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Richard Farnsworth
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Actor Born: September 1, 1920 in Los Angeles, CA Death: October 6, 2000 in Lincoln, NM Biography:No one can accuse "Richard Farnsworth" of taking the easy road to film stardom: by the time he finally got name-above-the-title billing, he was 61 years old, and had been in films for 34 of those years. A veteran Hollywood stunt man, he eventually became a respected actor in his own right, and earned widespread adulation for two outstanding lead performances, first as the veteran train robber released into a changed world in 1982's "The Grey Fox" and then as the dedicated Alvin Straight in 1999's "The Straight Story".
Born in Los Angeles on September 1, 1920, Farnsworth was a high-school dropout who became a rodeo rider at the age of 16. When the call went out from MGM for expert horsemen to appear in the "Marx Brothers" comedy "A Day at the Races" (1937), Farnsworth was hired as a combination stunt man/extra. The stint was the beginning of a decades-long Hollywood career, over the course of which... Full Biography
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