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.
Filmography
all 529
Movies 528
Director 447
Producer 24
Writer 16
self 15
TV Shows 1
Flashback: The First World War (2014)
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies (2008)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007)
D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913 (2002)
The Tramp and the Dictator (2002)
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists (1998)
The Making of 'The Birth of a Nation' (1993)
Hollywood Mavericks (1990)
American Experience (1988)
Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me (1988)
Cameramen Who Dared (1988)
The Moving Picture Boys in the Great War (1975)
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino (1961)
Hollywood: The Golden Years (1961)
Footlight Varieties (1951)
Cameramen at War (1943)
San Francisco (1936)
The Struggle (1931)
Abraham Lincoln (1930)
Filmed Prologue to Birth of a Nation (1930)
Lady of the Pavements (1929)
The Battle of the Sexes (1928)
Drums of Love (1928)
Topsy and Eva (1927)
The King of Kings (1927)
The Sorrows of Satan (1926)
That Royle Girl (1925)
Sally of the Sawdust (1925)
Isn't Life Wonderful (1924)
America (1924)
The White Rose (1923)
One Exciting Night (1922)
Orphans of the Storm (1921)
Dream Street (1921)
Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20) (1921)
Way Down East (1920)
The Love Flower (1920)
Remodeling Her Husband (1920)
The Idol Dancer (1920)
The Greatest Question (1919)
Scarlet Days (1919)
The Mother and the Law (1919)
The Fall of Babylon (1919)
True Heart Susie (1919)
Broken Blossoms (1919)
The Girl Who Stayed at Home (1919)
A Romance of Happy Valley (1919)
The Greatest Thing in Life (1918)
Lillian Gish in a Liberty Loan Appeal (1918)
The Hun Within (1918)
The Great Love (1918)
Hearts of the World (1918)
Betsy's Burglar (1917)
A Girl of the Timber Claims (1917)
The Mainspring (1916)
Fifty-Fifty (1916)
Diane of the Follies (1916)
The Social Secretary (1916)
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
The Marriage of Molly-O (1916)
The Half-Breed (1916)
An Innocent Magdalene (1916)
Hoodoo Ann (1916)
The Flying Torpedo (1916)
Daphne and the Pirate (1916)
Betty of Greystone (1916)
The Wood Nymph (1916)
The Missing Links (1916)
Macbeth (1916)
Double Trouble (1915)
Old Heidelberg (1915)
The Lily and the Rose (1915)
The Lamb (1915)
Ghosts (1915)
Enoch Arden (1915)
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
The Avenging Conscience (1914)
The Escape (1914)
Home, Sweet Home (1914)
The Life of General Villa (1914)
Brute Force (1914)
The Battle of the Sexes (1914)
Judith of Bethulia (1914)
Waifs (1914)
The Conscience of Hassan Bey (1913)
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1913)
Madonna of the Storm (1913)
The Adopted Brother (1913)
Two Men of the Desert (1913)
A Misappropriated Turkey (1913)
The Reformers (1913)
Her Mother's Oath (1913)
The Mothering Heart (1913)
Death's Marathon (1913)
The Enemy's Baby (1913)
A Timely Interception (1913)
The Sorrowful Shore (1913)
The Ranchero's Revenge (1913)
His Mother's Son (1913)
His Mother's Son (1913)
Just Gold (1913)
The Yaqui Cur (1913)
The House of Darkness (1913)
The Stolen Loaf (1913)
The Wanderer (1913)
If We Only Knew (1913)
The Lady and the Mouse (1913)
The Left-Handed Man (1913)
A Misunderstood Boy (1913)
The Little Tease (1913)
The Perfidy of Mary (1913)
The Hero of Little Italy (1913)
The Sheriff's Baby (1913)
Fate (1913)
Near To Earth (1913)
The Unwelcome Guest (1913)
Broken Ways (1913)
Love in an Apartment Hotel (1913)
A Chance Deception (1913)
Oil and Water (1913)
Brothers (1913)
The Tender Hearted Boy (1913)
An Adventure in the Autumn Woods (1913)
