Douglas Fairbanks

Douglas Fairbanks en 1921

Douglas Fairbanks (Denver, Colorado; 23 de maig de 1883 – Santa Mónica, Califòrnia; 12 de decembre de 1939) fon un actor, guioniste, director i productor estadounidenc que destacà en pelicules d'acció de l'era del cine mut.

Biografia

Entre les películes per les quals conseguí èxit, figuren The mark of Zorro (1920), The three musqueteers (1921), abdós de Fred Niblo, Robin Hood (1922), de Allan Dwan, The thief of Bagdad (1924), de Raoul Walsh, y The Black Pirate (1926), de Albert Parker.

Estigué casat en l'actriu Mary Pickford, en la que fundà en 1919, junt en Charles Chaplin i D.W. Griffith, United Artists.

Considerat com el "rei d'Hollywood", fon el primer presentador dels Premis Òscar en l'any 1929. Fon el pare de l'actor Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. i amic i soci de Charles Chaplin, fins la seua mort en 1939.

Filmografía

Cartell de la película de 1920 The Mark of Zorro

Cartell de la película de 1924 The Thief of Bagdad

• The Private Life of Don Juan (1934)
• Mr. Robinson Crusoe (1932)
• Reaching for the Moon (1930)
• Terra Melophon Magazin Nr. 1 (1930) - (episodi "Welches ist ihr Typ")
• 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) (sense acreditar)
• 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)
• Swat the Kaiser (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)
• 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) (sense acreditar)
• 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)

Enllaços externs

• Wikimedia Commons alberga contingut multimèdia sobre Douglas Fairbanks