D.W. Griffith

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1875-01-22

Deathday 1948-07-23 (73 years old)

Place of Birth LaGrange, Kentucky, USA

Also Known As David Llewelyn Wark Griffith, David Wark Griffith, David W. Griffith, Lawrence Griffith, Captain Victor Marier, Capt. Victor Marier, Victor Marier, Granville Hicks, Irene Sinclair, Roy Sinclair, Granville Warwick, M. Gaston de Tolignac, Gaston de Tolignac, 데이비드 와크 그리피스, D.W. Griffith, D.W. 그리피스, 데이비드 그리피스

D.W. Griffith

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 Klux Klan. Griffith responded to his critics with his next film, Intolerance, intended to show the dangers of prejudiced thought and behavior. The film was not the financial success that its predecessor had been, but was received warmly by critics. Several of his later films were also successful, but high production, promotional, and roadshow costs often made his ventures commercial failures. Even so, he is generally considered one of the most important figures of early cinema.

Known For

Director

1951
1936
San Francisco

as Second Assistant Director

1931
The Struggle

as Director

1930
Abraham Lincoln

as Director

1929
1928
1928
Drums of Love

as Director

1927
The King of Kings

as Assistant Director

1926
1925
1925
That Royle Girl

as Director

1924
America

as Director

1924
1923
The White Rose

as Director

1922
One Exciting Night

as Director

1921
1921
Dream Street

as Director

1920
Way Down East

as Director

1920
The Love Flower

as Director

1920
1920
The Idol Dancer

as Director

1919
Broken Blossoms

as Director

1919
True Heart Susie

as Director

1919
Scarlet Days

as Director

1919
1919
1919
1918
1918
The Great Love

as Director

1915
1914
Waifs

as Director

1914
1914
The Escape

as Director

1914
Judith of Bethulia

as Director

1914
Brute Force

as Director

1914
Home, Sweet Home

as Director

1914
1913
1913
A Chance Deception

as Director

1913
Brothers

as Director

1913
1913
If We Only Knew

as Director

1913
Near To Earth

as Director

1913
The Stolen Loaf

as Director

1913
1913
1913
The Enemy's Baby

as Director

1913
His Mother's Son

as Director

1913
1913
1913
1913
Death's Marathon

as Director

1913
The Yaqui Cur

as Director

1913
The Wanderer

as Director

1913
1913
Her Mother's Oath

as Director

1913
His Mother's Son

as Director

1913
1913
Three Friends

as Director

1913
The Sheriff's Baby

as Director

1913
Broken Ways

as Director

1913
Fate

as Director

1913
1913
1913
The Little Tease

as Director

1913
1913
The Reformers

as Director

1913
Oil and Water

as Director

1913
1913
1913
Just Gold

as Director

1913
1913
1913
1912
Heredity

as Director

1912
My Hero

as Director

1912
1912
An Unseen Enemy

as Director

1912
The Old Actor

as Director

1912
The New York Hat

as Director

1912
1912
1912
Blind Love

as Director

1912
The Mender of Nets

as Director

1912
The Painted Lady

as Director

1912
The Eternal Mother

as Director

1912
A Beast at Bay

as Director

1912
Friends

as Director

1912
The Lesser Evil

as Director

1912
1912
The Massacre

as Director

1912
The Narrow Road

as Director

1912
For His Son

as Director

1912
The Sands of Dee

as Director

1912
The Sunbeam

as Director

1912
1912
1912
Brutality

as Director

1912
Man's Genesis

as Director

1912
A Pueblo Legend

as Director

1912
Billy's Stratagem

as Director

1912
The Informer

as Director

1912
My Baby

as Director

1912
The One She Loved

as Director

1912
1912
The Inner Circle

as Director

1912
An Indian Summer

as Director

1912
Lena and the Geese

as Director

1912
Iola's Promise

as Director

1912
Just Like a Woman

as Director

1912
Home Folks

as Director

1912
1912
A Temporary Truce

as Director

1912
His Lesson

as Director

1912
The God Within

as Director

1912
Gold and Glitter

as Director

1912
A Cry for Help

as Director

1912
1912
A Siren of Impulse

as Director

1912
1911
1911
His Trust

as Director

1911
1911
1911
The Miser's Heart

as Director

1911
The Battle

as Director

1911
A Country Cupid

as Director

1911
Fate's Turning

as Director

1911
1911
Saved from Himself

as Director

1911
1911
1911
The Squaw's Love

as Director

1911
1911
Swords and Hearts

as Director

1911
Fighting Blood

as Director

1911
1911
1911
The Primal Call

as Director

1911
The Italian Barber

as Director

1911
1911
1911
His Daughter

as Director

1911
1911
1911
Enoch Arden

as Director

1911
When a Man Loves

as Director

1911
Three Sisters

as Director

1911
Madame Rex

as Director

1911
1911
The Long Road

