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- NAME: Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.
- OCCUPATION: Film Actor, Producer
- BIRTH DATE: May 23, 1883
- DEATH DATE: December 12, 1939
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Denver, California
- PLACE OF DEATH: Santa Monica, California
- Originally: Douglas Elton Ulman
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Silent movie star Douglas Fairbanks Sr. (1883–1939) teamed up with Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith and his wife Mary Pickford to launch United Artists in 1919.
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Synopsis
the couple launched the independent studio United Artists in 1919.
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(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.
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