Richard Farnsworth - biography

“But I don’t really care for directors flaring up and trying to humble some actor, which they would do to try and make an example out of them so everybody else would stay on the ball - and David wasn’t anything like that.”

“I worked for Sam Peckinpah on quite a bit of action in his films, and he got excited once in a while.”

“No I didn’t audition, I didn’t even know David Lynch till the week before I started the film.”

“David Lynch was very good, very patient with us, and the reaction in the United States seems pretty good.”

“I don’t know if you saw the parting of the Red Sea with the chariots on the horses, I did stuff like that.”

“I was a stunt man for 35 years.”

“I worked for John Ford, Howard Hawks, Henry Hathaway, Raoul Walsh - I worked for some real good directors.”

“I worked with Cecil B DeMille quite a few times.”

Richard Farnsworth has appeared in the following films:
The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938)
This Is the Army (1943)
Arena (1953)
Arrowhead (1953)
The Tin Star (1957)
Duel at Diablo (1966)
Texas Across the River (1966)
The Stalking Moon (1968)
Pocket Money (1972)
The Cowboys (1972)
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
Ulzana’s Raid (1972)
Papillon (1973)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox (1976)
Un autre homme, une autre chance (1977)
Comes a Horseman (1978)
Resurrection (1980)
Tom Horn (1980)
The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981)
Ruckus (1981)
Independence Day (1983)
The Natural (1984)
Into the Night (1985)
Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood (1988)
Havana (1990)
Misery (1990)
The Two Jakes (1990)
Highway to Hell (1991)
The Getaway (1994)
The Straight Story (1999)