D.W. Griffith

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1875-01-22 (73 years old)

Deathday

1948-07-23

Place of Birth

LaGrange, Kentucky, USA

D.W. Griffith

Biography

David Llewelyn Wark Griffith was a premier pioneering American film director. He is best known as the director of the controversial and groundbreaking 1915 film The Birth of a Nation and the subsequent film Intolerance (1916). Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation made pioneering use of advanced camera and narrative techniques, and its immense popularity set the stage for the dominance of the feature-length film. It also proved extremely controversial at the time and ever since for its negative depiction of Black Americans and their supporters, and its positive portrayal of slavery and the Ku Klux Klan. Griffith responded to his critics with ...

Acting

1961

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

as Self (archive footage)

1912

Two Daughters of Eve

as At Stage Door

1908

1908

The Black Viper

as Rescuer

1908

The Fatal Hour

as Policeman

1908

The King of the Cannibal Islands

as Cannibal in Top Hat

1908

2014

Flashback: The First World War

as Self (archive footage)

1908

1908

Old Isaacs, the Pawnbroker

as Doctor, Charity Worker

1908

The Man in the Box

as Station Agent

1908

Deceived Slumming Party

as Reginald O.C. Wittington

1908

1908

The Stage Rustler

as Phil Bowen

1908

1908

The Red Girl

as Man on Footpath

2008

Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies

as Self (archive footage)

1908

Classmates

as Extra

1936

San Francisco

as Orchestra Conductor (uncredited)

1908

1908

Yellow Peril

as Mr. Phlipp

1915

Enoch Arden

as Mr. Ray

1998

2002

The Tramp and the Dictator

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1908

Falsely Accused!

