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D.W. Griffith
Directing
22 Jan 1875
† 23 Jul 1948
LaGrange, Kentucky, USA
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 ...
Also Known As
David Llewelyn Wark Griffith, David Wark Griffith, David W. Griffith, Lawrence Griffith, Captain Victor Marier






















