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Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman
Birthday
BirthplaceDenver, Colorado, U.S.
Died
NationalityAmerican
Occupation
Actor, director, producer, screenwriter
EducationDenver East High School
The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

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.
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The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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