Farley Granger
Actor, Film actor
1925 – 2011
Who was Farley Granger?
Farley Earle Granger was an American actor, best known for his two collaborations with Alfred Hitchcock, Rope in 1948 and Strangers on a Train in 1951.
Granger was first noticed in a small stage production in Hollywood by a Goldwyn casting director, and given a significant role in The North Star, a controversial film praising the Soviet Union at the height of the war, but later condemned for its political bias. Another war-film The Purple Heart followed, before Granger's naval service in Honolulu, in a unit that arranged troop entertainment in the Pacific. Here he made useful contacts, including Bob Hope, Betty Grable and Rita Hayworth. It was also where he discovered his bisexuality, which he said he never felt any need to conceal.
In 1948, Hitchcock cast him in Rope, a fictionalized account of the Leopold and Loeb murder case, which earned mixed reviews, but much critical praise for Granger. Hitchcock then cast him again in Strangers on a Train as a tennis-star drawn into a double murder plot by a scheming psychopath played by Robert Walker. Granger described this as his happiest film-making experience, though he was deeply affected by his friend Walker's accidental drug-death soon afterwards.
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- Born
- Jul 1, 1925
San Jose - Also known as
- Farley Earle Granger II
- Farley Earle Granger
- Parents
- Spouses
- Robert Calhoun
(1963 - 2008/05/24)
- Robert Calhoun
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- North Hollywood High School
- Lived in
- San Jose
- Died
- Mar 27, 2011
New York City
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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