Born in the United States, Farley entered the theatrical world with a 1917 stage debut in the adaptation of Booth Tarkington’s Seventeen and later headlined the long-running 1924 Broadway comedy Fata Morgana. He revived the role of Joe Bullitt for Orson Welles’s Mercury Theatre on the Air in 1938, and his film résumé includes memorable character parts such as the minister in High Noon and a questi…
