But I don't really care for directors flaring up and trying to humble some actor, which they would do to try and make an example out of them so everybody else would stay on the ball - and David wasn't anything like that.

She died in 1985. [citation needed]
Farnsworth was the spokesman for the Lincoln County Cowboy Symposium an annual event in Ruidoso New Mexico. Farnsworth became well known in the Pacific Northwest for portraying the groundskeeper who saw the mythical "Artesians" in the 1980s Olympia Beer ad campaign.

His film career began in 1937; however he achieved his greatest success for his performances in The Grey Fox (1982) and The Straight Story (1999) for which he received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actor. Richard W.