Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
April 7, 1892
Place of Birth:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Social Media
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 the list of the AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars as the 24th-top female star from the Classical Hollywood Cinema era and the "girl with the curls."
Pickford was one of the Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood and a significant figure in the development of film acting. She was one of the earliest stars to be billed under her own name, and was one of the most popular actresses of the 1910s and 1920s, earning the nickname "Queen of the Movies." She is credited with having defined the ingénue type in cinema.
She was awarded the second Academy Award for Best Actress for her first sound film role in Coquette (1929). By the late 1920s, Pickford's career went into decline. She received an Academy Honorary Award in 1976 in consideration of her contributions to American cinema.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Mary Pickford a Blessing and a Curse | Self |
| 2017 | Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts | Self - Actress (archive footage) |
| 2016 | The Women Who Run Hollywood | Self (archive footage) |
| 2013 | Birth of the Tramp | Self (archive footage) |
| 2010 | Smash His Camera | Self (archive footage) |
| 2010 | Sigrid Holmquist | Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage) |
| 2008 | Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies | Self (archive footage) |
| 2007 | Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema | Self (voice) (archive footage) |
| 2005 | Mary Pickford | Self/Archival Footage |
| 2005 | Douglas Fairbanks: The Great Swashbuckler | Self (archive footage) |
| 2003 | Chaplin Today: 'The Gold Rush' | Self (archive footage) |
| 2002 | D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913 | |
| 2002 | The Tramp and the Dictator | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2000 | Mary Pickford: A Life on Film | Self / Numerous Roles (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1998 | Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists | Self / Various roles (archive footage) |
| 1985 | What Do Those Old Films Mean? | Herself(archive footage) |
| 1982 | Hollywood’s Children | Self (archive footage) |
| 1976 | Hooray for Hollywood | Self (archive footage) |
| 1961 | The Legend of Rudolph Valentino | Self (archive footage) |
| 1953 | Yesterday and Today | (archive footage) |
| 1942 | Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6 | Herself |
| 1941 | Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2 | |
| 1940 | Cavalcade of the Academy Awards | Self (archive footage) |
| 1939 | Hollywood Hobbies | Self (uncredited) |
| 1934 | Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove | Self |
| 1933 | Secrets | Mary Marlowe / Mary Carlton |
| 1933 | Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1932 | Hollywood on Parade No. A-4 | Self (uncredited) |
| 1931 | Kiki | Kiki |
| 1931 | The House That Shadows Built | (archive footage) |
| 1930 | Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5 | Mary Pickford |
| 1930 | The Voice of Hollywood | Self/Queen of the Movies |
| 1929 | Coquette | Norma Besant |
| 1929 | The Taming of the Shrew | Caterina |
| 1927 | My Best Girl | Maggie Johnson |
