Mary Pickford
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1892-04-07
Day of Death
1979-05-29 (87 years old)
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 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
Acting
(2023)
(2017)
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
(2016)
The Women Who Run Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
(2013)
Birth of the Tramp
as Self (archive footage)
(2010)
Smash His Camera
as Self (archive footage)
(2010)
Sigrid Holmquist
as Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
(2008)
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies
as Self (archive footage)
(2007)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
(2005)
Mary Pickford
as Self/Archival Footage
(2005)
Douglas Fairbanks: The Great Swashbuckler
as Self (archive footage)
(2003)
Chaplin Today: 'The Gold Rush'
as Self (archive footage)
(2002)
(2002)
The Tramp and the Dictator
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2000)
Mary Pickford: A Life on Film
as Self / Numerous Roles (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1998)
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
as Self / Various roles (archive footage)
(1985)
What Do Those Old Films Mean?
as Herself(archive footage)
(1982)
Hollywood’s Children
as Self (archive footage)
(1976)
Hooray for Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
(1961)
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
as Self (archive footage)
(1953)
Yesterday and Today
as (archive footage)
(1942)
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
as Herself
(1941)
(1940)
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
as Self (archive footage)
(1939)
Hollywood Hobbies
as Self (uncredited)
(1934)
(1933)
Secrets
as Mary Marlowe / Mary Carlton
(1933)
Hollywood on Parade No. B-5
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1932)
Hollywood on Parade No. A-4
as Self (uncredited)
(1931)
The House That Shadows Built
as (archive footage)
(1931)
Kiki
as Kiki
(1930)
The Voice of Hollywood
as Self/Queen of the Movies
(1930)
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5
as Mary Pickford
(1929)
The Taming of the Shrew
as Caterina
(1929)
Coquette
as Norma Besant
(1927)
The Gaucho
as The Virgin Mary
(1927)
My Best Girl
as Maggie Johnson
(1927)
One of Many
as Archive footage
(1927)
A Kiss from Mary Pickford
as Self (archive footage)
(1926)
The Black Pirate
as Princess Isobel in Final Embrace - Cameo Appearance (uncredited)
(1926)
Sparrows
as Molly
(1925)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
(1925)
Little Annie Rooney
as Annabelle 'Little Annie' Rooney
(1924)
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall
as Dorothy Vernon
(1924)
(1923)
Hollywood
as Mary Pickford
(1923)
Rosita
as Rosita
(1922)
Tess of the Storm Country
as Tessibel 'Tess' Skinner
(1922)
From Farm to Fame
as Mary Pickford
(1921)
The Love Light
as Angela Carlotti
(1921)
Little Lord Fauntleroy
as Cedric Errol / Widow Errol
(1921)
Through The Back Door
as Jeanne
(1920)
Suds
as Amanda Afflick
(1920)
Pollyanna
as Pollyanna Whittier
(1919)
Daddy-Long-Legs
as Judy Abbott
(1919)
Heart o' the Hills
as Mavis Hawn
(1919)
Captain Kidd, Jr.
as Mary MacTavish
(1919)
The Hoodlum
as Amy Burke
(1918)
Stella Maris
as Miss Stella Maris / Unity Blake
(1918)
(1918)
M'Liss
as Melissa 'M'liss' Smith
(1918)
Johanna Enlists
as Johanna Renssaller
(1918)
Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley
as Amarilly Jenkins
(1918)
How Could You, Jean?
