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Hide Show Soundtrack 1 credit. Hide Show Self 12 credits. Hide Show Archive footage 4 credits. Related Videos. Publicity Listings: 2 Articles 1 Pictorial See more ». Alternate Names: Dick Farnsworth. Height: 6' 1. Spouse: Margaret Hill her death 2 children. Edit Did You Know? Personal Quote: I was a stunt man for 35 years. Find on IMDB. Find on Wikipedia. Richard Farnsworth, who basked in glory last April as the oldest man ever nominated for an Academy Award, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound Friday at his ranch in Lincoln, New Mexico.

He was Given that Ed Harris spends much of "The Third Miracle" looking for the titular third miracle, a remarkable feat that would guarantee Helen O'Regan sainthood, I find it extraordinary that he overlooks what seems to me to be her most amazing accomplishment: Having herself videotaped at a first-communion party in , long before the advent of camcorders. Tim Carvell, Los Angeles. I wonder if Richard Farnsworth would mind if I called him a geezer.

He wears jeans and a cowboy hat like working clothes, and although he's appeared in hundreds of movies and even been nominated for an Oscar, he describes himself as a rancher. He was going down hill. Van Valin said Farnsworth was diagnosed several years ago with terminal cancer, which had left him partially paralyzed.

He struggled with the pain while he was working on "The Straight Story," she said. He didn't want the world to know he was sick," Van Valin said. He couldn't move his legs, but the mood was happy as his daughter and Van Valin drew pictures on his toes.

He had reached a level of pain that he was unable to get beyond," Missy Farnsworth said in a telephone interview from her home in Hollywood, California.

Farnsworth had said the heart of his performance in "The Straight Story," came from his respect for Alvin Straight, the real-life person on whom his portrayal of a year-old man who rode a tractor across the country was based. Every time we stopped somewhere, people would come by and say, 'Heck, I remember when old Alvin came through,' and tell us about it," he told The Associated Press last March.

At 79, Farnsworth was the oldest leading actor to receive an Oscar bid.