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[h3]American producer and actor, son of the ‘Prince of Pickfair’, actor Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and Mary Pickford, Fairbanks Jr. made his acting debut in 1923, with ‘Stephen Steps Out’, which was not a resounding success.[/h3]

After the 1927 stage play ‘Young Woodley’, he was taken more seriously, and the made the successful crossover, following the advent of ‘talkies’.

He fared better in ‘Stella Dallas’ in 1936, in which he first donned the classic ‘Fairbanks’ moustache.

A talented writer, Fairbanks wrote humorous pieces for Vanity Fair about the Hollywood scene. Married to [urlnew=http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biography_home/203:0/Joan_Crawford.htm]Joan Crawford[/urlnew] and at the heart of Tinseltown, he set up his own production company, Criterion Films, in 1935.

‘The Prisoner of Zenda’ (1937) gave Fairbanks his best role, as the cold-blooded villain, Rupert of Hentzau.

With his father’s death in 1939, Fairbanks began to move into public life, organizing the Hollywood pro-Allied Forces William Allen White Committee during the Second World War.

Spending 1939-1940 in London hospitals, he took special care of war refugees, and was appointed by Roosevelt to act as envoy for a Special Mission to South America in 1940.

Commissioned as a lieutenant in the Navy in 1941, he was a chief officer in Special Operations, participating in the allied invasion of Elba and Sicily. Working his way up, he rose to the level of Captain in 1945.

As chairman of the charity CARE, he organised food aid for war-torn countries.

However, he returned to acting with ‘Sinbad The Sailor’, and wrote 1948’s ‘The Exile’ – both the kind of movies his father, Fairbanks Sr., would have loved.

Concentrating on production, Fairbanks made and presented the TV anthology ‘Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Presents’ through the early 1950s.

After a poorly received Henry Higgins in a 1968 ‘My Fair Lady’, he returned to international life as part of a US delegation to SEATO (Southeast Asia Treaty Organisation) in 1971.

He released his autobiographies, ‘Salad Days’, and ‘A Hell of A War’, in 1988 and 1993 respectively. He died in 2000.
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[b]Actor:[/b]

"The Dame Edna Experience" (1 episode, 1989)

"B.L. Stryker" (1 episode, 1989)

Strong Medicine (1986) (TV)

Ghost Story (1981)

"The Love Boat" (3 episodes, 1979-1981)

The Hostage Tower (1980) (TV)

Kingdom of Gifts (1978) (voice)

"The Art of Film" (1976) TV series

The Crooked Hearts (1972) (TV)

"The Legend of Robin Hood" (1968) TV series

Red and Blue (1967)

"ABC Stage 67" (1 episode, 1966)

"The Bruce Forsyth Show" (1 episode, 1966)

"Dr. Kildare" (1 episode, 1964)

"The United States Steel Hour" .... Host (2 episodes, 1962-1963)

"The DuPont Show of the Week" (1 episode, 1962)

"Route 66" (1 episode, 1962)

"Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents" (27 episodes, 1953-1956)

Faccia da mascalzone (1955) (unconfirmed)

Destination Milan (1954)

Thought to Kill (1954)

The Red Dress (1954)

Three's Company (1954)

The Last Moment (1954)

The Genie (1953)

The Triangle (1953)

"Sure As Fate" (1 episode, 1951)

Mister Drake's Duck (1951)

"Pulitzer Prize Playhouse" (1 episode, 1950)

"Your Show of Shows" (1 episode, 1950)

State Secret (1950)

The Fighting O'Flynn (1949)

That Lady in Ermine (1948)

The Exile (1947)

Sinbad the Sailor (1947)

The Corsican Brothers (1941)

Angels Over Broadway (1940)

Safari (1940)

Green Hell (1940)

Rulers of the Sea (1939)

The Sun Never Sets (1939)

Gunga Din (1939)

The Young in Heart (1938)

Having Wonderful Time (1938)

The Rage of Paris (1938)

Joy of Living (1938)

The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)

Jump for Glory (1937)

Accused (1936)

The Amateur Gentleman (1936)

Man of the Moment (1935)

Mimi (1935)

Success at Any Price (1934)

The Rise of Catherine the Great (1934)

Captured! (1933)

Morning Glory (1933)

The Narrow Corner (1933)

The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933)

Parachute Jumper (1933)

Scarlet Dawn (1932)

Love Is a Racket (1932)

It's Tough to Be Famous (1932)

Union Depot (1932)

Athlète incomplet, L' (1932)

I Like Your Nerve (1931)

Chances (1931)

Aviateur, L' (1931)

Little Caesar (1931)

One Night at Susie's (1930)

Outward Bound (1930)

The Way of All Men (1930)

Little Accident (1930)

The Dawn Patrol (1930)

Loose Ankles (1930)

Party Girl (1930)

The Show of Shows (1929)

The Forward Pass (1929)

The Careless Age (1929)

Fast Life (1929)

Our Modern Maidens (1929)

The Jazz Age (1929)

A Woman of Affairs (1928)

The Barker (1928)

The Power of the Press (1928)

The Toilers (1928)

Modern Mothers (1928)

Dead Man's Curve (1928)

A Texas Steer (1927)

Is Zat So? (1927)

Women Love Diamonds (1927)

Man Bait (1927)

Broken Hearts of Hollywood (1926)

Padlocked (1926)

The American Venus (1926)

Stella Dallas (1925)

Wild Horse Mesa (1925)

The Air Mail (1925)

Stephen Steps Out (1923)

The Three Musketeers (1921) (uncredited)

American Aristocracy (1916) (uncredited)

[b]Producer:[/b]

Chase a Crooked Shadow (1958) (producer)

"Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents" (executive producer) (32 episodes, 1954-1957) (producer) (20 episodes, 1953)

The Silken Affair (1956) (executive producer)

Thought to Kill (1954) (executive producer)

The Red Dress (1954) (producer)

Three's Company (1954) (executive producer)

The Last Moment (1954) (executive producer)

The Genie (1953) (producer)

The Fighting O'Flynn (1949) (producer)

The Exile (1947) (producer)

Angels Over Broadway (1940) (associate producer)

Jump for Glory (1937) (producer)

Accused (1936) (producer)

The Amateur Gentleman (1936) (producer)
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