The Telephone Girl and the Lady (1913)
Three Friends (1913)
The Coming of Angelo (1913)
The God Within (1912)
A Cry for Help (1912)
The Massacre (1912)
The Burglar’s Dilemma (1912)
My Hero (1912)
The New York Hat (1912)
Brutality (1912)
The Informer (1912)
My Baby (1912)
Gold and Glitter (1912)
Heredity (1912)
The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)
The Painted Lady (1912)
The One She Loved (1912)
In the Aisles of the Wild (1912)
The Chief's Blanket (1912)
A Feud in the Kentucky Hills (1912)
So Near, Yet So Far (1912)
Friends (1912)
Two Daughters of Eve (1912)
Blind Love (1912)
An Unseen Enemy (1912)
A Pueblo Legend (1912)
The Inner Circle (1912)
The Narrow Road (1912)
Man's Genesis (1912)
An Indian Summer (1912)
The School Teacher and the Waif (1912)
Lena and the Geese (1912)
A Temporary Truce (1912)
Home Folks (1912)
A Beast at Bay (1912)
When Kings Were the Law (1912)
A Lodging for the Night (1912)
The Old Actor (1912)
The Lesser Evil (1912)
One Is Business, the Other Crime (1912)
Just Like a Woman (1912)
The Female of the Species (1912)
A Siren of Impulse (1912)
Fate's Interception (1912)
The Girl and Her Trust (1912)
The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch (1912)
Iola's Promise (1912)
The Sunbeam (1912)
Under Burning Skies (1912)
The Sands of Dee (1912)
The Mender of Nets (1912)
Billy's Stratagem (1912)
The Transformation of Mike (1912)
For His Son (1912)
The Eternal Mother (1912)
The Baby and the Stork (1912)
A Terrible Discovery (1911)
Saved from Himself (1911)
The Failure (1911)
A Woman Scorned (1911)
The Miser's Heart (1911)
Through Darkening Vales (1911)
The Battle (1911)
Love in the Hills (1911)
The Long Road (1911)
The Adventures of Billy (1911)
The Unveiling (1911)
Italian Blood (1911)
The Making of a Man (1911)
Her Awakening (1911)
The Revenue Man and His Girl (1911)
The Squaw's Love (1911)
Swords and Hearts (1911)
The Rose of Kentucky (1911)
The Last Drop of Water (1911)
A Country Cupid (1911)
The Indian Brothers (1911)
Bobby the Coward (1911)
Fighting Blood (1911)
The Primal Call (1911)
Enoch Arden: Part II (1911)
Enoch Arden (1911)
Enoch Arden: Part I (1911)
Madame Rex (1911)
The Lonedale Operator (1911)
Teaching Dad to Like Her (1911)
Conscience (1911)
A Decree of Destiny (1911)
The Lily of the Tenements (1911)
His Daughter (1911)
The Diamond Star (1911)
Fisher Folks (1911)
What Shall We Do with Our Old? (1911)
Heart Beats of Long Ago (1911)
Three Sisters (1911)
A Wreath of Orange Blossoms (1911)
Fate's Turning (1911)
His Trust Fulfilled (1911)
His Trust (1911)
The Italian Barber (1911)
When a Man Loves (1911)
The Two Paths (1911)
Winning Back His Love (1910)
White Roses (1910)
The Lesson (1910)
His Sister-In-Law (1910)
The Golden Supper (1910)
A Plain Song (1910)
His New Lid (1910)
The Song of the Wildwood Flute (1910)
Love in Quarantine (1910)
Sunshine Sue (1910)
Simple Charity (1910)
The Fugitive (1910)
Waiter No. 5 (1910)
Two Little Waifs (1910)
The Message of the Violin (1910)
The Banker's Daughters (1910)
The Broken Doll (1910)
The Masher (1910)
A Lucky Toothache (1910)
That Chink at Golden Gulch (1910)
A Gold Necklace (1910)
A Child's Stratagem (1910)
The Iconoclast (1910)
Examination Day at School (1910)
Rose o' Salem Town (1910)
The Oath and the Man (1910)
In Life's Cycle (1910)
A Mohawk's Way (1910)
Little Angels of Luck (1910)
A Summer Idyll (1910)
Muggsy Becomes a Hero (1910)
The Modern Prodigal (1910)
Wilful Peggy (1910)
The Sorrows of the Unfaithful (1910)
When We Were in Our 'Teens (1910)
The Usurer (1910)
A Salutary Lesson (1910)
The House with Closed Shutters (1910)
Her Father's Pride (1910)
An Arcadian Maid (1910)
Unexpected Help (1910)
The Call to Arms (1910)
A Flash of Light (1910)
