Farley Granger

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Biography

In 1950's "Rope," he was one-half of a scheming, self-satisfied duo who attempted to get away with the perfect crime, while in "Strangers on a Train" (1951), he was drawn into a murder plot by a deranged Robert Walker. The pictures were unfortunately the apex of his career, and he spent most of the following decades in television and on stage, as well as numerous international productions. The appeal of the Hitchcock pictures, as well as his …
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Job Title

Actor

Born

July 1, 1925

Career Milestones

2001

Appeared in the first London production of Noel Coward's play "Semi-Monde", about a group of sophisticates who mingle at the cocktail bar of the Ritz Hotel

Returned to screen acting with role in "The Next Big Thing" (lensed 2000; not to be confused with the Madonna-Rupert Everett movie of the same name)

1995

Was one of the interviewees for the documentary "The Celluloid Closet"

Appeared as regular on CBS daytime drama "As the World Turns" as Eileen Fulton's husband

1985

Starred Off-Broadway in "Tally & Son"

Appeared as regular on ABC daytime drama "One Life to Live"

1970

Made TV-movie debut in "The Challengers"

1955

Began appearing on TV in "Schlitz Playhouse of the Stars"

1953

Made musical debut in "Small Town Girl"

1951

Starred in the Hitchcock classic "Strangers on a Train"

1948

Returned to the screen for Alfred Hitchcock's "Rope"

1944

Served in the armed forces

1943

Made screen debut in "The North Star"

Awards

1976

Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actor In a Daytime Drama Series in One Life to Live