| 1927 | A Kiss from Mary Pickford | Self (archive footage) |
| 1927 | One of Many | Archive footage |
| 1927 | The Gaucho | The Virgin Mary |
| 1926 | Sparrows | Molly |
| 1926 | The Black Pirate | Princess Isobel in Final Embrace - Cameo Appearance (uncredited) |
| 1925 | Little Annie Rooney | Annabelle 'Little Annie' Rooney |
| 1925 | Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited) |
| 1924 | Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall | Dorothy Vernon |
| 1924 | Mary and Doug Visit Stockholm | |
| 1923 | Hollywood | Mary Pickford |
| 1923 | Rosita | Rosita |
| 1922 | Tess of the Storm Country | Tessibel 'Tess' Skinner |
| 1922 | From Farm to Fame | Mary Pickford |
| 1921 | Through The Back Door | Jeanne |
| 1921 | Little Lord Fauntleroy | Cedric Errol / Widow Errol |
| 1921 | The Love Light | Angela Carlotti |
| 1920 | Suds | Amanda Afflick |
| 1920 | Pollyanna | Pollyanna Whittier |
| 1919 | Daddy-Long-Legs | Judy Abbott |
| 1919 | The Hoodlum | Amy Burke |
| 1919 | Heart o' the Hills | Mavis Hawn |
| 1919 | Captain Kidd, Jr. | Mary MacTavish |
| 1918 | Stella Maris | Miss Stella Maris / Unity Blake |
| 1918 | Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley | Amarilly Jenkins |
| 1918 | 100% American | Mayme |
| 1918 | Johanna Enlists | Johanna Renssaller |
| 1918 | M'Liss | Melissa 'M'liss' Smith |
| 1918 | How Could You, Jean? | Jean Mackaye |
| 1918 | Cupid Angling | |
| 1917 | The Pride of the Clan | Marget MacTavish |
| 1917 | The Poor Little Rich Girl | Gwen |
| 1917 | A Little Princess | Sara Crewe |
| 1917 | A Romance of the Redwoods | Jenny Lawrence |
| 1917 | The Little American | Angela Moore |
| 1917 | Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm | Rebecca Randall |
| 1917 | All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan | |
| 1916 | Poor Little Peppina | Peppina |
| 1916 | The Eternal Grind | Louise |
| 1916 | Less Than the Dust | Radha |
| 1916 | The Foundling | Molly O |
| 1916 | Hulda from Holland | Hulda |
| 1915 | Madame Butterfly | Cho-Cho-San |
| 1915 | Fanchon, the Cricket | Fanchon, the Cricket |
| 1915 | A Girl of Yesterday | Jane Stuart |
| 1915 | Rags | Rags / Alice McCloud |
| 1915 | Esmeralda | Esmeralda Rogers |
| 1915 | Mistress Nell | Nell Gwyn |
| 1915 | The Dawn of a Tomorrow | Glad |
| 1915 | Little Pal | 'Little Pal' |
| 1915 | The Foundling | Molly O |
| 1914 | Cinderella | Cinderella |
| 1914 | A Good Little Devil | Juliet |
| 1914 | Tess of the Storm Country | Tessibel Skinner |
| 1914 | Hearts Adrift | Nina |
| 1914 | Such a Little Queen | Queen Anna Victoria |
| 1914 | The Eagle's Mate | Anemone Breckenridge |
| 1914 | Behind the Scenes | Dolly Lane |
| 1913 | In the Bishop's Carriage | Nance Olden |
| 1913 | Caprice | Mercy Baxter |
| 1913 | The Unwelcome Guest | Jessie - the Slavey |
| 1912 | The Old Actor | The Old Actor's Daughter |
| 1912 | The New York Hat | Mary Harding, the Daughter |
| 1912 | So Near, Yet So Far | The Young Woman |
| 1912 | The Mender of Nets | The Little Net-Mender |
| 1912 | A Beast at Bay | The Young Woman |
| 1912 | Friends | Dora - the Orphan |
| 1912 | The Narrow Road | Mrs. Jim Holcomb |
| 1912 | The School Teacher and the Waif | Nora, the Waif |
| 1912 | A Pueblo Legend | The Indian Girl |
| 1912 | The Female of the Species | The Miner's Wife's Sister |
| 1912 | A Lodging for the Night | The Mexican Girl |
| 1912 | The Informer | The Confederate Captain's Sweetheart |
