The First King of Hollywood
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Douglas Fairbanks was a larger-than-life figure. So epic were his proportions, it seems, that it takes not a single biographer to write his story but a community of the generous and the intelligent. If I have left anyone out (and I have a horror that I have forgotten to name many), know that you are thanked, and loved.
Filmography
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NOTE: Early film credits are consistent largely in their inconsistency. Actors’ names may change spelling between films, and the spelling on the actual film may differ from that of the press book. Wherever available, the names and spellings of the characters and performers have been drawn from the actual films or the original press books. There will be variation from online sources and other resources accordingly. All attempts have been made to use the actual spellings as defined at the time of the original release.
1913
November 1913
Kinemacolor actuality (title unknown)
Depicts the cast of the Broadway play The New Henrietta, “in their social hours.” It features Douglas Fairbanks and William H. Crane, the play’s stars.
The film is currently considered lost.
1914
November 1914
Our Mutual Girl Sees the Yale-Princeton Game
Stage star Fairbanks makes a cameo appearance in the forty-seventh edition of the weekly Our Mutual Girl series, driving the titular heroine to the football game “in his racing runabout.”
The film is currently considered lost.
I. Triangle
Each of these thirteen films was produced by the Fine Arts studio and distributed by the Triangle Film Corporation
1915
September 23, 1915 (premiere)
The Lamb
Working Title: Blood Will Tell
Director: W. Christy Cabanne (supervised by D. W. Griffith)
Camera: William E. Fildew
Scenario: W. Christy Cabanne
Titles: Anita Loos
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks (Son of the Idle Rich), Seena Owen (the American Girl), Alfred Paget (Her Model Type of Man), Monroe Salisbury (the Wealthy Miner), Kate Toncray (His Mother), Edward Warren (His Valet), Eagle Eye (Himself), William E. Lowery (Another Indian Chief), Lillian Langdon (Girl’s Mother)
October 31, 1915 (premiere)
Double Trouble
Director: W. Christy Cabanne (supervised by D. W. Griffith)
Camera: William E. Fildew
Story: Herbert Quick (novel Double Trouble)
Scenario: W. Christy Cabanne
Titles: Anita Loos
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks (Florian Amidon/Eugene Brassfield), Richard Cummings (Judge Blodgett), Olga Grey (Madame Leclaire), Margery Wilson (Elizabeth Waldron), Gladys Brockwell (Daisy Scarlett)
1916
February 10, 1916 (premiere); February 13, 1916 (general release)
His Picture in the Papers
Director: John Emerson (supervised by D. W. Griffith)
Camera: George W. Hill
Scenario: John Emerson, Anita Loos
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks (Pete Prindle), Clarence Handyside (Proteus Prindle), Rene Boucicault (Pansy Prindle), Jean Temple (Pearl Prindle), Charles Butler (Cassius Cadwalader), Homer Hunt (Melville), Loretta Blake (Christine Cadwalader), Helena Rapport (Olga), Erich von Stroheim (Gangster, uncredited)
March 12, 1916 (premiere); April 7, 1916 (general release)
The Habit of Happiness
Director: Allan Dwan
Camera: Unknown
Scenario: Shannon Fife
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks (Sunny Wiggins), George Backus (His Father), Grace Rankin (His Sister Clarice), George Fawcett (Jonathan Pepper), Dorothy West (Elsie Pepper), Macey Harlam (Foster), William Jefferson (Jones)
April 21, 1916 (premiere); May 7, 1916 (general release)
The Good Bad Man
Director: Allan Dwan
Camera: Victor Fleming
Scenario: Douglas Fairbanks
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks (Passin’ Through), Sam De Grasse (Bud Frazer), Doc Cannon (Bob Evans), Joseph Singleton (“the Weasel”), Bessie Love (Amy), Mary Alden (Jane Stuart), George Beranger (Thomas Stuart), Fred Burns (Sheriff)
May 28, 1916 (premiere); June 11, 1916 (general release)
Reggie Mixes In
Working Title: The Bouncer
Director: W. Christy Cabanne
Camera: Victor Fleming
Story: Roy Somerville
