Douglas Sr Fairbanks

Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman
1883 - 1939
American born Denver, Colorado

Height 5' 9" (1.75 m) . Douglas Fairbanks was raised by his southern mother who had separated from his father, an attorney, 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. He made 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. Spouse Edith Louise Sylvia Hawkes (7 March 1936 - 12 December 1939) (his death), Mary Pickford (28 March 1920 - 10 January 1936) (divorced), Anna Beth Sully (11 July 1907 - 3 March 1919) (divorced) 1 child.

The Private Life of Don Juan (1934) , Mr. Robinson Crusoe (1932) , Reaching for the Moon (1930) , Terra Melophon Magazin Nr. 1 (1930) , The Taming of the Shrew (1929) , The Iron Mask (1929), The Gaucho (1927) , The Black Pirate (1926) , Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) , Don Q Son of Zorro (1925) , The Thief of Bagdad (1924) , Robin Hood (1922) , The Three Musketeers (1921) , The Nut (1921) , The Mark of Zorro (1920) , The Mollycoddle (1920) , When the Clouds Roll by (1919) , His Majesty, the American (1919) , The Knickerbocker Buckaroo (1919) , Arizona (1918) , Sic 'Em, Sam (1918), He Comes Up Smiling (1918) , Bound in Morocco (1918) , Say! Young Fellow (1918) , Mr. Fix-It (1918) , Headin' South (1918) , A Modern Musketeer (1917), Reaching for the Moon (1917) , The Man from Painted Post (1917) , Down to Earth (1917) , Wild and Woolly (1917) , In Again, Out Again (1917/II) , All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan (1917) , The Americano (1916) , The Matrimaniac (1916) , American Aristocracy (1916) , Manhattan Madness (1916) , Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916) , The Half-Breed (1916) , Flirting with Fate (1916) , The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916) , Reggie Mixes In (1916) , The Good Bad Man (1916) , The Habit of Happiness (1916) , His Picture in the Papers (1916) , Double Trouble (1915) , Martyrs of the Alamo (1915) , The Lamb (1915)