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Joseph White Farnham (December 2, 1884 β 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.
Filmography
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Movies 93
Writer 90
London After Midnight (2002)
War Nurse (1930)
The Big House (1930)
Love in the Rough (1930)
Good News (1930)
Way Out West (1930)
The Big House (1930)
Montana Moon (1930)
The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929)
So This Is College (1929)
The Thirteenth Chair (1929)
Speedway (1929)
The Unholy Night (1929)
The Girl in the Show (1929)
Marianne (1929)
Thunder (1929)
A Man's Man (1929)
Where East Is East (1929)
The Voice of the City (1929)
Tide of Empire (1929)
The Duke Steps Out (1929)
The Bellamy Trial (1929)
The Flying Fleet (1929)
A Single Man (1929)
West of Zanzibar (1928)
Alias Jimmy Valentine (1928)
The Cameraman (1928)
Four Walls (1928)
Telling the World (1928)
Diamond Handcuffs (1928)
The Actress (1928)
Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928)
Across to Singapore (1928)
The Big City (1928)
The Trail of '98 (1928)
The Crowd (1928)
While the City Sleeps (1928)
The Latest from Paris (1928)
West Point (1928)
Spoilers of the West (1927)
London After Midnight (1927)
Becky (1927)
The Fair Co-Ed (1927)
The Road to Romance (1927)
Body and Soul (1927)
After Midnight (1927)
Mockery (1927)
Twelve Miles Out (1927)
On Ze Boulevard (1927)
The Unknown (1927)
Rookies (1927)
Frisco Sally Levy (1927)
Slide, Kelly, Slide (1927)
The Understanding Heart (1927)
The Red Mill (1927)
The Show (1927)
Tell It to the Marines (1926)
Dreams of Monte Carlo (1926)
Exit Smiling (1926)
Upstage (1926)
War Paint (1926)
Blarney (1926)
The Waning Sex (1926)
The Auction Block (1926)
The Road to Mandalay (1926)
Paris (1926)
Money Talks (1926)
Brown of Harvard (1926)
Beverly of Graustark (1926)
The Exquisite Sinner (1926)
The Blackbird (1926)
Sally, Irene and Mary (1925)
His Secretary (1925)
Bright Lights (1925)
The Big Parade (1925)
Lights of Old Broadway (1925)
Sun-Up (1925)
Pretty Ladies (1925)
Proud Flesh (1925)
Stop Flirting (1925)
Charley's Aunt (1925)
Greed (1924)
Reckless Romance (1924)
Court Plaster (1924)
A Bride for a Knight (1923)
Carmen, Jr. (1923)
Mary of the Movies (1923)
The Man from M.A.R.S. (1922)
The Country Flapper (1922)
Oh, Mabel Behave (1922)
The Wonder Man (1920)
Bullin' the Bullsheviki (1919)
Once to Every Man (1918)
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GenderMale
Birthday1884-12-02
Deathday1931-06-02 (46 years old)
Birth PlaceNew Haven, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsJoe Farnham, Jos. W. Farnham, Joseph W. Farnham, Joe Farnum
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