Mary Pickford began in the theater at age seven. Then known as "Baby Gladys Smith", she toured with her family in a number of theater companies. In 1907, she adopted a family name Pickford and joined the David Belasco troupe, appearing in the long-running The Warrens of Virginia". She began in films in 1909 with the 'American Mutoscope & Biograph [us]', working with director D.W. Griffith. For a short time in 1911, to earn more money, she joined the IMP Film Co. under Carl Laemmle. She returned to Biograph in 1912, and, in 1913 joined the Famous Players Film Company under Adolph Zukor. She then joined First National Exhibitor's Circuit in 1918. In 1919 she helped to establish United Artists. Date of Death 29 May 1979, Santa Monica, California (cerebral hemorrhage)
Movie | Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts | Self - Actress (archive footage) | 2017-06-14 |
Movie | The Women Who Run Hollywood | Herself (archive footage) | 2016-05-16 |
Movie | Birth of the Tramp | Self (archive footage) | 2013-12-29 |
Movie | Smash His Camera | Self (archive footage) | 2010-07-30 |
Movie | Sigrid Holmquist | Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage) | 2010-10-08 |
Movie | Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies | Self (archive footage) | 2008-08-29 |
Movie | Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema | Self (voice) (archive footage) | 2007-05-23 |
Movie | Chaplin Today: 'The Gold Rush' | Self (archive footage) | 2003-07-01 |
Movie | The Tramp and the Dictator | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2002-02-14 |
Movie | D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913 | 2002-09-10 | |
Movie | Mary Pickford: A Life on Film | Self / Numerous Roles (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2000-09-12 |
Movie | Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists | Self / Various roles (archive footage) | 1998-01-01 |
Movie | The Casting Couch | (archive footage) | 1995-01-01 |
Movie | What Do Those Old Films Mean? | Herself(archive footage) | 1985-11-16 |
Movie | Hollywood My Home Town | Self (archive footage) | 1965-12-31 |
Movie | Hollywood Without Make-Up | Self (archive footage) | 1963-07-01 |
Movie | The Legend of Rudolph Valentino | Self (archive footage) | 1961-05-24 |
Movie | Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6 | Herself | 1942-10-05 |
Movie | Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2 | 1941-12-05 | |
Movie | Cavalcade of the Academy Awards | Self (archive footage) | 1940-07-31 |
Movie | Hollywood Hobbies | Herself (uncredited) | 1939-05-03 |
Movie | Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove | Self | 1934-12-01 |
Movie | Secrets | Mary Marlowe / Mary Carlton | 1933-03-16 |
Movie | Kiki | Kiki | 1931-03-14 |
Movie | The House That Shadows Built | (archive footage) | 1931-07-08 |
Movie | Coquette | Norma Besant | 1929-03-30 |
Movie | The Taming of the Shrew | Caterina | 1929-10-26 |
Movie | One From Many | Herself (archive footage) | 1927-10-31 |
Movie | A Kiss from Mary Pickford | Self (archive footage) | 1927-09-08 |