as Jean Mackaye
(1918)
100% American
as Mayme
(1917)
The Little American
as Angela Moore
(1917)
A Romance of the Redwoods
as Jenny Lawrence
(1917)
The Poor Little Rich Girl
as Gwen
(1917)
A Little Princess
as Sara Crewe
(1917)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
as Rebecca Randall
(1917)
The Pride of the Clan
as Marget MacTavish
(1917)
(1916)
The Eternal Grind
as Louise
(1916)
Less Than the Dust
as Radha
(1916)
Poor Little Peppina
as Peppina
(1916)
Hulda from Holland
as Hulda
(1916)
The Foundling
as Molly O
(1915)
Rags
as Rags / Alice McCloud
(1915)
Fanchon, the Cricket
as Fanchon, the Cricket
(1915)
A Girl of Yesterday
as Jane Stuart
(1915)
Esmeralda
as Esmeralda Rogers
(1915)
Madame Butterfly
as Cho-Cho-San
(1915)
The Dawn of a Tomorrow
as Glad
(1915)
Little Pal
as 'Little Pal'
(1915)
Mistress Nell
as Nell Gwyn
(1915)
The Foundling
as Molly O
(1914)
Cinderella
as Cinderella
(1914)
A Good Little Devil
as Juliet
(1914)
Such a Little Queen
as Queen Anna Victoria
(1914)
Tess of the Storm Country
as Tessibel Skinner
(1914)
Hearts Adrift
as Nina
(1914)
The Eagle's Mate
as Anemone Breckenridge
(1914)
Behind the Scenes
as Dolly Lane
(1913)
The Unwelcome Guest
as Jessie - the Slavey
(1913)
In the Bishop's Carriage
as Nance Olden
(1913)
Caprice
as Mercy Baxter
(1912)
The New York Hat
as Mary Harding, the Daughter
(1912)
The Old Actor
as The Old Actor's Daughter
(1912)
The One She Loved
as The Wife
(1912)
My Baby
as The Wife
(1912)
A Pueblo Legend
as The Indian Girl
(1912)
The School Teacher and the Waif
as Nora, the Waif
(1912)
The Informer
as The Confederate Captain's Sweetheart
(1912)
Friends
as Dora - the Orphan
(1912)
A Feud in the Kentucky Hills
as The Daughter
(1912)
So Near, Yet So Far
as The Young Woman
(1912)
A Beast at Bay
as The Young Woman
(1912)
The Mender of Nets
as The Little Net-Mender
(1912)
Just Like a Woman
as The Young Woman
(1912)
The Inner Circle
as The Rich Italian's Daughter
(1912)
The Female of the Species
as The Miner's Wife's Sister
(1912)
With the Enemy's Help
as Faro Kate
(1912)
The Narrow Road
as Mrs. Jim Holcomb
(1912)
A Lodging for the Night
as The Mexican Girl
(1912)
Home Folks
as The Young Woman
(1912)
Iola's Promise
as Iola
(1912)
Fate's Interception
as The Mexican Girl
(1912)
Won by a Fish
as The Woman
(1912)
A Timely Repentance
as Mrs. Nordell - Heroine of the Movie within the Movie, 'The Wife's Desertion'
(1912)
Lena and the Geese
as Lena
(1912)
Honor Thy Father
as Mary Fuller
(1912)
An Indian Summer
as The Widow's Daughter
(1911)
At a Quarter of Two
as Mrs Warren
(1911)
Three Sisters
as Mary
(1911)
A Decree of Destiny
as Mary
(1911)
The Fisher-Maid
as Paula, The Fishing-Maid
(1911)
The Message in the Bottle
as Louise Spencer
(1911)
In the Sultan's Garden
as Hadee
(1911)
In the Sultan's Garden
as Haidee
(1911)
When a Man Loves
as Tessie
(1911)
The Master and the Man
as Elsie Graham
(1911)
The Italian Barber
as Alice
(1911)
Artful Kate
as Artful Kate Stanley
(1911)
The Call of the Song
as Amy Gordon
(1911)
Behind the Stockade
as Florence Williams
(1911)
While There is hope, There is Life
