Douglas Fairbanks

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Robin Hood The Earl of Huntingdon / Afterwards Robin Hood

(1922)

The Thief of Bagdad The Thief of Bagdad

(1924)

The Mark of Zorro Don Diego Vega / Señor Zorro

(1920)

Arizona Lt. Denton

(1918)

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Actor (51 credits)

1937 Ali Baba Goes to Town
Douglas Fairbanks - at Fictional Premiere (uncredited)

1934 The Private Life of Don Juan
Don Juan

1932 Mr. Robinson Crusoe
Steve Drexel

1930 Reaching for the Moon
Larry Day

1930 Terra Melophon Magazin Nr. 1 (Short) (episode "Welches ist ihr Typ")

1929 The Taming of the Shrew
Petruchio

1929 The Iron Mask
D'Artagnan

1928 Show People
Douglas Fairbanks (uncredited)

1927 The Gaucho
The Gaucho

1926 The Black Pirate
The Duke of Arnoldo / The Black Pirate (as Mr. Douglas Fairbanks)

1925 Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)

1925 Don Q Son of Zorro
Don Cesar de Vega / Zorro - His Father

1924 The Thief of Bagdad
The Thief of Bagdad

1923 Hollywood
Douglas Fairbanks

1922 Robin Hood
The Earl of Huntingdon / Afterwards Robin Hood

1921 The Three Musketeers
D'Artagnan

1921/I The Nut
Charlie Jackson

1920 The Mark of Zorro
Don Diego Vega / Señor Zorro

1920 The Mollycoddle
Richard Marshall III / Richard Marshall IV / Richard Marshall V

1919 When the Clouds Roll by
Daniel Boone Brown

1919 His Majesty, the American
William Brooks

1919 The Knickerbocker Buckaroo
Teddy Drake

1918 Swat the Kaiser (Short)

1918 Arizona
Lt. Denton

1918 Sic 'Em, Sam (Short)
Democracy

1918 He Comes Up Smiling
Jerry Martin

1918 Bound in Morocco
George Travelwell

1918 Say! Young Fellow
The Young Fellow

1918 Mr. Fix-It
Dick Remington

1918 Headin' South
Headin' South

1917 A Modern Musketeer
Ned Thacker / D'Artagnan

1917 Reaching for the Moon
Alexis Caesar Napoleon Brown

1917 All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan

1917 The Man from Painted Post
'Fancy Jim' Sherwood

1917 Down to Earth
Billy Gaynor

1917 Wild and Woolly
Jeff Hillington

1917/II In Again, Out Again
Teddy Rutherford

1916 The Americano
Blaze Derringer

1916 The Matrimaniac
Jimmie Conroy

1916 American Aristocracy
Cassius Lee

1916 Manhattan Madness
Steve O'Dare

1916 Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Man on White Horse (uncredited)

1916 The Half-Breed
Lo Dorman (Sleeping Water)

1916 Flirting with Fate
Augy Holliday

1916 The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (Short)
Coke Ennyday / Douglas Fairbanks

1916 Reggie Mixes In
Reginald (Reggie) Van Deuzen

1916 The Good Bad-Man
Passin' Through

1916 The Habit of Happiness (Short)
Sunny Wiggins

1916 His Picture in the Papers
Pete Prindle

1915 Double Trouble
Florian Amidon / Eugene Brassfield

1915 The Lamb
Gerald - the Son of the Idle Rich

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Producer (28 credits)

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/I 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/II In Again, Out Again (producer)

1916 The Good Bad-Man (producer)

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Writer (19 credits)

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/I 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

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Director (2 credits)

1931 Around the World with Douglas Fairbanks (Documentary) (as Douglas Fairbanks Sr.)

1918 Arizona

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Additional Crew (2 credits)

1921 The Three Musketeers (presenter)

1920 The Mollycoddle (supervisor - uncredited)

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Self (29 credits)

2020 The Last Movie Ride (Documentary)
Self

1955 Hollywood Mothers and Fathers (Documentary short)
Self

1932/II Screen Snapshots (Documentary short)
Self

1931 Around the World with Douglas Fairbanks (Documentary)
Self

1930 Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 23 (Short)
Self - at Premiere

1930 Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 24 (Short)
Self

1930 Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 22 (Short)
Self

1927 Character Studies (Short)
Self (uncredited)

1927 Potseluy Meri Pikford
Self

1925 Screen Snapshots No. 2 (Documentary short)
Self

1925 Screen Snapshots, Series 6, No. 2 (Documentary short)
Self

1925 Twinkle Twinkle (Documentary short)
Self

1925 Screen Snapshots, Series 5, No. 14 (Documentary short)
Self

1924 Screen Snapshots, Series 5, No. 1 (Documentary short)
Self

1924 Screen Snapshots, Series 4, No. 11 (Documentary short)
Self

1923 Screen Snapshots, Series 4, No. 8 (Documentary short)
Self

1923 Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 26 (Documentary short)
Self

