A native of
Berkeley, California, He attended
University of California, Berkeley, and later the Faucit School of the Theatre in Oakland, a school founded and directed by
London-born actress and director Ursula Faucit, the grandniece of actress
Helena Faucit. From 1930 to 1936, Farrar was regularly featured in the school's on-air outlet, the dramatic anthology series,
The Faucit Theatre of the Air, at least one episode of which he also wrote, adapting
J. S. Coyne's one-act comedy,
One Night of Terror. He was also featured opposite the school's director on at least two occasions. In 1930 they co-starred in Faucit's own play,
Not the Type, and in 1935 Faucit was Bea to Farrar's Benedick in Shakespeare's
Much Ado About Nothing. The Faucit Theatre Players also performed live on occasion, such as their 1935 production of
Schiller's
Mary Stuart—with Farrar's portrayal of
Lord Burleigh deemed "extremely good" by the
Oakland Tribune—and their 1934 revival of
Elmer Greensfelder's
Broomsticks, Amen, of which the ''Tribune's'' Wood Soanes wrote: Here is the stuff of which high tragedy is made, but Greensfelder succeeded in evolving only obvious melodrama. The fine performance by Stanley Farrar as Hoffnagel was the saving grace of the show. He pulled 'Broomsticks, Amen' along with a performance that was more professional than amateur, sincere, powerful, well balanced and acute. Beginning on October 4, 1937, Farrar appeared with
Howard Duff,
Jack Edwards, Marjorie Smith and Herb Allen in the
Mutual Broadcasting serial
The Phantom Pilot. The show aired for 2 weeks as a "sustaining" series before being sponsored by
Young and Rubicam. In the spring of 1949,
The Hollywood Reporter noted that Farrar had begun publishing
The 24 Sheet, a news bulletin for actors. On August 26, 1953,
Hollywood Citizen-News entertainment writer Zuma Palmer drew readers' attention to an uncommon occurrence: at a time when the prohibition of prerecorded network radio dramas had only recently been lifted, both Farrar and co-star
Marian Richman appeared on
Dr. Christian and simultaneously on the transcribed series,
Family Theater. Later that year, Farrar appeared onstage, co-starring with
Lloyd Corrigan and Tommy Bernard—former radio son of
Ozzie and Harriet and TV son of
Charlie Ruggles—in Corrigan's play
The Upper Room, staged as part of an event held to benefit the St. Marks Episcopal Church of
Van Nuys. In 1956, Farrar was elected treasurer, and, the following year, recording secretary of the
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. ==Personal life and death==