| 1912 | My Baby | The Wife |
| 1912 | The One She Loved | The Wife |
| 1912 | A Feud in the Kentucky Hills | The Daughter |
| 1912 | Honor Thy Father | Mary Fuller |
| 1912 | With the Enemy's Help | Faro Kate |
| 1912 | The Inner Circle | The Rich Italian's Daughter |
| 1912 | An Indian Summer | The Widow's Daughter |
| 1912 | Lena and the Geese | Lena |
| 1912 | Home Folks | The Young Woman |
| 1912 | Won by a Fish | The Woman |
| 1912 | Just Like a Woman | The Young Woman |
| 1912 | Iola's Promise | Iola |
| 1912 | A Timely Repentance | Mrs. Nordell - Heroine of the Movie within the Movie, 'The Wife's Desertion' |
| 1912 | Fate's Interception | The Mexican Girl |
| 1911 | The Temptress | Lucille Allen |
| 1911 | The Dream | Nell Herbert |
| 1911 | Sweet Memories | Polly Biblett |
| 1911 | In Old Madrid | |
| 1911 | The Mirror | Dorothy |
| 1911 | A Manly Man | Lola |
| 1911 | The Italian Barber | Alice |
| 1911 | Artful Kate | Artful Kate Stanley |
| 1911 | As a Boy Dreams | |
| 1911 | For Her Brother's Sake | Madge Spotwood |
| 1911 | The Master and the Man | Elsie Graham |
| 1911 | Their First Misunderstanding | Mae Darcy |
| 1911 | The Lighthouse Keeper | Polly Berry - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter |
| 1911 | Back to the Soil | Sadie Allen |
| 1911 | In the Sultan's Garden | Hadee |
| 1911 | In the Sultan's Garden | Haidee |
| 1911 | For the Queen's Honor | Princess Gilda |
| 1911 | When a Man Loves | Tessie |
| 1911 | Maid or Man | Elsie Keene |
| 1911 | Three Sisters | Mary |
| 1911 | When the Cat's Away | Dorothy, The Wife |
| 1911 | A Gasoline Engagement | Flora Powell |
| 1911 | A Decree of Destiny | Mary |
| 1911 | Her Darkest Hour | Ruth |
| 1911 | The Convert | Agnes Boyd |
| 1911 | At a Quarter of Two | Mrs Warren |
| 1911 | Science | Mrs. Crawford |
| 1911 | Tracked | Unknown Role |
| 1911 | The Message in the Bottle | Louise Spencer |
| 1911 | The Secret of the Palm | Unknown Role |
| 1911 | The Fisher-Maid | Paula, The Fishing-Maid |
| 1911 | The Stampede | Nello |
| 1911 | While There is hope, There is Life | Unknown Role |
| 1911 | Second Sight | Gertrude Edgar |
| 1911 | The Skating Bug | The Girl |
| 1911 | The Call of the Song | Amy Gordon |
| 1911 | The Toss of a Coin | Alice Barton - the Farmer's Daughter |
| 1911 | The Fair Dentist | Edith Morton - The Fair Dentist |
| 1911 | The Courting of Mary | Mary |
| 1911 | Love Heeds Not Showers | Mary |
| 1911 | Little Red Riding Hood | Little Red Riding Hood |
| 1911 | The Caddy's Dream | Miss Kelsomine |
| 1911 | 'Tween Two Loves | Grace |
| 1911 | The Rose's Story | Unknown Role |
| 1911 | The Sentinel Asleep | Unknown Role |
| 1911 | The Better Way | Lillian Garvey - a Salvation Army Lass |
| 1911 | His Dress Shirt | Mrs. Kirby |
| 1911 | The Portrait | Little Vera - the Model |
| 1911 | How Mary Fixed it | Mary |
| 1911 | Behind the Stockade | Florence Williams |
| 1911 | From the Bottom of the Sea | Undetermined Role (unconfirmed) |
| 1910 | Sunshine Sue | |
| 1910 | Wilful Peggy | Peggy |
| 1910 | The Unchanging Sea | The Daughter as an Adult |
| 1910 | Ramona | Ramona |
| 1910 | An Arcadian Maid | The Arcadian Maid |
| 1910 | As It Is in Life | |
| 1910 | What the Daisy Said | Martha |
| 1910 | Love Among the Roses | The Lacemaker |
| 1910 | The Thread of Destiny | Myrtle |
| 1910 | A Romance of the Western Hills | |
