Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Douglas Fairbanks. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Thief of Bagdad

1924 · Movie · 140 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Julanne Johnston · Anna May Wong · Sojin

Plot Douglas Fairbanks is at his most graceful and charismatic in one of the classic silent films of the 1920s. As the thief of Baghdad, his movements are dance-like -- nothing...

7.5

3K votes

7.5

3K votes

The Tramp and the Dictator

2002 · Documentary · 58 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Kevin Brownlow · Michael Kloft

Cast Kenneth Branagh · Charles Chaplin · Sydney Chaplin · Walter Bernstein

Plot A fascinating documentary that explores the making of Charles Chaplin's first "talkie" The Great Dictator (1940) and draws many things that between Chaplin and Hitler had in common. The film...

7.1

175 votes

7.1

175 votes

The Iron Mask

1929 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Marguerite De La Motte · William Bakewell · Nigel de Brulier

Plot King Louis XIII of France is thrilled to have born to him a son - an heir to the throne. But when the queen delivers a twin, Cardinal Richelieu sees...

6.9

221 votes

6.9

221 votes

The Good Bad Man

1916 · Movie · 50 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Sam De Grasse · Pomeroy Cannon · Joseph Singleton

Plot An outlaw calling himself Passin' Through halts his "evil" ways long enough to help out some children in difficulty.

6.9

31 votes

6.9

31 votes

The Three Musketeers

1921 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction Fred Niblo

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Leon Bary · George Siegmann · Eugene Pallette

Plot The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers,...

6.8

193 votes

6.8

193 votes

The Black Pirate

1926 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Albert Parker

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Billie Dove · Anders Randolf · Donald Crisp

Plot Douglas Fairbanks plays a nobleman who wants to revenge his father's murder, so he boards a pirate vessel disguised as one of the thieving, villainous rapscallions, and sets about achieving...

6.7

199 votes

6.7

199 votes

Robin Hood

1922 · Movie · 143 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Wallace Beery · Sam De Grasse · Enid Bennett

Plot Amid big-budget medieval pageantry, King Richard goes on the Crusades leaving his brother Prince John as regent, who promptly emerges as a cruel, grasping, treacherous tyrant. Apprised of England's peril...

6.7

447 votes

6.7

447 votes

The Mark of Zorro

1920 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Fred Niblo

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Marguerite De La Motte · Robert McKim · Noah Beery

Plot In old Spanish California, the oppressive colonial government is opposed by Zorro, masked champion of the people, who appears out of nowhere with flashing sword and an athletic sense of...

6.6

471 votes

6.6

471 votes

The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (S)

1916 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Christy Cabanne · John Emerson

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Bessie Love · Allan Sears · Tom Wilson

Plot Coke Ennyday, the scientific detective, divides his own time in periods for "Sleep", "Eat", "Dope" and "Drink". In fact he's used to overcome every situation with drugs: consuming it to...

6.6

84 votes

6.6

84 votes

The Big Parade of Comedy

1964 · Documentary · 90 min. · United States

Direction Robert Youngson

Cast Clark Gable · Greta Garbo · Jean Harlow · Cary Grant

Plot A compilation of scenes from classic MGM comedies from the silent era up to 1948's "A Southern Yankee." Among the films showcased are "The Thin Man," "A Night at the...

6.5

24 votes

6.5

24 votes

The Private Life of Don Juan

1934 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alexander Korda

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Merle Oberon · Bruce Winston · Gina Malo

Plot Douglas Fairbanks Sr. makes his big-screen swan song with Korda’s deliciously satiric deflation of the Don Juan myth. After having faked his own death and escaped Seville, the aging lothario...

6.1

65 votes

6.1

65 votes

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (TV)

1995 · Documentary · 90 min. · United States

Direction Chuck Workman

Cast Peter Coyote · Robert Altman · Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle · Fred Astaire

Plot Documentary based on the first anniversary of the most important exporter of films in the world as it is Hollywood, this story is told by actors and actresses as well...

6.0

26 votes

6.0

26 votes

The Taming of the Shrew

1929 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Sam Taylor

Cast Mary Pickford · Douglas Fairbanks · Edwin Maxwell · Joseph Cawthorne

Plot In sixteenth century Padua, Hortensio loves Bianca, the youngest daughter of Baptista. But Baptista will not allow the two to get married until his eldest daughter, the extremely headstrong Katherine,...

5.6

74 votes

5.6

74 votes

A Modern Musketeer

1917 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Marjorie Daw · Kathleen Kirkham · Frank Campeau

Plot A young man grows restless living in a small Kansas town, dreaming of the adventures of the Three Musketeers. So in hopes of becoming a modern D'Artagnan, he mounts his...

5.4

28 votes

5.4

28 votes

Reaching for the Moon

1930 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

5.4

44 votes

5.4

44 votes

Mr. Robinson Crusoe

1932 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction A. Edward Sutherland

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · William Farnum · Earle Browne · Maria Casajuana

Plot Yachtsman Steve Drexel bets his friends that he can swim ashore on a remote south-seas island with nothing but a toothbrush and be 'living the life of Riley' when they...

4.9

29 votes

4.9

29 votes

The Matrimaniac

1916 · Movie · 46 min. · United States

Direction Paul Powell

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Constance Talmadge · Wilbur Higby · Fred Warren

Plot A young couple attempts to elope, with the bride's irate father in hot pursuit. The train stops briefly and the young man dashes off to find a minister, but before...

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When the Clouds Roll By

1919 · Movie · 50 min. · United States

Direction Victor Fleming · Theodore Reed

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Albert MacQuarrie · Kathleen Clifford · Frank Campeau

Plot Psychiatrist Dr. Ulrich Metz attempts to drive Daniel Brown to suicide.

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Not rated

Reaching for the Moon

1917 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction John Emerson

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Eileen Percy · Richard Cummings · Eugene Ormonde

Plot A factory worker has always dreamed that he was meant for better things, to be rich and famous and in "the company of kings". One day he discovers that he...

Not rated

Not rated

His Majesty, the American

1919 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

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Not rated