D.W. Griffith
Directing · Producer · Writer · Editor
Born Jan 22, 1875 · LaGrange, Kentucky, USA
Active 1908–1948 · Awards: Academy Honorary Award, star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
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).
Filmography
A Griffith Biograph Collection Featuring Mary Pickford: Volume One — DirectorBiograph Shorts Special Edition: 1909-1913 — DirectorIntolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916) — Scenario Writer · Director · Editor · Costume Design · Makeup Artist · Production Design · PresenterBroken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (1919) — Director · Producer · WriterThe Birth of a Nation (1915) — Producer · Writer · Editor · Original Music Composer · Presenter · DirectorWay Down East (1920) — Director · Producer · WriterOrphans of the Storm (1921) — Director · Producer · ScreenplaySan Francisco (1936) — Orchestra Conductor (uncredited) · Second Assistant DirectorA Corner in Wheat (1909) — Director · Producer · WriterThe Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) — Writer · DirectorTrue Heart Susie (1919) — Director · ProducerThe King of Kings (1927) — Assistant DirectorThe Lonely Villa (1909) — DirectorThose Awful Hats (1909) — Director · WriterThe Unchanging Sea (1910) — DirectorThe Girl and Her Trust (1912) — DirectorThe Lonedale Operator (1911) — Producer · DirectorThe Country Doctor (1909) — Director · WriterThe Troublesome Baby (1910) — ProducerA Romance of Happy Valley (1919) — Director · Producer · StoryJudith of Bethulia (1914) — DirectorThe Sorrows of Satan (1926) — Director · ProducerThe Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1913) — Director · WriterThe Avenging Conscience (1914) — Director · Writer · Producer