Mary Pickford biography
Mary Pickford was a Canadian actress and producer, born on 8 April 1892 in Toronto, who died on 29 May 1979.
Mary Pickford's screen career began in 1909 with Through the Breakers, playing An extra.
Mary Pickford had 277 screen credits between 1909 and 2016.
Honours include Academy Award for Best Actress, Academy Honorary Award and Canada's Walk of Fame.
- Also known as
- Gladys Mary Moore, Gladys Moore, Gladys Smith, Gladys Marie Smith
- Born
- 8 April 1892
- Died
- 29 May 1979 (aged 87)
- Birthplace
- Toronto
- Work
- Film producer, Film actor, Film director, Screenwriter, Writer
- Film industries
- Hollywood and beyond
- Years active
- 1900 to 1955
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Actress
- Academy Honorary Award
- Canada's Walk of Fame
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Mary Pickford filmography
277 screen credits, newest first.
Screen credits
| Year | Title | Role | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | The Women Who Run Hollywood | |||
| 1963 | Hollywood Without Make-Up | English | ||
| 1949 | Love Happy | An Allied Alliance Production Released by United Artists | ||
| 1948 | White Cradle Inn | Peak Films, United Artists | ||
| 1948 | Sleep, My Love | A Triangle Production Released by United Artists | ||
| 1947 | The Adventures of Don Coyote | |||
| 1947 | Stork Bites Man | A Comet Production Released by United Artists | ||
| 1946 | Susie Steps Out | A Comet Production Released by United Artists | ||
| 1946 | Little Iodine | A Comet Production Released by United Artists | ||
| 1944 | Wilson | English | ||
| 1941 | Picture People No. 3: Hobbies of the Stars | |||
| 1939 | Verdensberømtheder i København | |||
| 1936 | The Gay Desperado | |||
| 1936 | One Rainy Afternoon | |||
| 1934 | Movie Memories | |||
| 1934 | Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove | |||
| 1933 | The Film Parade | |||
| 1933 | Secrets | Mary Carlton / Mary Marlow | A Mary Pickford Production Released by United Artists | |
| 1933 | Hollywood on Parade No. B-10 | |||
| 1931 | Kiki | Kiki | An Art Cinema Production Released by United Artists | |
| 1930 | Forever Yours | Mary Carlton / Mary Marlow | A Mary Pickford Production Not completed; 3½ minutes survive | |
| 1929 | The Taming of the Shrew | Katherine | ||
| 1929 | Coquette | Norma Besant | ||
| 1928 | Holiday in Mexico | |||
| 1927 | The Gaucho | Virgin Mary (unbilled cameo) | An Elton Corporation Production Released by United Artists |
Show all 277 credits
| Year | Title | Role | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1927 | My Best Girl | Maggie Johnson | A Mary Pickford Production Released by United Artists | |
| 1927 | A Kiss From Mary Pickford | Russian | ||
| 1926 | The Black Pirate | Billie Dove's kissing stand-in (unbilled cameo) | ||
| 1926 | Sparrows | Molly | A Mary Pickford Production Released by United Artists | |
| 1925 | Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | English | ||
| 1925 | Little Annie Rooney | Annabelle "Little Annie" Rooney | A Mary Pickford Production Released by United Artists | |
| 1925 | Waking Up the Town | |||