as Director

1911
Fisher Folks

as Director

1911
The Diamond Star

as Director

1911
The Two Paths

as Director

1911
Bobby the Coward

as Director

1911
A Woman Scorned

as Director

1911
The Failure

as Director

1911
Love in the Hills

as Director

1911
Conscience

as Director

1911
Her Awakening

as Director

1911
The Unveiling

as Director

1911
Italian Blood

as Director

1910
1910
The Fugitive

as Director

1910
1910
The Unchanging Sea

as Director

1910
Ramona

as Director

1910
An Arcadian Maid

as Director

1910
As It Is in Life

as Director

1910
1910
Wilful Peggy

as Director

1910
The Usurer

as Director

1910
Faithful

as Director

1910
1910
Rose o' Salem Town

as Director

1910
1910
1910
A Flash of Light

as Director

1910
1910
The Lesson

as Director

1910
Over Silent Paths

as Director

1910
1910
1910
The Two Brothers

as Director

1910
The Golden Supper

as Director

1910
The Rocky Road

as Director

1910
1910
In Old California

as Director

1910
1910
In Life's Cycle

as Director

1910
A Plain Song

as Director

1910
1910
The Newlyweds

as Director

1910
1910
The Twisted Trail

as Director

1910
A Rich Revenge

as Director

1910
1910
A Child's Impulse

as Director

1910
The Call to Arms

as Director

1910
Simple Charity

as Director

1910
Waiter No. 5

as Director

1910
Sunshine Sue

as Director

1910
Unexpected Help

as Director

1910
His Last Burglary

as Director

1910
1910
Gold Is Not All

as Director

1910
The Gold Seekers

as Director

1910
Thou Shalt Not

as Director

1910
The Man

as Director

1910
The Purgation

as Director

1910
A Child's Faith

as Director

1910
The Impalement

as Director

1910
His Sister-In-Law

as Director

1910
1910
A Summer Idyll

as Director

1910
The Converts

as Director

1910
Taming a Husband

as Director

1910
1910
1910
1910
1910
A Mohawk's Way

as Director

1910
The Broken Doll

as Director

1910
Serious Sixteen

as Director

1910
Two Little Waifs

as Director

1910
A Salutary Lesson

as Director

1910
A Midnight Cupid

as Director

1910
Her Father's Pride

as Director

1910
The Iconoclast

as Director

1910
1910
1910
The Last Deal

as Director

1910
His Last Dollar

as Director

1910
The Call

as Director

1910
1910
The Duke’s Plan

as Director

1910
On the Reef

as Director

1909
The Sealed Room

as Director

1909
1909
A Corner in Wheat

as Director

1909
I Did It

as Director

1909
The Curtain Pole

as Director

1909
The Lonely Villa

as Director

1909
Those Awful Hats

as Director

1909
The Mended Lute

as Director

1909
1909
The Golden Louis

as Director

1909
The Little Darling

as Director

1909
1909
The Redman's View

as Director

1909
The Gibson Goddess

as Director

1909
The Renunciation

as Director

1909
Nursing a Viper

as Director

1909
Lucky Jim

as Director

1909
Edgar Allan Poe

as Director

1909
1909
What Drink Did

as Director

1909
1909
The Country Doctor

as Director

1909
Resurrection

as Director

1909
Confidence

as Director

1909
1909
Her First Biscuits

as Director

1909
At the Altar

as Director

1909
The Cord of Life

as Director

1909
Getting Even

as Director

1909
Pippa Passes

as Director

1909
1909
Twin Brothers

as Director

1909
The Son's Return

as Director

1909
1909
In Old Kentucky

as Director

1909
A Strange Meeting

as Director

1909
The Suicide Club

as Director

1909
The Broken Locket

as Director

1909
The Awakening

as Director

1909
The Way of Man

as Director

1909
1909
1909
The Maniac Cook

as Director

1909
Love Finds a Way

as Director

1909
1909
The Sacrifice

as Director

1909
A Rural Elopement

as Director

1909
1909
1909
Fools of Fate

as Director

1909
Two Memories

as Director

1909
Sweet and Twenty

as Director

1909
1909
The Little Teacher

as Director

1909
The Day After

as Director

1909
His Wife's Visitor

as Director

1909
1909
The Slave

as Director

1909
His Duty

as Director

1909
They Would Elope

as Director

1909
The Faded Lilies

as Director

1909
The Necklace

as Director

1909
Tender Hearts

as Director

1909
1909
The Seventh Day

as Director

1909
His Lost Love

as Director

1909
Oh, Uncle!

as Director

1909
What's Your Hurry?

as Director

1909
The Restoration

as Director

1909
1909
1909
The Test

as Director

1909
1909
To Save Her Soul

as Director

1909
1909
1909
Comata, the Sioux

as Director

1909
A Sweet Revenge

as Director

1909
1909
Wanted, a Child

as Director

1909
Pranks

as Director

1909
1909
The Jilt

as Director

1909
1909
The Prussian Spy

as Director

1909
1909
The Roue’s Heart

as Director

1909
1909
Those Boys!

