Career
His theatrical career began in 1918 in the stage adaptation of Booth Tarkington"s Seventeen. He recreated the role of Joe Bullitt in Orson Welles"s Mercury Theatre on the Air adaptation of the story that aired October 16, 1938. Farley played a large number of mostly small parts in movies, television and Broadway, including the church minister in High Noon.
He also served in World World War World War II He was an out actor and was an activist in the early movement to gain civil/equal rights for homosexual Americans.
His contribution is covered in a book by Joseph Hansen on ONE Magazine"s main editor, Don Slater, titled A Few Doors West of Hope, published by the Homosexual Information Center.(Information on HIC can be found on the website. Tangentgrouporg).