| 1924 | Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall | Dorothy Vernon | A Mary Pickford Production Released by United Artists | |
| 1924 | The Hill Billy | Jack Pickford, Allied Producers and Distributors | ||
| 1923 | Rosita | Rosita, a street singer | A Mary Pickford Production Released by United Artists | |
| 1923 | Little Miss Hollywood | |||
| 1923 | Garrison's Finish | |||
| 1922 | Tess of the Storm Country | Tessibel "Tess" Skinner | A Mary Pickford Production Released by United Artists | |
| 1921 | The Love Light | Angela Carlotti | A Mary Pickford Production Released by United Artists | |
| 1921 | Through the Back Door | Jeanne | A Mary Pickford Production Released by United Artists | |
| 1921 | Little Lord Fauntleroy | Cedric Errol / Widow Errol | A Mary Pickford Production Released by United Artists | |
| 1921 | They Shall Pay | |||
| 1920 | Pollyanna | Pollyanna Whittier | A Mary Pickford Production Released by United Artists | |
| 1920 | Suds | Amanda Afflick | A Mary Pickford Production Released by United Artists | |
| 1919 | Heart o' the Hills | Mavis Hawn | ||
| 1919 | The Hoodlum | Amy Burke | ||
| 1919 | Captain Kidd, Jr | Mary MacTavish | Incomplete print survives | |
| 1919 | Daddy-Long-Legs | Jerusha "Judy" Abbott | ||
| 1918 | Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley | Amarilly Jenkins | ||
| 1918 | Stella Maris | Miss Stella Maris / Unity Blake | ||
| 1918 | One Hundred Percent American | |||
| 1918 | M'Liss | Melissa "M'liss" Smith | ||
| 1918 | Johanna Enlists | Johanna Renssaller | ||
| 1918 | How Could You, Jean? | Jean Mackaye | Lost | |
| 1918 | Cupid Angling | |||
| 1918 | 100% American | Mayme | Released in Canada under the title 100% Canadian. | |
| 1917 | The Pride of the Clan | Marget MacTavish | ||
| 1917 | The Poor Little Rich Girl | Gwendolyn | ||
| 1917 | The Little American | Angela Moore | ||
| 1917 | Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm | Rebecca Randall | ||
| 1917 | A Romance of the Redwoods | Jenny Lawrence | ||
| 1917 | A Little Princess | Sara Crewe | ||
| 1916 | The Foundling | Molly O | ||
| 1916 | The Eternal Grind | Louise | ||
| 1916 | Poor Little Peppina | Peppina | ||
| 1916 | Less Than the Dust | Radha | ||
| 1916 | Hulda from Holland | Hulda | ||
| 1915 | The Dawn of a Tomorrow | Glad | ||
| 1915 | Rags | Rags / Alice McCloud | ||
| 1915 | Mistress Nell | Mistress Nell | ||
| 1915 | Madame Butterfly | Cho-Cho-San | ||
| 1915 | Little Pal | "Little Pal" | ||
| 1915 | Fanchon the Cricket | Fanchon, the cricket | Complete print found in 2012. | |
| 1915 | Esmeralda | Esmerelda Rogers | Lost | |
| 1915 | A Girl of Yesterday | Jane Stuart | Lost | |
| 1914 | Tess of the Storm Country | Tessibel Skinner | ||
| 1914 | The Eagle's Mate | Anemone Breckenridge | ||
| 1914 | Such a Little Queen | Queen Anna Victoria | Lost | |
| 1914 | Hearts Adrift | Nina | Lost | |
| 1914 | Cinderella | Cinderella | ||
| 1914 | Behind the Scenes | Dolly Lane | ||
| 1914 | A Good Little Devil | Juliet | incomplete; One reel survives | |
| 1913 | The Unwelcome Guest | The Slavey | ||
| 1913 | In the Bishop's Carriage | Nance Olden | Lost | |
| 1913 | Caprice | Mercy Baxter | Lost | |
