Mary Pickford
Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada — Apr 07 1892• Died May 29 1979
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Gladys Marie Smith (April 8, 1894 – May 29, 1979), known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a Canadian actress resident in the U.S., and also producer, screenwriter and film studio founder, who was a pioneer in the US film industry with a Hollywood career that spanned five decades. Pickford alongside her future husband, actor-producer Douglas Fairbanks, founded Pickford–Fairbanks Studios and United Artists, and was one of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Pickford is considered to be one of the most recognisable women…
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Mary Pickford's Credits
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American Experience
Self
Sleep, My Love
Production
So Near, Yet So Far
The Young Woman
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
Self (archive footage)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
Love Happy
Production
The Women Who Run Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
The Sealed Room
A Lady-in-Waiting
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Self (archive footage)
Ramona
Ramona
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Birth of the Tramp
Self (archive footage)
Yesterday and Today
(archive footage)
Secrets
Mary Marlowe / Mary Carlton
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood
Mary Pickford
The House That Shadows Built
(archive footage)
One Rainy Afternoon
Production
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Rebecca Randall
Sparrows
Molly
Hollywood on Parade No. B-5
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Stella Maris
Miss Stella Maris / Unity Blake
My Best Girl
Maggie Johnson
Coquette
Norma Besant
Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove
Self
Mondo Hollywood
Hooray for Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
The Black Pirate
Princess Isobel in Final Embrace - Cameo Appearance (uncredited)
Cinderella
Cinderella
A Beast at Bay
The Young Woman
The Dream
Nell Herbert
The Tramp and the Dictator
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Love Light
Angela Carlotti
The Usurer
Invalid Daughter
The New York Hat
Mary Harding, the Daughter
M'Liss
Melissa 'M'liss' Smith
The Gay Desperado
Production
Fanchon, the Cricket
Fanchon, the Cricket
Less Than the Dust
Radha
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
Getting Even
Miss Lucy
The Poor Little Rich Girl
Gwen
My Baby
The Wife
The Little American
Angela Moore
Pollyanna
Pollyanna Whittier
The Voice of Hollywood
Self/Queen of the Movies
Mary Pickford
Self/Archival Footage
Rosita
Rosita
The Hoodlum
Amy Burke
The Unchanging Sea
The Daughter as an Adult
Little Iodine
Production
Kiki
Kiki
Rags
Rags / Alice McCloud
Heart o' the Hills
Mavis Hawn
The Pride of the Clan
Marget MacTavish
A Strange Meeting
Hollywood Hobbies
Self (uncredited)
The Foundling
Molly O
Hollywood’s Children
Self (archive footage)
The Lonely Villa
A Good Little Devil
Juliet
How Could You, Jean?
Jean Mackaye
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall
Dorothy Vernon
A Feud in the Kentucky Hills
The Daughter
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
Self / Various roles (archive footage)
The Unwelcome Guest
Jessie - the Slavey
Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley
Amarilly Jenkins
The Necklace
The Maid / In Pawnshop
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
Herself
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
Self - Actress (archive footage)
Tracked
Unknown Role
Caprice
Mercy Baxter
Lines of White on a Sullen Sea
Second Couple
Friends
Dora - the Orphan
Wilful Peggy
Peggy
The Broken Locket
Ruth King
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Cedric Errol / Widow Errol
Esmeralda
Esmeralda Rogers
Tess of the Storm Country
Tessibel 'Tess' Skinner
The Slave
A Slave Girl
Stork Bites Man
Production
Chaplin Today: The Gold Rush
Self (archive footage)
Poor Little Peppina
Peppina
Behind the Scenes
Dolly Lane
The Informer
The Confederate Captain's Sweetheart
Little Annie Rooney
Annabelle 'Little Annie' Rooney
Hollywood on Parade No. A-4
Self (uncredited)
The Foundling
Molly O
Johanna Enlists
Johanna Renssaller
The Day After
Writing
Captain Kidd, Jr.
