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Cause of death
  
Heart attack

Years active
  
1899–1934

Role
  
Actor

Children
  
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

Nationality
  
American

Name
  
Douglas Fairbanks

Height
  
1.75 m

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Full Name
  
Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman

Born
  
May 23, 1883 (
1883-05-23
)
Denver, Colorado

Education
  
Denver East High School

Occupation
  
Actor, director, producer, screenwriter

Died
  
December 12, 1939, Santa Monica, California, United States

Spouse
  
Sylvia Ashley (m. 1936–1939), Mary Pickford (m. 1920–1936), Anna Beth Sully (m. 1907–1919)

Movies
  
The Thief of Bagdad, The Mark of Zorro, The Black Pirate, Robin Hood, The Three Musketeers

Similar People
  
Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, D W Griffith, Sylvia Ashley, Rudolph Valentino

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Douglas Fairbanks (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 but spent the early part of his career making comedies.

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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 and Fairbanks was referred to as "The King of Hollywood", a nickname later passed on to actor Clark Gable. His career rapidly declined however with the advent of the "talkies". His final film was The Private Life of Don Juan (1934).

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Early life

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Fairbanks was born Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman (spelled "Ulman" by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. in his memoirs) in Denver, Colorado, the son of H. Charles Ullman (born September 15, 1833) and Ella Adelaide (nee Marsh; born 1847). He had two half-brothers, John Fairbanks, Jr. (born 1873) and Norris Wilcox (February 20, 1876 - October 21, 1946), and a full brother, Robert Payne Ullman (March 13, 1882 – February 22, 1948).

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Douglas Fairbanks's father, Hezekiah Charles Ullman (1833–1915) was born in Berrysburg, Pennsylvania, but raised in Williamsport. He was the fourth child in a Jewish family consisting of six sons and four daughters. Charles's parents, Lazarus Ullman and Lydia Abrahams, had immigrated to the U.S. in 1830 from Baden, Germany. When he was 17, Charles started a small publishing business in Philadelphia. Two years later, he left for New York to study law. He was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1856 and began building a substantial practice. At the onset of the Civil War, Charles joined the Union forces. He engaged in several battles, was wounded, and later became a captain of the 5th Pennsylvania Reserves. Charles left the service in 1864 and returned to his law practice. He subsequently founded the U.S. Law Association, a forerunner of the American Bar Association.

Charles met Ella Adelaide Marsh (1847–1915), after she married his friend and client John Fairbanks, a wealthy New Orleans sugar mill and plantation owner. The Fairbankses had a son, John, and shortly thereafter John Senior died of tuberculosis. Ella, born into a wealthy southern Catholic family, was overprotected and knew little of her husband's business. Consequently, she was swindled out of her fortune by her husband's partners. Even the efforts of Charles Ullman, acting on her behalf, failed to regain any of the family fortune for her. Distraught and lonely, she met and married a courtly Georgian, Edward Wilcox, who turned out to be an alcoholic. After they had a son, Norris, she divorced Wilcox with Charles acting as her own lawyer in the suit. The pretty southern belle soon became romantically involved with Charles and agreed to move to Denver with him to pursue mining investments. They arrived in Denver in 1881 with her son, John. (Norris was left in Georgia with relatives and was never sent for by his mother.) They were married and in 1882 had a child, Robert and then a second son, Douglas, a year later. Charles purchased several mining interests in the Rocky Mountains and he re-established his law practice. Charles Ullman, after hearing of his wife's philandering, abandoned the family when Douglas was five years old and he and his older brother Robert were brought up by their mother, who gave them the family name Fairbanks, after her first husband.

Early career

Douglas Fairbanks began acting at an early age, in amateur theatre on the Denver stage, performing in summer stock at the Elitch Gardens Theatre, and becoming a sensation in his teens. He attended Denver East High School, and was once expelled for dressing up the campus statues on St. Patrick's Day. He left during his senior year. He stated that he attended Colorado School of Mines for a term but no record of attendance has been found. An article on the matter recounts a professor once saying that Fairbanks was asked to leave because of a prank not long after he began. It is also claimed he attended Harvard University.

Fairbanks moved to New York in the early 1900s to pursue an acting career, joining the acting troupe of British actor Frederick Warde who had discovered Fairbanks performing in Denver. He worked in a hardware store and as a clerk in a Wall Street office before his Broadway debut in 1902. His Broadway appearances included the popular A Gentleman from Mississippi in 1908-09.