as Unknown Role
(1911)
Second Sight
as Gertrude Edgar
(1911)
The Secret of the Palm
as Unknown Role
(1911)
The Dream
as Nell Herbert
(1911)
Tracked
as Unknown Role
(1911)
Sweet Memories
as Polly Biblett
(1911)
Science
as Mrs. Crawford
(1911)
Their First Misunderstanding
as Mae Darcy
(1911)
Her Darkest Hour
as Ruth
(1911)
When the Cat's Away
as Dorothy, The Wife
(1911)
For Her Brother's Sake
as Madge Spotwood
(1911)
The Temptress
as Lucille Allen
(1911)
The Mirror
as Dorothy
(1911)
(1911)
The Fair Dentist
as Edith Morton - The Fair Dentist
(1911)
The Courting of Mary
as Mary
(1911)
A Gasoline Engagement
as Flora Powell
(1911)
The Skating Bug
as The Girl
(1911)
The Lighthouse Keeper
as Polly Berry - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
(1911)
The Stampede
as Nello
(1911)
The Better Way
as Lillian Garvey - a Salvation Army Lass
(1911)
'Tween Two Loves
as Grace
(1911)
(1911)
The Portrait
as Little Vera - the Model
(1911)
The Toss of a Coin
as Alice Barton - the Farmer's Daughter
(1911)
For the Queen's Honor
as Princess Gilda
(1911)
From the Bottom of the Sea
as Undetermined Role (unconfirmed)
(1911)
The Convert
as Agnes Boyd
(1911)
The Rose's Story
as Unknown Role
(1911)
Little Red Riding Hood
as Little Red Riding Hood
(1911)
Maid or Man
as Elsie Keene
(1911)
A Manly Man
as Lola
(1911)
How Mary Fixed it
as Mary
(1911)
Love Heeds Not Showers
as Mary
(1911)
The Caddy's Dream
as Miss Kelsomine
(1911)
Back to the Soil
as Sadie Allen
(1911)
The Sentinel Asleep
as Unknown Role
(1911)
His Dress Shirt
as Mrs. Kirby
(1910)
The Unchanging Sea
as The Daughter as an Adult
(1910)
Ramona
as Ramona
(1910)
All on Account of the Milk
as The Young Woman
(1910)
A Gold Necklace
as Masie
(1910)
The Englishman and the Girl
as The Girl
(1910)
When We Were in Our 'Teens
as Mary
(1910)
The Call to Arms
as A Messenger
(1910)
The Two Brothers
as A Mexican
(1910)
An Arcadian Maid
as The Arcadian Maid
(1910)
Muggsy Becomes a Hero
as Mabel
(1910)
What the Daisy Said
as Martha
(1910)
A Rich Revenge
as Jennie
(1910)
Never Again
as The Girl
(1910)
The Usurer
as Invalid Daughter
(1910)
White Roses
as Betty
(1910)
(1910)
Wilful Peggy
as Peggy
(1910)
Muggsy's First Sweetheart
as Mabel Brown
(1910)
The Thread of Destiny
as Myrtle
(1910)
As It Is in Life
as Daughter (Adult)
(1910)
A Child's Impulse
as Grace
(1910)
The Smoker
as George's Wife
(1910)
The Song of the Wildwood Flute
as Dove Eyes
(1910)
(1910)
Simple Charity
as Miss Wilkins
(1910)
(1910)
The Woman from Mellon's
as Mary Petersby
(1910)
The Twisted Trail
as Molly Hendricks
(1910)
A Plain Song
as Edith
(1910)
May and December
as May
(1910)
The Newlyweds
as Alice Vance
(1910)
Waiter No. 5
as The Chief of Police's Son's Fiancée
(1910)
(1910)
A Lucky Toothache
as Bessie
(1910)
A Lucky Toothache
as Mary
(1910)
A Victim of Jealousy
as The Wife's Friend
(1910)
In the Season of Buds
as Mabel
(1910)
Love Among the Roses
as The Lacemaker
(1909)
Lines of White on a Sullen Sea
as Second Couple
(1909)
The Restoration
as Alice Ashford
(1909)
The Sealed Room
as A Lady-in-Waiting
