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David Llewelyn Wark Griffith
David Wark Griffith
David W. Griffith
Lawrence Griffith
Captain Victor Marier
D.W. Griffith
Directing
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 …
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Mary Pickford a Blessing and a Curse
as Self
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
as archive footage
Flashback: The First World War
as Self (archive footage)
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies
as Self (archive footage)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
The Tramp and the Dictator
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
as Self (archive footage)
The Making of 'The Birth of a Nation'
as Self (Archive footage)
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
as Self (archive footage)
San Francisco
as Orchestra Conductor (uncredited)