On July 11, 1907, Fairbanks married Anna Beth Sully, the daughter of wealthy industrialist Daniel J. Sully, in Watch Hill, Rhode Island. They had one son, Douglas Elton Fairbanks, who later became known as actor "Douglas Fairbanks Jr." In 1915, the family moved to Los Angeles.

Hollywood

After moving to Los Angeles, Fairbanks signed a contract with Triangle Pictures in 1915 and began working under the supervision of D.W. Griffith. His first film was titled The Lamb, in which he debuted the athletic abilities that would gain him wide attention among theatre audiences. His athleticism was not appreciated by Griffith, however, and he was brought to the attention of Anita Loos and John Emerson, who wrote and directed many of his early romantic comedies. In 1916, Fairbanks established his own company, the Douglas Fairbanks Film Corporation, and would soon get a job at Paramount.

Fairbanks met actress Mary Pickford at a party in 1916, the couple beginning an affair. In 1917, they joined Fairbanks' friend Charlie Chaplin selling war bonds by train across the U.S. Pickford and Chaplin were then the two highest paid film stars in Hollywood. To curtail these stars' astronomical salaries, the large studios attempted to monopolize distributors and exhibitors. By 1918, Fairbanks was Hollywood's most popular actor, and within three years of his arrival Fairbanks' popularity and business acumen raised him to the third-highest paid. In 1917, Fairbanks capitalized on his rising popularity by publishing a self-help book, Laugh and Live which extolled the power of positive thinking and self-confidence in raising one's health, business and social prospects.

To avoid being controlled by the studios and to protect their independence, Fairbanks, Pickford, Chaplin, and D. W. Griffith formed United Artists in 1919, which created their own distributorships and gave them complete artistic control over their films and the profits generated. The company was kept solvent in the years immediately after its formation largely by the success of Fairbanks' films.

In late 1918, Sully was granted a divorce from Fairbanks, the judgment being finalized in early 1919. After the divorce, Fairbanks was determined to have Pickford become his wife, but she was still married to actor Owen Moore. He finally gave her an ultimatum. She then obtained a fast divorce in the small Nevada town of Minden on March 2, 1920. Fairbanks leased the Beverly Hills mansion Grayhall and was rumored to have used it during his courtship of Pickford. The couple married on March 28, 1920. Pickford's divorce from Moore was contested by Nevada legislators, however, and the dispute was not settled until 1922. Even though the lawmakers objected to the marriage, the public went wild over the idea of "Everybody's Hero" marrying "America's Sweetheart." They were greeted by large crowds in London and Paris during their European honeymoon, becoming Hollywood's first celebrity couple. During the years they were married, Fairbanks and Pickford were regarded as "Hollywood Royalty," famous for entertaining at their Beverly Hills estate, Pickfair.

By 1920, Fairbanks had completed twenty-nine films (twenty-eight features and one two-reel short), which showcased his ebullient screen persona and athletic ability. By 1920, he had the inspiration of staging a new type of adventure-costume picture, a genre that was then out of favor with the public; Fairbanks had been a comic in his previous films. In The Mark of Zorro, Fairbanks combined his appealing screen persona with the new adventurous costume element. It was a smash success and parlayed the actor into the rank of superstar. For the remainder of his career in silent films he continued to produce and star in ever more elaborate, impressive costume films, such as The Three Musketeers (1921), Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood (1922), The Thief of Bagdad (1924), The Black Pirate (1926, the first full-length Technicolor film), and The Gaucho (1927). Fairbanks spared no expense and effort in these films, which established the standard for all future swashbuckling films.

In 1921, he, Pickford, Chaplin, and others, helped to organize the Motion Picture Fund to assist those in the industry who could not work, or were unable to meet their bills.

During the first ceremony of its type, on April 30, 1927, Fairbanks and Pickford placed their hand and foot prints in wet cement at the newly opened Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Fairbanks was elected first President of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences that same year, and he presented the first Academy Awards at the Roosevelt Hotel. Today, Fairbanks also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7020 Hollywood Boulevard.