Mary MacTavish
A Little Princess
Sara Crewe
The Old Actor
The Old Actor's Daughter
Murders of Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
An Arcadian Maid
The Arcadian Maid
A Girl of Yesterday
Jane Stuart
To Save Her Soul
Agnes Hailey
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
What Drink Did
Mary Pickford: A Life on Film
Self / Numerous Roles (archive footage) (uncredited)
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
Self (archive footage)
The Faded Lilies
At party
Daddy-Long-Legs
Judy Abbott
A Lodging for the Night
The Mexican Girl
Through the Back Door
Jeanne Bodamere
D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913
Mistress Nell
Nell Gwyn
A Child's Impulse
Grace
The Way of Man
Winnie, Mabel's Cousin
The Way of the World
Dora (Archive Footage)
The Eagle's Mate
Anemone Breckenridge
The Taming of the Shrew
Caterina
The One She Loved
The Wife
Home Folks
The Young Woman
The Thread of Destiny
Myrtle
Tender Hearts
Nellie
White Roses
Betty
In Old Kentucky
Partygoer
That Chink at Golden Gulch
White Cradle Inn
Production
The Inner Circle
The Rich Italian's Daughter
The Son's Return
Mary
Suds
Amanda Afflick
The Mirror
Dorothy
For Her Brother's Sake
Madge Spotwood
The Better Way
Lillian Garvey - a Salvation Army Lass
Muggsy's First Sweetheart
Mabel Brown
A Romance of the Redwoods
Jenny Lawrence
His Duty
A young woman in the street
The Dawn of a Tomorrow
Glad
Anniversary
Herself - Archive Footage (uncredited)
Hollywood on Parade No. B-10
Self
Lena and the Geese
Lena
The Heart of an Outlaw
The Outlaw's Daughter, as an Adult
The Newlyweds
Alice Vance
The Gibson Goddess
Woman on Sidewalk
For the Queen's Honor
Princess Gilda
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies
Self (archive footage)
With the Enemy's Help
Faro Kate
Sigrid Holmquist
Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
Little Pal
'Little Pal'
Just Like a Woman
The Young Woman
The Mountaineer's Honor
Harum-Scarum, a Mountain Girl
Douglas Fairbanks: The Great Swashbuckler
Self (archive footage)
When a Man Loves
Tessie
Garrison's Finish
Writing
Science
Mrs. Crawford
1776, or The Hessian Renegades
Messenger's Sister
Sweet Memories
Polly Biblett
A Pueblo Legend
The Indian Girl
Two Memories
Marion's Sister
The Mender of Nets
The Little Net-Mender
A Gold Necklace
Masie
A Timely Repentance
Mrs. Nordell - Heroine of the Movie within the Movie, 'The Wife's Desertion'
Sweet and Twenty
Alice
Waiter No. 5
The Chief of Police's Son's Fiancée
The Message in the Bottle
Louise Spencer
The Gaucho
The Virgin Mary
The Cardinal's Conspiracy
A Disguised Servant
They Would Elope
Bessie
In Old Madrid
The Renunciation
Kittie Ryan
Mary Pickford a Blessing and a Curse
Self
Madame Butterfly
Cho-Cho-San
The Little Darling
Little Darling
A Victim of Jealousy
The Wife's Friend
The Narrow Road
Mrs. Jim Holcomb
The Casting Couch
Fate's Interception
The Mexican Girl
The Restoration
Alice Ashford
Their First Misunderstanding
Mae Darcy
The Fair Dentist
Edith Morton - The Fair Dentist
One of Many
Self (archive footage)
What the Daisy Said
Martha
A Kiss from Mary Pickford
Self (archive footage)
A Manly Man
Lola
Muggsy Becomes a Hero
Mabel
Won by a Fish
The Woman
The Courting of Mary
Mary
Sunshine Sue
When We Were in Our 'Teens
Mary
The Two Brothers
A Mexican
At a Quarter of Two
Mrs Warren
Little Red Riding Hood
Little Red Riding Hood
100% American
Mayme
The Seventh Day
The Maid
Her First Biscuits
Biscuit Victim
The Eternal Grind
Louise
A Lucky Toothache
Bessie
What Do Those Old Films Mean?