1923 Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 19 (Documentary short)
Self

1922 Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 10 (Documentary short)
Self

1922 Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 1 (Documentary short)
Self

1922 Screen Snapshots, Series 2, No. 22-F (Documentary short)
Self

1921 Non-Sense of Censorship (Documentary short)

1921 Screen Snapshots, Series 2, No. 14-F (Documentary short)
Self

1921 Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 24 (Documentary short)
Self

1920 Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 11 (Documentary short)
Self

1917 Animated Weekly, No. 57 (Documentary short)
Self

1914 Our Mutual Girl, No. 47 (Short)
Self

1914 Our Mutual Girl
Self (episode 47)

1912 Animated Weekly, No. 41 (Documentary short)
Self

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Archive footage (98 credits)

Charmed Lives: A Family Romance (Documentary) (filming)
Self

2018 I, Douglas Fairbanks (TV Movie documentary)
Self

2018 Robin Hood: The First Celebrity Outlaw (TV Movie documentary)
Self as Robin Hood

2018 The Image Book
Un acteur (uncredited)

2016 Arena (TV Series documentary)

- All the World's a Screen - Shakespeare on Film (2016)

2014 Un jour, une histoire (TV Series documentary)
Self

- Chaplin: The Legend of the Century (2014) ... Self

2013 The Birth of the Tramp (TV Movie documentary)
Self

2013 Amazing Tales from the Archives: Restoring The Half-Breed of 1916 (Video documentary short)
The Half-Breed

2013 Ninja the Mission Force (TV Series)
Pirate

- The Clones of Bruce (2013) ... Pirate

2012 Special Collector's Edition (TV Series)
Self

- Comparativa: El Circo (2012) ... Self

2010 Time to Remember (TV Series documentary)
Self

- Stage and Screen (2010) ... Self

2008 Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies (Documentary)
Self

2008 Spisok korabley (Documentary)
The Black Pirate

2007 Anna May Wong, Frosted Yellow Willows: Her Life, Times and Legend (Documentary)
The Thief of Bagdad (clip from The Thief of Bagdad (1924))

2007 Burn Hollywood Burn (TV Series documentary)
Self

- Mervyn K. Griffths (2007) ... Self

2007 Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (Documentary)
Self

2007 MythBusters (TV Series documentary)
The Black Pirate

- Pirate Special (2007) ... The Black Pirate

2002-2007 City Confidential (TV Series documentary)
Self

- Old Hollywood: Silent Stars, Deadly Secrets (2007) ... (uncredited)

- Beverly Hills: Brothers in Arms (2002) ... Self

2006 World of Robin Hood (TV Movie documentary)
Robin Hood (uncredited)

2006 Silent Britain (TV Movie documentary)
Self (uncredited)

2006 The Woman with the Hungry Eyes (Documentary)
Self

2006 Life Is a Dream in Cinema: Pola Negri (Documentary)
Self

2005 Filmmakers in Action (Documentary)
Self (uncredited)

2005 Douglas Fairbanks: The Great Swashbuckler (Video)
Self

2005 The Forgotten Films of Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle (Video documentary)

2005 American Experience (TV Series documentary)
Self

- Mary Pickford (2005) ... Self

2004 Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate (Documentary)
Self

2004 Robin Hood: The First Outlaw Hero (TV Movie documentary)
Earl of Huntingdon / Robin Hood

2004 Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic (TV Movie documentary)
Self

2003 Inside the Marx Brothers (Video documentary)
Self

2003 Chaplin Today: The Gold Rush (TV Short documentary)
Self

2002 The Tramp and the Dictator (Documentary)
Self (uncredited)

2001 Biography (TV Series documentary)
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)
Self

2000 E! Mysteries & Scandals (TV Series documentary)
Self

- Beverly Hills Babylon (2000) ... Self

2000 Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood (TV Movie documentary)
Self (uncredited)

2000 The Worlds of Mei Lanfang (Documentary)

2000 Kings of the Ring: Four Legends of Heavyweight Boxing (TV Movie documentary)
Self

1998 History's Mysteries (TV Series documentary)
Self

- The Pirates' Lost City (1998) ... Self

1998 Star Power: The Creation of United Artists (Video documentary)
Self

1998 Glorious Technicolor (TV Movie documentary)
Self

1997 Mary Pickford: A Life on Film (Documentary)
Self / Various Roles (uncredited)

1995 Sprockets (TV Series)
Zorro / The Black Pirate

- Cliffhangers (1995) ... Zorro

- Heart Throbs (1995) ... The Black Pirate

1995 Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (TV Mini-Series documentary)
Self

- Opportunity Lost (1995) ... Self (uncredited)

1995 The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (TV Movie documentary)
Self

1993 American Masters (TV Series documentary)
Self

- D.W. Griffith: Father of Film (1993) ... Self

1990 Anthony Quinn: An Original (TV Movie documentary)
Self

1988 Entertaining the Troops (Documentary)
Self

1988 Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man (TV Movie documentary)
Self

