Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Born: 1909-12-09 in New York City, New York, USA
Died: 2000-05-07
Known For: Acting
Biography
Douglas Elton Fairbanks Jr. (December 9, 1909 – May 7, 2000) was an American actor, producer, and decorated naval officer of World War II. He is best-known for starring in such films as The Prisoner of Zenda (1937), Gunga Din (1939), and The Corsican Brothers (1941). The son of Douglas Fairbanks and stepson of Mary Pickford, his first marriage was to actress Joan Crawford. In 1969, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the International Best Dressed List. The moving image collection of Douglas Fairbanks Jr., held at the Academy Film Archive, includes over 90 reels of home movies. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]
Filmography
2021
- The Real Charlie Chaplin as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2009
- 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year as Self (archive footage)
2008
- Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies as Self (archive footage)
2007
- Anna May Wong - Frosted Yellow Willows: Her Life, Times and Legend ... (In Memory Of)
2005
- Little Caesar: End of Rico, Beginning of the Antihero as Self (archive footage)
2004
- Checking Out: Grand Hotel as Self (archive footage)
- On Location with Gunga Din as Self / Thomas Anthony Ballantine (archive footage)
2002
- Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star as Self (archive footage)
2001
- Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies as Self (archive footage)
2000
- Mary Pickford: A Life on Film as Self
1998
1996
- Joan Crawford: Always the Star as Self (archive footage)
- The Battle Over Citizen Kane as Self
1991
1990
- Night of 100 Stars III as Self
- Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond as Self
- You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story as Self
1989
- B.L. Stryker as White
1988
- American Experience as Self
- Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man as Self
1987
- The Dame Edna Experience as Self
- Hollywood Uncensored as Self - Host
1986
- Strong Medicine as Eli Camperdown
- Strong Medicine as Eli Camperdown
1985
1984
- The Compleat Gilbert & Sullivan as Self - Host
1983
- Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- La Belle Epoque as Self / Narrator
- The Mikado as Self
1982
- Night of 100 Stars as Self
- Yesteryear as Self
- The Gondoliers as Self - Host
- Laurence Olivier: a life as Self
- The Pirates of Penzance as Self - Host
- Iolanthe as Self - Host
- H.M.S. Pinafore as Self - Host
- Trial by Jury as Self - Host
- Cox and Box as Self - Host
1981
- Ghost Story as Edward Charles Wanderley
1980
- Hollywood as Self
- The Hostage Tower as Malcolm Philpott
- From Raquel with Love as The Almighty
1978
- Kingdom Of Gifts as The Proud King
- The Art of Film: The Many Roles of Alec Guinness as Narrator
- The Art of Film: Vintage Hitchcock as Narrator
1977
- The Love Boat as Elliott Norman
1975
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? ... (Thanks)
1974
- Dinah! as Self
1973
1972
- The Crooked Hearts as Rex Willoughby
1971
- Great Performances as Self
- Film '72 as Self
- The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour as Self
- The Pearl Bailey Show as Self
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Self (uncredited)
- Red, White, and Zero as Millionaire
- Red and Blue as Millionaire
- The Legend of Robin Hood as King Richard
1967
- Omnibus as Self - Narrator
- The Funniest Man in the World as Narrator
1966
- ABC Stage 67 as Mr. Otis
- The Canterville Ghost as Mr. Otis
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self - Co-Host
- Dr. Kildare as Dr. Robert Devlin
1960
- Route 66 as Charles Clayton
1959
- The Big Party as Self – Host
1958
- Chase a Crooked Shadow as Self - Epilogue (uncredited)
1956
- The Steve Allen Show as Self