as Cop in Court

1909

The Politician's Love Story

as Man - First Couple

1908

1909

The Girls and Daddy

as At Black & Tan Ball

1908

Professional Jealousy

as Extra on stage

1908

A Famous Escape

as Prisoner

1908

'Ostler Joe

as Lover

Production

1915

1915

The Birth of a Nation

as Original Music Composer

1912

Brutality

as Writer

1913

Just Gold

as Writer

1912

Heredity

as Director

1912

My Hero

as Director

1912

My Hero

as Writer

1913

1913

Brothers

as Director

1913

If We Only Knew

as Director

1913

Near To Earth

as Director

1913

The Stolen Loaf

as Director

1913

1913

1913

The Enemy's Baby

as Director

1909

The Sealed Room

as Director

1914

Waifs

as Director

1920

Way Down East

as Director

1908

1909

1909

Confidence

as Writer

1922

1922

1919

True Heart Susie

as Director

1921

1914

The Escape

as Director

1908

1908

1908

For Love of Gold

as Director

1913

His Mother's Son

as Director

1908

1909

1909

1909

1912

1913

1913

1924

America

as Director

1914

1912

An Unseen Enemy

as Director

1913

1929

1909

I Did It

as Director

1911

1911

1912

The Old Actor

as Director

1930

Abraham Lincoln

as Director

1909

1909

The Curtain Pole

as Director

1912

The New York Hat

as Director

1931

The Struggle

as Director

1912

1909

The Lonely Villa

as Director

1911

His Trust

as Director

1913

Death's Marathon

as Director

1909

Those Awful Hats

as Director

1909

The Mended Lute

as Director

1909

1910

The Fugitive

as Director

1909

The Golden Louis

as Director

1909

1923

The White Rose

as Director

1913

The Yaqui Cur

as Director

1913

The Wanderer

as Director

1911

1911

1911

1919

Scarlet Days

as Director

1912

1912

Blind Love

as Director

1919

1918

1912

1912

The Painted Lady

as Director

1911

The Battle

as Director

1910

1910

1926

1921

Dream Street

as Director

1909

1909

1913

1910

Ramona

as Director

1910

An Arcadian Maid

as Director

1924

1910

As It Is in Life

as Director

1920

The Love Flower

as Director

1920

1925

1911

A Country Cupid

as Director

1912

1910

1911

Fate's Turning

as Director

1908

The Black Viper

as Director

1911

1908

1908

1912

A Beast at Bay

as Director

1909

1912

Friends

as Director

1912

The Lesser Evil

as Director

1912

1912

The Massacre

as Director

1912

The Narrow Road

as Director

1912

For His Son

as Director

1912

The Sands of Dee

as Director

1911

1912

The Sunbeam

as Director

1911

The Squaw's Love

as Director

1911

1911

1911

Fighting Blood

as Director

1910

Wilful Peggy

as Director

1911

1910

The Usurer

as Director

1910

Faithful

as Director

1910

1909

The Renunciation

as Director

1909

Nursing a Viper

as Director

1910

1909

Lucky Jim

as Director

1909

Edgar Allan Poe

as Director

1909

What Drink Did

as Director

1914

Brute Force

as Director

1910

1914

Home, Sweet Home

as Director

1908

The Fatal Hour

as Director

1908

Money Mad

as Director

1908

1908

1909

1915

1913

1908

1909

Resurrection

as Director

1909

Confidence

as Director

1909

1911

1912

1908

After Many Years

as Director

1912

The Massacre

as Writer

1909

1912

Brutality

as Director

1920

1918

1910

1913

1913

1913

His Mother's Son

as Director

1919

1919

1919

1919

1919

1919

1909

At the Altar

as Director

1909

The Cord of Life

as Director

1912

Man's Genesis

as Director

1908

An Awful Moment

as Director

1910

A Flash of Light

as Director

1913

1909

Getting Even

as Director

1909

Pippa Passes

as Director

1928

Drums of Love

as Director

1909

1909

Twin Brothers

as Director

1909

The Son's Return

as Screenplay

1909

The Son's Return

as Director

1909

1911

The Primal Call

as Director

1909

1909

1910

1927

The King of Kings

as Assistant Director

1910

The Lesson

as Director

1909

In Old Kentucky

as Director

1913

Three Friends

as Director

1912

A Pueblo Legend

as Director

1912

Friends

as Writer

1910

1919

True Heart Susie

as Producer

1920

The Idol Dancer

as Director

1915

Ghosts

as Producer

1916

The Half-Breed

as Producer

1908

The Red Girl

as Director

1908

1921

Dream Street

as Producer

1921

1921

1921

Dream Street

as Writer

1919

1909

At the Altar

as Writer

1920

The Love Flower

as Producer

1908

1908

1908

The Devil

as Director

1908

1908

1908

The Guerrilla

as Director

1908

A Smoked Husband

as Director

1908

1908

The Valet's Wife

as Director

1908

1908

The Reckoning

as Director

1913

1918

1918

The Great Love

as Producer

1918

The Great Love

as Director

1918

1920

Way Down East

as Producer

1909

1909

1909

The Suicide Club

as Director

1909

1910

1910

1911

1912

1909

The Awakening

as Director

1909

The Way of Man

as Director

1912

1915

Double Trouble

as Production Supervisor

1915

Old Heidelberg

as Supervising Producer

1911

1909

1908

The Helping Hand

as Director

1909

1909

1909

The Maniac Cook

as Director

1909

Love Finds a Way

as Director

1909

1908

1909

1909

The Sacrifice

as Director

1909

1909

1909

The Sacrifice

as Writer

1908

1909

1909

1909

1908

1915

The Lamb

as Story

1909

Fools of Fate

as Director

1911

His Daughter

as Director

1910

The Two Brothers

as Director

1910

1951

1951

1908

1922

1909

Two Memories

as Director

1909

Two Memories

as Writer

1910

The Rocky Road

as Director

1908

Money Mad

as Writer

1909

Sweet and Twenty

as Director

1909

1916

Fifty-Fifty

as Producer

1916

The Missing Links

as Production Supervisor

1916

1916

1917

Betsy's Burglar

as Supervising Producer

1917

A Girl of the Timber Claims

as Supervising Producer

1914

The Life of General Villa

as Supervising Producer

1914

1910

1910

1909

1909

The Day After

as Director

1909

The Day After

as Producer

1911

1913

Broken Ways

as Director

1909

1910

In Life's Cycle

as Director

1915

1916

1910

A Plain Song

as Director

1911

Enoch Arden

as Director

1916

Hoodoo Ann

as Writer

1911

When a Man Loves

as Director

1911

Three Sisters

as Director

1911

Madame Rex

as Director

1909

1911

1909

1909

The Slave

as Director

1909

His Duty

as Director

1909

They Would Elope

as Director

1909

The Faded Lilies

as Director

1909

The Necklace

as Director

1909

Tender Hearts

as Director

1909

The Seventh Day

as Director

1909

His Lost Love

as Director

1909

Oh, Uncle!