as Director

1909
1909
A Wreath in Time

as Director

1909
The Winning Coat

as Director

1909
The Wooden Leg

as Director

1909
A Baby's Shoe

as Director

1909
The Brahma Diamond

as Director

1909
The Deception

as Director

1909
Drive for a Life

as Director

1909
1909
1909
His Ward's Love

as Director

1909
Eradicating Aunty

as Director

1909
His Wife's Mother

as Director

1909
A New Trick

as Director

1909
A Rude Hostess

as Director

1909
1909
Tragic Love

as Director

1909
Fool's Revenge

as Director

1909
The Eavesdropper

as Director

1909
1909
The Expiation

as Director

1909
In Little Italy

as Director

1909
1909
Leather Stocking

as Director

1909
The Hindoo Dagger

as Director

1908
1908
For a Wife's Honor

as Director

1908
For Love of Gold

as Director

1908
1908
1908
The Black Viper

as Director

1908
1908
1908
1908
The Fatal Hour

as Director

1908
Money Mad

as Director

1908
1908
1908
1908
After Many Years

as Director

1908
1908
An Awful Moment

as Director

1908
1908
1908
The Red Girl

as Director

1908
1908
1908
The Vaquero's Vow

as Director

1908
1908
The Devil

as Director

1908
1908
1908
The Guerrilla

as Director

1908
1908
A Smoked Husband

as Director

1908
1908
The Valet's Wife

as Director

1908
The Pirate's Gold

as Director

1908
The Reckoning

as Director

1908
The Helping Hand

as Director

1908
1908
1908
The Zulu's Heart

as Director

1908
1908
The Planter's Wife

as Director

1908
The Ingrate

as Director

1908
A Woman's Way

as Director

1908
The Stolen Jewels

as Director

Writer

1951
1931
The Struggle

as Screenplay

1924
1923
The White Rose

as Writer

1922
1921
Orphans of the Storm

as Screenplay

1921
Dream Street

as Writer

1920
The Love Flower

as Writer

1920
Way Down East

as Writer

1919
Broken Blossoms

as Writer

1919
1919
1918
The Hun Within

as Writer

1918
1918
The Great Love

as Writer

1916
1916
1916
1916
1916
Hoodoo Ann

as Writer

1916
1915
1915
1915
The Lamb

as Story

1915
Enoch Arden

as Writer

1914
1913
Just Gold

as Writer

1913
1913
1913
Two Men of the Desert

as Screenplay

1913
The Wanderer

as Writer

1912
Brutality

as Writer

1912
My Hero

as Writer

1912
The Massacre

as Writer

1912
Friends

as Writer

1912
1912
A Pueblo Legend

as Writer

1912
Man's Genesis

as Writer

1912
1910
Ramona

as Writer

1910
The Last Deal

as Writer

1910
The Call

as Writer

1910
On the Reef

as Writer

1910
1909
What Drink Did

as Writer

1909
Confidence

as Writer

1909
1909
A Sweet Revenge

as Writer

1909
1909
1909
The Son's Return

as Screenplay

1909
1909
1909
At the Altar

as Writer

1909
Nursing a Viper

as Writer

1909
The Maniac Cook

as Writer

1909
1909
1909
1909
The Sacrifice

as Writer

1909
1909
1909
Two Memories

as Writer

1909
1909
The Way of Man

as Writer

1909
1909
Getting Even

as Writer

1909
The Jilt

as Writer

1909
1909
1909