- Cinépanorama as Self
- The Dinah Shore Chevy Show as Self
- The Ford Show as Self
- The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show as Self
- The Silken Affair ... (Executive Producer)
1955
- Police Dog ... (Producer)
1954
- The Awakening as Self - Host
1953
- Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents as Self - Host
- Three's Company as Narrator / Anthony
- The Genie as The Genie
1951
- Mr. Drake's Duck as Donald 'Don' Drake
1950
- What's My Line? as Self
- The Bob Hope Show as Self
- Your Show of Shows as Self
- Night and the City ... (Casting)
- State Secret as Dr. John Marlowe
- The Costume Designer as Self (archive footage)
1949
- The Fighting O'Flynn as The O'Flynn
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- That Lady in Ermine as Colonel Ladislas Karolyi Teglas / The Duke
1947
- Sinbad the Sailor as Sinbad
- The Exile as Charles II
1941
- The Corsican Brothers as Lucien Franchi / Mario Franchi
1940
- Safari as Jim Logan
- Angels Over Broadway as Bill O'Brien
- Cavalcade of the Academy Awards as Self
- Green Hell as Keith Brandon
1939
- Gunga Din as Thomas Anthony Ballantine
- Rulers of the Sea as David 'Davie' Gillespie
- The Sun Never Sets as John Randolph
1938
- The Young in Heart as Richard Carleton
- Having Wonderful Time as Chick Kirkland
- Joy of Living as Daniel 'Dan' Brewster
- Hollywood Goes to Town as Self
- The Rage of Paris as Jim Trevor
1937
- The Prisoner of Zenda as Rupert of Hentzau
- Jump for Glory as Ricky Morgan
1936
- The Amateur Gentleman as John Beverley aka Barnabas Barty
- Accused as Tony Seymour
1935
- Mimi as Rodolphe
- Man of the Moment as Tony Woodward
1934
- The Rise of Catherine the Great as Grand Duke Peter
- Success at Any Price as Joe Martin
1933
- Morning Glory as Joseph Sheridan
- Captured! as Lieutenant Fred Digby
- The Life of Jimmy Dolan as Jimmy
- The Narrow Corner as Fred Blake
- Parachute Jumper as Bill Keller
1932
- Union Depot as Charles 'Chick' Miller
- Scarlet Dawn as Baron Nikita 'Nikki' Krasnoff
- Love is a Racket as James 'Jimmy' Russell
- Hollywood on Parade No. A-3 as Self
- It's Tough to Be Famous as Scott 'Scotty' McClenahan
- Hollywood on Parade No. A-1 as Self
1931
- Little Caesar as Joe Massara
- The Stolen Jools as Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
- Chances as Jack Ingleside
- I Like Your Nerve as Larry O'Brien
- The Aviator as Alain
- How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 10: 'Trouble Shots' as Self - Golfer (uncredited)
1930
- The Dawn Patrol as Douglas 'Doug' Scott
- Outward Bound as Henry
- Party Girl as Jay Rountree
- Little Accident as Norman Overbeck
- An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee as Self
- Loose Ankles as Gil
- One Night at Susie's as Dick Rollins
- Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1 as Self
- The Way of All Men as Billy Bear
1929
- The Show of Shows as Ambrose in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
- The Forward Pass as Marty Reid
- Our Modern Maidens as Gil Jordan
- Fast Life as Douglas Stratton
- The Careless Age as Wyn
- The Jazz Age as Steve Maxwell
1928
- A Woman of Affairs as Jeffry Merrick
- The Power of the Press as Clem Rogers
- Modern Mothers as David Starke
- The Garden of Eden as Busboy (uncredited)
- The Barker as Chris Miller
- The Toilers as Steve
- Dead Man's Curve as Vernon Keith
1927
- Is Zat So? as G. Clifton Blackburn
- Man Bait as Jeff Sanford
- A Texas Steer as Farleigh Bright
- Women Love Diamonds as Jerry Croker-Kelley
1926
- Broken Hearts of Hollywood as Hal Terwilliger
- Padlocked as Sonny Galloway
- The American Venus as Triton
1925
- The Air Mail as Sandy
- Stella Dallas as Richard Grosvenor
- Wild Horse Mesa as Chess Weymer
1923
- Stephen Steps Out as Stephen Harlow Jr.
1921
- The Three Musketeers as (uncredited)
1916
- American Aristocracy as Newsboy (uncredited)