William Fairbanks
Date of birth: 1894-05-24
Place of birth: Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Carl Ullman
Biography
From Wikipedia William Fairbanks (May 24, 1894 – April 1, 1945) was an American actor. He appeared in over 65 silent era motion pictures between 1916 and 1928. His first film role was as Capt. Pierre Thierry in the war drama Somewhere in France (1916) starring Louise Glaum and Howard C. Hickman. He was then living at 20 Horizon Avenue in Venice, California, where he registered to vote. He appeared in five movies released in 1917, including his role as Dillon in the drama The Little Brother starring Enid Bennett and William Garwood. He was then living at 115 Dudley Avenue in Venice, where he registered for the draft of World War I. He went on to serve as an ensign in the U.S. Navy. Appearing in only one movie released in 1918, as Stuart Morley in the comedy/drama The Hired Man starring Charles Ray and Charles K. French, he was then absent from the screen for over a year due to the war. In 1920, he lived at 1309 Ocean Front in Santa Monica, and four of his movies were released that year. He was elevated to star status by independent producers Phil Goldstone and Ben F. Wilson. His screen name, taken from that of Douglas Fairbanks, whose real surname happened to be the same as his, came about with the release of his starring role in Goldstone's western Hearts of the West (1920) opposite Frances Conrad. Although Fairbanks was a busy movie star through the greater part of the 1920s, after playing Long Collins in The Vanishing West (1928), he retired from the screen. In spite of sharing the same last name, William Fairbanks and Douglas Fairbanks Sr. were not related.
Movie Credits
The Beautiful Sinner
1924-10-01
To help secret serviceman Bill Parsons in pursuit of the thieving Benson gang wealthy criminologist
Racing for Life
1924-08-08
Jack Grant agrees to drive in the big race in order to save his brother Carl from being charged with
The Vanishing West
1928-10-15
A boy's father is an unjustly accused fugitive, and the boy's scheming uncle plots to become the you
The Secret Gift
1920-09-20
Jan Saxe and Peter Harlingen, two young men from Holland, arrive in America with little orphan Berth
The Down Grade
1927-07-25
The Down Grade is a 1927 Action film.
One Chance in a Million
1927-04-01
Secret Service agent Jerry Blaine is hot on the trail of a gang of jewel thieves, Jerry briefly pose
Through Thick and Thin
1927-09-29
An undercover agent tracks a gang of drug smugglers to their headquarters in Mexico, a nightclub, wh
That Something
1920-05-02
Drifter Edwin Drake, estranged from his family, has a prophetic vision and gets his life back on tra
Fighting Youth
1925-07-01
Dick Covington is a society athlete who is quick with his fists. His fiancée, Jean Manley, hates his
The Torrent
1924-08-01
Hale Garrison, a big game hunter returning from safari in Africa, meets Gloria Manner on shipboard a
The Flame of the Yukon
1917-07-01
George Fowler arrives at the Mias saloon, and the proprietor, "Blak Jack" Hovey, orders a saloon gir
The Little Brother
1917-03-11
Jerry Ross dresses as a boy and sells newspapers to make money on the street corner. As the result o
Do It Now
1924-02-01
At the urging of his sweetheart, Rosemary Smith, a man (William Fairbanks) leaves his soft job in th
Spoilers of the West
1927-12-10
A soldier falls in love with a beautiful settler who has refused his order to leave American Indian
A Western Demon
1922-05-01
The Battling Fool
1924-08-01
William Fairbanks stars in this fighting feature about a rural rube who enters the ring to earn priz
Her Man
1924-07-10
Out on the range with William Fairbanks.
Somewhere in France
1916-10-29
Wicked Frenchwoman Marie Chaumontel is the mistress of Captain Henry Ravignac. She steals some paper
The Great Sensation
1925-10-01
Jack Ruby (William Fairbanks), the son of a wealthy family, pretends to be a chauffeur and goes to w
Under the Black Eagle
1928-03-24
A German Shepherd Dog and the people he loves are entangled in World War One.
Flying High
1926-12-20
While taking a joyride with his sweetie Patricia, daredevil pilot Roy Cummins witnesses the aerial h
Wolf Lowry
1917-05-27
William S. Hart was the great solitary Western hero of silent film who rode his horse off to new adv
The Cowboy and the Flapper
1924-08-25
U.S. Marshal, Dan Patterson, goes undercover as a criminal to infiltrate a gang holding a young woma
The Hired Man
1918-01-27
Ezry is a hardworking hired man who saves his money carefully in the hopes one day of going to colle
Vanishing Millions
1926-01-21
European produced 15 chapter adventure serial starring William Fairbanks and Vivian Rich.
Peaceful Peters
1922-10-15
Marry in Haste
1924-02-01
A wealthy Wyoming man disowns his son, Wayne Sturgis (William Fairbanks), for marrying art student J
Wyoming
1928-03-24
A girl leads the way across the great Oregon Trail.