D.W. Griffith
Directing
Born 1875-01-22
Died 1948-07-23
LaGrange, Kentucky, USA
547 credits
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1
Academy Honorary Award 1
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star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won
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Academy Honorary Award 1 won
- 1936 Academy Honorary Award Won
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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 his next film, Intolerance, intended to show the dangers of prejudiced thought and behavior. The film was not the financial success that its predecessor had been, but was received warmly by critics. Several of his later films were also successful, but high production, promotional, and roadshow costs often made his ventures commercial failures. Even so, he is generally considered one of the most important figures of early cinema.
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Directing
46 credits
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
Abraham Lincoln
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
Her Sacrifice
Through Darkening Vales
Orphans of the Storm
Leather Stocking
What the Daisy Said
The Impalement
Three Sisters
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
The Renunciation
The Eavesdropper
Remodeling Her Husband
His Trust
The Fall of Babylon
Just Gold
Conscience
To Save Her Soul
Blind Love
Way Down East
Three Friends
The Failure
Muggsy's First Sweetheart
The Redman's View
The Sunbeam
His Lost Love
1776, or The Hessian Renegades
Eradicating Aunty
In Little Italy
My Baby
The One She Loved
A Knight of the Road
Judith of Bethulia
A Griffith Biograph Collection Featuring Mary Pickford: Volume One
A Corner in Wheat
The Gibson Goddess
In Old California
The Lesser Evil
Drums of Love
Edgar Allen Poe
The Expiation
The Sealed Room
That Royle Girl
An Arcadian Maid
Writing
17 credits
The Birth of a Nation
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
Orphans of the Storm
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
The Renunciation
The Eavesdropper
The Fall of Babylon
Just Gold
To Save Her Soul
General Massacre
Hoodoo Ann
His Lost Love
1776, or The Hessian Renegades
Eradicating Aunty
The Gibson Goddess
Edgar Allen Poe
The Expiation
Acting
9 credits
American Experience
Hollywood Black
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
San Francisco
Don Quixote
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Producing
7 credits
The Birth of a Nation
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
Leather Stocking
Way Down East
Ghosts
Fifty-Fifty
A Corner in Wheat
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