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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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Denver, Colorado, United States, 1883-05-22

Died: 1939-12-12

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1914	Our Mutual Girl	Self (episode 47)	0
2	1915	The Lamb	Gerald	0
3	1915	Martyrs of the Alamo	Joe / Texas soldier	52
4	1915	Double Trouble	Florian Amidon / Eugene Brassfield	55
5	1916	Flirting with Fate	Augy Holliday	58
6	1916	His Picture in the Papers	Pete Prindle	46
7	1916	The Habit of Happiness	Sunny Wiggins	54
8	1916	The Good Bad-Man	Passin' Through	63
9	1916	Reggie Mixes In	Reggie Van Deuzen	58
10	1916	The Mystery of the Leaping Fish	Coke Ennyday / Douglas Fairbanks	58
11	1916	The Half-Breed	Lo Dorman	60
12	1916	Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages	Man on White Horse (uncredited)	71
13	1916	Manhattan Madness	Steve O'Dare	55
14	1916	American Aristocracy	Cassius Lee	43
15	1916	The Matrimaniac	Jimmie Conroy	65
16	1916	The Americano	Blaze Derringer	58
17	1917	In Again, Out Again	Teddy Rutherford	0
18	1917	Wild and Woolly	Jeff Hillington	63
19	1917	Down to Earth	Billy Gaynor	60
20	1917	The Man from Painted Post	'Fancy Jim' Sherwood	48
21	1917	All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan		0
22	1917	Reaching for the Moon	Alexis Caesar Napoleon Brown	58
23	1917	A Modern Musketeer	Ned Thacker / D'Artagnan	52
24	1918	Headin' South	Headin' South	0
25	1918	Mr. Fix-It	Dick Remington	60
26	1918	Say! Young Fellow	The Young Fellow	0
27	1918	Cupid Angling		0
28	1918	Bound in Morocco	George Travelwell	0
29	1918	He Comes Up Smiling	Jerry Martin	55
30	1918	Arizona	Lt. Denton	0
31	1919	The Knickerbocker Buckaroo	Teddy Drake	60
32	1919	His Majesty, the American	William Brooks	58
33	1919	Our Film Stars		60
34	1919	When the Clouds Roll By	Daniel Boone Brown	68
35	1920	The Mollycoddle	Richard Marshall III / Richard Marshall IV / Richard Marshal V	56
36	1920	The Mark of Zorro	Don Diego Vega / Señor Zorro	71
37	1921	The Nut	Charlie Jackson	59
38	1921	The Three Musketeers	D'Artagnan	64
39	1922	Robin Hood	Robin Hood	64
40	1923	Hollywood	Douglas Fairbanks	70
41	1924	Mary and Doug Visit Stockholm		0
42	1924	The Thief of Bagdad	The Thief of Bagdad	73
43	1925	Don Q Son of Zorro	Don Cesar de Vega / Zorro	66
44	1925	Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ	Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)	73
45	1926	The Black Pirate	The Duke of Arnoldo / The Black Pirate	67
46	1927	A Kiss from Mary Pickford	Self (archive footage)	47
47	1927	One of Many	Archive footage	0
48	1927	Character Studies	Self (uncredited)	60
49	1927	The Gaucho	The Gaucho	61
50	1928	Show People	Self (uncredited)	71
51	1929	The Iron Mask	D'Artagnan	67
52	1929	The Taming of the Shrew	Petruccio	54
53	1930	Terra Melophon Magazin Nr. 1		0
54	1930	Reaching for the Moon	Larry Day	54
55	1931	The House That Shadows Built	(archive footage)	70
56	1931	Around the World with Douglas Fairbanks	Self	0
57	1932	Mr. Robinson Crusoe	Steve Drexel	61
58	1934	The Private Life of Don Juan	Don Juan	61
59	1937	Ali Baba Goes to Town	Himself	59
60	1940	Cavalcade of the Academy Awards	Self (archive footage)	65
61	1942	Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)	Self (archive footage)	0
62	1944	Wilson	Douglas Fairbanks - at WWI Rally (archive footage) (uncredited)	55
63	1945	Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary	Self (archive footage)	0
64	1950	The Golden Twenties	Self (archive footage)	0
65	1953	Yesterday and Today	(archive footage)	0
66	1961	Days of Thrills and Laughter	Self (archive footage)	55
67	1961	The Legend of Rudolph Valentino	Self (archive footage)	0
68	1962	The Great Chase		62
69	1963	30 Years of Fun	(archive footage)	30
70	1964	The Big Parade of Comedy	Actor Arriving at MGM (archive footage) (uncredited)	63
71	1969	God Chose Paris	Self (archive footage)	0
72	1985	What Do Those Old Films Mean?	Himself(archive footage)	60
73	1988	Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man	Self (archive footage)	70
74	1989	Solidão: Uma Linda História de Amor		20
75	1990	Anthony Quinn: An Original	Self (archive footage)	65
76	1998	Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists	Self (archive footage)	0
77	1998	Charlie Chaplin: A Tramp's Life	Self (archive footage)	0
78	1998	Glorious Technicolor	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	67
79	2000	The Worlds of Mei Lanfang		0
80	2002	The Tramp and the Dictator	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	69
81	2003	Chaplin Today: 'The Gold Rush'	Self (archive footage)	54
82	2005	Douglas Fairbanks: The Great Swashbuckler	Self (archive footage)	60
83	2007	Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema	Self (archive footage)	49
84	2008	Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies	Self (archive footage)	57
85	2013	Birth of the Tramp	Self (archive footage)	71
86	2017	Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts	Self - Actor (archive footage)	65
87	2018	Propaganda: Engineering Consent	Self - Actor (archive footage)	70
88	2018	I, Douglas Fairbanks	Self (archive footage)	85
89	2018	The Image Book	(archive footage)	64
90	2023	Mary Pickford a Blessing and a Curse	Self	70

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1953	The Oscars		71
2	1959	The Bruce Forsyth Show		0
3	1983	Unknown Chaplin	Self (archive footage)	80
4	1988	American Experience	Self	74