Douglas Fairbanks
Born: 1883-05-22 in Denver, Colorado, United States
Died: 1939-12-12
Known For: Acting
Biography
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. (May 23, 1883 – December 12, 1939) was an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer. He was best known for his swashbuckling roles in silent films such as The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, and The Mark of Zorro. An astute businessman, Fairbanks was a founding member of United Artists. Fairbanks was also a founding member of The Motion Picture Academy and hosted the first Oscars Ceremony in 1929. With his marriage to Mary Pickford in 1920, the couple became Hollywood royalty with Fairbanks constantly referred to as "The King of Hollywood", a nickname later passed on to actor Clark Gable.
Filmography
2023
2020
- Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty as Self (archive footage)
2018
- The Image Book as (archive footage)
- I, Douglas Fairbanks as Self (archive footage)
- Propaganda: Engineering Consent as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2017
- Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2013
- Birth of the Tramp as Self (archive footage)
2008
- Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies as Self (archive footage)
2007
- Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema as Self (archive footage)
2005
- Douglas Fairbanks: The Great Swashbuckler as Self (archive footage)
2003
- Chaplin Today: The Gold Rush as Self (archive footage)
2002
- The Tramp and the Dictator as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2000
- The Many Faces of Zorro as Self (archive footage)
- The Worlds of Mei Lanfang
1998
- Glorious Technicolor as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Charlie Chaplin: A Tramp's Life as Self (archive footage)
- Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists as Self (archive footage)
1995
- The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies as Self (archive footage)
1994
- 100 Years at the Movies as Self (archive footage)
1990
- Anthony Quinn: An Original as Self (archive footage)
1988
- American Experience as Self
- Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man as Self (archive footage)
1983
- Unknown Chaplin as Self (archive footage)
1969
- God Chose Paris as Self (archive footage)
1964
- The Big Parade of Comedy as Actor Arriving at MGM (archive footage) (uncredited)
1963
- 30 Years of Fun as (archive footage)
1962
1961
- The Thief of Baghdad ... (Dialogue)
- The Legend of Rudolph Valentino as Self (archive footage)
- Days of Thrills and Laughter as Self (archive footage)
1953
- The Oscars
- Yesterday and Today as (archive footage)
1950
- The Golden Twenties as Self (archive footage)
1945
- Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary as Self (archive footage)
1944
- Wilson as Douglas Fairbanks - at WWI Rally (archive footage) (uncredited)
1942
- Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) as Self (archive footage)
1940
- Cavalcade of the Academy Awards as Self (archive footage)
1937
- Ali Baba Goes to Town as Himself
1934
- The Private Life of Don Juan as Don Juan
1932
- Mr. Robinson Crusoe as Steve Drexel
1931
- The House That Shadows Built as (archive footage)
- Around the World in 80 Minutes with Douglas Fairbanks as Self
1930
- Reaching for the Moon as Larry Day
- Terra Melophon Magazin Nr. 1
1929
- The Iron Mask as D'Artagnan
- The Taming of the Shrew as Petruccio
1928
- Show People as Self (uncredited)
1927
- Character Studies as Self (uncredited)
- A Kiss from Mary Pickford as Self (archive footage)
- The Gaucho as The Gaucho
- One of Many as Self (archive footage)
1926
- The Black Pirate as The Duke of Arnoldo / The Black Pirate
1925
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
- Don Q Son of Zorro as Don Cesar de Vega / Zorro
1924
- The Thief of Bagdad as The Thief of Bagdad
- Mary and Doug Visit Stockholm
1923
- Hollywood as Douglas Fairbanks
1922
- Robin Hood as Robin Hood
1921
- The Nut as Charlie Jackson
- The Three Musketeers as D'Artagnan
1920
- The Mark of Zorro as Don Diego Vega / Señor Zorro
- The Mollycoddle as Richard Marshall III / Richard Marshall IV / Richard Marshal V
1919
- His Majesty, the American as William Brooks
- Our Film Stars
- The Knickerbocker Buckaroo as Teddy Drake
- When the Clouds Roll By as Daniel Boone Brown
1918
- Headin' South as Headin' South
- Cupid Angling
- He Comes Up Smiling as Jerry Martin
- Mr. Fix-It as Dick Remington
- Bound in Morocco as George Travelwell
- Arizona as Lt. Denton
- Say! Young Fellow as The Young Fellow
1917
- Reaching for the Moon as Alexis Caesar Napoleon Brown
- Wild and Woolly as Jeff Hillington
- Down to Earth as Billy Gaynor
- A Modern Musketeer as Ned Thacker / D'Artagnan
- The Man from Painted Post as 'Fancy Jim' Sherwood
- In Again, Out Again as Teddy Rutherford
- All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan
1916
- Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages as Man on White Horse (uncredited)
- The Half-Breed as Lo Dorman
- Manhattan Madness as Steve O'Dare
- The Good Bad-Man as Passin' Through
- American Aristocracy as Cassius Lee
- The Americano as Blaze Derringer
- The Matrimaniac as Jimmie Conroy
- The Mystery of the Leaping Fish as Coke Ennyday / Douglas Fairbanks
- His Picture in the Papers as Pete Prindle
- The Habit of Happiness as Sunny Wiggins
- Flirting with Fate as Augy Holliday
- Reggie Mixes In as Reggie Van Deuzen
1915
- Martyrs of the Alamo as Joe / Texas soldier
- Double Trouble as Florian Amidon / Eugene Brassfield
- The Lamb as Gerald
1914
- Our Mutual Girl as Self (episode 47)