Movie | My Best Girl | Maggie Johnson | 1927-10-31 |
Movie | The Gaucho | The Virgin Mary | 1927-11-21 |
Movie | The Black Pirate | Princess Isobel in Final Embrace - Cameo Appearance (uncredited) | 1926-03-08 |
Movie | Sparrows | Molly | 1926-09-19 |
Movie | Little Annie Rooney | Annabelle 'Little Annie' Rooney | 1925-10-18 |
Movie | Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited) | 1925-12-25 |
Movie | Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall | Dorothy Vernon | 1924-05-24 |
Movie | Hollywood | Mary Pickford | 1923-08-19 |
Movie | Rosita | Rosita | 1923-09-03 |
Movie | Tess of the Storm Country | Tessibel 'Tess' Skinner | 1922-11-12 |
Movie | The Love Light | Angela Carlotti | 1921-01-08 |
Movie | Through The Back Door | Jeanne | 1921-05-05 |
Movie | Little Lord Fauntleroy | Cedric Errol / Widow Errol | 1921-09-15 |
Movie | Pollyanna | Pollyanna Whittier | 1920-01-18 |
Movie | Suds | Amanda Afflick | 1920-01-27 |
Movie | Captain Kidd, Jr. | Mary MacTavish | 1919-04-05 |
Movie | Daddy-Long-Legs | Judy Abbott | 1919-05-11 |
Movie | Heart o' the Hills | Mavis Hawn | 1919-11-30 |
Movie | The Hoodlum | Amy Burke | 1919-08-31 |
Movie | M'Liss | Melissa 'M'liss' Smith | 1918-05-05 |
Movie | Stella Maris | Miss Stella Maris / Unity Blake | 1918-01-21 |
Movie | How Could You, Jean? | Jean Mackaye | 1918-06-29 |
Movie | Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley | Amarilly Jenkins | 1918-03-10 |
Movie | Cupid Angling | 1918-07-18 | |
Movie | 100% American | Mayme | 1918-10-04 |
Movie | Johanna Enlists | Johanna Renssaller | 1918-09-14 |
Movie | A Romance of the Redwoods | Jenny Lawrence | 1917-05-14 |
Movie | The Poor Little Rich Girl | Gwen | 1917-03-05 |
Movie | The Little American | Angela Moore | 1917-07-12 |
Movie | The Pride of the Clan | Marget MacTavish | 1917-01-07 |
Movie | Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm | Rebecca Randall | 1917-09-22 |
Movie | A Little Princess | Sara Crewe | 1917-11-05 |
Movie | All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan | 1917-10-01 | |
Movie | Poor Little Peppina | Peppina | 1916-03-02 |
Movie | The Foundling | Molly O | 1916-01-03 |
Movie | The Eternal Grind | Louise | 1916-04-17 |
Movie | Hulda from Holland | Hulda | 1916-07-31 |
Movie | Less Than the Dust | Radha | 1916-11-04 |
Movie | The Dawn of a Tomorrow | Glad | 1915-06-07 |
Movie | Fanchon, the Cricket | Fanchon, the Cricket | 1915-05-10 |
Movie | Little Pal | 'Little Pal' | 1915-07-01 |
Movie | Mistress Nell | Nell Gwyn | 1915-02-01 |
Movie | A Girl of Yesterday | Jane Stuart | 1915-10-07 |
Movie | The Foundling | Molly O | 1915-08-01 |
Movie | Esmeralda | Esmeralda Rogers | 1915-09-06 |
Movie | Madame Butterfly | Cho-Cho-San | 1915-11-07 |
Movie | Rags | Rags / Alice McCloud | 1915-08-02 |
Movie | A Good Little Devil | Juliet | 1914-03-01 |
Movie | Hearts Adrift | Nina | 1914-02-09 |
Movie | Tess of the Storm Country | Tessibel Skinner | 1914-03-30 |
Movie | Behind the Scenes | Dolly Lane | 1914-10-26 |
Movie | Cinderella | Cinderella | 1914-12-28 |
