Richard Farnsworth
1920–2000 · American actor
Richard William Farnsworth was an American actor and stuntman. He was twice nominated for an Academy Award: in 1978 for Best Supporting Actor for Comes a Horseman, and in 2000 for Best Actor in The Straight Story, making him the second-oldest nominee for the award for the latter. Farnsworth was also known for his performances in The Grey Fox (1982), for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama, as well as Anne of Green Gables (1985), Sylvester (1985), and Misery (1990).
Richard Farnsworth, in order
- 1939 Gone with the Wind: acted · directed by George Cukor and Sam Wood · critics 90%, audiences 92% · streaming on HBO Max, TCM
- 1943 This Is the Army: acted · directed by Michael Curtiz · audiences 50% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Philo
- 1948 Red River: acted · directed by Arthur Rosson and Howard Hawks · critics 100%, audiences 87% · streaming on Philo, YouTube (free), Plex
- 1950 The Flame and the Arrow: acted · directed by Jacques Tourneur
- 1953 Arena: acted · directed by Richard Fleischer
- 1956 The Ten Commandments: acted · directed by Cecil B. DeMille · critics 82%, audiences 87% · streaming on Paramount+, YouTube (free)
- 1957 The Tin Star: acted · directed by Anthony Mann · critics 89%, audiences 75% · streaming on Paramount+, MGM+, Kanopy
- 1960 Spartacus: acted · directed by Stanley Kubrick · critics 89%, audiences 87% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Philo
- 1966 Duel at Diablo: acted · directed by Ralph Nelson
- 1970 Monte Walsh: acted · directed by William A. Fraker
- 1972 Pocket Money: acted · directed by Stuart Rosenberg
- 1972 The Cowboys: acted · directed by Mark Rydell · critics 75%, audiences 88% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Philo
- 1972 The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean: acted · directed by John Huston
- 1973 Papillon: acted · directed by Franklin J. Schaffner · critics 73%, audiences 90% · streaming on Kanopy, Plex, Tubi
- 1974 Honky Tonk (TV movie): acted · directed by Don Taylor
- 1976 The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox: acted · directed by Melvin Frank
- 1976 The Outlaw Josey Wales: acted · directed by Clint Eastwood · critics 91%, audiences 91% · streaming on Philo
- 1977 Another Man, Another Chance: acted · directed by Claude Lelouch · critics 40%, audiences 64% · streaming on Prime Video, Tubi
- 1978 Comes a Horseman: acted · directed by Alan J. Pakula and Paul Helmick
- 1980 Resurrection: acted · directed by Daniel Petrie
- 1980 Ruckus: acted · directed by Max Kleven
- 1980 Tom Horn: acted · directed by William Wiard · critics 63%, audiences 70% · streaming on Hoopla, Tubi
- 1981 The Legend of the Lone Ranger: acted · directed by William A. Fraker
- 1982 The Grey Fox: acted · directed by Phillip Borsos
- 1983 Travis McGee: acted · directed by Andrew V. McLaglen
- 1984 Rhinestone: acted · directed by Bob Clark
- 1984 The Natural: acted · directed by Barry Levinson · critics 82%, audiences 88%
- 1985 Into the Night: acted · directed by John Landis · critics 36%, audiences 50%
- 1985 Sylvester: acted · directed by Tim Hunter
- 1990 Havana: acted · directed by Sydney Pollack
- 1990 Misery: acted · directed by Rob Reiner · critics 86%, audiences 90% · streaming on Tubi
- 1990 The Two Jakes: acted · directed by Jack Nicholson
- 1991 Highway to Hell: acted · directed by Ate de Jong
- 1994 Lassie: acted · directed by Daniel Petrie · critics 89%, audiences 56%
- 1994 The Getaway: acted · directed by Roger Donaldson
- 1999 The Straight Story: acted · directed by David Lynch