| 1912 | The School Teacher and the Waif | Nora, the Waif | ||
| 1912 | A Beast at Bay | The Young Woman | ||
| 1912 | Just Like a Woman | The Young Woman | ||
| 1912 | The Female of the Species | The Miner's Wife's Sister | ||
| 1912 | Fate's Interception | The Mexican Girl | ||
| 1912 | Won By a Fish | The Woman | ||
| 1912 | With the Enemy's Help | Faro Kate | ||
| 1912 | The One She Loved | The Wife | ||
| 1912 | The New York Hat | Miss Mollie Goodhue (the girl) | The last film that Pickford made for Biograph | |
| 1912 | The Narrow Road | Mrs. Jim Holcomb | ||
| 1912 | The Inner Circle | The Rich Italian's Daughter | ||
| 1912 | The Informer | The Confederate Captain's Sweetheart | ||
| 1912 | So Near, yet So Far | The Young Woman | ||
| 1912 | My Baby | The Wife | ||
| 1912 | Iola's Promise | Iola | ||
| 1912 | Friends | Dora (the orphan) | ||
| 1912 | A Timely Repentance | Heroine of the Movie Within the Movie, The Wife's Desertion | Fragment survives | |
| 1912 | A Pueblo Legend | The Indian Girl | Two reels | |
| 1912 | A Feud in the Kentucky Hills | The Daughter | ||
| 1912 | The Old Actor | The Old Actor's Daughter | ||
| 1912 | The Mender of Nets | The Net-Mender | ||
| 1912 | Lena and the Geese | Lena | ||
| 1912 | Honor Thy Father | Mary Fuller | Lost | |
| 1912 | Home Folks | The Young Woman | ||
| 1912 | An Indian Summer | The Widow's Daughter | ||
| 1912 | A Lodging for the Night | The Mexican Girl | ||
| 1911 | When The Cat's Away | Dorothy, the wife | ||
| 1911 | When A Man Loves | Tessie | ||
| 1911 | Three Sisters | Mary | ||
| 1911 | Their First Misunderstanding | Mae Darcy | Extant, apart from the first minute | |
| 1911 | The Toss of a Coin | Alice Barton, the Farmer's Daughter | Lost | |
| 1911 | The Temptress | |||
| 1911 | The Stampede | Nello, the Bandit's Daughter | Lost | |
| 1911 | The Skating Bug | The Girl | Lost | |
| 1911 | The Sentinel Asleep | Unknown role | Lost | |
| 1911 | The Portrait | Little Vera, the Model | ||
| 1911 | The Mirror | Dorothy | ||
| 1911 | The Message in the Bottle | Walk-on | Lost | |
| 1911 | The Master and the Man | Elsie Graham | Lost | |
| 1911 | The Lighthouse Keeper | Polly Berry, the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter | ||
| 1911 | The Italian Barber | Alice | ||
| 1911 | The Fisher-Maid | Paula, the Fisher-Maid | Lost | |
| 1911 | The Fair Dentist | Edith Morton | Lost | |
| 1911 | The Dream | The Wife | preserved; Library of Congress | |
| 1911 | The Daddy's Dream | |||
| 1911 | The Courting of Mary | Mary | Lost | |
| 1911 | The Convert | Agnes Boyd | Lost | |
| 1911 | The Call of the Song | Amy Gordon | Lost | |
| 1911 | The Caddy's Dream | Unknown role | Lost | |
| 1911 | The Better Way | Lilian Garvey, a Salvation Army Lass | Lost | |
| 1911 | Sweet Memories | Polly Biblett | preserved at the Library of Congress | |
| 1911 | Second Sight | Gertrude Edgar | Lost | |
| 1911 | Science | Mrs. Crawford | Lost | |
| 1911 | Pictureland | |||
| 1911 | Maid or Man | Jimmie's sister | ||
| 1911 | Love Heeds Not Showers | |||
| 1911 | Little Red Riding Hood | Little Red Riding Hood | ||
| 1911 | In the Sultan's Garden | Haidee | ||