Career decline and retirement

While Fairbanks had flourished in the silent genre, the restrictions of early sound films dulled his enthusiasm for film-making. His athletic abilities and general health also began to decline at this time, in part due to his years of chain-smoking. On March 29, 1929, at Pickford's bungalow, United Artists brought together Pickford, Fairbanks, Charles Chaplin, Norma Talmadge, Gloria Swanson, John Barrymore, D.W. Griffith and Dolores del Rio to speak on the radio show The Dodge Brothers Hour to prove Fairbanks could meet the challenge of talking movies.

Fairbanks's last silent film was the lavish The Iron Mask (1929), a sequel to 1921's The Three Musketeers. The Iron Mask included an introductory prologue spoken by Fairbanks. He and Pickford chose to make their first talkie as a joint venture, playing Petruchio and Kate in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew (1929). This film, and his subsequent sound films, were poorly received by Depression-era audiences. The last film in which he acted was the British production The Private Life of Don Juan (1934), after which he retired from acting.

Fairbanks and Pickford separated in 1933, after he began an affair with Sylvia, Lady Ashley. They divorced in 1936, with Pickford keeping the Pickfair estate. Within months Fairbanks and Ashley were married in Paris.

He continued to be marginally involved in the film industry and United Artists, but his later years lacked the intense focus of his film years. His health continued to decline, and in his final years he lived at 705 Ocean Front (now Pacific Coast Highway) in Santa Monica, California, although much of his time was spent traveling abroad with third wife, Sylvia, Lady Ashley.

Death

On December 12, 1939, Fairbanks had a mild heart attack. He died later that day at his home in Santa Monica at the age of 56. Fairbanks's famous last words were, "I've never felt better." His funeral service was held at the Wee Kirk o' the Heather Church in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery where he was placed in a crypt in the Great Mausoleum.

Two years following his death, he was removed from Forest Lawn by his widow, Sylvia, who commissioned an elaborate marble monument for him featuring a long rectangular reflecting pool, raised tomb, and classic Greek architecture in Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles. The monument was dedicated in a ceremony held in October 1941, with Fairbanks's close friend Charles Chaplin reading a remembrance. The remains of his son, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., were also interred there upon his death in May 2000.

Legacy

In 1998, a group of Fairbanks fans started the Douglas Fairbanks Museum in Austin, Texas. The museum building was temporarily closed for mold remediation and repairs in February 2010. Plans and fundraising efforts are underway to re-open the museum to the public.

In 2002, AMPAS opened the "Fairbanks Center for Motion Picture Study" located at 333 S. La Cienega Boulevard in Beverly Hills. The building houses the Margaret Herrick Library.

On November 6, 2008, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences celebrated the publication of their "Academy Imprints" book Douglas Fairbanks, authored by film historian Jeffrey Vance, with the screening of a new restoration print of The Gaucho with Vance introducing the film.

The following year, opening January 24, 2009, AMPAS mounted a major Douglas Fairbanks exhibition at their Fourth Floor Gallery titled, "Douglas Fairbanks: The First King of Hollywood." The exhibit featured costumes, props, pictures, and documents from his career and personal life. In addition to the exhibit, AMPAS screened The Thief of Bagdad and The Iron Mask in March 2009. Concurrently with the Academy's efforts, the Museum of Modern of Art held their first Fairbanks film retrospective in over six decades, titled "Laugh and Live: The Films of Douglas Fairbanks" which ran from December 17, 2008 – January 12, 2009. Jeffrey Vance opened the retrospective with a lecture and screening of the restoration print of The Gaucho. Recently, due to his involvement with the USC Fencing Club, a bronze statue of Fairbanks was erected in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Courtyard of the new School of Cinematic Arts building on the University of Southern California campus. Fairbanks was a key figure in the film school's founding in 1929, and in its curriculum development.

The 2011 film The Artist was loosely based on Fairbanks, with the film's lead portraying Zorro in a silent movie featuring a scene from the Fairbanks version. While thanking the audience in 2012 for a Golden Globe award as Best Actor for his performance in the film, actor Jean Dujardin added, "As Douglas Fairbanks would say," then moved his lips silently as a comedic homage. When Dujardin accepted the 2011 Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Fairbanks was cited at length as the main inspiration for Dujardin's performance in The Artist.

An important accolade given to the Douglas Fairbanks legacy was a special screening of his masterpiece, The Thief of Bagdad, at the 2012 edition of the Turner Classic Movies Film Festival. On April 15, 2012, the festival concluded with a sold-out screening of the Fairbanks film held at the historic Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. The evening was introduced by TCM host Ben Mankiewicz and Fairbanks biographer Jeffrey Vance.