Movie | Such a Little Queen | Queen Anna Victoria | 1914-09-20 |
Movie | The Eagle's Mate | Anemone Breckenridge | 1914-07-10 |
Movie | The Unwelcome Guest | Jessie - the Slavey | 1913-03-15 |
Movie | Fate | Unknown Role | 1913-03-22 |
Movie | Caprice | Mercy Baxter | 1913-11-10 |
Movie | In the Bishop's Carriage | Nance Olden | 1913-09-10 |
Movie | A Lodging for the Night | The Mexican Girl | 1912-05-09 |
Movie | Won by a Fish | The Woman | 1912-04-22 |
Movie | A Beast at Bay | The Young Woman | 1912-05-26 |
Movie | Home Folks | The Young Woman | 1912-06-06 |
Movie | Just Like a Woman | The Young Woman | 1912-04-18 |
Movie | Fate's Interception | The Mexican Girl | 1912-04-08 |
Movie | The Mender of Nets | The Little Net-Mender | 1912-02-15 |
Movie | Honor Thy Father | Mary Fuller | 1912-02-09 |
Movie | A Timely Repentance | Mrs. Nordell - Heroine of the Movie within the Movie, 'The Wife's Desertion' | 1912-03-11 |
Movie | Iola's Promise | Iola | 1912-03-14 |
Movie | Lena and the Geese | Lena | 1912-06-17 |
Movie | The Female of the Species | The Miner's Wife's Sister | 1912-04-15 |
Movie | The Old Actor | The Old Actor's Daughter | 1912-05-06 |
Movie | The One She Loved | The Wife | 1912-10-21 |
Movie | A Feud in the Kentucky Hills | The Daughter | 1912-10-03 |
Movie | My Baby | The Wife | 1912-11-14 |
Movie | The Informer | The Confederate Captain's Sweetheart | 1912-11-21 |
Movie | The School Teacher and the Waif | Nora, the Waif | 1912-06-26 |
Movie | So Near, Yet So Far | The Young Woman | 1912-09-29 |
Movie | The New York Hat | Mary Harding, the Daughter | 1912-12-05 |
Movie | The Narrow Road | Mrs. Jim Holcomb | 1912-08-01 |
Movie | An Indian Summer | The Widow's Daughter | 1912-07-08 |
Movie | Friends | Dora - the Orphan | 1912-09-22 |
Movie | The Inner Circle | The Rich Italian's Daughter | 1912-08-12 |
Movie | With the Enemy's Help | Faro Kate | 1912-08-19 |
Movie | A Pueblo Legend | The Indian Girl | 1912-08-29 |
Movie | The Message in the Bottle | Louise Spencer | 1911-03-09 |
Movie | The Secret of the Palm | Unknown Role | 1911-03-13 |
Movie | A Manly Man | Lola | 1911-02-27 |
Movie | The Fisher-Maid | Paula, The Fishing-Maid | 1911-03-16 |
Movie | Tracked | Unknown Role | 1911-03-06 |
Movie | A Decree of Destiny | Mary | 1911-03-06 |
Movie | The Stampede | Nello | 1911-04-17 |
Movie | Artful Kate | Artful Kate Stanley | 1911-02-23 |
Movie | Second Sight | Gertrude Edgar | 1911-05-01 |
Movie | While There is hope, There is Life | Unknown Role | 1911-04-24 |
Movie | Sweet Memories | Polly Biblett | 1911-03-27 |
Movie | In Old Madrid | 1911-03-20 | |
Movie | Three Sisters | Mary | 1911-02-02 |
Movie | The Dream | Nell Herbert | 1911-01-23 |
Movie | The Italian Barber | Alice | 1911-01-09 |
Movie | Their First Misunderstanding | Mae Darcy | 1911-01-09 |
Movie | When a Man Loves | Tessie | 1911-01-05 |
Movie | Maid or Man | Elsie Keene | 1911-01-30 |
Movie | When the Cat's Away | Dorothy, The Wife | 1911-02-09 |
Movie | The Convert | Agnes Boyd | 1911-02-16 |
Movie | Her Darkest Hour | Ruth | 1911-02-13 |
Movie | The Fair Dentist | Edith Morton - The Fair Dentist | 1911-05-08 |