| 1911 | In Old Madrid | Walk-on | ||
| 1911 | How Mary Fixed It | Mary | ||
| 1911 | His Dress Shirt | Mrs. Kirby | Lost | |
| 1911 | Her Darkest Hour | Ruth | Lost | |
| 1911 | From the Bottom of the Sea | |||
| 1911 | For the Queen's Honor | Princess Gilda | Lost | |
| 1911 | For Her Brother's Sake | Madge Spotwood | Lost | |
| 1911 | Conscience | |||
| 1911 | By the House That Jack Built | |||
| 1911 | Behind the Stockade | |||
| 1911 | Back to the Soil | Sadie Allen | Lost | |
| 1911 | At the Duke's Command | |||
| 1911 | At a Quarter of Two | Mrs. Warren | Fragment survives | |
| 1911 | As a Boy Dreams | The Girl | ||
| 1911 | Artful Kate | Artful Kate Stanley | preserved; Library of Congress | |
| 1911 | A Manly Man | Walk-on | ||
| 1911 | A Gasoline Engagement | Flora Powell | Lost | |
| 1911 | A Dog's Tale | |||
| 1911 | A Decree of Destiny | Mary | ||
| 1911 | 'Tween Two Loves | Grace | ||
| 1911 | While There Is Hope, There Is Life | Unknown role | Lost | |
| 1911 | Tracked | Unknown role | Lost | |
| 1911 | The Secret of the Palm | Unknown role | Lost | |
| 1911 | The Rose's Story | Unknown role | Lost | |
| 1911 | The Medallion | Lost | ||
| 1911 | Madame Rex | |||
| 1911 | Love Heeds Not the Showers | Unknown role | Lost | |
| 1911 | Caught in the Act | Lost | ||
| 1910 | The Lucky Toothache | Bessie | ||
| 1910 | Wilful Peggy | Peggy | ||
| 1910 | White Roses | Betty | ||
| 1910 | When We Were In Our Teens | Mary | ||
| 1910 | What the Daisy Said | Martha | ||
| 1910 | Waiter No. 5 | The Chief of Police's Son's Fiancée | ||
| 1910 | The Woman from Mellon's | Mary Petersby, the Daughter | ||
| 1910 | The Usurer | |||
| 1910 | The Unchanging Sea | The Daughter as an Adult | ||
| 1910 | The Two Brothers | A Mexican | ||
| 1910 | The Twisted Trail | Molly Hendricks | ||
| 1910 | The Thread of Destiny | Myrtle | ||
| 1910 | The Sorrows of the Unfaithful | Mary | ||
| 1910 | The Song of the Wildwood Flute | Dove Eyes | ||
| 1910 | The Smoker | George's Wife | ||
| 1910 | The Newlyweds | Alice Vance | ||
| 1910 | The Masher | |||
| 1910 | The Kid | |||
| 1910 | The Iconoclast | |||
| 1910 | The Face at the Window | |||
| 1910 | The Englishman and the Girl | The Girl | Lost | |
| 1910 | The Call to Arms | A Messenger | Unique male role of her career | |
| 1910 | The Call | |||
| 1910 | That Chink at Golden Gulch | |||
| 1910 | Sunshine Sue | |||
| 1910 | Simple Charity | Miss Wilkins | ||
| 1910 | Serious Sixteen | |||
| 1910 | Ramona | Ramona | Based on the novel by Helen Hunt Jackson | |
| 1910 | Never Again | The Girl | ||
| 1910 | Muggsy's First Sweetheart | Mabel Brown | ||
| 1910 | Muggsy Becomes a Hero | Mabel | ||
| 1910 | May and December | May | ||
| 1910 | Love Among the Roses | The Lacemaker | ||
| 1910 | Little Nell's Tobacco | |||
| 1910 | Little Angels of Luck | |||
| 1910 | In the Season of Buds | Mabel | ||
| 1910 | His Last Dollar | |||
| 1910 | Examination Day at School | |||
| 1910 | As It Is In Life | George Forrester's Daughter, as an Adult | ||
| 1910 | An Arcadian Maid | Priscilla | ||
| 1910 | An Affair of Hearts | |||
| 1910 | All on Account of the Milk | The Young Woman | ||
