Mike Farrell is an activist and public speaker for various political causes.
23 Facts About Mike Farrell
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Mike Farrell, one of four children, was born in St Paul, Minnesota, the son of Agnes Sarah Cosgrove and Michael Joseph Mike Farrell.
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Mike Farrell served in the United States Marine Corps from 1957 to 1959.
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In 1973, while under contract to Universal Studios, Mike Farrell starred with Robert Foxworth in The Questor Tapes.
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Mike Farrell stayed with the series for its remaining eight years on the air.
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Mike Farrell voiced Jonathan Kent in Superman: The Animated Series with wife Shelley Fabares voicing Martha Kent.
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Mike Farrell hosted several National Geographic Presents specials and starred in a number of television films, including 1983's Memorial Day, which he co-produced.
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Mike Farrell did two one-man shows: JFK, a One Man Show for PBS and, on stage, a national tour of David W Rintels' play Clarence Darrow.
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In 1999, Mike Farrell was given the part of veterinarian Jim Hansen, the father of the lead character Dr Sydney Hansen, portrayed by Melina Kanakaredes, on the NBC-TV melodrama series Providence.
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Mike Farrell appeared as Milton Lang, the father of Victor Lang, husband of Gabrielle Solis on Desperate Housewives.
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Mike Farrell appeared as the character Fred Jones in the season 8 episode "Hunteri Heroici" of Supernatural.
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Mike Farrell portrayed Lee Miglin, a real estate baron who fell victim to serial killer Andrew Cunanan, in FX's anthology series American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace.
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Mike Farrell was co-chair of the California Human Rights Watch for ten years, was on the Board of Advisors of the original Cult Awareness Network, and has been president of Death Penalty Focus for more than 10 years, being the first person to be awarded its Human Rights Award, subsequently named after him in 2006.
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Mike Farrell received PETA's Humanitarian Award in 2001, and narrated a public service campaign for them about animal abuse.
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In 1985, Mike Farrell was in Central America, helping refugees from the civil war in El Salvador.
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Mike Farrell needed surgery, but no Salvadoran doctor would help her, so Medical Aid for El Salvador recruited a foreign doctor.
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Mike Farrell was present as an observer for Amnesty International but was, in his words, "shanghaied into assisting with the surgery" when the doctor said his help was needed.
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Mike Farrell served on the advisory board of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation.
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In 2014, Mike Farrell workshopped a play by George Shea which brought Dr Charles David Keeling and his scientific work on atmospheric CO2 emissions to life.
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In 2016, after the US presidential election of Donald Trump, Mike Farrell appeared in a commercial to urge Republican electors to block Trump from becoming president by having 37 electors change their vote in the Electoral College from Trump to John Kasich.
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Mike Farrell's second book, Of Mule and Man, is a journal of his five-week, 9,000-mile drive around the US to promote the paperback edition of his first book.
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The normally clean-shaven Mike Farrell grew it out for the character, as well as fashion trends at the time made the moustache in general popular for the first time since the beginning of the 20th century due in part due to fellow actors such as Burt Reynolds and Tom Selleck, as well as The Mustache Gang of the Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball.
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Mike Farrell would shave it off immediately after the series ended, returning to a clean-shaven look afterwards.