as Director

1909

1909

The Restoration

as Director

1909

1909

1909

The Test

as Director

1909

1909

To Save Her Soul

as Director

1909

1910

1910

The Newlyweds

as Director

1910

1910

A Rich Revenge

as Director

1910

1910

1910

The Call to Arms

as Director

1910

Simple Charity

as Director

1910

Waiter No. 5

as Director

1913

Fate

as Director

1912

The Informer

as Director

1912

My Baby

as Director

1912

1912

1913

1912

The Inner Circle

as Director

1912

An Indian Summer

as Director

1912

1912

Iola's Promise

as Director

1912

1912

Home Folks

as Director

1912

1909

1909

1910

Ramona

as Writer

1936

San Francisco

as Second Assistant Director

1913

1908

The Zulu's Heart

as Director

1909

Getting Even

as Writer

1911

The Long Road

as Director

1910

Sunshine Sue

as Director

1908

1912

1911

Fisher Folks

as Director

1926

1912

His Lesson

as Director

1923

1909

1914

The Odalisque

as Supervising Producer

1913

1913

The Little Tease

as Director

1913

1913

1908

Mixed Babies

as Writer

1910

Unexpected Help

as Director

1909

1920

Way Down East

as Writer

1918

1915

Enoch Arden

as Writer

1912

Man's Genesis

as Writer

1913

The Reformers

as Director

1908

1913

Oil and Water

as Director

1931

The Struggle

as Original Music Composer

1931

The Struggle

as Producer

1923

The White Rose

as Producer

1916

1919

Scarlet Days

as Producer

1910

1910

1911

The Diamond Star

as Director

1910

Gold Is Not All

as Director

1910

The Gold Seekers

as Director

1910

Thou Shalt Not

as Director

1910

The Man

as Director

1910

The Purgation

as Director

1910

A Child's Faith

as Director

1910

The Impalement

as Director

1910

1910

1910

A Summer Idyll

as Director

1910

The Converts

as Director

1910

Taming a Husband

as Director

1910

1910

1910

1910

1911

The Two Paths

as Director

1910

A Mohawk's Way

as Director

1910

The Broken Doll

as Director

1910

Serious Sixteen

as Director

1910

Two Little Waifs

as Director

1910

1910

A Midnight Cupid

as Director

1910

1910

The Iconoclast

as Director

1910

1910

1912

1913

The Wanderer

as Writer

1913

1911

Bobby the Coward

as Director

1912

The God Within

as Director

1910

The Last Deal

as Writer

1911

A Woman Scorned

as Director

1911

The Failure

as Director

1911

1910

The Last Deal

as Director

1913

1912

Gold and Glitter

as Director

1912

A Cry for Help

as Director

1913

Just Gold

as Director

1913

1913

1913

1912

1909

A Sweet Revenge

as Director

1911

Conscience

as Director

1909

1909

Wanted, a Child

as Director

1910

His Last Dollar

as Director

1912

1909

Pranks

as Director

1915

1911

Her Awakening

as Director

1924

America

as Producer

1925

That Royle Girl

as Director

1912

1924

1909

1931

The Struggle

as Screenplay

1908

1908

1908

The Ingrate

as Director

1908

The Ingrate

as Writer

1909

The Jilt

as Writer

1909

1909

The Jilt

as Director

1909

1909

1909

The Prussian Spy

as Director

1909

1909

1909

Those Boys!

as Writer

1909

1909

1909

1909

1909

Those Boys!

as Director

1909

1909

1909

A Wreath in Time

as Director

1909

The Winning Coat

as Director

1908

A Woman's Way

as Director

1908

A Woman's Way

as Writer

1908

1909

The Wooden Leg

as Director

1909

1908

1909

A Baby's Shoe

as Director

1909

1909

The Deception

as Director

1909

A Baby's Shoe

as Writer

1909

1909

1909

Drive for a Life

as Director

1909

1909

1909

1909

His Ward's Love

as Director

1909

1909

1909

1909

1909

1909

1909

Tragic Love

as Writer

1909

A New Trick

as Director

1909

A Rude Hostess

as Director

1909

1909

1909

A New Trick

as Writer

1909

Tragic Love

as Director

1910

The Call

as Writer

1910

The Call

as Director

1909

1909

1909

A Fool's Revenge

as Director

1909

1909

The Eavesdropper

as Director

1909

1909

1909

The Expiation

as Writer

1909

The Expiation

as Director

1909

In Little Italy

as Director

1909

His Lost Love

as Writer

1909

1909

Leather Stocking

as Director

1909

1909

1910

On the Reef

as Writer

1910

1910

1910

On the Reef

as Director

1910

1911

The Unveiling

as Director

1911

Italian Blood

as Director

1916

Betty of Greystone

as Supervisor of Production Resources

2025

Key of Gibraltar

as Assistant Director of Photography

1908

1909

1909

Pippa Passes

as Writer

1909

1909

1909

1912

The Root of Evil

as Director

1912

1911

1911

1909

1909

1909

1909

1909

Oh, Uncle!

as Writer

1909

1909

The Slave

as Writer

1909

Tender Hearts

as Writer

1909

The French Duel

as Director

1908

'Ostler Joe

as Author

1908

The Outlaw

as Author

1910

1910

1910

The Newlyweds

as Writer

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