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Producer, Screenwriter, Actor Born: May 23, 1883 in Denver, CO Death: December 12, 1939 in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, CA Biography:American actor Douglas Fairbanks Sr., instilled with a love of dramatics by his Shakespearean-scholar father, was never fully satisfied with theatrical work. A born athlete and extrovert, Fairbanks felt the borders of the stage were much too confining, even when his theatrical work allowed him to tour the world. The wide-open spaces of the motion picture industry were more his style, and in 1915 Fairbanks jumped at the chance to act in the film version of the old stage perennial "The Lamb". Fairbanks became the top moneymaker for the Triangle Film Company, starring in an average of 10 pictures a year for a weekly salary of $2000. He specialized in comedies--not the slapstick variety, but free-wheeling farces in which he usually played a wealthy young man thirsting for adventure.
Fairbanks was a savvy businessman, and in 1919 he reasoned that he could have more control--and a larger slice of the... Full Biography
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