| 1910 | A Victim of Jealousy | The Wife's Friend | ||
| 1910 | A Summer Tragedy | |||
| 1910 | A Romance of the Western Hills | Indian | ||
| 1910 | A Rich Revenge | Jennie | ||
| 1910 | A Plain Song | Edith | ||
| 1910 | A Gold Necklace | Mazie | ||
| 1910 | A Flash of Light | |||
| 1910 | A Child's Stratagem | |||
| 1910 | A Child's Impulse | Grace | ||
| 1909 | What's Your Hurry? | Mary | Split-reel | |
| 1909 | What Drink Did | |||
| 1909 | Wanted, a Child | |||
| 1909 | Two Memories | Marion's sister | Split-reel | |
| 1909 | To Save Her Soul | Agnes Hailey | ||
| 1909 | They Would Elope | Bessie | ||
| 1909 | The Way of Man | Winnie, Mabel's Cousin | ||
| 1909 | The Violin Maker of Cremona | Giannina, Taddeo's Daughter | ||
| 1909 | The Trick That Failed | Nellie Burt | Split-reel | |
| 1909 | The Test | Bessie | ||
| 1909 | The Son's Return | Mary Clark | ||
| 1909 | The Slave | A Young Girl at Court | ||
| 1909 | The Seventh Day | The Maid | Split-reel | |
| 1909 | The Sealed Room | A Lady-in-Waiting | ||
| 1909 | The Restoration | Alice Ashford | ||
| 1909 | The Renunciation | Kittie Ryan | ||
| 1909 | The Peach-Basket Hat | Woman on the Street and in Store | Split-reel | |
| 1909 | The Necklace | The Maid in the Pawnshop | ||
| 1909 | The Mountaineer's Honor | Harum-Scarum, a Mountain Girl | ||
| 1909 | The Mexican Sweethearts | |||
| 1909 | The Lonely Villa | One of the Cullison Children | Split-reel | |
| 1909 | The Little Teacher | The Little Teacher | ||
| 1909 | The Little Darling | The Little Darling | ||
| 1909 | The Light That Came | Vivian and Daisy | ||
| 1909 | The Indian Runner's Romance | Blue Cloud's Wife | ||
| 1909 | The Hessian Renegades | A member of the soldier's family | ||
| 1909 | The Heart of an Outlaw | The Outlaw's Daughter | ||
| 1909 | The Gibson Goddess | Girl on Sidewalk | Split-reel | |
| 1909 | The Fascinating Mrs. Francis | |||
| 1909 | The Drive for a Life | |||
| 1909 | The Deception | |||
| 1909 | The Country Doctor | Poor Mother's Elder Daughter | ||
| 1909 | The Children's Friend | |||
| 1909 | The Cardinal's Conspiracy | The Señorita | ||
| 1909 | The Broken Locket | Ruth King | ||
| 1909 | The Awakening | The Widow's Daughter | ||
| 1909 | Tender Hearts | Nellie | Split-reel | |
| 1909 | Sweet and Twenty | Alice | Split-reel | |
| 1909 | Pippa Passes | |||
| 1909 | Oh, Uncle! | Bessie | Split-reel | |
| 1909 | Mrs. Jones Entertains | |||
| 1909 | Lines of White on a Sullen Sea | Second Couple | ||
| 1909 | In the Watches of the Night | Girl at Brainard's | ||
| 1909 | In Old Kentucky | Homecoming Party | ||
| 1909 | His Wife's Visitor | Bessie Wright | ||
| 1909 | His Lost Love | Mary | ||
| 1909 | His Duty | One of the children on the street | Split-reel | |
| 1909 | Her First Biscuits | Biscuit Victim | Split-reel The first film that Pickford made | |
| 1909 | Getting Even | Miss Lucy | Split-reel | |
| 1909 | Faded Lilies | Girl at Party | Split-reel | |
| 1909 | A Sweet Revenge | |||
| 1909 | A Strange Meeting | |||
| 1909 | A Midnight Adventure | Eleanor | Split-reel | |
| 1909 | Through the Breakers | An extra | ||
| 1909 | The Day After | Split-reel |