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks (Reggie Van Deuzen), Joseph Singleton (Old Pickleface), Alma Rubens (Lemona Reighley), A. D. Sears (Sylvester Ringrose), Bessie Love (Agnes), Alberta Lee (Her Mother), Tom Wilson (the Bouncer), W. A. Lowery (the Leader of the Gas-House Gang), Frank Bennett (Sammy, the Dude), Wilbur Higby (Gallagher)
May 28, 1916 (premiere); June 11, 1916 (general release)
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish
Director: John Emerson
Camera: Unknown
Story: Tod Browning
Scenario: Anita Loos
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks (Coke Ennyday), Tom Wilson (I. M. Keene), A. D. Sears (Gentleman Rolling in Wealth), Bessie Love (Inane), Alma Rubens (Female Confederate, uncredited)
June 25, 1916 (premiere); July 9, 1916 (general release)
Flirting with Fate
Director: W. Christy Cabanne
Camera: Unknown
Story: Robert M. Baker
Scenario: Anita Loos
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks (Augy Holliday), W. E. Laurence (Harry Hansum), Jewel Carmen (Gladys, the Girl), Dorothy Haydel (Phyllis, Her Chum), George Beranger (Automatic Joe), J. P. McCarty (the Detective)
July 9, 1916 (premiere); July 30, 1916 (general release)
The Half Breed
Director: Allan Dwan
Camera: Victor Fleming
Story: Bret Harte (novella “In the Carquinez Woods”)
Scenario: Anita Loos
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks (Lo Dorman), Alma Rubens (Teresa), Sam De Grasse (Sheriff Dunn), Tom Wilson (Curson), Frank Brownlee (Winslow Wynn), Jewel Carmen (Nellie), George Beranger (Jack Brace)
September 10, 1916 (premiere); October 1, 1916 (general release)
Manhattan Madness
Director: Allan Dwan
Camera: Victor Fleming
Story: Charles T. Dazey, Frank Dazey, E. V. Durling
Scenario: Charles T. Dazey
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks (Steve O’Dare), Jewel Carmen (the Girl), George Beranger (the Butler), Ruth Darling (the Maid), Eugene Ormonde (Count Marinoff), Macey Harlam (the Villain), W. P. Richmond (Jack Osborne)
November 5, 1916 (premiere); November 12, 1916 (general release)
American Aristocracy
Director: Lloyd Ingraham
Camera: Unknown
Scenario: Anita Loos
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks (Cassius Lee), Jewel Carmen (Geraldine Hicks), Charles DeLima (Leander Hicks), Albert Parker (Percy Peck), Arthur Ortego (Delgado)
December 3, 1916 (premiere); December 16, 1916 (general release)
The Matrimaniac
Director: Paul Powell
Camera: Unknown
Scenario: Octavus Roy Cohen, Anita Loos
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks (Jimmie Conroy), Constance Talmadge (Marna Lewis), Wilbur Higby (Marna’s Father), Clyde Hopkins (Wally Henderson), Fred Warren (Reverend Tubbs), Winifred Westover (the Maid)
December 24, 1916 (premiere)
The Americano
Director: John Emerson
Camera: Victor Fleming
Story: Eugene P. Lyle Jr. (novel Blaze Derringer)
Scenario: Anita Loos, John Emerson
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks (the Americano), Spottiswoode Aitken (Hernando de Valdez), Tote Du Crow (Alberto de Castille), Carl Stockdale (Salsa Espada), Charles Stevens (Colonel Gargaras), Tom Wilson (Harold Armitage White), Alma Rubens (Juana de Valdez), Lillian Langdon (Signora de Castille), Mildred Harris (Stenographer)
II. Artcraft
Each of these films was produced by the
Douglas Fairbanks Pictures Corporation and distributed by the Artcraft Pictures Corporation, unless otherwise noted
1917
April 22, 1917 (premiere); April 30, 1917 (general release)
In Again, Out Again
Director: John Emerson
Camera: Victor Fleming
Scenario: Anita Loos
Art Direction: Erich von Stroheim
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks (Teddy Rutherford), Arline Pretty (Janie Dubb), Walter Walker (Sheriff Dubb), Arnold Lucy (Amos Jennings), Helen Greene (Pacifica Jennings), Homer Hunt (Henry Pinchit), Albert Parker (Jerry), Bull Montana (Quenton Auburn, the Burglar), Ada Gilman (Teddy’s Mother), Frank Lalor (Pinkie, the Druggist), Betty Tyrel (the Nurse), Spike Robinson (the Trustee)
June 24, 1917 (premiere)
Wild and Woolly
Working Title: A Regular Guy
Director: John Emerson
Camera: Victor Fleming
Story: H. B. Carpenter
Scenario: Anita Loos
