id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6958 David Farrar (actor) - Wikipedia .html text/html 1875 185 79 David Farrar (actor) Wikipedia David Farrar (21 August 1908 – 31 August 1995) was an English stage and film actor. His film roles include as the male lead in the Powell and Pressburger films Black Narcissus (1947), The Small Back Room (1949) and Gone to Earth (1950). Farrar had his first leading role in Danny Boy (1941), which he followed with Sheepdog of the Hills (1941) and Suspected Person (1942). Farrar starred as Sexton Blake in two films, Meet Sexton Blake (1945) and The Echo Murders (1945), and was an intelligence officer in Lisbon Story (1946).[4] These low-budget thrillers were enormously popular in their day. According to his obituary, "Farrar was given a true star's entrance in the film, the camera tracking along a bar of customers until coming to rest upon the actor's back. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6958.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6958.txt