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Anthony Faramus

1920–1990

Occupation
actor

Anthony Charles Faramus (27 July 1920 – 4 August 1990) was an actor, author and hairdresser.

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Biography

Anthony Charles Faramus (27 July 1920 – 4 August 1990) was an actor, author and hairdresser. He was born in Saint Peter, Jersey, and died in Surrey. The autobiographical accounts of his survival of Fort de Romainville, Buchenwald and the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp complex were published as The Faramus Story in 1954 and Journey into Darkness in 1990. Two books about Agent Zigzag, the double agent Eddie Chapman, also document aspects of Faramus's 'ruse' to join the Nazis as a collaborator and a spy, his imprisonment in Jersey, Paris and the concentration camps.