Douglas Fairbanks Movies

Want to know the best Douglas Fairbanks movies?  How about the worst Douglas Fairbanks movies?  Curious about Douglas Fairbanks box office grosses or which Douglas Fairbanks movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Douglas Fairbanks movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well, you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.

Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939) was an American actor.  Fairbanks was one of the first movie stars. He was best known for his swashbuckling roles in silent films including The Thief of BagdadRobin Hood, and The Mark of Zorro.  His IMDb page shows 51 acting from 1915 to 1937.  This page will rank Douglas Fairbanks movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information.  To do well in our overall rankings a movie has to do well at the box office, get good reviews by critics, be liked by audiences, and get some award recognition.  This comes from a request by Bob and Dan. Sadly we were unable to locate any box office grosses on his movies made from 1915 to 1919.

1929’s The Taming Of The Shrew

Douglas Fairbanks Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

1924’s The Thief of Bagdad

Douglas Fairbanks Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies any way you want.

  • Sort Douglas Fairbanks movies by his co-stars
  • Sort Douglas Fairbanks movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Douglas Fairbanks movies by yearly domestic box office rank
  • Sort Douglas Fairbanks movies by how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Douglas Fairbanks movie received.
  • Sort Douglas Fairbanks movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
1922’s Robin Hood

Possibly Interesting Facts About Douglas Fairbanks

1. Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman was born in Denver, Colorado in 1883.

2. Douglas Fairbanks frequently requested that his name be listed last in the film credits.

3. Douglas Fairbanks presented movie-fan President Woodrow Wilson with an early film projector, which Wilson used to watch a movie almost every afternoon in the White House when he was recuperating from a stroke in 1919.

4. The Hollywood mansion Douglas Fairbanks and his wife, Mary Pickford, owned was called Pickfair.

5. Douglas Fairbanks was one of the founders of United Artists along with Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin and D.W. Griffith.

Check out Douglas Fairbanks’ career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.

15 thoughts on “Douglas Fairbanks Movies

  1. When I was saying yesterday that Douglas Fairbanks deserved to be incorporated in UMR, I obviously did not realize that was already the case! Thanks to Bob Roy for pointing it out to me. It’s interesting to see the huge box office success of his films in the early 1920s, and hard to believe this was a 100 years ago. As mentioned, I only saw The Three Musketeers and Robin Hood, and I preferred the former, which I found had a lot of humour. As I watched him playing D’Artagnan and Robin Hood, I could not help thinking that today, such a rather diminutive figure would not be taken seriously in these kind of roles, but Fairbanks was sure great for his time!

  2. HI NO 2 BOB

    Unfortunately [according to his son Doug Jr] Doug Sr’s passion for his athleticism killed him in real life at the premature age of just 56.

    Doug Junior says his father continued with his fanatical physical workouts -eg swimming rivers and throwing javelins – at an age when his body was no longer up to it.

    That ultimately brought on a heart attack just before Christmas 1939. Today Doug Jr is buried along with his father. Charlie Chaplin was a close friend of Doug Senior.

    Happy New Year Bob and please keep safe.

  3. I saw 1 the thief of bagdad.a 7 incredible special effects for its time. Fairbanks was an incredible athlete in an era before stuntmen.
    I also viewed 2 non UMR cameos 1916’s intolerance a 9 and ben hur1925 an 8.

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