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks (Jeff Hillington), Eileen Percy (Nell Larrabee), Walter Bytell (His Father), Joseph Singleton (Hillington’s Butler), Calvin Carter (Hotel Keeper, Bitter Creek), Forest Seabury (Banker), J. W. Jones (Lawyer), Charles Stevens (Pedro, Hotel Clerk), Sam De Grasse (Steve, Indian Agent), Tom Wilson (Engineer)
August 5, 1917 (premiere); August 16, 1917 (general release)
Down to Earth
Director: John Emerson
Camera: Victor Fleming
Story: Douglas Fairbanks
Scenario: Anita Loos, John Emerson
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks (Bill Gaynor), Eileen Percy (Ethel, the Girl), Gustav von Seyffertitz (Dr. Jollyem), Charles P. McHugh (Dr. Small), Charles Gerrard (Ethel’s Lover), William H. Keith (Mr. Carter), Ruth Allen (Mrs. Fuller Jermes), Fred Goodwine (Jordon Jimmy), Florence Mayon (Mrs. Phattson Oiles), Herbert Standing (Mr. A. D. Dyspeptic), David Porter (Mr. Coffin), Bull Montana (Wild Man)
October 1, 1917 (premiere)
The Man from Painted Post
Director: Joseph Henabery
Camera: Victor Fleming
Story: Jackson Gregory (short story “Silver Slippers”)
Scenario: Joseph Henabery
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks (Fancy Jim Sherwood), Eileen Percy (Jane Forbes), Frank Campeau (Bull Madden), Frank Clark (Toby Madden), Herbert Standing (Warren Bronson), Rhea Haines (Wah-na Madden), Charles Stevens (Tony Lopez), Monte Blue (Slim Carter)
October 1917
War Relief (half-reel promotional film)
Also Known As: The All Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan
Director: Marshall Neilan
Camera: Unknown
Scenario: Unknown
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, William S. Hart, Julian Eltinge
Distributed by the US government; currently considered lost.
November 18, 1917 (premiere)
Reaching for the Moon
Director: John Emerson
Camera: Victor Fleming, Sam Landers
Story: Anita Loos
Scenario: Anita Loos, John Emerson
Settings: Wilfred Buckland
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks (Alexis Caesar Napoleon Brown), Eileen Percy (Elsie Merrill), Richard Cummings (Old Man Bingham), Eugene Ormonde (Prince Badinoff of Contraria), Frank Campeau (Black Boris)
December 28, 1917 (premiere); December 30, 1917 (general release)
A Modern Musketeer
Director: Allan Dwan
Camera: Hugh McClung, Harry Thorpe
Story: Eugene P. Lyle Jr. (short story “D’Artagnan of Kansas”)
Scenario: Unknown
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks (Ned Thacker), Marjorie Daw (Elsie Dodge), Kathleen Kirkham (Mrs. Dodge), Eugene Ormonde (Forrest Vandeteer), Edythe Chapman (Mrs. Thacker), Frank Campeau (Chin-de-dah), Tully Marshall (James Brown), ZaSu Pitts (uncredited)
1918
March 10, 1918 (premiere)
Headin’ South
Director: Arthur Rosson (supervised by Allan Dwan)
Camera: Hugh McClung, Harry Thorpe
Story: Allan Dwan
Scenario: Unknown
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks (Headin’ South), Frank Campeau (Spanish Joe), Katherine MacDonald (the Girl), Jim Mason (His Aide)
The film is currently considered lost.
April 1918
Swat the Kaiser
Director: Joseph Henabery
Camera: Unknown
Scenario: Unknown
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks (Democracy), Bull Montana (Prussianism), Tully Marshall (Death), Helen MacKern (Justice), Frank Campeau (the Devil), Gustav von Seyffertitz (Uncle Sam)
Distributed by the US government; currently considered lost.
April 21, 1918 (premiere)
Mr. Fixit
Director: Allan Dwan
Camera: Hugh McClung
Story: Ernest Butterworth
Scenario: Allan Dwan
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks (Mr. Fixit), Wanda Hawley (Mary McCollough), Marjorie Daw (Marjorie Threadwell), Leslie Stuart (Reginald Burroughs), Ida Waterman (Aunt Agatha Burroughs), Alice Smith (Aunt Priscilla Burroughs), Mrs. H. R. Hancock (Aunt Laura Burroughs), Frank Campeau (Uncle Henry Burroughs), Fred Goodwin (Gideon Van Tassell), Mr. Russell (Butler Jarvis), Margaret Landis (Olive Van Tassell), Katherine MacDonald (Georgiana Burroughs)
June 16, 1918 (premiere)
Say! Young Fellow
Director: Joseph Henabery
Camera: Glen MacWilliams, Hugh McClung
Story: Joseph Henabery
Scenario: Joseph Henabery, Ted Reed
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks (the Young Fellow), Marjorie Daw (the Girl), Frank Campeau (the Villain), Edythe Chapman (a Sweet Spinster), James Neill (a Kindly Bachelor)
The film is currently considered lost.