1985 What Do Those Old Films Mean? (TV Series)
Self (in Paris, 1920) (uncredited)

1983 Historia del cine: Epoca muda (Video documentary)
Various roles

1983 Journey to Krull (Video documentary short)
The Thief of Bagdad (uncredited)

1983 Unknown Chaplin (TV Mini-Series documentary)
Self

1981 Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark (TV Movie documentary)

1980 Komediya davno minuvshikh dney

1980 Hollywood (TV Mini-Series documentary)
Self / Actor 'Robin Hood'

- End of an Era (1980)

- Swanson and Valentino (1980) ... Self

- Hazard of the Game (1980) ... Actor 'Robin Hood' (uncredited)

- Hollywood Goes to War (1980) ... Self (uncredited)

- In the Beginning (1980) ... Self (uncredited)

1977 Some Call It Greed
Self (uncredited)

1977 Dora and the Magic Lantern
La Marque de Zorro

1973 The Age of Ballyhoo (Video documentary)
Self

1973 World Cinema (TV Series)
Diego Vega / Zorro

- Heart-throbs of the Twenties (1973) ... Diego Vega / Zorro

1969 God Chose Paris
Self

1967 The Funniest Man in the World (Documentary)
Self

1965 Hollywood My Home Town (Documentary)
Self

1964 The Big Parade of Comedy (Documentary)
Actor Arriving at MGM (uncredited)

1963-1964 Hollywood and the Stars (TV Series documentary)
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)
Self

- Episode #1.16 (1964) ... Self

1963 Hollywood Without Make-Up (Documentary)
Self

1963 Fractured Flickers (TV Series)

- Paula Prentiss (1963)

1963 Hollywood: The Great Stars (TV Movie documentary)
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)
Self

- Hollywood - My Home Town (1962) ... Self

1961 Hollywood: The Golden Years (TV Movie documentary)
Actor 'The Three Musketeers' (uncredited)

1961 Silents Please (TV Series)
Duke of Arnaldo

- The Black Pirate (1961) ... Duke of Arnaldo (as Douglas Fairbanks Sr.)

1961 The Legend of Rudolph Valentino (Video documentary)
Self

1961 Movies Golden Age (TV Movie documentary)
Steve O'Dare

1961 Days of Thrills and Laughter (Documentary)
Self

1958 Jazzgossen
Self - Skådespelare

1956 Project Twenty (TV Series documentary)
Self - Actor

- The Great War: World War I (1956) ... Self - Actor

1955 Screen Snapshots: Ramblin' Round Hollywood (Documentary short)
Self

1954 Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Stars to Remember (Short)
Self

1953 Yesterday and Today

1952 Screen Snapshots: Memorial to Al Jolson (Documentary short)
Self

1950 The Golden Twenties (Documentary)
Self

1948 Movies Are Adventure (Short)
D'Artagnan (uncredited)

1946 Screen Snapshots Series 25, No. 10: Famous Fathers and Sons (Documentary short)
Self

1945 Screen Snapshots Series 25, No. 1: 25th Anniversary (Documentary short)
Self

1944 Wilson
Douglas Fairbanks - at WWI Rally (uncredited)

1940 Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (Documentary short)
Self

1939 The Movies March On (Short documentary)
Self - From 'Robin Hood'

1938 Personality Parade (Documentary short)
Self (uncredited)

1934 Movie Memories #2 (Documentary short)
Self

1931 The House That Shadows Built (Documentary)

1927 Odna iz mnogikh (Short)
Self

1923 Little Miss Hollywood (Short)
Self in Film Clip

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Stage Play: Her Lord and Master. Drama. Written by Martha Morton. Scenic Design by Homer Emens. Manhattan Theatre: 24 Feb 1902-Apr 1902 (closing date unknown/69 performances). Cast: Percy Brooke, E.L. Caton, Archie Curtis, Ida Darling, Douglas Fairbanks [Broadway debut], Herbert Kelcey (as "Viscount Canning"), Robert Rogers, Hattie Russell... See more »

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Alternate Names:

Elton Banks | Douglas Fairbanks Sr. | Mr. Douglas Fairbanks | Elton Thomas

Height:

5' 9" (1.75 m)

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[Referring to D.W. Griffith] D. W. didn't like my athletic tendencies, or my spontaneous habit of jumping a fence or scaling a church at unexpected moments which were not in the script. Griffith told me to go into Keystone comedies. See more »

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Fairbanks presented movie-fan President Woodrow Wilson with an early film projector, which Wilson used to watch a movie almost every afternoon in the White House when he was recuperating from a stroke in 1919. Soon after, Wilson's son-in-law, William Gibbs McAdoo Jr., a lawyer, would serve as chief counsel to Fairbanks' fledgling United Artists company. See more »

Trademark:

Stunts: He did all his own, with one exception

Nickname:

Doug

Star Sign:

Gemini

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