Actor
· Acting
Douglas Fairbanks
Born 1883-05-22
Died 1939-12-12
📍 Denver, Colorado, United States
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 94
Mary Pickford a Blessing and a Curse
as Self
2023
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
as Self (archive footage)
2020
The Image Book
as (archive footage)
2018
I, Douglas Fairbanks
as Self (archive footage)
2018
Propaganda: Engineering Consent
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2018
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2017
Birth of the Tramp
as Self (archive footage)
2013
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies
as Self (archive footage)
2008
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
2007
Douglas Fairbanks: The Great Swashbuckler
as Self (archive footage)
2005
Chaplin Today: The Gold Rush
as Self (archive footage)
2003
The Tramp and the Dictator
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2002
The Many Faces of Zorro
as Self (archive footage)
2000
The Worlds of Mei Lanfang
2000
Glorious Technicolor
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1998
Charlie Chaplin: A Tramp's Life
as Self (archive footage)
1998
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
as Self (archive footage)
1998
Anthony Quinn: An Original
as Self (archive footage)
1990
Solidão: Uma Linda História de Amor
1989
American Experience
as Self
1988
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
as Self (archive footage)
1988
What Do Those Old Films Mean?
as Himself(archive footage)
1985
Unknown Chaplin
as Self (archive footage)
1983
God Chose Paris
as Self (archive footage)
1969
The Big Parade of Comedy
as Actor Arriving at MGM (archive footage) (uncredited)
1964
30 Years of Fun
as (archive footage)
1963
The Great Chase
1962
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
as Self (archive footage)
1961
Days of Thrills and Laughter
as Self (archive footage)
1961
The Bruce Forsyth Show
1959
Yesterday and Today
as (archive footage)
1953
The Oscars
1953
The Golden Twenties
as Self (archive footage)
1950
Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary
as Self (archive footage)
1945
Wilson
as Douglas Fairbanks - at WWI Rally (archive footage) (uncredited)
1944
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
as Self (archive footage)
1942
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
as Self (archive footage)
1940
Ali Baba Goes to Town
as Himself
1937
The Private Life of Don Juan
as Don Juan
1934
Mr. Robinson Crusoe
as Steve Drexel
1932
Around the World in 80 Minutes with Douglas Fairbanks
as Self
1931
The House That Shadows Built
as (archive footage)
1931
Reaching for the Moon
as Larry Day
1930
The Taming of the Shrew
as Petruccio
1929
The Iron Mask
as D'Artagnan
1929
Show People
as Self (uncredited)
1928
The Gaucho
as The Gaucho
1927
Character Studies
as Self (uncredited)
1927
One of Many
as Self (archive footage)
1927
A Kiss from Mary Pickford
as Self (archive footage)
1927
The Black Pirate
as The Duke of Arnoldo / The Black Pirate
1926
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
1925
Don Q Son of Zorro
as Don Cesar de Vega / Zorro
1925
The Thief of Bagdad
as The Thief of Bagdad
1924
Hollywood
as Douglas Fairbanks
1923
Robin Hood
as Robin Hood
1922
The Three Musketeers
as D'Artagnan
1921
The Nut
as Charlie Jackson
1921
The Mark of Zorro
as Don Diego Vega / Señor Zorro
1920
The Mollycoddle
as Richard Marshall III / Richard Marshall IV / Richard Marshal V
1920
When the Clouds Roll By
as Daniel Boone Brown
1919
Our Film Stars
1919
His Majesty, the American
as William Brooks
1919
The Knickerbocker Buckaroo
as Teddy Drake
1919
Arizona
as Lt. Denton
1918
He Comes Up Smiling
as Jerry Martin
1918
Bound in Morocco
as George Travelwell
1918
Cupid Angling
1918
Say! Young Fellow
as The Young Fellow
1918
Mr. Fix-It
as Dick Remington
1918
Headin' South
as Headin' South
1918
A Modern Musketeer
as Ned Thacker / D'Artagnan
1917
Reaching for the Moon
as Alexis Caesar Napoleon Brown
1917
All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan
1917
The Man from Painted Post
as 'Fancy Jim' Sherwood
1917
Down to Earth
as Billy Gaynor
1917
Wild and Woolly
as Jeff Hillington
1917
In Again, Out Again
as Teddy Rutherford
1917
The Americano
as Blaze Derringer
1916
The Matrimaniac
as Jimmie Conroy
1916
American Aristocracy
as Cassius Lee
1916
Manhattan Madness
as Steve O'Dare
1916
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
as Man on White Horse (uncredited)
1916
The Half-Breed
as Lo Dorman
1916
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish
as Coke Ennyday / Douglas Fairbanks
1916
Reggie Mixes In
as Reggie Van Deuzen
1916
The Good Bad-Man
as Passin' Through
1916
The Habit of Happiness
as Sunny Wiggins
1916
His Picture in the Papers
as Pete Prindle
1916
Flirting with Fate
as Augy Holliday
1916
Double Trouble
as Florian Amidon / Eugene Brassfield
1915
Martyrs of the Alamo
as Joe / Texas soldier
1915
The Lamb
as Gerald
1915
Our Mutual Girl
as Self (episode 47)
1914