Filmography

Actor
1937
Ali Baba Goes to Town as
Douglas Fairbanks - at Fictional Premiere (uncredited)
1934
The Private Life of Don Juan as
Don Juan
1932
Mr. Robinson Crusoe as
Steve Drexel
1930
Reaching for the Moon as
Larry Day
1930
Terra Melophon Magazin Nr. 1 (Short)(episode "Welches ist ihr Typ")
1929
The Taming of the Shrew as
Petruchio
1929
The Iron Mask as
D'Artagnan
1928
Show People as
Douglas Fairbanks (uncredited)
1927
The Gaucho as
The Gaucho
1926
The Black Pirate as
The Duke of Arnoldo / The Black Pirate (as Mr. Douglas Fairbanks)
1925
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ as
Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
1925
Don Q Son of Zorro as
Don Cesar de Vega / Zorro - His Father
1924
The Thief of Bagdad as
The Thief of Bagdad
1923
Hollywood as
Douglas Fairbanks
1922
Robin Hood as
The Earl of Huntingdon / Afterwards Robin Hood
1921
The Three Musketeers as
D'Artagnan
1921
The Nut as
Charlie Jackson
1920
The Mark of Zorro as
Don Diego Vega / Señor Zorro
1920
The Mollycoddle as
Richard Marshall III / Richard Marshall IV / Richard Marshall V
1919
When the Clouds Roll by as
Daniel Boone Brown
1919
His Majesty, the American as
William Brooks
1919
The Knickerbocker Buckaroo as
Teddy Drake
1918
Swat the Kaiser (Short)
1918
Arizona as
Lt. Denton
1918
He Comes Up Smiling as
Jerry Martin
1918
Sic 'Em, Sam (Short) as
Democracy
1918
Bound in Morocco as
George Travelwell
1918
Say! Young Fellow as
The Young Fellow
1918
Mr. Fix-It as
Dick Remington
1918
Headin' South as
Headin' South
1917
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
1916
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 as
Man on White Horse (uncredited)
1916
The Half-Breed as
Lo Dorman (Sleeping Water)
1916
Flirting with Fate as
Augy Holliday
1916
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (Short) as
Coke Ennyday / Douglas Fairbanks
1916
Reggie Mixes In as
Reginald (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
1915
Double Trouble as
Florian Amidon / Eugene Brassfield
1915
Martyrs of the Alamo as
Texan Soldier (unconfirmed, uncredited)
1915
The Lamb as
Gerald - The Son of the Idle Rich
Producer
1932
Mr. Robinson Crusoe (producer)
1930
Reaching for the Moon (producer - uncredited)
1929
The Iron Mask (producer - uncredited)
1927
The Gaucho (producer - uncredited)
1926
The Black Pirate (producer - uncredited)
1925
Don Q Son of Zorro (producer - uncredited)
1924
The Thief of Bagdad (producer)
1922
Robin Hood (producer - uncredited)
1921
The Three Musketeers (producer - uncredited)
1921
The Nut (producer)
1920
The Mark of Zorro (executive producer)
1920
The Mollycoddle (producer)
1919
When the Clouds Roll by (producer)
1919
His Majesty, the American (producer)
1919
The Knickerbocker Buckaroo (producer)
1918
Arizona (producer)
1918
He Comes Up Smiling (producer)
1918
Bound in Morocco (producer)
1918
Say! Young Fellow (producer)
1918
Mr. Fix-It (producer)
1918
Headin' South (producer)
1917
A Modern Musketeer (producer - uncredited)
1917
Reaching for the Moon (producer)
1917
The Man from Painted Post (producer)
1917
Down to Earth (producer)
1917
Wild and Woolly (producer)
1917
In Again, Out Again (producer)
1916
The Good Bad-Man (producer)
Writer
-
Musings of the Classic Sherlock Holmes Actor (TV Series) (with writings by - 3 episodes, 2023) (interview - 1 episode, 2023)
- Douglas Fairbanks Sr on Theatre Actor Snobbery. (2023) - (with writings by)
- Douglas Fairbanks Sr on 'American Aristocracy' (1916 Film) (2023) - (with writings by)
- Douglas Fairbanks Sr on Charlie Chaplin (2023) - (interview)
- Douglas Fairbanks Sr on World War 1 & The Liberty Loans (2023) - (with writings by)
1961
The Thief of Baghdad (dialogue - as Douglas Fairbanks Sr.)
1932
Mr. Robinson Crusoe (story - as Elton Thomas)
1929
The Iron Mask (screenplay - uncredited) / (story - as Elton Thomas) / (titles - uncredited)
1927
The Gaucho (story - as Elton Thomas)
1926
The Black Pirate (story - as Elton Thomas)
1924
The Thief of Bagdad (story - as Elton Thomas)
1922
Robin Hood (story - as Elton Thomas)
1921
The Three Musketeers (uncredited)
