- Nacimiento
- Fallecimiento12 de diciembre de 1939 · Santa Mónica, California, Estados Unidos (un ataque al corazón)
- Nombre de nacimientoDouglas Elton Thomas Ullman
- Apodo
- Doug
- Altura1,70 m
- Douglas Fairbanks nació el 23 de mayo de 1883 en Denver, Colorado, Estados Unidos. Fue un actor y escritor, conocido por El ladrón de Bagdad (1924), Robin de los bosques (1922) y El Robinson moderno (1932). Estuvo casado con Sylvia Ashley, Mary Pickford y Anna Beth Sully. Murió el 12 de diciembre de 1939 en Santa Mónica, California, EE.UU..
- CónyugesSylvia Ashley(7 de marzo de 1936 - 12 de diciembre de 1939) (su muerte)Mary Pickford(28 de marzo de 1920 - 10 de enero de 1936) (divorciado)Anna Beth Sully(11 de julio de 1907 - 30 de noviembre de 1919) (divorciado, 1 niño)
- Niños
- PadresHezekiah Charles Douglas UllmanElla Adelaide Marsh
- Stunts: He did all his own, with one exception
- His thin moustache
- His iconic role as Zorro
- Roles in swashbuckling adventures where he would always play the dashing hero
- Incredible swordsmanship skills
- During his European honeymoon with Mary Pickford, the couple was greeted by crowds of up to 300,000 people in London and Paris, which made them Hollywood's first celebrity couple.
- Hosted the very first Academy Awards in 1929 alongside William C. de Mille
- His portrayal of Zorro was the inspiration for the iconic DC Comics hero Batman.
- He was the visual inspiration for the original illustrations of the superhero Superman (created in 1938, when Fairbanks was fifty-five years old). Clark Kent's identity was modeled after Harold Lloyd).
- [last words] I never felt better in my life.
- The man that's out to do something has to keep in high gear all the time.
- [Referring to D.W. Griffith] D. W. didn't like my athletic tendencies, or my spontaneous habit of jumping a fence or scaling a church at unexpected moments which were not in the script. Griffith told me to go into Keystone comedies.
- Para alcanzar la luna (1931) - $300,000
- La máscara de hierro (1929) - $40,000
- Flirting with Fate (1916) - $10,000 /week
- The Habit of Happiness (1916) - $2,000 /week
- Su retrato en los periódicos (1920) - $2,000 /week
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