..... Click the link for more information. , and together with Charlie Chaplin Chaplin, Charlie (Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin), 1889–1977, English film actor, director, producer, writer, and composer, b. London. Chaplin began on the music-hall stage and then joined a pantomime troupe.
..... Click the link for more information. and D. W. Griffith Griffith, D. W. (David Wark Griffith), 1880–1948, American movie director and producer, b. La Grange, Ky. Griffith was the first major American film director. He began his film career as an actor and a scenario writer in 1908 with the Biograph Company.
..... Click the link for more information. they formed United Artists studio.
Bibliography
See biographies by R. Hancock and L. Fairbanks (1935) and R. Schickel (1974).
His son,
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., 1909–2000, was also an actor.
Bibliography
See his autobiography (1988).
Fairbanks, Douglas
orig. Douglas Elton Ulman)
Fairbanks, Douglas
(real name, Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman). Born May 23, 1883, in Denver, Colo.; died Dec. 12, 1939, in Santa Monica, Calif. American motion-picture actor.
Fairbanks acted in the theater from 1909 to 1914 and made his debut in motion pictures in 1915. He appeared in such films as Double Trouble (1915) and American Aristocracy (1918). He performed the roles of an energetic and optimistic hero or a devil-may-care swashbuckler in such films as Wild and Woolly (1917), Reaching for the Moon (1917), A Modern Musketeer (1918), The Mark of Zorro (1920), Robin Hood (1922), The Thief of Bagdad (1924), The Black Pirate (1926), and The Private Life of Don Juan (1934). In 1917, Fairbanks began producing his own films; he later became a founder, with his wife (the actress Mary Pick-ford), D. W. Griffith, and C. S. Chaplin, of the United Artists Corporation.
REFERENCES
Abramov, A. Duglas Ferbenks, 2nd ed. Moscow, 1926.Verkhovskii, N. Duglas Ferbenks. Moscow, 1929.
Razumovskii, A. “Duglas Ferbenks.” In Zvezdy nemogo kino. Moscow, 1968.
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