1921
The Nut (as Elton Thomas)
1920
The Mark of Zorro (scenario - uncredited)
1920
The Mollycoddle (uncredited)
1919
When the Clouds Roll by (story - uncredited)
1919
His Majesty, the American (scenario - as Elton Banks)
1919
The Knickerbocker Buckaroo (scenario - as Elton Banks) / (story - as Elton Banks)
1918
Arizona (writer)
1918
Bound in Morocco (screenplay - as Elton Thomas) / (story - as Elton Thomas)
1917
The Man from Painted Post (scenario)
1917
Down to Earth (story)
1916
The Good Bad-Man
Director
1931
Around the World with Douglas Fairbanks (Documentary) (as Douglas Fairbanks Sr.)
1918
Arizona
Miscellaneous
1921
The Three Musketeers (presenter)
1920
The Mollycoddle (supervisor - uncredited)
Self
1973
What's My Line? (TV Series) as
Self - Mystery Guest
- Douglas Fairbanks (1973) - Self - Mystery Guest
1955
Hollywood Mothers and Fathers (Documentary short) as
Self
1932
Screen Snapshots (Documentary short) as
Self
1931
Around the World with Douglas Fairbanks (Documentary) as
Self
1930
Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 23 (Short) as
Self - at Premiere
1930
Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 24 (Short) as
Self
1930
Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 22 (Short) as
Self
1927
Character Studies (Short) as
Self (uncredited)
1927
Potseluy Meri Pikford as
Self
1925
Screen Snapshots No. 2 (Documentary short) as
Self
1925
Screen Snapshots, Series 6, No. 2 (Documentary short) as
Self
1925
Twinkle Twinkle (Documentary short) as
Self
1925
Screen Snapshots, Series 5, No. 14 (Documentary short) as
Self
1924
Screen Snapshots, Series 5, No. 1 (Documentary short) as
Self
1924
Screen Snapshots, Series 4, No. 11 (Documentary short) as
Self
1923
Screen Snapshots, Series 4, No. 8 (Documentary short) as
Self
1923
Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 26 (Documentary short) as
Self
1923
Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 19 (Documentary short) as
Self
1922
Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 10 (Documentary short) as
Self
1922
Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 1 (Documentary short) as
Self
1922
Screen Snapshots, Series 2, No. 22-F (Documentary short) as
Self
1921
Non-Sense of Censorship (Documentary short)
1921
Screen Snapshots, Series 2, No. 14-F (Documentary short) as
Self
1921
Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 24 (Documentary short) as
Self
1920
Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 11 (Documentary short) as
Self
1917
Animated Weekly, No. 57 (Documentary short) as
Self
1914
Our Mutual Girl, No. 47 (Short) as
Self
1914
Our Mutual Girl as
Self (episode 47)
1912
Animated Weekly, No. 41 (Documentary short) as
Self
Archive Footage
-
Charmed Lives: A Family Romance (Documentary) (filming) as
Self
2022
Musings of the Classic Sherlock Holmes Actor (TV Series) as
Coke Ennyday / Cassius Lee
- Douglas Fairbanks Sr on Theatre Actor Snobbery. (2023) - Coke Ennyday
- Douglas Fairbanks Sr on 'American Aristocracy' (1916 Film) (2023) - Cassius Lee
- Buster Keaton on Douglas Fairbanks (2022)
2023
Weird History Food (TV Series) as
Self
- The Surprising Real Origins of Your Favorite Ethnic Foods (2023) - Self
2021
The Last Movie Ride (Documentary) as
Self
2020
Charlie Chaplin, le génie de la liberté (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
2019
Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the Movie Palace (Documentary) as
Self (uncredited)
2019
La case du siècle (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- FBI: Le dossier Chaplin (2019) - Self
2018
America in Color (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Hollywood's Golden Age (2018) - Self
2018
Douglas Fairbanks: Je suis une légende (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
2018
Robin Hood: The First Celebrity Outlaw (TV Movie documentary) as
Self as Robin Hood
2018
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (Documentary) as
Self
2018
The Image Book (Documentary) as
Un acteur (uncredited)
2017
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts (Documentary) as
Self
