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    Douglas Fairbanks

    American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer

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  1. His parents were Hezekiah Charles Ullman and Ella Adelaide (née Marsh) Ullman. He had two half-brothers, John Fairbanks Jr. and Norris Wilcox, [4] and a full brother, Robert Payne Ullman. His father, known as Charles, was born in Berrysburg, Pennsylvania, and raised in Williamsport.

  2. Fairbanks' father was one of cinema's first icons, and his father was noted for such swashbuckling adventure films as The Mark of Zorro, Robin Hood, and The Thief of Bagdad. Fairbanks had small roles in his father's films American Aristocracy (1916) and The Three Musketeers (1921).

  3. May 7, 2000 · Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. was born in New York City as the only child of actor Douglas Fairbanks and his first wife, Anna Beth Sully. His parents divorced when he was nine years old, and although both remarried, neither had any more children.

  4. 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.

    • May 23, 1883
    • December 12, 1939
  5. May 22, 2024 · Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. (b. Dec. 9, 1909, New York, N.Y., U.S.—d. May 7, 2000, New York), his son by his first wife, Anna Beth Sully, was a debonair leading man in the late 1930s and ’40s who played roles similar to his father’s.

    • The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  6. Feb 17, 2020 · Douglas Elton Fairbanks Jr. was born to actor Douglas Fairbanks and his first wife, Anna Beth, on 9th December 1909, in New York City. At the age of nine, he witnessed his parents’ divorce. He continued living with his mother and has lived in New York, California, Paris and London.

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  8. May 10, 2024 · Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. was an American actor, socialite, and businessman who had a successful film career before moving on to meritorious World War II service and later pursuing business interests and acting as executive producer and host of a television show as well as giving support to a number.

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