1909
1909
Those Boys!

as Writer

1909
1909
1909
1909
1909
The Wooden Leg

as Writer

1909
A Baby's Shoe

as Writer

1909
1909
1909
1909
1909
His Ward's Love

as Writer

1909
1909
1909
1909
Tragic Love

as Writer

1909
A Rude Hostess

as Writer

1909
1909
A New Trick

as Writer

1909
1909
1909
1909
1909
Fool's Revenge

as Writer

1909
The Expiation

as Writer

1909
His Lost Love

as Writer

1909
1908
An Awful Moment

as Writer

1908
1908
1908
1908
1908
Money Mad

as Writer

1908
1908
1908
Mixed Babies

as Writer

1908
1908
The Ingrate

as Writer

1908
A Woman's Way

as Writer

1908

Actor

2014
Flashback: The First World War

as Self (archive footage)

2008
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies

as Self (archive footage)

2002
The Tramp and the Dictator

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1998
1961
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

as Self (archive footage)

1936
San Francisco

as Orchestra Conductor (uncredited)

1915
Enoch Arden

as Mr. Ray

1912
Two Daughters of Eve

as At Stage Door

1911
1909
The Politician's Love Story

as Man - First Couple

1909
The Girls and Daddy

as At Black & Tan Ball

1908
1908
The Red Girl

as Man on Footpath

1908
The Fatal Hour

as Policeman

1908
1908
Deceived Slumming Party

as Reginald O.C. Wittington

1908
The Black Viper

as Rescuer

1908
The Stage Rustler

as Phil Bowen

1908
1908
The Man in the Box

as Station Agent

1908
1908
1908
King of the Cannibal Islands

as Cannibal in Top Hat

1908
Old Isaacs, the Pawnbroker

as Doctor, Charity Worker

1908
1908
1908
Yellow Peril

as Mr. Phlipp

1908
Classmates

as Extra

1908
Falsely Accused!

as Cop in Court

Producer

1931
The Struggle

as Producer

1928
1926
1924
America

as Producer

1924
1923
The White Rose

as Producer

1922
One Exciting Night

as Producer

1921
Dream Street

as Producer

1921
1920
The Love Flower

as Producer

1920
Way Down East

as Producer

1919
Broken Blossoms

as Producer

1919
1919
1919
True Heart Susie

as Producer

1919
1919
Scarlet Days

as Producer

1918
The Great Love

as Producer

1918
1917
Betsy's Burglar

as Supervising Producer

1917
A Girl of the Timber Claims

as Supervising Producer

1916
The Half-Breed

as Producer

1916
Fifty-Fifty

as Producer

1916
The Missing Links

as Production Supervisor

1916
1915
1915
1915
Ghosts

as Producer

1915
Double Trouble

as Production Supervisor

1915
Old Heidelberg

as Supervising Producer

1914
1914
The Life of General Villa

as Supervising Producer

1914
The Odalisque

as Supervising Producer

1913
1912
Lena and the Geese

as Producer

1911
1909
The Day After

as Producer

1909
A Corner in Wheat

as Producer

Crew

1916
Betty of Greystone

as Supervisor of Production Resources

1915

Sound

1931
The Struggle

as Original Music Composer

1915
The Birth of a Nation

as Original Music Composer