He was christened Douglas Elton Fairbanks inside New York, New York, the boy of actor Douglas Fairbanks and his first married woman Anna Beth Sully. His parents divorced after he was ten years old. By having his mother, he sleep in California, Paris, and London.

Largely on the basis of his title, he was given the contract at age xiv sustaining Paramount Pictures. Fallowing making a bit of insignificant films, he took to the stage, in which he impressed his father, his step-mother Mary Pickford, and Charlie Chaplin, who encouraged him to prove my point by using acting. He was likewise found by Joan Crawford who began to date him. In June 3, 1929, in St. Malachy's Church within Manhattan, Future York, it were married.

Fairbanks starred inside many pictures using Loretta Young, and, sustaining Little Caesar, Outward Bound, Gunga Din and The Dawn Patrol, his movies began to develop extra commercial profits.

He went in the delayed honeymoon to England, in which he was entertained by Noel Coward and George, Duke of Kent. He became active around each society & politics, however Crawford didn't enjoy either one, & it were divorced inside Will 1933.

It has been claimed that Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. wwhen one of a naked men in the incriminatory exposure which were utilized as grounds to believe in the divorcement test of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll.

In April 22, 1939, he married Mary Lee Hartford (née Mary Lee Epling), a previous married woman of George Huntington Hartford, the Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company heir: they had three daughters. Mary Lee Fairbanks died of cancer inside 1988. 3 years late, in May 30, 1991, he married Vera Shelton at St. Patrick's Cathedral inside New York City.

He advocated U.S. trend lines for Britain when you took World War II, and was awarded an honorary KBE in 1949. Within 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointed him a favorite envoy to South America. Late in the war, he was licensed in the U.S. Navy commanding a group of British patrol boats during commando operations.

He died of the heart attack in New York at the age of Xc. He is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California, in the same crypt as his father.

Fairbanks has deuce stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for motion pictures at 6318 Hollywood Boulevard and a single for television at 6665 Hollywood Boulevard.

Filmography
Stella Dallas - 1925 Our Modern Maidens - 1929 (with so married woman Joan Crawford) The Jazz Age - 1929 Little Caesar - 1931 Morning Glory - 1933 Catherine the Great - 1934 The Prisoner of Zenda - 1937 Gunga Din - 1939 Angels Over Broadway - 1940 The Corsican Brothers - 1941 Sinbad the Sailor - 1947 The Exile - 1947 ''The Fighting O'Flynn - 1949 State Secret - 1950 Ghost Story'' - 1981