Herself(archive footage)
Pippa Passes
Girl in crowd
A Decree of Destiny
Mary
The Female of the Species
The Miner's Wife's Sister
The School Teacher and the Waif
Nora, the Waif
The Indian Runner's Romance
Blue Cloud's Wife
May and December
May
The Peachbasket Hat
On street/In store
His Lost Love
Mary
A Sweet Revenge
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5
Mary Pickford
The Call of the Song
Amy Gordon
Oh, Uncle!
Bessie
The Portrait
Little Vera - the Model
The Awakening
The Widow's Daughter
The Stampede
Nello
Through the Breakers
An Extra
Second Sight
Gertrude Edgar
The Master and the Man
Elsie Graham
The Lighthouse Keeper
Polly Berry - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
Back to the Soil
Sadie Allen
The Light That Came
Daisy
The Call to Arms
A Messenger
Never Again
The Girl
In the Sultan's Garden
Hadee
Hearts Adrift
Nina
When the Cat's Away
Dorothy, The Wife
The Violin Maker of Cremona
Giannina, Taddeo's Daughter
What's Your Hurry?
Mary
While There is hope, There is Life
Unknown Role
The Englishman and the Girl
The Girl
The Sorrows of the Unfaithful
Mary
Tess of the Storm Country
Tessibel Skinner
The Smoker
George's Wife
Love Among the Roses
The Lacemaker
A Gasoline Engagement
Flora Powell
The Twisted Trail
Molly Hendricks
The Fisher-Maid
Paula, The Fishing-Maid
Artful Kate
Artful Kate Stanley
Madame Rex
Writing
All on Account of the Milk
The Young Woman
The Temptress
Lucille Allen
An Indian Summer
The Widow's Daughter
The Song of the Wildwood Flute
Dove Eyes
The Secret of the Palm
Edna
A Rich Revenge
Jennie
All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan
A Midnight Adventure
Eleanor
Three Sisters
Mary
The Little Teacher
The Little Teacher
Honor Thy Father
Mary Fuller
The Country Doctor
Poor Mother's Elder Daughter
Such a Little Queen
Queen Anna Victoria
The Test
Bessie
The Italian Barber
Alice
The Rose's Story
Unknown Role
Maid or Man
Elsie Keene
As It Is in Life
Daughter (Adult)
Her Darkest Hour
Ruth
Hulda from Holland
Hulda
In the Season of Buds
Mabel
The Caddy's Dream
Miss Kelsomine
The Trick that Failed
Nellie Burt
Mary and Doug Visit Stockholm
In the Watches of the Night
Girl at Henry Brainard's
Simple Charity
Miss Wilkins
Cupid Angling
The Woman from Mellon's
Mary Petersby
His Wife's Visitor
Bessie Wright
Behind the Stockade
Florence Williams
Love Heeds Not Showers
Mary
As a Boy Dreams
From Farm to Fame
Mary Pickford
The Mexican Sweethearts
The Señorita
A Plain Song
Edith
Iola's Promise
Iola
'Tween Two Loves
Grace
The Medallion
Rumored
In the Bishop's Carriage
Nance Olden
From the Bottom of the Sea
Undetermined Role (unconfirmed)
The Toss of a Coin
Alice Barton - the Farmer's Daughter
How Mary Fixed it
Mary
The Skating Bug
The Girl
A Romance of the Western Hills
His Dress Shirt
Mrs. Kirby
The Sentinel Asleep
Unknown Role
Caught in the Act
Writing
The Convert
Agnes Boyd