D.W. Griffith
Director

D.W. Griffith

D.W. Griffith is credited on 65 movies, best known by TMDB votes for The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages and Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl.

Born January 22, 1875 in LaGrange, Kentucky, USA; died July 23, 1948.

Filmography · 60 titles

The 60 best known of 65 credits on TMDB, by votes.

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About D.W. Griffith

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...

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