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- Douglas Fairbanks Jr., the rakishly handsome actor, producer, author and businessman who was a real-life war hero and friend of royalty, died Sunday. He was 90. Mr. Fairbanks died at Mount Sinai Hospital, according to his widow, Vera Shelton Fairbanks.
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Douglas Elton Fairbanks Jr. (December 9, 1909 – May 7, 2000) was an American actor, producer, and decorated naval officer of World War II. He is best-known for starring in such films as The Prisoner of Zenda (1937), Gunga Din (1939), and The Corsican Brothers (1941).
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May 8, 2000 · Fairbanks, debonair denizen of drawing rooms who was born to Hollywood royalty and became a favorite of Britain’s royal family, died Sunday in a New York City hospital. After shuttling between ...
May 7, 2000 · Douglas Fairbanks Jr., the rakishly handsome actor, producer, author and businessman who was a real-life war hero and friend of royalty, died Sunday. He was 90. A spokesman for Manhattan's Frank...
May 8, 2000 · Douglas Fairbanks Jr., a debonair actor, producer, administrator, bon vivant and Anglo-American ambassador without portfolio, died on Sunday at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan. He was...
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
In keeping with the low-key style he used so effectively in his new book—which is the sequel to his Hollywood memoir The Salad Days (New York: Doubleday, 1988)—Fairbanks recalled his experiences as a Naval Reserve officer in the Atlantic and Mediterranean theaters of World War II.
May 8, 2000 · Douglas Fairbanks Jr., 90, the son of Hollywood royalty whose debonair portrayals of cads and good-natured gadabouts in about 80 films gave way in the 1940s to a second career as a television...