Movie | The Mirror | Dorothy | 1911-02-09 |
Movie | Pictureland | Unconfimed Role | 1911-02-20 |
Movie | The Sentinel Asleep | Unknown Role | 1911-10-09 |
Movie | His Dress Shirt | Mrs. Kirby | 1911-10-30 |
Movie | The Better Way | Lillian Garvey - a Salvation Army Lass | 1911-10-12 |
Movie | The Rose's Story | Unknown Role | 1911-10-02 |
Movie | 'Tween Two Loves | Grace | 1911-09-28 |
Movie | The Courting of Mary | Mary | 1911-11-26 |
Movie | Love Heeds Not Showers | Mary | 1911-12-03 |
Movie | For Her Brother's Sake | Madge Spotwood | 1911-05-11 |
Movie | The Caddy's Dream | Miss Kelsomine | 1911-12-31 |
Movie | How Mary Fixed it | Mary | 1911-12-31 |
Movie | Little Red Riding Hood | Little Red Riding Hood | 1911-12-17 |
Movie | The Toss of a Coin | Alice Barton - the Farmer's Daughter | 1911-08-31 |
Movie | The Portrait | Little Vera - the Model | 1911-12-28 |
Movie | In the Sultan's Garden | Haidee | 1911-07-03 |
Movie | The Lighthouse Keeper | Polly Berry - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter | 1911-05-18 |
Movie | As a Boy Dreams | 1911-08-13 | |
Movie | The Master and the Man | Elsie Graham | 1911-05-15 |
Movie | For the Queen's Honor | Princess Gilda | 1911-07-06 |
Movie | Back to the Soil | Sadie Allen | 1911-06-08 |
Movie | A Gasoline Engagement | Flora Powell | 1911-07-10 |
Movie | The Skating Bug | The Girl | 1911-07-31 |
Movie | The Call of the Song | Amy Gordon | 1911-08-13 |
Movie | Science | Mrs. Crawford | 1911-07-24 |
Movie | At a Quarter of Two | Mrs Warren | 1911-07-13 |
Movie | The Two Brothers | A Mexican | 1910-05-12 |
Movie | The Unchanging Sea | The Daughter as an Adult | 1910-05-05 |
Movie | Love Among the Roses | The Lacemaker | 1910-05-08 |
Movie | Ramona | Ramona | 1910-05-23 |
Movie | A Victim of Jealousy | The Wife's Friend | 1910-06-09 |
Movie | Never Again | The Girl | 1910-06-20 |
Movie | A Romance of the Western Hills | 1910-04-10 | |
Movie | May and December | May | 1910-06-20 |
Movie | In the Season of Buds | Mabel | 1910-06-02 |
Movie | The Newlyweds | Alice Vance | 1910-03-03 |
Movie | The Woman from Mellon's | Mary Petersby | 1910-02-03 |
Movie | All on Account of the Milk | The Young Woman | 1910-01-13 |
Movie | A Child's Impulse | Grace | 1910-06-27 |
Movie | The Englishman and the Girl | The Girl | 1910-02-17 |
Movie | The Thread of Destiny | Myrtle | 1910-03-07 |
Movie | The Smoker | George's Wife | 1910-03-31 |
Movie | The Twisted Trail | Molly Hendricks | 1910-03-24 |
Movie | A Rich Revenge | Jennie | 1910-04-07 |
Movie | As It Is in Life | 1910-04-04 | |
Movie | Waiter No. 5 | The Chief of Police's Son's Fiancée | 1910-11-03 |
Movie | A Lucky Toothache | Bessie | 1910-10-13 |
Movie | A Gold Necklace | Masie | 1910-10-06 |
Movie | Simple Charity | Miss Wilkins | 1910-11-10 |
Movie | The Song of the Wildwood Flute | Dove Eyes | 1910-11-21 |
Movie | Muggsy's First Sweetheart | Mabel Brown | 1910-06-30 |
Movie | White Roses | Betty | 1910-12-22 |
Movie | A Plain Song | Edith | 1910-11-28 |
Movie | Muggsy Becomes a Hero | Mabel | 1910-09-01 |
