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 …
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San Francisco
1936
Orchestra Conductor (uncredited)
Rescued from an Eagle's Nest
1908
Father
American Experience
1988
Self
The Tramp and the Dictator
2002
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
2020
archive footage
A Calamitous Elopement
1908
Policeman
The Black Viper
1908
Rescuer
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies
2008
Self (archive footage)
Her First Adventure
1908
Father
1776, or The Hessian Renegades
1909
The Sculptor's Nightmare
1908
Balked at the Altar
1908
Cupid’s Pranks
1908
Enoch Arden
1915
Mr. Ray
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007
Self (archive footage)
At the Altar
1909
The Invisible Fluid
1908
Mailman
The Adventures of Billy
1911
On Bench
The Politician's Love Story
1909
Man - First Couple
At the Crossroads of Life
1908
Suitor