Mary Pickford

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1892-04-07 (87 years old)

Deathday

1979-05-29

Place of Birth

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Mary Pickford

Biography

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 in history. Known as "America's Sweetheart" during the silent film era, she is named on t...

Acting

1911

The Temptress

as Lucille Allen

1909

The Sealed Room

as A Lady-in-Waiting

1932

Hollywood on Parade No. A-4

as Self (uncredited)

1953

Yesterday and Today

as (archive footage)

1918

Stella Maris

as Miss Stella Maris / Unity Blake

1919

Daddy-Long-Legs

as Judy Abbott

1922

Tess of the Storm Country

as Tessibel 'Tess' Skinner

1917

The Pride of the Clan

as Marget MacTavish

1926

Sparrows

as Molly

1927

My Best Girl

as Maggie Johnson

1914

Cinderella

as Cinderella

1961

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

as Self (archive footage)

1929

Coquette

as Norma Besant

2010

Smash His Camera

as Self (archive footage)

1920

Suds

as Amanda Afflick

1923

Hollywood

as Mary Pickford

1920

Pollyanna

as Pollyanna Whittier

1912

The Old Actor

as The Old Actor's Daughter

1925

Little Annie Rooney

as Annabelle 'Little Annie' Rooney

1919

The Hoodlum

as Amy Burke

1912

The New York Hat

as Mary Harding, the Daughter

1922

From Farm to Fame

as Mary Pickford

1931

Kiki

as Kiki

1917

A Little Princess

as Sara Crewe

1914

1918

1909

The Little Darling

as Little Darling

1912

So Near, Yet So Far

as The Young Woman

1912

The Mender of Nets

as The Little Net-Mender

1910

Wilful Peggy

as Peggy

1909

The Renunciation

as Kittie Ryan

1912

A Beast at Bay

as The Young Woman

1912

Friends

as Dora - the Orphan

1912

The Narrow Road

as Mrs. Jim Holcomb

1912

1924

2005

Mary Pickford

as Self/Archival Footage

1914

Tess of the Storm Country

as Tessibel Skinner

1915

Madame Butterfly

as Cho-Cho-San

1917

A Romance of the Redwoods

as Jenny Lawrence

1918

1918

Johanna Enlists

as Johanna Renssaller

1918

M'Liss

as Melissa 'M'liss' Smith

1919

Heart o' the Hills

as Mavis Hawn

1910

The Unchanging Sea

as The Daughter as an Adult

1921

Little Lord Fauntleroy

as Cedric Errol / Widow Errol

1921

The Love Light

as Angela Carlotti

1927

A Kiss from Mary Pickford

as Self (archive footage)

1923

Rosita

as Rosita

1910

Ramona

as Ramona

1910

An Arcadian Maid

as The Arcadian Maid

1910

As It Is in Life

as Daughter (Adult)

1911

The Dream

as Nell Herbert

1910

1916

1909

The Mountaineer's Honor

as Harum-Scarum, a Mountain Girl

1909

The Violin Maker of Cremona

as Giannina, Taddeo's Daughter

1911

Sweet Memories

as Polly Biblett

1939

Hollywood Hobbies

as Self (uncredited)

1933

Secrets

as Mary Marlowe / Mary Carlton

1917

The Little American

as Angela Moore

1916

1915

Fanchon, the Cricket

as Fanchon, the Cricket

1911

The Mirror

as Dorothy

1917

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

as Rebecca Randall

1914

2003

Chaplin Today: 'The Gold Rush'

as Self (archive footage)

1919

Captain Kidd, Jr.

as Mary MacTavish

1918

How Could You, Jean?

as Jean Mackaye

1933

Hollywood on Parade No. B-5

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1909

Pippa Passes

as Girl in crowd

1909

Getting Even

as Miss Lucy

1909

1911

2000

Mary Pickford: A Life on Film

as Self / Numerous Roles (archive footage) (uncredited)

1912

A Pueblo Legend

as The Indian Girl

1909

The Gibson Goddess

as Woman on Sidewalk

1909

The Country Doctor

as Poor Mother's Elder Daughter

1909

Her First Biscuits

as Biscuit Victim

1926

The Black Pirate

as Princess Isobel in Final Embrace - Cameo Appearance (uncredited)

1909

The Broken Locket

as Ruth King

1909

The Indian Runner's Romance

as Blue Cloud's Wife

1910

Love Among the Roses

as The Lacemaker

1911

1909

The Way of Man

as Winnie, Mabel's Cousin

1909

The Awakening

as The Widow's Daughter

1911

Artful Kate

as Artful Kate Stanley

1914

Such a Little Queen

as Queen Anna Victoria

1927

One of Many

as Archive footage

1909

2008

Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies

as Self (archive footage)

1930

The Voice of Hollywood

as Self/Queen of the Movies

1909

Two Memories

as Marion's Sister

1909

1916

1909

The Little Teacher

as The Little Teacher

1911

For Her Brother's Sake

as Madge Spotwood

1910

All on Account of the Milk

as The Young Woman

1910

The Woman from Mellon's

as Mary Petersby

1910

The Newlyweds

as Alice Vance

1910

The Twisted Trail

as Molly Hendricks

1910

The Smoker

as George's Wife

1910

1910

The Two Brothers

as A Mexican

1985

What Do Those Old Films Mean?

as Herself(archive footage)