| 1910 | All on Account of the Milk | The Young Woman |
| 1910 | The Woman from Mellon's | Mary Petersby |
| 1910 | The Englishman and the Girl | The Girl |
| 1910 | The Newlyweds | Alice Vance |
| 1910 | The Twisted Trail | Molly Hendricks |
| 1910 | The Smoker | George's Wife |
| 1910 | A Rich Revenge | Jennie |
| 1910 | The Two Brothers | A Mexican |
| 1910 | In the Season of Buds | Mabel |
| 1910 | A Victim of Jealousy | The Wife's Friend |
| 1910 | Never Again | The Girl |
| 1910 | May and December | May |
| 1910 | Muggsy's First Sweetheart | Mabel Brown |
| 1910 | A Child's Impulse | Grace |
| 1910 | The Call to Arms | A Messenger |
| 1910 | When We Were in Our 'Teens | Mary |
| 1910 | The Sorrows of the Unfaithful | Mary |
| 1910 | Muggsy Becomes a Hero | Mabel |
| 1910 | A Gold Necklace | Masie |
| 1910 | A Lucky Toothache | Mary |
| 1910 | A Lucky Toothache | Bessie |
| 1910 | Waiter No. 5 | The Chief of Police's Son's Fiancée |
| 1910 | Simple Charity | Miss Wilkins |
| 1910 | The Song of the Wildwood Flute | Dove Eyes |
| 1910 | A Plain Song | Edith |
| 1910 | White Roses | Betty |
| 1910 | The Usurer | Invalid Daughter |
| 1910 | That Chink at Golden Gulch | |
| 1909 | The Sealed Room | A Lady-in-Waiting |
| 1909 | A Sweet Revenge | |
| 1909 | The Little Darling | Little Darling |
| 1909 | The Renunciation | Kittie Ryan |
| 1909 | The Mountaineer's Honor | Harum-Scarum, a Mountain Girl |
| 1909 | The Violin Maker of Cremona | Giannina, Taddeo's Daughter |
| 1909 | Pippa Passes | Girl in crowd |
| 1909 | Getting Even | Miss Lucy |
| 1909 | The Son's Return | Mary |
| 1909 | The Lonely Villa | |
| 1909 | The Gibson Goddess | Woman on Sidewalk |
| 1909 | The Country Doctor | Poor Mother's Elder Daughter |
| 1909 | The Light That Came | Daisy |
| 1909 | Her First Biscuits | Biscuit Victim |
| 1909 | A Strange Meeting | |
| 1909 | The Broken Locket | Ruth King |
| 1909 | The Indian Runner's Romance | Blue Cloud's Wife |
| 1909 | The Way of Man | Winnie, Mabel's Cousin |
| 1909 | The Awakening | The Widow's Daughter |
| 1909 | Lines of White on a Sullen Sea | Second Couple |
| 1909 | Two Memories | Marion's Sister |
| 1909 | Sweet and Twenty | Alice |
| 1909 | The Little Teacher | The Little Teacher |
| 1909 | His Wife's Visitor | Bessie Wright |
| 1909 | His Duty | A young woman in the street |
| 1909 | The Faded Lilies | At party |
| 1909 | The Peachbasket Hat | On street/In store |
| 1909 | The Mexican Sweethearts | The Señorita |
| 1909 | The Necklace | The Maid / In Pawnshop |
| 1909 | Tender Hearts | Nellie |
| 1909 | The Cardinal's Conspiracy | A Disguised Servant |
| 1909 | The Slave | A Slave Girl |
| 1909 | They Would Elope | Bessie |
| 1909 | Oh, Uncle! | Bessie |
| 1909 | The Seventh Day | The Maid |
| 1909 | 1776, or The Hessian Renegades | Messenger's Sister |
| 1909 | In Old Kentucky | Partygoer |
| 1909 | His Lost Love | Mary |
| 1909 | In the Watches of the Night | Girl at Henry Brainard's |
| 1909 | What's Your Hurry? | Mary |
| 1909 | The Restoration | Alice Ashford |
| 1909 | A Midnight Adventure | Eleanor |
| 1909 | The Trick that Failed | Nellie Burt |
| 1909 | Through the Breakers | An Extra |
| 1909 | The Test | Bessie |
| 1909 | To Save Her Soul | Agnes Hailey |
| 1909 | The Heart of an Outlaw | The Outlaw's Daughter, as an Adult |
| 1909 | What Drink Did |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1988 | American Experience | Self |