Mary Pickford
Acting
Born: April 7, 1892 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Died: May 29, 1979 (aged 87)
Highest Rated
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
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
1925
The Lonely Villa
1909
The Black Pirate
1926
Love Happy
1949
Sleep, My Love
1948
American Experience
1988
Sparrows
1926
The Country Doctor
1909
The Poor Little Rich Girl
1917
The Unchanging Sea
1910
Coquette
1929
The Sealed Room
1909
Photos (13)
Movies (188)
100% American
Mayme
Secrets
Mary Marlowe / Mary Carlton
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
The Black Pirate
Princess Isobel in Final Embrace - Cameo Appearance (uncredited)
Yesterday and Today
(archive footage)
1776, or The Hessian Renegades
Messenger's Sister
The Renunciation
Kittie Ryan
Mistress Nell
Nell Gwyn
Cinderella
Cinderella
Caprice
Mercy Baxter
Esmeralda
Esmeralda Rogers
Rags
Rags / Alice McCloud
Cupid Angling
1918
Hollywood
Mary Pickford
Madame Butterfly
Cho-Cho-San
A Lucky Toothache
Mary
A Lucky Toothache
Bessie
Hearts Adrift
Nina
Muggsy's First Sweetheart
Mabel Brown
The School Teacher and the Waif
Nora, the Waif
The Casting Couch
1995
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Coquette
Norma Besant
The Better Way
Lillian Garvey - a Salvation Army Lass
The Little American
Angela Moore
The Love Light
Angela Carlotti
The New York Hat
Mary Harding, the Daughter
Fanchon, the Cricket
Fanchon, the Cricket
The Pride of the Clan
Marget MacTavish
Little Annie Rooney
Annabelle 'Little Annie' Rooney
The House That Shadows Built
(archive footage)
The Unchanging Sea
The Daughter as an Adult
The Violin Maker of Cremona
Giannina, Taddeo's Daughter
The Way of the World
Dora (Archive Footage)
Mondo Hollywood
1967
A Strange Meeting
1909
Kiki
Kiki
The Eternal Grind
Louise
The Hoodlum
Amy Burke
Stella Maris
Miss Stella Maris / Unity Blake
The Call to Arms
A Messenger
My Baby
The Wife
A Romance of the Redwoods
Jenny Lawrence
To Save Her Soul
Agnes Hailey
Johanna Enlists
Johanna Renssaller
Through the Back Door
Jeanne Bodamere
The Poor Little Rich Girl
Gwen
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Cedric Errol / Widow Errol
Heart o' the Hills
Mavis Hawn
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Rebecca Randall
A Good Little Devil
Juliet
The Gibson Goddess
Woman on Sidewalk
Pollyanna
Pollyanna Whittier
My Best Girl
Maggie Johnson
Sigrid Holmquist
Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
They Would Elope
Bessie
Lines of White on a Sullen Sea
Second Couple
The Lonely Villa
1909
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall
Dorothy Vernon
Getting Even
Miss Lucy
Rosita
Rosita
Daddy-Long-Legs
Judy Abbott
His Lost Love
Mary
The Cardinal's Conspiracy
A Disguised Servant
A Beast at Bay
The Young Woman
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
1941
The Sealed Room
A Lady-in-Waiting
M'Liss
Melissa 'M'liss' Smith
The Gaucho
The Virgin Mary
The Taming of the Shrew
Caterina
Ramona
Ramona
What the Daisy Said
Martha
The Mender of Nets
The Little Net-Mender
The Informer
The Confederate Captain's Sweetheart
The Seventh Day
The Maid
Hulda from Holland
Hulda
The Two Brothers
A Mexican
Captain Kidd, Jr.
Mary MacTavish
The Dawn of a Tomorrow
Glad
An Arcadian Maid
The Arcadian Maid
What Drink Did
1909
Sparrows
Molly
The Thread of Destiny
Myrtle
The Eagle's Mate
Anemone Breckenridge
The Usurer
Invalid Daughter
The Mountaineer's Honor
Harum-Scarum, a Mountain Girl
The Old Actor
The Old Actor's Daughter
The Light That Came
Daisy
Friends
Dora - the Orphan
Pippa Passes
Girl in crowd
What's Your Hurry?
Mary
The Dream
Nell Herbert
For the Queen's Honor
Princess Gilda
The Narrow Road
Mrs. Jim Holcomb
Two Memories
Marion's Sister
A Girl of Yesterday
Jane Stuart
When We Were in Our 'Teens
Mary
Poor Little Peppina
Peppina
The Way of Man
Winnie, Mabel's Cousin
The Son's Return
Mary
His Duty
A young woman in the street
That Chink at Golden Gulch
1910
Her Darkest Hour
Ruth
Sweet Memories
Polly Biblett
The Slave
A Slave Girl
A Little Princess
Sara Crewe
Wilful Peggy
Peggy
The Country Doctor
Poor Mother's Elder Daughter
Sunshine Sue
1910
Maid or Man
Elsie Keene
Tess of the Storm Country
Tessibel 'Tess' Skinner
A Romance of the Western Hills
1910
Little Red Riding Hood
Little Red Riding Hood
Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley
Amarilly Jenkins
The Little Darling
Little Darling
Behind the Scenes
Dolly Lane
Less Than the Dust
Radha
Her First Biscuits
Biscuit Victim
Tess of the Storm Country
Tessibel Skinner
The Broken Locket
Ruth King
A Feud in the Kentucky Hills
The Daughter
Through the Breakers
An Extra
The Necklace
The Maid / In Pawnshop
Little Pal
'Little Pal'
The Italian Barber
Alice
The Foundling
Molly O
A Timely Repentance
Mrs. Nordell - Heroine of the Movie within the Movie, 'The Wife's Desertion'
How Could You, Jean?
