Charles Farrell

Charles Farrell was an American film actor, born in South Walpole, Massachusetts, who began in pictures as an unnamed extra and bit player for Paramount, appearing in titles such as The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Ten Commandments. A contract with Fox Film led to his pairing with Janet Gaynor; the pair's romantic drama 7th Heaven (1927) was a hit, and they played opposite each other in over a dozen movies through the late 1920s and into the sound era, among them Street Angel (1928) and Lucky Star (1929). He traveled to Australia to headline The Flying Doctor (1936), and in the 1950s he acted on television as Vern Albright, the father of Gale Storm's character, on My Little Margie, then headlined The Charlie Farrell Show as a made-up version of himself. He also worked in radio, with several turns on The Jack Benny Program. He died in 1990.