1911

The Master and the Man

as Elsie Graham

1910

A Victim of Jealousy

as The Wife's Friend

1910

Never Again

as The Girl

1910

1910

1911

The Lighthouse Keeper

as Polly Berry - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter

1911

Back to the Soil

as Sadie Allen

1910

The Call to Arms

as A Messenger

1910

1910

1913

1916

The Foundling

as Molly O

1927

The Gaucho

as The Virgin Mary

1916

1915

A Girl of Yesterday

as Jane Stuart

1915

Rags

as Rags / Alice McCloud

1910

Waiter No. 5

as The Chief of Police's Son's Fiancée

1910

Simple Charity

as Miss Wilkins

1913

Caprice

as Mercy Baxter

1910

A Plain Song

as Edith

1910

White Roses

as Betty

1915

Esmeralda

as Esmeralda Rogers

1911

For the Queen's Honor

as Princess Gilda

1912

The Female of the Species

as The Miner's Wife's Sister

1911

1911

Maid or Man

as Elsie Keene

1911

1911

When the Cat's Away

as Dorothy, The Wife

1914

The Eagle's Mate

as Anemone Breckenridge

1911

A Gasoline Engagement

as Flora Powell

1909

His Wife's Visitor

as Bessie Wright

1911

1911

The Convert

as Agnes Boyd

1914

Behind the Scenes

as Dolly Lane

1911

At a Quarter of Two

as Mrs Warren

1911

Science

as Mrs. Crawford

1911

Tracked

as Unknown Role

1911

The Message in the Bottle

as Louise Spencer

1911

The Secret of the Palm

as Unknown Role

1911

The Fisher-Maid

as Paula, The Fishing-Maid

1915

Mistress Nell

as Nell Gwyn

1909

His Duty

as A young woman in the street

1909

The Faded Lilies

as At party

1909

The Peachbasket Hat

as On street/In store

1909

The Mexican Sweethearts

as The Señorita

1909

The Necklace

as The Maid / In Pawnshop

1909

Tender Hearts

as Nellie

1909

The Cardinal's Conspiracy

as A Disguised Servant

1909

The Slave

as A Slave Girl

1909

1911

The Stampede

as Nello

1911

Second Sight

as Gertrude Edgar

1909

Oh, Uncle!

as Bessie

1909

The Seventh Day

as The Maid

1909

1776, or The Hessian Renegades

as Messenger's Sister

1909

In Old Kentucky

as Partygoer

1909

1912

A Lodging for the Night

as The Mexican Girl

1909

In the Watches of the Night

as Girl at Henry Brainard's

1911

The Skating Bug

as The Girl

1911

1911

The Toss of a Coin

as Alice Barton - the Farmer's Daughter

1913

The Unwelcome Guest

as Jessie - the Slavey

1915

Little Pal

as 'Little Pal'

1911

The Fair Dentist

as Edith Morton - The Fair Dentist

1909

The Restoration

as Alice Ashford

1909

1909

The Trick that Failed

as Nellie Burt

1909

1909

The Test

as Bessie

1909

To Save Her Soul

as Agnes Hailey

1909

The Heart of an Outlaw

as The Outlaw's Daughter, as an Adult

1912

The Informer

as The Confederate Captain's Sweetheart

1912

My Baby

as The Wife

1912

1912

1911

Little Red Riding Hood

as Little Red Riding Hood

1911

The Caddy's Dream

as Miss Kelsomine

1912

Honor Thy Father

as Mary Fuller

1912

1912

The Inner Circle

as The Rich Italian's Daughter

1912

An Indian Summer

as The Widow's Daughter

1911

1912

Home Folks

as The Young Woman

1912

Won by a Fish

as The Woman

1912

Just Like a Woman

as The Young Woman

1912

1911

The Rose's Story

as Unknown Role

1911

The Sentinel Asleep

as Unknown Role

1911

The Better Way

as Lillian Garvey - a Salvation Army Lass

1911

His Dress Shirt

as Mrs. Kirby

1911

The Portrait

as Little Vera - the Model

1912

A Timely Repentance

as Mrs. Nordell - Heroine of the Movie within the Movie, 'The Wife's Desertion'

1912

Fate's Interception

as The Mexican Girl

1940

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

as Self (archive footage)

1998

Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists

as Self / Various roles (archive footage)

2002

The Tramp and the Dictator

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1915

The Foundling

as Molly O

2010

Sigrid Holmquist

as Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)

2007

1931

The House That Shadows Built

as (archive footage)

2013

Birth of the Tramp

as Self (archive footage)

2016

The Women Who Run Hollywood

as Self (archive footage)

1911

Behind the Stockade

as Florence Williams

1911

From the Bottom of the Sea

as Undetermined Role (unconfirmed)

1925

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)

2017

Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts

as Self - Actress (archive footage)

1982

Hollywood’s Children

as Self (archive footage)

1910

The Usurer

as Invalid Daughter

2005

1976

Hooray for Hollywood

as Self (archive footage)

Production

1929

Coquette

as Producer

1936

1916

1926

Sparrows

as Producer

1914

Hearts Adrift

as Writer

1936

1923

Rosita

as Producer

1925

1925

1918

Johanna Enlists

as Executive Producer

1916

1917

1917

1918

1919

Daddy-Long-Legs

as Producer

1919

The Hoodlum

as Executive Producer

1920

Pollyanna

as Producer

1920

Suds

as Producer

1921

The Love Light

as Producer

1921

1921

1927

My Best Girl

as Producer

1933

Secrets

as Executive Producer

1909

The Day After

as Writer

1949

Love Happy

as Executive Producer

1911

Madame Rex

as Writer

1909

The Awakening

as Screenplay

1911

Caught in the Act

as Screenplay

1911

The Medallion

as Screenplay

1948

Sleep, My Love

as Producer

1923

1946

Little Iodine

as Executive Producer

1947

White Cradle Inn

as Producer

1947

Stork Bites Man

as Producer

1912

Lena and the Geese

as Screenplay

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