Charles Farrell

Charles David Farrell (August 9, 1900 – May 6, 1990) was an American film actor (whose height was in the 1920s and 1930s) and later Mayor of Palm Springs, serving from 1947 to 1955.

Farrell's father variously owned restaurants, a drug store, and several movie theaters, including one in Onset and at Revere Beach. He came out to Australia to star in The Flying Doctor (1936).

He joined the U.S. Navy in 1942, where he worked as an administrative officer with the Fighting Squadron 17 and later spent time on the USS Hornet. He returned to the screen to play Gale Storm's father Vern Albright on My Little Margie between 1952 and 1955.

Farrell married Virginia Valli, a former silent film star, on February 1, 1931, in Yonkers, New York and the couple settled in Palm Springs.

Honours and legacy Farrell was awarded two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960, located at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard for motion pictures and 1617 Vine Street for television. In 1992, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars was dedicated to him. Farrell Drive in Palm Springs was named in his honor as one of the developers of the city, and a statue of Farrell was dedicated in front of Palm Springs International Airport in 1999.

Filmography Features:

Short Subjects: The Gosh-Darn Mortgage (1926) – Joe Hoskins Hollywood Hobbies (1935) – Himself Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 7 (1936) – Himself