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Joseph Farnham

Writer, Editor, Additional Credits
Born December 2, 1884Died June 2, 1931 (46 years)
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Joseph White Farnham (December 2, 1884 – June 2, 1931) was an American playwright and a film writer and film editor of the silent movie era to the early 1930s. He was also a founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Born in Connecticut in 1884,Farnham got his start in film through his business relationship with theatre empresarios Gustave and Daniel Frohman who owned The Frohman Amusement Corp. The Big Parade is probably the most famous of his works adapted to film. In the 1st Academy Awards of 1929, nominees could be considered for an Oscar for an award on the basis of multiple films within the year. Joseph won his Best Writing - Title Cards award for the films Fair Co-Ed; Laugh, Clown, Laugh; and Telling the World. This was the only year that an Oscar for title cards would be awarded.

Joseph Farnham was the very first Academy Award-winner to die. He died in 1931 of a heart attack while living in Los Angeles, California and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • The Unknown
  • The Big Parade

Known For

  • The Cameraman
  • The Big Parade
  • The Unknown
  • The Crowd
  • Greed
  • The Big House
  • West Point
  • Tell It to the Marines
  • The Hollywood Revue of 1929
  • Laugh, Clown, Laugh
  • West of Zanzibar
  • London After Midnight
  • The Thirteenth Chair
  • Marianne
  • Across to Singapore
  • Brown of Harvard
  • The Red Mill
  • The Fair Co-Ed
  • Marianne
  • The Blackbird
  • The Show
  • Montana Moon

Filmography

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