Biography
Douglas Elton Fairbanks Sr. was an American actor and filmmaker best known for being the first actor to play the masked vigilante Zorro and other swashbuckling roles in silent films. One of the biggest stars of the silent era, Fairbanks was referred to as "The King of Hollywood". He was also a founding member of United Artists as well as the Motion Picture Academy and hosted the 1st Academy Awards in 1929.
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Awards & recognition
- Academy Honorary Award · 1939
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Filmography29 titles
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
I, Douglas Fairbanks
Propaganda: Engineering Consent
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
The Thief of Bagdad
Show People
The Mark of Zorro
Birth of the Tramp
Intolerance
The Tramp and the Dictator
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
Anthony Quinn: An Original
The Iron Mask
The Black Pirate
Don Q Son of Zorro
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
American Experience
Robin Hood
The Three Musketeers
The Image Book
Mr. Robinson Crusoe
Wild and Woolly
Days of Thrills and Laughter
The Private Life of Don Juan
The Taming of the Shrew
Reaching for the Moon
Wilson
Martyrs of the Alamo
American Aristocracy