Dustin Lancy Farnum (May 27, 1874 – July 3, 1929) was an American singer, dancer, and actor on the stage and in silent films.

[1] Although he played a wide variety of roles, he tended toward westerns and became one of the bigger stars of the genre.

[2][3] He then married Winifred Kingston; they were the parents of radio actress Estelle "Dustine" Runyon (1925–1983).

[5] He died of kidney failure on July 3, 1929, at Post Graduate Hospital (now NYU Langone Health) in Manhattan, aged 55.

Additionally, according to an interview on January 16, 2013, on Fresh Air with Terry Gross on NPR, Hoffman said his parents were expecting him to be a girl and did not have a boy's name ready.