2016
Arena (TV Series documentary)
- All the World's a Screen - Shakespeare on Film (2016)
2015
Mystères d'archives (TV Series documentary short) as
Self
- 1940: Charlie Chaplin tourne Le Dictateur (2015) - Self
2014
Un jour, une histoire (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Chaplin, la légende du siècle (2014) - Self
2013
The Birth of the Tramp (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
2013
Amazing Tales from the Archives: Restoring The Half-Breed of 1916 (Video documentary short) as
The Half-Breed
2013
Ninja the Mission Force (TV Series) as
Pirate
- The Clones of Bruce (2013) - Pirate
2012
Special Collector's Edition (TV Series) as
Self
- Comparativa: El Circo (2012) - Self
2010
Time to Remember (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Stage and Screen (2010) - Self
2008
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies (Documentary) as
Self
2008
Catalogue of Ships (Documentary) as
The Black Pirate
2007
Anna May Wong, Frosted Yellow Willows: Her Life, Times and Legend (Documentary) as
The Thief of Bagdad (clip from The Thief of Bagdad (1924))
2007
Burn Hollywood Burn (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Mervyn K. Griffths (2007) - Self
2007
Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (Documentary) as
Self
2007
MythBusters (TV Series documentary) as
The Black Pirate
- Pirate Special (2007) - The Black Pirate
2002
City Confidential (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Old Hollywood: Silent Stars, Deadly Secrets (2007) - (uncredited)
- Beverly Hills: Brothers in Arms (2002) - Self
2006
World of Robin Hood (TV Movie documentary) as
Robin Hood (uncredited)
2006
Silent Britain (TV Movie documentary) as
Self (uncredited)
2006
The Woman with the Hungry Eyes (Documentary) as
Self
2006
Life Is a Dream in Cinema: Pola Negri (Documentary) as
Self
2005
Filmmakers in Action (Documentary) as
Self (uncredited)
2005
Douglas Fairbanks: The Great Swashbuckler (Video) as
Self
2005
The Forgotten Films of Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle (Video documentary)
2005
American Experience (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Mary Pickford (2005) - Self
2004
Legends of World Cinema (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Douglas Fairbanks - Self
2004
Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate (Documentary) as
Self
2004
Robin Hood: The First Outlaw Hero (TV Movie documentary) as
Earl of Huntingdon / Robin Hood
2004
Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
2003
Inside the Marx Brothers (Video documentary) as
Self
2003
The Adventures of Robin Hood: Robin Hood Through the Ages (Video documentary short) as
Self / Robin Hood
2003
Chaplin Today: The Gold Rush (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
2002
The Tramp and the Dictator (Documentary) as
Self
2001
Biography (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Irving Berlin: An American Song (2001) - Self
- Milton Berle: Mr. Television - Self (uncredited)
2000
Central Casting (Documentary)
2000
Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and Mary Pickford (TV Movie documentary)
2000
The Many Faces of Zorro (Video documentary)
2000
Canada: A People's History (TV Series documentary) as
Self
2000
E! Mysteries & Scandals (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Beverly Hills Babylon (2000) - Self
2000
Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood (TV Movie documentary) as
Self (uncredited)
2000
The Worlds of Mei Lanfang (Documentary)
2000
Kings of the Ring: Four Legends of Heavyweight Boxing (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
1998
History's Mysteries (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- The Pirates' Lost City (1998) - Self
1998
Star Power: The Creation of United Artists (Video documentary) as
Self
1998
Glorious Technicolor (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
1997
Mary Pickford: A Life on Film (Documentary) as
Self / Various Roles (uncredited)
1995
Sprockets (TV Series) as
Zorro / The Black Pirate
- Cliffhangers (1995) - Zorro
