BIO

Charles Farrell was born in Walpole, Massachusetts, in 1901.   His father was a talent agent.   Farrell began acting in college and started his career in Hollywood with a bit part for Paramount Pictures in 1923.

He continued to work throughout the 1920s in relatively minor roles without much success until the 1927 onscreen pairing with actress Janet Gaynor in the romance 7th Heaven.   The film was a commercial and critical success and Farrell and Gaynor would go on to star opposite one another in more than a dozen films.

Farrell’s film career eventually stalled by the end of the 1930s; his last film appearance was in 1941.   Even so, in the early 1950s, he landed a starring role in the popular television series, My Little Margie (1952-1955).

Farrell married the actress Virginia Valli in 1931.   She passed away in 1968.

After retiring, Farrell opened the popular Palm Springs Racquet Club with business partner and fellow actor Ralph Bellamy.   He was elected mayor of Palm Springs, California in 1953, a position he held for seven years.

Farrell died of a heart attack in Palm Springs, in 1990, at the age of 88.

Additional biographical information is available at:

NOTED FILMS

Complete filmography at:

TV SERIES

My Little Margie

The Charles Farrell Show