July 28, 1918 (premiere)
Bound in Morocco
Director: Allan Dwan
Camera: Hugh McClung
Story: Allan Dwan
Scenario: Allan Dwan, Elton Thomas
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks (the Boy), Pauline Curley (the Girl), Edythe Chapman (Her Mother), Tully Marshall (Ali Pah Shush, Their Faithful Servant), Frank Campeau (Basha El Harib, Governor of the Province of Harib), Jay Dwiggins (Kaid Mahedi El Menebhi, Lord High Ambassador to the Court of El Harib), Fred Burns (Chief of the Bandits)
The film is currently considered lost.
September 8, 1918 (premiere)
He Comes Up Smiling
Director: Allan Dwan
Camera: Hugh McClung, Glen MacWilliams
Story: Byron Ongley & Emil Mytray (play)
Scenario: Frances Marion
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks (the Watermelon, Jerry Martin), Herbert Standing (Mike, a Hobo), Bull Montana (Baron Bean, a Tramp), Albert MacQuarrie (Batchelor, a Stock Broker), Marjorie Daw (Billie), Frank Campeau (John Bartlett, Her Father), Jay Dwiggins (the General), Kathleen Kirkham (Louise, Her Daughter)
The film is currently considered partially lost.
September 14, 1918
Sic ’em Sam
Director: Albert Parker
Camera: Unknown
Scenario: Unknown
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks (Democracy), Bull Montana (Prussianism), Tully Marshall (Death), Helen MacKern (Justice), Frank Campeau (the Devil), Gustav von Seyffertitz (Uncle Sam)
Distributed by the US government; currently considered lost.
December 15, 1918 (premiere)
Arizona
Director: Unlisted (partially directed by Allan Dwan; partially directed by Albert Parker)
Camera: Hugh Carlyle, Glen MacWilliams, Hugh McClung
Story: Augustus Thomas (play)
Scenario: Ted Reed
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks (Lieutenant Denton), Theodore Roberts (Canby), Kate Price (Mrs. Canby), Frederick Burton (Col. Benham), Harry Northrup (Captain Hodgeman), Frank Campeau (Kellar), Kathleen Kirkham (Estrella), Marjorie Daw (Bonita), Marguerite D
e La Motte (Lena), Raymond Hatton (Tony), Robert Boulder (Doctor), Albert MacQuarrie (Lieut. Hatton)
The film is currently considered lost.
1919
Premiere date unknown
Knocking Knockers
Director: Unknown
Camera: Unknown
Scenario: Unknown
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks (Democracy), Bull Montana (Prussianism), Tully Marshall (Death), Helen MacKern (Justice), Frank Campeau (the Devil), Gustav von Seyffertitz (Uncle Sam)
Distributed by the US government; currently considered lost.
May 25, 1919 (premiere)
The Knickerbocker Buckaroo
Director: Albert Parker
Camera: Glen MacWilliams, Hugh McClung
Story: Joseph Henabery, Douglas Fairbanks, Frank Condon, Ted Reed
Scenario: Ted Reed
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks (Teddy Drake), Marjorie Daw (Mercedes, the Girl), William Wellman (Henry, Her Brother), Frank Campeau (Sheriff, a Crook), Edythe Chapman (Teddy’s Mother), Albert MacQuarrie (Manuel Lopez, the Bandit), Ted Reed (a New York Clubman)
The film is currently considered lost.
III. United Artists
Each of these films was produced by the Douglas Fairbanks Pictures Corporation and distributed by United Artists, unless otherwise noted
September 1, 1919 (general release)
His Majesty the American
Director: Joseph Henabery
Camera: Victor Fleming
Story: Joseph Henabery
Scenario: Joseph Henabery, Elton Thomas
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks (William Brooks), Marjorie Daw (Felice, Countess of Montenac), Frank Campeau (Grand Duke Sarzeau, Minister of War), Sam Sothern (Phillipe the Fourth, King of Alaine), Jay Dwiggins (Emile Meitz, Emissary from Brizac), Lillian Langdon (Marguerite, Princess of Alaine)