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Farley Granger

Farley Granger
Farley Granger
Born: Jul 01, 1925 in San Jose, California
Occupation: Actor
Active: '40s-'50s, '70s-'80s
Major Genres: Drama, Mystery
Career Highlights: Strangers on a Train, They Live by Night, Rope
First Major Screen Credit: The North Star (1943)
6 Videos for Farley Granger
The Celluloid Closet (1995) Sweet Spirits (1971) Strangers on a Train (1951)
Night Flight from Moscow (1973) Hans Christian Andersen (1952) Rope (1948)
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Biography:

While still a teenager Farley Granger appeared in a Los Angeles little theater production, where he was spotted by a scout. Sam Goldwyn signed him to a film contract and he debuted onscreen as a Russian youth in The North Star (1943). Typecast as a troubled pretty boy or a vulnerable, sensitive, soulful young hero, Granger appeared in one more film and then served in World War II.

After the war, he returned to the screen as an intellectual thrill-killer in Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (1948) Early predictions that Granger would become a major star failed to come true, however; his career was mismanaged and he never lived up to his potential. After making a series of minor Hollywood films, he moved to Italy in the mid '50s and made one film there, then returned to Hollywood for two more movies before giving up his screen career in favor of work on stage and TV.

In the late '60s Granger began to appear onscreen again, mostly in little-known Italian productions. Later he played a psychiatrist and head of a family on the TV soap opera One Life to Live, while still acting occasionally in films and on the stage. ~ All Movie Guide.