Jean Mackaye
The Female of the Species
The Miner's Wife's Sister
The Inner Circle
The Rich Italian's Daughter
The Temptress
Lucille Allen
The Restoration
Alice Ashford
Artful Kate
Artful Kate Stanley
The Newlyweds
Alice Vance
In Old Madrid
1911
So Near, Yet So Far
The Young Woman
Muggsy Becomes a Hero
Mabel
Home Folks
The Young Woman
The Awakening
The Widow's Daughter
A Pueblo Legend
The Indian Girl
Suds
Amanda Afflick
The Unwelcome Guest
Jessie - the Slavey
A Victim of Jealousy
The Wife's Friend
Love Among the Roses
The Lacemaker
In the Sultan's Garden
Hadee
In the Sultan's Garden
Haidee
May and December
May
The Mirror
Dorothy
A Child's Impulse
Grace
With the Enemy's Help
Faro Kate
D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913
2002
A Manly Man
Lola
In the Bishop's Carriage
Nance Olden
A Plain Song
Edith
Tender Hearts
Nellie
Won by a Fish
The Woman
When a Man Loves
Tessie
The Indian Runner's Romance
Blue Cloud's Wife
Iola's Promise
Iola
Oh, Uncle!
Bessie
Lena and the Geese
Lena
The Faded Lilies
At party
Such a Little Queen
Queen Anna Victoria
Fate's Interception
The Mexican Girl
As It Is in Life
Daughter (Adult)
Simple Charity
Miss Wilkins
From Farm to Fame
Mary Pickford
In Old Kentucky
Partygoer
A Lodging for the Night
The Mexican Girl
The Sorrows of the Unfaithful
Mary
Waiter No. 5
The Chief of Police's Son's Fiancée
His Wife's Visitor
Bessie Wright
The Rose's Story
Unknown Role
The Peachbasket Hat
On street/In store
The Courting of Mary
Mary
A Gold Necklace
Masie
All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan
1917
All on Account of the Milk
The Young Woman
'Tween Two Loves
Grace
An Indian Summer
The Widow's Daughter
Sweet and Twenty
Alice
Their First Misunderstanding
Mae Darcy
His Dress Shirt
Mrs. Kirby
The Toss of a Coin
Alice Barton - the Farmer's Daughter
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5
Mary Pickford
The Song of the Wildwood Flute
Dove Eyes
As a Boy Dreams
1911
The Convert
Agnes Boyd
Self / Appearances (32)
American Experience
Self · 1 eps
A Kiss from Mary Pickford
Self (archive footage)
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Hobbies
Self (uncredited)
Mary Pickford
Self/Archival Footage
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
Self (archive footage)
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
Self (archive footage)
The Women Who Run Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
The Tramp and the Dictator
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
One of Many
Self (archive footage)
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Self (archive footage)
Hooray for Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Mary Pickford: A Life on Film
Self / Numerous Roles (archive footage) (uncredited)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Hollywood’s Children
Self (archive footage)
Birth of the Tramp
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood on Parade No. B-10
Self
Elf: Christmas in Tinseltown
Self (archive)
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
Self / Various roles (archive footage)
The Voice of Hollywood
Self/Queen of the Movies
Decasia: The State of Decay
Self (archive footage)
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies
Self (archive footage)
Douglas Fairbanks: The Great Swashbuckler
Self (archive footage)
Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove
Self
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Self (archive footage)
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
Herself
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
Self - Actress (archive footage)
Chaplin Today: The Gold Rush
Self (archive footage)
Murders of Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood on Parade No. B-5
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hollywood on Parade No. A-4
Self (uncredited)
Mary Pickford a Blessing and a Curse
Self
Upcoming (1)
Directing (1)
Writing (8)
Producing (28)
Love Happy
Executive Producer
Secrets
Executive Producer
One Rainy Afternoon
Producer
Sleep, My Love
Producer
Stork Bites Man
Producer
Coquette
Producer
The Little American
Producer
The Love Light
Producer
Little Annie Rooney
Producer
The Gay Desperado
Producer
The Hoodlum
Executive Producer
Johanna Enlists
Executive Producer
Through the Back Door
Producer
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Producer
Little Iodine
Executive Producer
Pollyanna
Producer
My Best Girl
Producer
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall
Producer
Rosita
Producer
Daddy-Long-Legs
Producer
Sparrows
Producer
Poor Little Peppina
Producer
White Cradle Inn
Producer
A Little Princess
Producer
Tess of the Storm Country
Producer
Less Than the Dust
Producer
How Could You, Jean?
Producer
Suds
Producer