Movie | Sunshine Sue | 1910-11-14 | |
Movie | A Flash of Light | 1910-07-17 | |
Movie | What the Daisy Said | Martha | 1910-07-11 |
Movie | Wilful Peggy | Peggy | 1910-08-24 |
Movie | An Arcadian Maid | The Arcadian Maid | 1910-08-01 |
Movie | The Call to Arms | A Messenger | 1910-07-25 |
Movie | The Sorrows of the Unfaithful | Mary | 1910-08-22 |
Movie | The Usurer | Invalid Daughter | 1910-08-15 |
Movie | When We Were in Our 'Teens | Mary | 1910-08-18 |
Movie | Sweet and Twenty | Alice | 1909-07-22 |
Movie | The Renunciation | Kittie Ryan | 1909-07-19 |
Movie | Tender Hearts | Nellie | 1909-07-19 |
Movie | The Slave | A Slave Girl | 1909-07-29 |
Movie | The Cardinal's Conspiracy | A Disguised Servant | 1909-07-12 |
Movie | The Indian Runner's Romance | Blue Cloud's Wife | 1909-08-22 |
Movie | The Country Doctor | Poor Mother's Elder Daughter | 1909-07-08 |
Movie | The Seventh Day | The Maid | 1909-08-26 |
Movie | His Wife's Visitor | Bessie Wright | 1909-08-19 |
Movie | They Would Elope | Bessie | 1909-08-09 |
Movie | A Strange Meeting | 1909-08-01 | |
Movie | The Violin Maker of Cremona | Giannina, Taddeo's Daughter | 1909-06-07 |
Movie | The Lonely Villa | 1909-06-10 | |
Movie | Oh, Uncle! | Bessie | 1909-08-26 |
Movie | His Duty | A young woman in the street | 1909-05-31 |
Movie | Two Memories | Marion's Sister | 1909-05-23 |
Movie | The Son's Return | Mary | 1909-06-14 |
Movie | The Faded Lilies | At party | 1909-06-17 |
Movie | The Way of Man | Winnie, Mabel's Cousin | 1909-06-28 |
Movie | The Peachbasket Hat | On street/In store | 1909-06-24 |
Movie | The Mexican Sweethearts | The Señorita | 1909-06-24 |
Movie | Her First Biscuits | Biscuit Victim | 1909-06-17 |
Movie | The Necklace | The Maid / In Pawnshop | 1909-07-01 |
Movie | His Lost Love | Mary | 1909-10-18 |
Movie | A Midnight Adventure | Eleanor | 1909-11-18 |
Movie | The Light That Came | 1909-11-11 | |
Movie | The Restoration | Alice Ashford | 1909-11-08 |
Movie | What's Your Hurry? | Mary | 1909-11-01 |
Movie | The Mountaineer's Honor | Harum-Scarum, a Mountain Girl | 1909-11-24 |
Movie | The Trick that Failed | Nellie Burt | 1909-11-29 |
Movie | The Heart of an Outlaw | The Outlaw's Daughter, as an Adult | 1909-12-31 |
Movie | To Save Her Soul | Agnes Hailey | 1909-12-27 |
Movie | The Test | Bessie | 1909-12-16 |
Movie | Through the Breakers | An Extra | 1909-12-06 |
Movie | The Gibson Goddess | Woman on Sidewalk | 1909-11-01 |
Movie | Lines of White on a Sullen Sea | Second Couple | 1909-10-27 |
Movie | The Broken Locket | Ruth King | 1909-09-16 |
Movie | Getting Even | Miss Lucy | 1909-09-12 |
Movie | 1776, or The Hessian Renegades | Messenger's Sister | 1909-09-06 |
Movie | The Sealed Room | A Lady-in-Waiting | 1909-09-02 |
Movie | In Old Kentucky | Partygoer | 1909-09-20 |
Movie | The Awakening | The Widow's Daughter | 1909-09-29 |
Movie | In the Watches of the Night | Girl at Henry Brainard's | 1909-10-25 |
Movie | The Little Teacher | The Little Teacher | 1909-10-11 |
Movie | Pippa Passes | Girl in crowd | 1909-10-03 |
Movie | The Little Darling | Little Darling | 1909-09-01 |