Douglas Fairbanks

Acting • Born 1883-05-22 – Died 1939-12-12

Acting1Denver, Colorado, United States

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

96 credits

God Chose Paris

Movie • 1969

Self (archive footage)

Wilson

Movie • 1944

Douglas Fairbanks - at WWI Rally (archive footage) (uncredited)

Mr. Robinson Crusoe

Movie • 1932

Steve Drexel

Reaching for the Moon

Movie • 1930

Larry Day

Hollywood

Movie • 1923

Douglas Fairbanks

The Thief of Bagdad

Movie • 1924

The Thief of Bagdad

The Mark of Zorro

Movie • 1920

Don Diego Vega / Señor Zorro

Yesterday and Today

Movie • 1953

(archive footage)

The Private Life of Don Juan

Movie • 1934

Don Juan

The Black Pirate

Movie • 1926

The Duke of Arnoldo / The Black Pirate

The Mystery of the Leaping Fish

Movie • 1916

Coke Ennyday / Douglas Fairbanks

Robin Hood

Movie • 1922

Robin Hood

The Three Musketeers

Movie • 1921

D'Artagnan

When the Clouds Roll By

Movie • 1919

Daniel Boone Brown

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

Movie • 1961

Self (archive footage)

The Image Book

Movie • 2018

(archive footage)

His Majesty, the American

Movie • 1919

William Brooks

The Iron Mask

Movie • 1929

D'Artagnan

Our Mutual Girl

Movie • 1914

Self (episode 47)

Mr. Fix-It

Movie • 1918

Dick Remington

The Mollycoddle

Movie • 1920

Richard Marshall III / Richard Marshall IV / Richard Marshal V

The Gaucho

Movie • 1927

The Gaucho

In Again, Out Again

Movie • 1917

Teddy Rutherford

Flirting with Fate

Movie • 1916

Augy Holliday

Don Q Son of Zorro

Movie • 1925

Don Cesar de Vega / Zorro

A Modern Musketeer

Movie • 1917

Ned Thacker / D'Artagnan

Charlie Chaplin: A Tramp's Life

Movie • 1998

Self (archive footage)

Wild and Woolly

Movie • 1917

Jeff Hillington

The Matrimaniac

Movie • 1916

Jimmie Conroy

His Picture in the Papers

Movie • 1916

Pete Prindle

The Nut

Movie • 1921

Charlie Jackson

Manhattan Madness

Movie • 1916

Steve O'Dare

American Aristocracy

Movie • 1916

Cassius Lee

Reggie Mixes In

Movie • 1916

Reggie Van Deuzen

I, Douglas Fairbanks

Movie • 2018

Self (archive footage)

A Kiss from Mary Pickford

Movie • 1927

Self (archive footage)

Reaching for the Moon

Movie • 1917

Alexis Caesar Napoleon Brown

Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary

Movie • 1945

Self (archive footage)

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

Movie • 1942

Self (archive footage)

Double Trouble

Movie • 1915

Florian Amidon / Eugene Brassfield

The Good Bad-Man

Movie • 1916

Passin' Through

The Half-Breed

Movie • 1916

Lo Dorman

He Comes Up Smiling

Movie • 1918

Jerry Martin

The Lamb

Movie • 1915

Gerald

The Taming of the Shrew

Movie • 1929

Petruccio

Our Film Stars

Movie • 1919

Chaplin Today: The Gold Rush

Movie • 2003

Self (archive footage)

The Man from Painted Post

Movie • 1917

'Fancy Jim' Sherwood

The Americano

Movie • 1916

Blaze Derringer

Arizona

Movie • 1918

Lt. Denton

The Golden Twenties

Movie • 1950

Self (archive footage)

The Habit of Happiness

Movie • 1916

Sunny Wiggins

Down to Earth

Movie • 1917

Billy Gaynor

Solidão: Uma Linda História de Amor

Movie • 1989

Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man

Movie • 1988

Self (archive footage)

Anthony Quinn: An Original

Movie • 1990

Self (archive footage)

Terra Melophon Magazin Nr. 1

Movie • 1930

Days of Thrills and Laughter

Movie • 1961

Self (archive footage)

Mary Pickford a Blessing and a Curse

Movie • 2023

Self

Mary and Doug Visit Stockholm

Movie • 1924

All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan

Movie • 1917

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

Movie • 1916

Man on White Horse (uncredited)

One of Many

Movie • 1927

Self (archive footage)

Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies

Movie • 2008

Self (archive footage)

Character Studies

Movie • 1927

Self (uncredited)

Headin' South

Movie • 1918

Headin' South

Say! Young Fellow

Movie • 1918

The Young Fellow

Bound in Morocco

Movie • 1918

George Travelwell

The Knickerbocker Buckaroo

Movie • 1919

Teddy Drake

Show People

Movie • 1928

Self (uncredited)

What Do Those Old Films Mean?

Movie • 1985

Himself(archive footage)

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

Movie • 1940

Self (archive footage)

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Movie • 1925

Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)

Glorious Technicolor

Movie • 1998

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists

Movie • 1998

Self (archive footage)

The Tramp and the Dictator

Movie • 2002

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

Movie • 2007

Self (archive footage)

The House That Shadows Built

Movie • 1931

(archive footage)

The Big Parade of Comedy

Movie • 1964

Actor Arriving at MGM (archive footage) (uncredited)

Propaganda: Engineering Consent

Movie • 2018

Self - Actor (archive footage)

Birth of the Tramp

Movie • 2013

Self (archive footage)

Around the World in 80 Minutes with Douglas Fairbanks

Movie • 1931

Self

Cupid Angling

Movie • 1918

Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts

Movie • 2017

Self - Actor (archive footage)

30 Years of Fun

Movie • 1963

(archive footage)