A life-long bachelor, Matthew, and his sister Marilla, decide to adopt a young boy to help with chores around Green Gables farm. However, the moment he meets the young girl sent from the orphanage by mistake, he is smitten and decides that they should keep her.

Despite being terrified of women, he instantly likes Anne and pressures Marilla to adopt her. Painfully shy and a little eccentric, Matthew grows to love Anne, treating her as though she were his own daughter.

Richard Farnsworth worked for more than thirty years as a stuntman before he moved into acting. He doubled for such actors as Roy Rogers, Gary Cooper, Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Montgomery Clift and Steve McQueen. He was a stuntman in such films as Gone with the Wind, The Ten Commandments and Spartacus.

Farnsworth was over fifty when he decided to act. At the age of 58, he received his first Academy Award nomination for Comes a Horseman. His other film credits include The Grey Fox, The Natural, Rhinestone, Into the Night, Wildhorses, Misery and The Straight Story for which he garnered his second Academy Award nomination at the age of 80.

Richard Farnsworth passed away on October 6, 2000. He was 80 years old.

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