(1909)
Getting Even
as Miss Lucy
(1909)
1776, or The Hessian Renegades
as Messenger's Sister
(1909)
(1909)
Her First Biscuits
as Biscuit Victim
(1909)
The Peachbasket Hat
as On street/In store
(1909)
The Broken Locket
as Ruth King
(1909)
(1909)
The Country Doctor
as Poor Mother's Elder Daughter
(1909)
The Violin Maker of Cremona
as Giannina, Taddeo's Daughter
(1909)
Pippa Passes
as Girl in crowd
(1909)
The Little Darling
as Little Darling
(1909)
The Necklace
as The Maid / In Pawnshop
(1909)
The Renunciation
as Kittie Ryan
(1909)
Two Memories
as Marion's Sister
(1909)
The Gibson Goddess
as Woman on Sidewalk
(1909)
His Duty
as A young woman in the street
(1909)
The Faded Lilies
as At party
(1909)
In Old Kentucky
as Partygoer
(1909)
Through the Breakers
as An Extra
(1909)
In the Watches of the Night
as Girl at Henry Brainard's
(1909)
The Son's Return
as Mary
(1909)
To Save Her Soul
as Agnes Hailey
(1909)
The Heart of an Outlaw
as The Outlaw's Daughter, as an Adult
(1909)
Tender Hearts
as Nellie
(1909)
His Wife's Visitor
as Bessie Wright
(1909)
The Seventh Day
as The Maid
(1909)
The Indian Runner's Romance
as Blue Cloud's Wife
(1909)
(1909)
They Would Elope
as Bessie
(1909)
The Test
as Bessie
(1909)
What's Your Hurry?
as Mary
(1909)
The Mountaineer's Honor
as Harum-Scarum, a Mountain Girl
(1909)
A Midnight Adventure
as Eleanor
(1909)
(1909)
The Awakening
as The Widow's Daughter
(1909)
The Light That Came
as Daisy
(1909)
The Slave
as A Slave Girl
(1909)
The Cardinal's Conspiracy
as A Disguised Servant
(1909)
Oh, Uncle!
as Bessie
(1909)
His Lost Love
as Mary
(1909)
The Trick that Failed
as Nellie Burt
(1909)
The Mexican Sweethearts
as The Señorita
(1909)
Sweet and Twenty
as Alice
(1909)
The Way of Man
as Winnie, Mabel's Cousin
(1909)
The Little Teacher
as The Little Teacher
Crew
(1949)
Love Happy
Executive Producer
(1948)
Sleep, My Love
Producer
(1947)
White Cradle Inn
Producer
(1947)
Stork Bites Man
Producer
(1946)
Little Iodine
Executive Producer
(1936)
The Gay Desperado
Producer
(1936)
One Rainy Afternoon
Producer
(1933)
Secrets
Executive Producer
(1929)
Coquette
Producer
(1927)
My Best Girl
Producer
(1926)
Sparrows
Producer
(1925)
Little Annie Rooney
Writer, Producer
(1924)
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall
Producer, Director
(1923)
Rosita
Producer
(1923)
Garrison's Finish
Writer
(1922)
Tess of the Storm Country
Producer
(1921)
The Love Light
Producer
(1921)
Through The Back Door
Producer
(1921)
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Producer
(1920)
Pollyanna
Producer
(1920)
Suds
Producer
(1919)
The Hoodlum
Executive Producer
(1919)
Daddy-Long-Legs
Producer
(1918)
Johanna Enlists
Executive Producer
(1918)
How Could You, Jean?
Producer
(1917)
The Little American
Producer
(1917)
A Little Princess
Producer
(1916)
Poor Little Peppina
Producer
(1916)
Less Than the Dust
Producer
(1914)
Hearts Adrift
Writer
(1912)
Lena and the Geese
Screenplay
(1911)
Madame Rex
Writer
(1911)
Caught in the Act
Screenplay
(1911)
The Medallion
Screenplay
(1909)
The Day After
Writer
(1909)
The Awakening
Screenplay