Douglas Fairbanks
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Douglas Elton Fairbanks Sr. was an American actor and filmmaker best known for being the first actor to play the masked vigilante Zorro and other swashbuckling roles in silent films. One of the bigges
Fairbanks, late 1910s
D. W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin (seated) and Fairbanks at the signing of the contract establishing United Artists in 1919
Fairbanks speaking in front of a crowd at a 1918 war bond drive in New York City
The Mark of Zorro
Zorro
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Zorro is a fictional character created in 1919 by American pulp writer Johnston McCulley, appearing in works set in the Pueblo de Los Ángeles in Alta California. Zorro is typically portrayed as a dash
Douglas Fairbanks
…Thomas Ullman; May 23, 1883 – December 12, 1939) was an American actor and filmmaker best known for being the first actor to play the masked vigilante Zorro and other swashbuckling roles in silent films. One of the biggest stars of the silent era, Fairbanks was referred to as "The King of Hollywood". He was…
Zorro's debut in the novel The Curse of Capistrano by Johnston McCulley, The All-Story Magazine (August 9, 1919).
Douglas Fairbanks in the first Zorro film, The Mark of Zorro (1920), which was instrumental in the early success of the character
Zorro (Guy Williams) and Bernardo (Gene Sheldon) in Walt Disney's 1957–1959 Zorro television series
Poster for the serial Zorro Rides Again (1937), starring John Carroll as a descendant of the original Zorro