Talk:David Farrar (actor)

I'd like to challenge the statement in the "Personal Life" section which states "... in 1976, he moved to South Africa".

I happen to know he and Irene were already in South Africa by at least 1972. They followed Barbara out to South Africa (to Amanzimtoti) sometime after her marriage on 4 June 1966.

I'm trying to think how I can prove this - I could probably find their residential address in Amanzimtoti, and they'd probably be listed in the telephone directory from around that time. But until I'm next back in Durban, South Africa - can someone provide a source for the statement saying David moved out in 1976?

Incidentally, it was the same Barbara (now with surname Layne) who posed for the artist Tretchikoff, as mentioned (and illustrated!) at https://www.iol.co.za/capeargus/news/tretchis-muses-toast-immortality-1123332. Should that fact be mentioned, and if so, here? Separate page? Tretchikoff's page?

SondarAgain (talk) 13:30, 24 June 2022 (UTC)


 * The article actually says "After the death of his wife Irene in 1976, he moved to South Africa to be with their daughter, Barbara". Are you querying that Irene died in 1976 or are you thinking maybe that that was the first time that David went to South Africa? -- SteveCrook (talk) 15:23, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Irene's death is reported correctly, but the Farrars were in South Africa some years before her death.
 * I've subsequently found out they came out by mail ship, arriving in Durban in January 1970. The address of the Farrar's property in Amanzimtoti was 22 Athol Paton Drive.
 * As I mentioned, nothing I can prove at the moment - but surely something that can be verified by passenger manifests, deed offices and telephone directories.
 * But 1976 is certainly not correct... SondarAgain (talk) 10:30, 25 June 2022 (UTC)


 * So why not add a note or correct the statement? (with whatever proof you can find)? -- SteveCrook (talk) 13:01, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

I've updated the article with references confirming Barbara's surname Layne, and linking her to David Farrar.

I've also reckon I've found the source of the erroneous emigration date of 1976; the phrasing in the original of this wiki article closely mirrors the phrasing in https://powell-pressburger.org/Reviews/WhereNow/DavidFarrar.html.

So even though I've now found a source for that date, I still maintain it is incorrect - both David and Irene definitely came out in Jan 1970 on a Union Castle mail ship. (The RMS_Pendennis_Castle comes to mind, but that point isn't so certain...). SondarAgain (talk) 14:57, 27 June 2022 (UTC)


 * The site at https://powell-pressburger.org/Reviews/WhereNow/DavidFarrar.html gives its source as "Whatever became of ... David Farrar" in "Whatever became of ..." by: Richard Lamparski, 1986 -- SteveCrook (talk) 19:23, 27 June 2022 (UTC)