N.B. The member numbers follow The Internet Movie Database's list order announcing the Academy in January 1927.
2. Douglas Fairbanks (Sr.) (Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman, 1883-1939) of the Actors Branch (and first president of the Academy, 1927-29), shown here with his son Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (1909-2000).
The star of THE MYSTERY OF THE LEAPING FISH (1916) as Coke Ennyday -- not to mention 1918's SWAT THE KAISER -- by the end of the decade he had become a top film star. A founder of United Artists with Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and D.W. Griffith, during the 1920s Fairbanks went from strength to strength as an action/comedy star (THE MARK OF ZORRO, THE THREE MUSKETEERS, ROBIN HOOD, and THE IRON MASK, among others). Like Richard Barthelmess, his star waned during the 1930s.
He was married to Mary Pickford 1920-36.
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