…is driving a tractor in heaven now.
A wonderful actor and a gentleman that will be missed.
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I read that he committed suicide because he suffered from cancer. A truly great performance in that film, deserving of an Oscar.
Does anyone else find it tragic that, in the 21st century, someone in the end stages of terminal bone cancer who suffers excrutiating pain, cannot get a physician to assist them in a humane suicide and must resort to blowing out his own brains with a gun?
I don’t think we are as civilized as we think we are.
Perhaps we aren’t civilized at all. I won’t try to second guess Mr. Farnsworth’s reasons but I’d wonder what I’d do in his situation. Would I want to be part of a Kervorkian style media circus or take control of it myself.
Physician’s hands are tied even if they try to treat pain rather than assist suicide. They are hampered by controls that worry about patients becoming dependant.
OH NO! I fallen in love with Anne of Green Gables before seeing the movie, and Richard has always been Matthew Cuthbert to me. Someone I always wanted to hug and thank for bringing beauty into the world. First Colleen Dewhurst, and now Richard. RIP, you dear, dear man.
Somebody asked me a couple of years ago who my favorite actor was. I said Richard Farnsworth. He first came to my attention in Anne of Green Gables (1985). He also played the sheriff in Misery. His short short-lived series on CBS called “The Boys of Twilight” (1992) was my favorite TV show for as long as it lasted (not long enough). You can see what else he was in at IMDb
Unlike most actors in Hollywood, he knew nothing of self-promotion. But he sure could act.
I didn’t know he had passed on until I saw Jay Leno’s moving tribute to him at the end of the Tonight Show Monday night. I don’t mind saying it made me tear up.