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