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Douglas Fairbanks Biography

original name Douglas Elton Ulman

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Silent Films
1925 Stella Dallas
1928 A Woman of Affairs

1929 Our Modern Maidens
Sound Films
1930 Loose Ankles
1930 The Dawn Patrol
1930 Little Accident
1930 Outward Bound
1931 Little Caesar
1931 Chances
1931 I Like Your Nerve
1932 Love Is a Racket (UK Such Things Happen)
1932 Union Depot (UK Gentleman for a Day)
1932 It's Tough to be Famous
1932 Scarlet Dawn
1932 Parachute Jumper
1933 The Life of Jimmy Dolan (UK The Kid's Last Fight)
1933 Morning Glory
1934 Catherine the Great
1935 Mimi
1936 The Amateur Gentleman
1936 Accused
1937 The Prisoner of Zenda
1938 The Young in Heart
1938 Having Wonderful Time
1938 The Rage of Paris
1938 Joy of Living
1939 Gunga Din
1940 Angels Over Broadway
1941 The Corsican Brothers
1947 Sinbad the Sailor
1948 The Exile
1948 That Lady in Ermine
1949 The Fighting O'Flynn
1950 State Secret
Autobiography
1988 The Salad Days
1993 A Hell of a War

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Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.

(born May 23, 1883, Denver, Colo., U.S.—died Dec. 12, 1939, Santa Monica, Calif.) American motion picture actor and producer who was one of the first and greatest of the swashbuckling screen heroes. His athletic prowess, gallant romanticism, and natural sincerity made him “King of Hollywood” during the 1920s.

After college study Fairbanks began playing stage bit parts and by 1914 had become a popular Broadway actor. He made his first film, The Lamb (1915), under the direction of D.W. Griffith and in 1917 became head of his own producing company. Among his many popular pictures were The Mark of Zorro (1920), The Three Musketeers (1921), Robin Hood (1922), The Thief of Bagdad (1924), The Black Pirate (1926), The Iron Mask (1929), and The Taming of the Shrew (1929), in which he costarred with Mary Pickford, the popular leading lady to whom he was married from 1920 to 1935.

With Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and Griffith, Fairbanks founded the United Artists Corporation in 1919 as a distribution outlet for independently produced films. In 1936 he publicly announced his retirement from acting but continued as a producer until his death three years later.

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. (b. Dec. 9, 1909, New York, N.Y., U.S.—d. May 7, 2000, New York), his son by his first wife, Anna Beth Sully, was a debonair leading man in the late 1930s and '40s who played roles similar to his father's. He later became an independent television producer in Great Britain and a company director internationally.