer, Actor, Teleplay By Born: February 6, 1939 in St. Paul, MN Biography:Born in Minnesota, "Mike Farrell" was two years old when his family moved to LA; his father, a carpenter, had just gotten a lucrative movie-studio job. Exposed to showbiz from an early age, Farrell began acting in high school plays, hoping to pursue the theatre as a career. He was forced to put his thespic urges on the back burner during his hitch with the U.S. Marines, but upon being discharged he attended drama courses at Los Angeles City College and UCLA, and also studied at the Jeff Corey Workshop. He made his professional debut in a 1961 stage production of "Rain", then spent several years playing bits in such films as "Captain Newman MD" (1963), "The Graduate" (1967) and "Targets" (1968). His first real break came in 1968, when he was cast as architect Scott Banning on the NBC daytime drama Days of Our Lives. Two years later, he put his John Hancock on a contract with Universal, playing... Full Biography
| |||||||||||||||||||||
| advertisement |
Movie data provided by:
