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Acting

Farley Granger

Career: Active from 1943 to 2001, with a break from 1987 to 2000, busiest in 1973 with 4 main titles.

Leading roles: 28
top three billing

Average score: 61/100

Highest rated: Strangers on a Train
87/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 44 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Farley Granger Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
4.2, average 5.4
Coming of Age
1.8, average 3.0
Fantasy
0.8, average 1.7
Wonder
2.5, average 3.4

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Period Piece 3
Character-Driven 3
Tragic Romance 3
Moral Dilemma 3
Social Commentary 3
Psychological Thriller 3
Forbidden Love 2
Mystery 2
Revenge 2
Psychological Mystery 2
Slow-Burn Tension 2
Historical Drama 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

74

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2000s

1 title · average score 42

The Next Big Thing

42

as Arthur Pomposello

1980s

8 titles · average score 67

Monsters

71

TV show · as Doctor

The Imagemaker

as Ambassador Hoyle

Very Close Quarters

as Pavel

The Whoopee Boys

58

as Extra (uncredited)

Deathmask

as Douglas Andrews

Murder, She Wrote

76

TV show · as Jerome Ashcroft

Tales from the Darkside

72

TV show · as Doctor Roebuck

The Prowler

58

as Sheriff George Fraser

1970s

22 titles · average score 61

The Love Boat

53

TV show · as Simon Ashford / Charles Cummings

Widow

as Martin Caine

What Have They Done to Your Daughters?

68

as Mr. Polvesi

Death Will Have Your Eyes

as Armando

The Six Million Dollar Man

71

TV show · as Bert Carrington

The Serpent

58

as Computer Programming Director

The Man Called Noon

53

as Judge Niland

Amuck!

58

as Richard Stuart

So Sweet, So Dead

59

as Inspector Capuana

The Red Headed Corpse

53

as John Ward

Something Creeping in the Dark

52

as Spike

They Call Me Trinity

76

as Major Harriman

1960s

13 titles · average score 66

Hawaii Five-O

48

TV show · as Arnold

Laura

as Shelby Carpenter

Rogue's Gallery

as Edmund Van Dermot

The Name of the Game

73

TV show · as Hoagland Walters

The Outsider

TV show

Ironside

45

TV show · as Mitch Kirby

Hondo

71

TV show

TV show · as Richard

Get Smart

84

TV show · as Billet

Run for Your Life

73

TV show · as Charley Herrod

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

66

TV show · as Wain

as Morris Townsend

1950s

22 titles · average score 64

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing

55

as Harry Kendall Thaw

The Naked Street

52

as Nicholas 'Nicky' Bradna

Senso

79

as Il Tenente Franz Mahler

Small Town Girl

45

as Rick Livingston

The Story of Three Loves

61

as Thomas Clayton Campbell Jr

Hans Christian Andersen

75

as Niels

Strangers on a Train

87

as Guy Haines

I Want You

58

as Jack Greer

Behave Yourself!

50

as William Calhoun Denny

Side Street

78

as Joe Norson

Edge of Doom

50

as Martin Lynn

Our Very Own

63

as Chuck

1940s

8 titles · average score 67

They Live by Night

81

as Arthur "Bowie" Bowers

Roseanna McCoy

46

as Johnse Hatfield

Rope

82

as Phillip Morgan

Enchantment

70

as Pax Masterson

The Ed Sullivan Show

73

TV show · as Self / John

Kraft Television Theatre

78

TV show

The Purple Heart

55

as Sgt. Howard Clinton

The North Star

49

as Damian Simonov