What the Daisy Said (1910)
Muggsy's First Sweetheart (1910)
A Child's Impulse (1910)
Never Again (1910)
May and December (1910)
As the Bells Rang Out! (1910)
In the Border States (1910)
A Victim of Jealousy (1910)
Serious Sixteen (1910)
A Child's Faith (1910)
A Child of the Ghetto (1910)
A Midnight Cupid (1910)
In the Season of Buds (1910)
The Purgation (1910)
Bill Sharkey's Last Game (1910)
Ramona (1910)
An Affair of Hearts (1910)
The Marked Time-Table (1910)
Over Silent Paths (1910)
The Two Brothers (1910)
The Face at the Window (1910)
Love Among the Roses (1910)
The Unchanging Sea (1910)
The Impalement (1910)
The Tenderfoot's Triumph (1910)
The Kid (1910)
A Romance of the Western Hills (1910)
A Rich Revenge (1910)
As It Is in Life (1910)
His Last Dollar (1910)
The Smoker (1910)
The Twisted Trail (1910)
Faithful (1910)
The Gold Seekers (1910)
The Way of the World (1910)
In Old California (1910)
The Thread of Destiny (1910)
The Newlyweds (1910)
Thou Shalt Not (1910)
Gold Is Not All (1910)
The Englishman and the Girl (1910)
The Duke’s Plan (1910)
The Converts (1910)
The Man (1910)
The Woman from Mellon's (1910)
The Cloister’s Touch (1910)
The Last Deal (1910)
The Honor of His Family (1910)
The Call (1910)
On the Reef (1910)
All on Account of the Milk (1910)
Her Terrible Ordeal (1910)
Taming a Husband (1910)
His Last Burglary (1910)
The Final Settlement (1910)
The Rocky Road (1910)
The Heart of an Outlaw (1909)
The Day After (1909)
To Save Her Soul (1909)
In Little Italy (1909)
A Trap for Santa Claus (1909)
The Test (1909)
A Corner in Wheat (1909)
The Redman's View (1909)
Through the Breakers (1909)
The Death Disc: A Story of the Cromwellian Period (1909)
The Trick that Failed (1909)
In the Window Recess (1909)
The Mountaineer's Honor (1909)
A Midnight Adventure (1909)
A Sweet Revenge (1909)
The Light That Came (1909)
The Restoration (1909)
Nursing a Viper (1909)
What's Your Hurry? (1909)
The Gibson Goddess (1909)
Lines of White on a Sullen Sea (1909)
In the Watches of the Night (1909)
The Children's Friend (1909)
The Expiation (1909)
His Lost Love (1909)
The Little Teacher (1909)
Fools of Fate (1909)
Pippa Passes (1909)
Wanted, a Child (1909)
The Awakening (1909)
Leather Stocking (1909)
In Old Kentucky (1909)
The Broken Locket (1909)
Getting Even (1909)
Comata, the Sioux (1909)
1776, or The Hessian Renegades (1909)
The Sealed Room (1909)
The Little Darling (1909)
Pranks (1909)
The Mills of the Gods (1909)
Oh, Uncle! (1909)
The Seventh Day (1909)
The Indian Runner's Romance (1909)
Mrs. Jones' Lover or, I Want My Hat (1909)
His Wife's Visitor (1909)
They Would Elope (1909)
Mr. Jones’ Burglar (1909)
The Mended Lute (1909)
A Strange Meeting (1909)
The Slave (1909)
Sweet and Twenty (1909)
A New Trick (1909)
The Renunciation (1909)
Tender Hearts (1909)
The Cardinal's Conspiracy (1909)
Jealousy and the Man (1909)
The Country Doctor (1909)
The Necklace (1909)
The Way of Man (1909)
The Peachbasket Hat (1909)
The Mexican Sweethearts (1909)
The Faded Lilies (1909)
Her First Biscuits (1909)
The Son's Return (1909)
The Lonely Villa (1909)
The Violin Maker of Cremona (1909)
What Drink Did (1909)
His Duty (1909)
Eradicating Aunty (1909)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1909)
Eloping with Auntie (1909)
Two Memories (1909)
Resurrection (1909)
The Jilt (1909)
A Baby's Shoe (1909)
Jones and the Lady Book Agent (1909)
The Note in the Shoe (1909)
The Eavesdropper (1909)
The Suicide Club (1909)
Tis an Ill Wind That Blows No Good (1909)
Twin Brothers (1909)
Lucky Jim (1909)
Drive for a Life (1909)
Lady Helen's Escapade (1909)
A Troublesome Satchel (1909)
Confidence (1909)
The Winning Coat (1909)
Schneider’s Anti-Noise Crusade (1909)
