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TürkçeDouglas Fairbanks (Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman)
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Biography
Denver, Colorado, USA
Douglas Fairbanks was born Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman in Denver, Colorado, to Ella Adelaide (Marsh) and Hezekiah Charles Ullman, an attorney. His paternal grandparents were German Jewish immigrants, while his mother was from an Anglo family from the South. He was raised by his mother, who had separated from his father when he was five. He began amateur theater at age 12 and continued while attending the Colorado School of Mines. In 1900 they moved to New York. He attended Harvard, traveled to Europe, worked on a cattle freighter, in a hardware store and as a clerk on Wall Street. Read more... his Broadway debut in 1902 and five years later left theater to marry an industrialist's daughter. He returned when his father-in-law went broke the next year. In 1915 he went to Hollywood and worked under a reluctant D.W. Griffith. The following year he formed his own production company. During a Liberty Bond tour with Charles Chaplin he fell in love with Mary Pickford with whom he, Chaplin and Griffith had formed United Artists in 1919. He made very successful early social comedies, then highly popular swashbucklers during the 'twenties. The owners of Hollywood's Pickfair Mansion separated in 1933 and divorced in 1936. In March of that year he married an ex-chorus girl and retired from acting.
Actor
Character:
Don Cesar de Vega / Zorro - His Father
Don Q Son of Zorro 1925
1
Character:
Himself - at Banquet
Show People 1928
13
Character:
D'Artagnan
The Iron Mask 1929
1
Character:
Larry Day
Reaching for the Moon 1930
28
Character:
Steve Drexel
Mr. Robinson Crusoe 1932
3
Character:
Don Juan
The Private Life of Don Juan 1934
3
Character:
Himself
Movie Memories 1934
1
Character:
Douglas Fairbanks - at Fictional Premiere
Ali Baba Goes to Town 1937
16
Character:
Actor 'The Mark of Zorro'
Hollywood: The Great Stars 1963
3
Character:
Actor Arriving at MGM
The Big Parade of Comedy 1964
17
Character:
Himself
Hollywood My Home Town 1965
1
Character:
Himself
The Age of Ballyhoo 1973
2
Character:
Himself
Douglas Fairbanks: The Great Swashbuckler 2005
0
Character:
Pirate
The Clones of Bruce 2013
0
Character:
The Thief of Bagdad
The Thief of Bagdad 1924
0
Character:
The Earl of Huntingdon / Afterwards Robin Hood
Robin Hood 1922
0
Character:
Himself - at WWI Rally
Wilson 1944
0
Character:
Himself
Screen Snapshots Series 25, No. 1: 25th Anniversary 1945
0
Character:
Himself - Actor
Project XX 1954
0
Character:
Himself
The DuPont Show of the Week 1961
0
Character:
Himself
La parada 1989
0
Character:
Himself
Hollywood and the Stars 1963
0
Character:
Himself
Unknown Chaplin 1983
1
Character:
Himself
Hollywood 1980
0
Character:
Himself
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies 1995
0
Character:
Himself
Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood 2000
0
Character:
Himself
Filmmakers in Action 2005
1
Character:
Himself
Un jour, une histoire 0
0
Character:
The Black Pirate
Pirate Special 0
0
Character:
Himself
Comparativa: El Circo 0
2
Character:
Himself
Stage and Screen 0
0
Character:
Himself
Mervyn K. Griffths 0
0
Writing
Character:
D'Artagnan
The Iron Mask 1929
1
Character:
Steve Drexel
Mr. Robinson Crusoe 1932
3
Character:
The Thief of Bagdad
The Thief of Bagdad 1924
0
Character:
The Earl of Huntingdon / Afterwards Robin Hood
Robin Hood 1922
0