Douglas Fairbanks
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.
As actor 97
American Experience
1988
The Oscars
1953
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916
The Iron Mask
1929
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
1925
Robin Hood
1922
The Bruce Forsyth Show
1959
The Thief of Bagdad
1924
Show People
1928
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995
A Kiss from Mary Pickford
1927
Anthony Quinn: An Original
1990
The Black Pirate
1926
Glorious Technicolor
1998
Manhattan Madness
1916
The Image Book
2018
Down to Earth
1917
Character Studies
1927
Unknown Chaplin
1983
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
2020
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007
Around the World in 80 Minutes with Douglas Fairbanks
1931
Charmed Lives: A Family Romance
2028
Cupid Angling
1918
Headin' South
1918
The Mark of Zorro
1920
The Mollycoddle
1920
Wilson
1944
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940
Double Trouble
1915
The Half-Breed
1916
One of Many
1927
The House That Shadows Built
1931
The Nut
1921
The Private Life of Don Juan
1934
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942
Say! Young Fellow
1918
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
1988
Hollywood
1923
God Chose Paris
1969
Our Film Stars
1919
The Gaucho
1927
The Three Musketeers
1921
Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary
1945
Ali Baba Goes to Town
1937
Birth of the Tramp
2013
Don Q Son of Zorro
1925
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964
Yesterday and Today
1953
Wild and Woolly
1917
The Tramp and the Dictator
2002
Our Mutual Girl
1914
A Modern Musketeer
1917
Propaganda: Engineering Consent
2018
He Comes Up Smiling
1918
Reaching for the Moon
1930
Martyrs of the Alamo
1915
Mr. Robinson Crusoe
1932
The Good Bad-Man
1916
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
2017
Mr. Fix-It
1918
Days of Thrills and Laughter
1961
The Taming of the Shrew
1929
Douglas Fairbanks: The Great Swashbuckler
2005
Chaplin Today: The Gold Rush
2003
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies
2008
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
1961
The Americano
1916
The Knickerbocker Buckaroo
1919
All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan
1917
Terra Melophon Magazin Nr. 1
1930
The Many Faces of Zorro
2000
The Man from Painted Post
1917
Arizona
1918
His Majesty, the American
1919
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
1998
Solidão: Uma Linda História de Amor
1989
American Aristocracy
1916
Charlie Chaplin: A Tramp's Life
1998
30 Years of Fun
1963
His Picture in the Papers
1916
The Habit of Happiness
1916
The Worlds of Mei Lanfang
2000
Mary and Doug Visit Stockholm
1924
The Great Chase
1962
The Lamb
1915
Reaching for the Moon
1917
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish
1916
When the Clouds Roll By
1919
In Again, Out Again
1917
The Golden Twenties
1950
I, Douglas Fairbanks
2018
Bound in Morocco
1918
Mary Pickford a Blessing and a Curse
2023
Reggie Mixes In
1916
The Matrimaniac
1916
Flirting with Fate
1916
On the crew 29
The Iron Mask
1929
Robin Hood
1922
The Thief of Bagdad
1924
The Black Pirate
1926
Down to Earth
1917
Around the World in 80 Minutes with Douglas Fairbanks
1931
Headin' South
1918
The Mark of Zorro
1920
The Thief of Baghdad
1961
The Nut
1921
Say! Young Fellow
1918
The Gaucho
1927
The Three Musketeers
1921
Don Q Son of Zorro
1925
Wild and Woolly
1917
A Modern Musketeer
1917
He Comes Up Smiling
1918
Reaching for the Moon
1930
Mr. Robinson Crusoe
1932
The Good Bad-Man
1916
Mr. Fix-It
1918
The Knickerbocker Buckaroo
1919
The Man from Painted Post
1917
Arizona
1918
His Majesty, the American
1919
Reaching for the Moon
1917
When the Clouds Roll By
1919
In Again, Out Again
1917
Bound in Morocco
1918