A Rude Hostess (1909)
The Road to the Heart (1909)
Trying to Get Arrested (1909)
A Drunkard's Reformation (1909)
The Medicine Bottle (1909)
Jones and His New Neighbors (1909)
A Burglar’s Mistake (1909)
And a Little Child Shall Lead Them (1909)
The Deception (1909)
The Voice of the Violin (1909)
I Did It (1909)
The Lure of the Gown (1909)
The Salvation Army Lass (1909)
The Roue’s Heart (1909)
The Wooden Leg (1909)
Fool's Revenge (1909)
His Wife's Mother (1909)
The Prussian Spy (1909)
At the Altar (1909)
The Golden Louis (1909)
The Politician's Love Story (1909)
The Joneses Have Amateur Theatricals (1909)
The Hindoo Dagger (1909)
His Ward's Love (1909)
The Curtain Pole (1909)
Tragic Love (1909)
Edgar Allan Poe (1909)
A Wreath in Time (1909)
The Brahma Diamond (1909)
The Girls and Daddy (1909)
The Cord of Life (1909)
The Welcome Burglar (1909)
Those Awful Hats (1909)
Mr. Jones Has a Card Party (1909)
The Fascinating Mrs. Francis (1909)
The Criminal Hypnotist (1909)
Those Boys! (1909)
A Rural Elopement (1909)
The Sacrifice (1909)
The Honor of Thieves (1909)
Love Finds a Way (1909)
Mrs. Jones Entertains (1909)
The Maniac Cook (1909)
One Touch of Nature (1909)
The Helping Hand (1908)
Mr. Jones at the Ball (1908)
The Christmas Burglars (1908)
An Awful Moment (1908)
The Test of Friendship (1908)
The Reckoning (1908)
The Feud and the Turkey (1908)
Money Mad (1908)
The Valet's Wife (1908)
The Clubman and the Tramp (1908)
A Woman's Way (1908)
The Ingrate (1908)
The Song of the Shirt (1908)
The Guerrilla (1908)
The Taming of the Shrew (1908)
The Pirate's Gold (1908)
After Many Years (1908)
Concealing a Burglar (1908)
The Call of the Wild (1908)
Romance of a Jewess (1908)
The Planter's Wife (1908)
The Vaquero's Vow (1908)
Ingomar, the Barbarian (1908)
Father Gets in the Game (1908)
The Zulu's Heart (1908)
The Devil (1908)
The Stolen Jewels (1908)
A Smoked Husband (1908)
Where the Breakers Roar (1908)
The Heart of O Yama (1908)
The Red Girl (1908)
Behind the Scenes: Where All Is Not Gold That Glitters (1908)
The Girl and the Outlaw (1908)
Monday Morning in a Coney Island Police Court (1908)
Betrayed by a Handprint (1908)
For a Wife's Honor (1908)
Balked at the Altar (1908)
For Love of Gold (1908)
The Fatal Hour (1908)
The Man and the Woman (1908)
The Greaser's Gauntlet (1908)
A Calamitous Elopement (1908)
The Bandit’s Waterloo (The Outwitting of an Andalusian Brigand by a Pretty Senora) (1908)
Deceived Slumming Party (1908)
The Red Man and the Child (1908)
The Tavern Keeper’s Daughter (1908)
The Black Viper (1908)
The Fight for Freedom (1908)
The Adventures of Dollie (1908)
The Stage Rustler (1908)
The Kentuckian (1908)
At the Crossroads of Life (1908)
At the French Ball (1908)
Over the Hills to the Poor House (1908)
The Man in the Box (1908)
The Invisible Fluid (1908)
Mixed Babies (1908)
When Knights Were Bold (1908)
The Sculptor's Nightmare (1908)
The Music Master (1908)
The King's Messenger (1908)
Hulda's Lovers (1908)
King of the Cannibal Islands (1908)
Old Isaacs, the Pawnbroker (1908)
Caught by Wireless (1908)
Her First Adventure (1908)
Yellow Peril (1908)
Cupid’s Pranks (1908)
Classmates (1908)
Falsely Accused! (1908)
Rescued from an Eagle's Nest (1908)
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GenderMale
Birthday1875-01-22
Deathday1948-07-23 (73 years old)
Birth NameDavid Llewelyn Wark Griffith
Birth PlaceLa Grange, United States of America
RelationshipsLinda Arvidson (1906-01-01 - 1936-01-01)
FatherJacob Wark Griffith
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsDavid 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
Awardsstar on Hollywood Walk of Fame, Academy Honorary Award
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