Douglas Fairbanks, The Swashbuckler Man

Long before Antonio Banderas plays a good hero under the guise of a sword, a man whose full name is Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman, who was born in Denver, Colorado, on May 23, 1883 it had already turned the figure of Zorro on the big screen. Her parents split up when Douglas was five years old little so that he and his brother eventually treated by the mother.
Denver East High School alumni embarked on his acting debut on stage Elitch Garden Theatre. Two years after his move to New York in 1900, he managed to get the role on Broadway. The man plays the body is 175 cm then married Anna Beth Sully on July 11, 1907, and has a single child who is also known as one of the leading Hollywood actor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr..



A year after his first film, THE LAMB (1915), this athletic man affair with the actress Mary Pickford. But, their relationship is inaugurated after Sulley Fairbanks and Pickford divorced divorced from Owen Moore. The pair became known as the first celebrity couple in Hollywood.

Men who had worked at the hardware store was later achieved great success through the film The Mark of Zorro. The success of this film raises swashbuckler other movies that use Fairbanks as the main character, like Robin Hood (1922), THE THIEF OF Bagdad (1924), THE BLACK PIRATE (1926), and THE IRON MASK (1929).

Fairbanks is one of the founders of The Motion Picture Academy, as well as its first president (1927-1929). Not only that, he also hosted the first Oscar awards night held at the Roosevelt Hotel.

Close friend Charlie Chaplin was again married for the third time in 1936 with the British aristocracy actress, Sylvia Ashley, every few months after divorcing Pickford.

The man dubbed 'The First King of Hollywood', died of a heart attack in 1939. His body was then buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. In honor of his services in the Hollywood film industry, AMPAS decided to establish a museum in Texas and a bronze statue in the courtyard Fairbanks School of Cinematic Arts. (CINEMAGS / roc)

Selected Filmography:

THE MARK of Zorro (1920)
The Three Musketeers (1921)
Robin Hood (1922)
THE THIEF OF Bagdad (1924)
THE GAUCO (1927)
THE PRIVATE LIFE OF DON JUAN (1934)
Trivia:

Fairbanks is always advised that the last name written on the film credits.
Doing all his own stunt.