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Douglas Fairbanks was an American actor, producer, director, and screenwriter. He was best known for his swashbuckling roles in silent films such as The Mark of Zorro (1920), Robin Hood (1922), and The Thief of Bagdad (1924). He was also a founding member of United Artists.
Fairbanks was born in Denver, Colorado, to Elton Thomas Ullman and Anna Adelaide (nee Hill). He was raised in a wealthy family and attended the Denver East High School. He began his acting career in the theater, appearing in a production of The Prince and the Pauper in Denver in 1902.
Fairbanks made his film debut in The Lamb (1915) and went on to appear in over 70 films. He was one of the most popular stars of the silent era and was known for his athletic stunts and acrobatics. He was also a successful producer and director, and was one of the founding members of United Artists.
Fairbanks was married three times, first to Anna Beth Sully, then to Mary Pickford, and finally to Lady Sylvia Ashley. He had two children, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Mary Pickford Fairbanks.
Fairbanks died of a heart attack on December 12, 1939, in Santa Monica, California. He was 56 years old.
| Popular As |
Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman |
| Occupation |
actor,producer,writer |
| Age |
56 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Gemini |
| Born |
23 May, 1883 |
| Birthday |
23 May |
| Birthplace |
Denver, Colorado, USA |
| Date of death |
12 December, 1939 |
| Died Place |
Santa Monica, California, USA |
| Nationality |
United States |
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Douglas Fairbanks Height, Weight & Measurements
At 56 years old, Douglas Fairbanks height is 5' 9" (1.75 m) .
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5' 9" (1.75 m) |
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Who Is Douglas Fairbanks's Wife?
His wife is 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 - 30 November 1919) ( divorced) ( 1 child)
| Family |
| Parents |
Not Available |
| Wife |
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 - 30 November 1919) ( divorced) ( 1 child) |
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| Children |
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Douglas Fairbanks Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Douglas Fairbanks worth at the age of 56 years old? Douglas Fairbanks’s income source is mostly from being a successful Actor. He is from United States. We have estimated
Douglas Fairbanks's net worth
, money, salary, income, and assets.
| The Lamb (1915) | $2,000 /week |
| Double Trouble (1915) | $2,000 /week |
| His Picture in the Papers (1916) | $2,000 /week |
| The Habit of Happiness (1916) | $2,000 /week |
| Flirting with Fate (1916) | $10,000 /week |
| The Iron Mask (1929) | $40,000 |
| Reaching for the Moon (1930) | $300,000 |
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Timeline
Pictured on a 20¢ US commemorative postage stamp in the Performing Arts USA series, issued 23 May 1984.
In 1938 he formed a new company, Fairbanks-International, and announced his first production, "The Californian" would star his son, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. The film was never made.
The owners of Hollywood's Pickfair Mansion separated in 1933 and divorced in 1936.
Performed most of the stunts in his films himself. He was an excellent athlete and used his physical abilities to his best advantage. However, there were instances when a stuntman was used (as proved by outtakes from The Gaucho (1927)), as these types of stunts were deemed too risky for the star.
He had two roles in common with Errol Flynn: (1) Fairbanks played Robin Hood in Robin Hood (1922) while Flynn played him in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) and (2) Fairbanks played Don Juan de Maraña in The Private Life of Don Juan (1934) while Flynn played him in Adventures of Don Juan (1948).
After receiving bad French press for his role in the American version of The Three Musketeers (1921), he vowed "never to put a foot in France again" (July 1st 1921).
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.
President of Douglas Fairbanks Pictures Corp., formed in 1918.
He has appeared in six films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Intolerance (1916), The Mark of Zorro (1920), The Thief of Bagdad (1924), Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925), The Black Pirate (1926) and Show People (1928).
In 1915, he went to Hollywood and worked under a reluctant D. W. Griffith. The following year he formed his own production company.
Although he had met Mary Pickford and her husband Owen Moore at Elsie Janis' Tarrytown (NY) home in 1914, the actress considered him brash. However, it was at a dinner dance at New York's Algonquin Hotel the following year that they danced and fell in love. It was not until 1920 that Pickford divorced Moore and married the swashbuckling star.
In 1908 on holiday he hiked across Cuba and made a walking tour of Yucatan.
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.
Douglas Fairbanks was born Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman in Denver, Colorado, to Ella Adelaide (nee Marsh) and Hezekiah Charles Ullman, an attorney and native of Pennsylvania, who was a captain for the Union forces during the Civil War. Fairbanks' paternal grandparents were German Jewish immigrants, while his mother, a Southerner with roots in Louisiana and Georgia, was of British Isles descent. From the age of five he was raised by his mother due to her husband's abandonment. She changed her sons' surnames to Fairbanks (her former husband's surname) and covered up their paternal Jewish ancestry. 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.
