Richard Farnsworth

Richard W. Farnsworth (September 1, 1920 – October 6, 2000) was an American actor and stuntman. His film career began in 1937; however, he achieved his greatest success for his performances in The Grey Fox (1982) and The Straight Story (1999), for which he received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actor.

Early life

Farnsworth was born in Los Angeles, California, to a housewife mother and an engineer father. He was raised during the Great Depression. He lived with his aunt, mother, and two sisters in downtown Los Angeles after his father died when he was seven years old.

Career

He was working as a stable hand at a polo field in Los Angeles for six dollars a week when he was offered a chance to make seven dollars a day plus a box lunch as a stuntman. In 1937, when he was sixteen, he started by riding horses in films such as The Adventures of Marco Polo with Gary Cooper. He performed several horse-riding stunts in such films as the Marx Brothers' A Day at the Races (1937) and Gunga Din (1939).

Richard Farnsworth (politician)

Richard (Dick) Farnsworth is an American politician from Maine. Farnsworth, a Democrat, served in the Maine House of Representatives from 1996 to 1998 for District 32, then part of Portland. He chose not to seek re-election in 1998. In 2012, Farnsworth again sought election to the Maine House of Representatives, this time from the renamed District 117, also part of Portland. He won and was sworn in for a second time in December 2012.

Farnsworth earned a B.S. in Education from Ohio State University, a Master's in Divinity from Boston University and an Ed.D. from Temple University.

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Richard Farnsworth (Quaker)

Richard Farnsworth (dates of birth and death unknown, active in second half of 17th century) was an early member of the Society of Friends and one of the Valiant Sixty. He produced pamphlets in support of the movement.

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