- Heart Throbs (1995) - The Black Pirate
1995
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (TV Mini Series documentary) as
Self
- Opportunity Lost (1995) - Self (uncredited)
1995
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
1993
American Masters (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- D.W. Griffith: Father of Film (1993) - Self
1990
Anthony Quinn: An Original (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
1988
Entertaining the Troops (Documentary) as
Self
1988
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
1986
What Do Those Old Films Mean? (TV Series) as
Self (in Paris, 1920) (uncredited)
1983
Historia del cine: Epoca muda (Video documentary) as
Various roles
1983
Journey to Krull (Video documentary short) as
The Thief of Bagdad (uncredited)
1983
Unknown Chaplin (TV Mini Series documentary) as
Self
1981
Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark (TV Movie documentary)
1980
Komediya davno minuvshikh dney
1980
Hollywood (TV Mini Series documentary) as
Self
- Swanson and Valentino (1980) - Self
- Hollywood Goes to War (1980) - Self (uncredited)
- In the Beginning (1980) - Self (uncredited)
1977
Some Call It Greed (Documentary) as
Self (uncredited)
1977
Dora and the Magic Lantern as
La Marque de Zorro
1973
The Age of Ballyhoo (Video documentary) as
Self
1973
World Cinema (TV Series) as
Diego Vega / Zorro
- Heart-throbs of the Twenties (1973) - Diego Vega / Zorro
1969
Dieu a choisi Paris as
Self
1967
The Funniest Man in the World (Documentary) as
Self
1965
Hollywood My Home Town (Documentary) as
Self
1964
The Big Parade of Comedy (Documentary) as
Actor Arriving at MGM (uncredited)
1963
Hollywood and the Stars (TV Series documentary) as
Self / Señor z (clip from The Mark of Zorro (1920))
- The Swashbucklers (1964) - Señor z (clip from The Mark of Zorro (1920))
- Hollywood Goes to War (1964) - Self
- The Immortal Jolson (1963) - Self
1964
The Judy Garland Show (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode #1.16 (1964) - Self
1963
Fractured Flickers (TV Series)
- Paula Prentiss (1963)
1963
Hollywood Without Make-Up (Documentary) as
Self
1963
Hollywood: The Great Stars (TV Movie documentary) as
Don Diego Vega / Señor Zorro (uncredited)
1963
30 Years of Fun
1962
The Great Chase (Documentary)
1962
The DuPont Show of the Week (TV Series) as
Self
- Hollywood - My Home Town (1962) - Self
1961
Hollywood: The Golden Years (TV Movie documentary) as
Actor 'The Three Musketeers' (uncredited)
1961
Silents Please (TV Series) as
Duke of Arnaldo
- The Black Pirate (1961) - Duke of Arnaldo (as Douglas Fairbanks Sr.)
1961
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino (Video documentary) as
Self
1961
Movies Golden Age (TV Movie documentary) as
Steve O'Dare
1961
Days of Thrills and Laughter (Documentary) as
Self
1958
Jazzgossen as
Self - Skådespelare
1956
Project Twenty (TV Series documentary) as
Self - Actor
- The Great War: World War I (1956) - Self - Actor
1955
Screen Snapshots: Ramblin' Round Hollywood (Documentary short) as
Self
1954
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Stars to Remember (Short) as
Self
1953
Yesterday and Today
1952
Screen Snapshots: Memorial to Al Jolson (Documentary short) as
Self
1950
The Golden Twenties (Documentary) as
Self
1948
Movies Are Adventure (Short) as
D'Artagnan (uncredited)
1946
Screen Snapshots Series 25, No. 10: Famous Fathers and Sons (Documentary short) as
Self
1945
Screen Snapshots Series 25, No. 1: 25th Anniversary (Documentary short) as
Self
1944
Wilson as
Douglas Fairbanks - at WWI Rally (uncredited)
1942
Screen Snapshots Series 22, No 10 (Short) as
Self
1940
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (Documentary short) as
Self
1939
The Movies March On (Short documentary) as
Self - From 'Robin Hood'
1938
Personality Parade (Documentary short) as
Self (uncredited)
1934
Movie Memories #2 (Documentary short) as
Self
1931
The House That Shadows Built (Documentary)
1927
Odna iz mnogikh (Short) as
Self
1923
Little Miss Hollywood (Short) as
Self in Film Clip

References

Douglas Fairbanks Wikipedia