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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. 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. In 1915, he went to Hollywood and worked under a reluctant 大卫·格里菲斯. The following year he formed his own production company. During a Liberty Bond tour with 查理·卓别林 he fell in love with 玛丽·碧克馥 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. The owners of Hollywood's Pickfair Mansion separated in 1933 and divorced in 1936. In March 1936, he married and retired from acting.
Uncle of Lucile Fairbanks
Born at 9:00am-LMT- (MST).
One of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
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.
Interred at Hollywood Memorial Cemetery (now called Hollywood Forever), Hollywood, California, USA.
He frequently requested that his name be listed last in the film credits.
Brother of 罗伯特·范朋克, John Fairbanks.
Brother-in-law of Lottie Pickford and 杰克·皮克福德.
Father-in-law of 琼·克劳馥.
Father of 小道格拉斯·范朋克
Pictured on a 20¢ US commemorative postage stamp in the Performing Arts USA series, issued 23 May 1984.
Son-in-law of Charlotte Smith.
Was 乔·舒斯特 and 杰里·西格尔's basis for the overall physical look of Superman.
The Hollywood mansion he and 玛丽·碧克馥 owned was called Pickfair.
Hosted the very first Academy Awards in 1929 alongside 威廉
First president of the AMPAS from 1927 to 1929
Founder of United Artists along with 玛丽·碧克馥, 查理·卓别林 and 大卫·格里菲斯.
Suffered from depression as a child.
According to legend, the thing that sparked his interest in acting occurred when he fell off the roof as a young child and hurt himself.
During his European honeymoon with 玛丽·碧克馥, the couple was greeted by crowds of up to 300,000 people in London and Paris, which made them Hollywood's first celebrity couple.
Son of Hezekiah Charles Ullman, a New York attorney, and Ella Adelaide Marsh, who previously was married to a man named John Fairbanks. Ullman left the family when Douglas was five years old.
Lived in retirement with Sylvia Ashley at 705 Ocean Front (now Pacific Coast Highway) in Santa Monica, California.
Among those in attendance at his funeral in 1939 were 薇奥拉·达娜, Antonio Moreno, 拉蒙·诺瓦罗, 弗朗西斯, May McAvoy, and his son 小道格拉斯·范朋克.
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).
His portrayal of Zorro was the inspiration for the iconic DC Comics hero Batman.
President of Douglas Fairbanks Pictures Corp., formed in 1918.
In 1908 on holiday he hiked across Cuba and made a walking tour of Yucatan.
In 1938 he formed a new company, Fairbanks-International, and announced his first production, "The Californian" would star his son, 小道格拉斯·范朋克 The film was never made.
Although he had met 玛丽·碧克馥 and her husband 欧文·摩尔 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.
Fairbanks presented movie-fan President 托马斯·伍德罗 with an early film projector, which Wilson used to watch a movie almost every afternoon in the White House when he was recuperating from a stroke in 1919. Soon after, Wilson's son-in-law, William Gibbs McAdoo Jr., a lawyer, would serve as chief counsel to Fairbanks' fledgling United Artists company.
His paternal grandparents, Lazarus Ullman and Lydia Abrahams, were German Jewish immigrants. His mother had British Isles ancestry.
He was the visual inspiration for the original illustrations of the superhero Superman/Clark Kent (created in 1938). Fairbanks was 55 years old at the time, and he was modeled for the Superman identity (Clark Kent's identity was modeled after 哈罗德·劳埃德).
He had two roles in common with 埃罗尔·弗林: (1) Fairbanks played Robin Hood in 罗宾汉 (1922) while Flynn played him in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) and (2) Fairbanks played Don Juan de Maraña in 唐璜艳史 (1934) while Flynn played him in Adventures of Don Juan (1948).
The first time he appeared on the stage, he had one line: "Stand back, my lord, and let the coffin pass," which he erroneously spoke as "and let the passon cough.".
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: 党同伐异 (1916), The Mark of Zorro (1920), The Thief of Bagdad (1924), 宾虚 (1925), The Black Pirate (1926) and 戏子人生 (1928).
Stunts: He did all his own, with one exception
