Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. (May 23, 1883 – December 12, 1939) was an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer. He was best known for his swashbuckling roles in silent films such as The ...

Actor Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., the Academy’s first president, hosted the event. Unlike today, the winners had already been announced before the ceremony began. It took place at a dinner for about 250 ...

Death-defying performers like Tom Mix, Helen Gibson, Harold Lloyd, and Douglas Fairbanks Sr. brought their craft to film before the Academy was even formed.

Over the years, it has hosted a variety of notable figures, including conservationist Enos Mills, actress Ethel Barrymore, actor Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and evangelist Billy Sunday, as well as ...

Films starring Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and Kansas-born Buster Keaton will be among those shown when the 28th Annual Kansas Silent Film Festival takes place Friday, Feb. 28, and ...

Hollywood: This silent-era blockbuster featured cameos by 50 of Tinsel Town's biggest stars circa 1923, including Charlie Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle, Pola Negri, Douglas Fairbanks Sr, and Mary Pickford.

The Adventures of Robin Hood Warners revives the legend with Errol Flynn in the role in which Douglas Fairbanks Sr scored his first big success in 1922. It is cinematic pageantry at its best, a ...

The most famous was Douglas Fairbanks Sr.’s version (United Artists, 1921) with Marguerite de la Motte and Adolphe Menjou. *Remake of the 1941 Goldwyn production Ball of Fire, starring Barbara ...

They have been consigned for sale by his grandson, Dominic Fairbanks, himself an actor and film producer who inherited the collection from his mother Daphne (Fairbanks Jnr’s eldest daughter). He ...