Birthday:
May 22, 1883
Place of Birth: Denver, Colorado, United States
Place of Birth: Denver, Colorado, United States
Douglas Fairbanks
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
| Movie | Cast | Year |
|---|---|---|
| God Chose Paris | Self (archive footage) | 1969 |
| Wilson | Douglas Fairbanks - at WWI Rally (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1944 |
| Mr. Robinson Crusoe | Steve Drexel | 1932 |
| Reaching for the Moon | Larry Day | 1930 |
| Hollywood | Douglas Fairbanks | 1923 |
| The Thief of Bagdad | The Thief of Bagdad | 1924 |
| The Mark of Zorro | Don Diego Vega / Señor Zorro | 1920 |
| Yesterday and Today | (archive footage) | 1953 |
| The Private Life of Don Juan | Don Juan | 1934 |
| The Black Pirate | The Duke of Arnoldo / The Black Pirate | 1926 |
| The Mystery of the Leaping Fish | Coke Ennyday / Douglas Fairbanks | 1916 |
| Robin Hood | Robin Hood | 1922 |
| When the Clouds Roll By | Daniel Boone Brown | 1919 |
| The Three Musketeers | D'Artagnan | 1921 |
| The Legend of Rudolph Valentino | Self (archive footage) | 1961 |
| The Image Book | (archive footage) | 2018 |
| His Majesty, the American | William Brooks | 1919 |
| The Iron Mask | D'Artagnan | 1929 |
| Our Mutual Girl | Self (episode 47) | 1914 |
| Mr. Fix-It | Dick Remington | 1918 |
| The Mollycoddle | Richard Marshall III / Richard Marshall IV / Richard Marshal V | 1920 |
| The Gaucho | The Gaucho | 1927 |
| Flirting with Fate | Augy Holliday | 1916 |
| In Again, Out Again | Teddy Rutherford | 1917 |
| Don Q Son of Zorro | Don Cesar de Vega / Zorro | 1925 |
| A Modern Musketeer | Ned Thacker / D'Artagnan | 1917 |
| Charlie Chaplin: A Tramp's Life | Self (archive footage) | 1998 |
| Wild and Woolly | Jeff Hillington | 1917 |
| His Picture in the Papers | Pete Prindle | 1916 |
| The Matrimaniac | Jimmie Conroy | 1916 |
| The Nut | Charlie Jackson | 1921 |
| American Aristocracy | Cassius Lee | 1916 |
| Manhattan Madness | Steve O'Dare | 1916 |
| Reggie Mixes In | Reggie Van Deuzen | 1916 |
| I, Douglas Fairbanks | Self (archive footage) | 2018 |
| A Kiss from Mary Pickford | Self (archive footage) | 1927 |
| Reaching for the Moon | Alexis Caesar Napoleon Brown | 1917 |
| Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary | Self (archive footage) | 1945 |
| Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) | Self (archive footage) | 1942 |
| Double Trouble | Florian Amidon / Eugene Brassfield | 1915 |
| The Good Bad-Man | Passin' Through | 1916 |
| The Half-Breed | Lo Dorman | 1916 |
| He Comes Up Smiling | Jerry Martin | 1918 |
| The Lamb | Gerald | 1915 |
| The Taming of the Shrew | Petruccio | 1929 |
| Our Film Stars | 1919 | |
| Chaplin Today: 'The Gold Rush' | Self (archive footage) | 2003 |
| The Man from Painted Post | 'Fancy Jim' Sherwood | 1917 |
| The Americano | Blaze Derringer | 1916 |
| Arizona | Lt. Denton | 1918 |
| The Golden Twenties | Self (archive footage) | 1950 |
| The Habit of Happiness | Sunny Wiggins | 1916 |
| Down to Earth | Billy Gaynor | 1917 |
| Solidão: Uma Linda História de Amor | 1989 | |
| Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man | Self (archive footage) | 1988 |
| Anthony Quinn: An Original | Self (archive footage) | 1990 |
| Terra Melophon Magazin Nr. 1 | 1930 | |
| Days of Thrills and Laughter | Self (archive footage) | 1961 |
| Mary Pickford a Blessing and a Curse | Self | 2023 |
| Mary and Doug Visit Stockholm | 1924 | |
| All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan | 1917 | |
| Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages | Man on White Horse (uncredited) | 1916 |
| One of Many | Archive footage | 1927 |
| Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies | Self (archive footage) | 2008 |
| Character Studies | Self (uncredited) | 1927 |
| Headin' South | Headin' South | 1918 |
| Say! Young Fellow | The Young Fellow | 1918 |
| Bound in Morocco | George Travelwell | 1918 |
| The Knickerbocker Buckaroo | Teddy Drake | 1919 |
| Show People | Self (uncredited) | 1928 |
| What Do Those Old Films Mean? | Himself(archive footage) | 1985 |
| Cavalcade of the Academy Awards | Self (archive footage) | 1940 |
| Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited) | 1925 |
| Glorious Technicolor | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1998 |
| Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists | Self (archive footage) | 1998 |
| The Tramp and the Dictator | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2002 |
| Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema | Self (archive footage) | 2007 |
| The House That Shadows Built | (archive footage) | 1931 |
| The Big Parade of Comedy | Actor Arriving at MGM (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1964 |
| Propaganda: Engineering Consent | Self - Actor (archive footage) | 2018 |
| Birth of the Tramp | Self (archive footage) | 2013 |
| Around the World with Douglas Fairbanks | Self | 1931 |
| Cupid Angling | 1918 | |
| Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts | Self - Actor (archive footage) | 2017 |
| 30 Years of Fun | (archive footage) | 1963 |
| Douglas Fairbanks: The Great Swashbuckler | Self (archive footage) | 2005 |
| The Worlds of Mei Lanfang | 2000 | |
| Ali Baba Goes to Town | Himself | 1937 |
| Martyrs of the Alamo | Joe / Texas soldier | 1915 | Series | Cast | Year |
| The Oscars | 1953 | |
| The Bruce Forsyth Show | 1959 | |
| Unknown Chaplin | Self (archive footage) | 1983 |
| American Experience | Self | 1988 |
