D.W. Griffith
Born in LaGrange, Kentucky, USA — Jan 22 1875• Died Jul 23 1948
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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 p…
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D.W. Griffith's Credits
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American Experience
Self
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
Production
The Birth of a Nation
Writing
So Near, Yet So Far
Directing
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Directing
The King of Kings
Directing
Abraham Lincoln
Directing
The Sealed Room
Directing
Ramona
Directing
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Self (archive footage)
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Self (archive footage)
Orphans of the Storm
Directing
The Sunbeam
Directing
San Francisco
Orchestra Conductor (uncredited)
The Escape
Directing
A Beast at Bay
Directing
Fools of Fate
Directing
The Tramp and the Dictator
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Perfidy of Mary
Directing
Oil and Water
Directing
The Massacre
Directing
Old Heidelberg
Production
The Usurer
Directing
The New York Hat
Directing
Three Friends
Directing
Leather Stocking
Directing
Getting Even
Directing
My Baby
Directing
A Corner in Wheat
Directing
The Unchanging Sea
Directing
Hoodoo Ann
Writing
Classmates
Extra
Near To Earth
Directing
Betsy's Burglar
Production
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
Writing
Don Quixote
Crew
An Unseen Enemy
Directing
A Strange Meeting
Directing
The Curtain Pole
Writing
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
Directing
The Lily and the Rose
Production
The Lonely Villa
Directing
The Reformers
Directing
Scarlet Days
Directing
For His Son
Directing
Enoch Arden
Mr. Ray
A Feud in the Kentucky Hills
Directing
Love in an Apartment Hotel
Directing
Brute Force
Directing
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
Self (archive footage)
On the Reef
Directing
The Yaqui Cur
Directing
The Unwelcome Guest
Directing
A Trap for Santa Claus
Directing
The Wanderer
Directing
The Necklace
Directing
The Death Disc: A Story of the Cromwellian Period
Directing
The Making of a Man
Directing
Lines of White on a Sullen Sea
Writing
Friends
Directing
Macbeth
Production
The Lesson
Directing
The Life of General Villa
Production
Brutality
Writing
Wilful Peggy
Directing
Confidence
Writing
The Broken Locket
Writing
The Love Flower
Writing
Under Burning Skies
Directing
Heredity
Directing
The Rocky Road
Directing
The Voice of the Violin
Directing
The Slave
Directing
The Miser's Heart
Directing
Lady of the Pavements
Directing
Her Awakening
Directing
The Fugitive
Directing
Blind Love
Directing
Judith of Bethulia
Directing
The Chief's Blanket
Directing
The Informer
Directing
The Mother and the Law
Writing
Enoch Arden
Directing
Rescued from an Eagle's Nest
Father
The Telephone Girl and the Lady
Directing
Sally of the Sawdust
Directing
Fighting Blood
Directing
Drums of Love
Directing
Two Men of the Desert
Writing
The Lady and the Mouse
Writing
The Day After
Production
A Timely Interception
Directing
Home, Sweet Home
Directing
The White Rose
Directing
Fisher Folks
Directing
The Old Actor
Directing
The Social Secretary
Production
Isn't Life Wonderful
Directing
The Two Paths
Directing
A Misunderstood Boy
Directing
The Last Deal
Directing
An Arcadian Maid
Directing
Just Gold
Writing
The Avenging Conscience
Writing
Fate
Directing
My Hero
Writing
The Half-Breed
Production
In the Aisles of the Wild
Directing
The Little Tease
Directing
To Save Her Soul
Directing
What Drink Did
Writing
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
archive footage
The Faded Lilies
Directing
A Flash of Light
Directing
The God Within
Directing
America
Directing
A Lodging for the Night
Directing
An Innocent Magdalene
Writing
D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913
Writing
The New Dress
Directing
Daphne and the Pirate
Writing
The Painted Lady
Directing
The Message of the Violin
Writing
The Lure of the Gown
Writing
The Eternal Mother
Directing
One Exciting Night
Production
The Battle of the Sexes
Directing
The Honor of His Family
Directing
A Temporary Truce
Directing
A Woman Scorned
Directing
The Oath and the Man
Directing
The Girl Who Stayed at Home
Writing
A Child's Impulse
Directing
Ghosts
Production
The Salvation Army Lass
Directing
The Unveiling
Directing
Remodeling Her Husband
Directing
A Cry for Help
Directing
In Old California
Directing
The Way of Man
Directing
The Mothering Heart
Directing
The One She Loved
Directing
The Redman's View
Directing
The Failure
Directing
Home Folks
Directing
The Long Road
Directing
The Hun Within
Writing
The Thread of Destiny
Writing
Tender Hearts
Directing
The Lonedale Operator
Production
His Trust
Directing
Betty of Greystone
Writing
After Many Years
Directing
In Old Kentucky
Directing
The Honor of Thieves
Directing
The Eavesdropper
Directing
The Battle
Directing
Broken Ways
Directing
The Great Love
Directing
The Cloister’s Touch
Directing
The Fall of Babylon
Directing
That Chink at Golden Gulch
Directing
The Lesser Evil
Directing
The Tenderfoot's Triumph
Production
The Inner Circle
Directing
The Idol Dancer
Directing
Fate's Turning
Directing
A Wreath in Time
Writing
The Primal Call
Directing
Resurrection
Directing
That Royle Girl
Directing
The Son's Return
Directing
The Sorrows of Satan
Directing
Man's Genesis
Directing
Muggsy's First Sweetheart
Directing
Fifty-Fifty
Production
Bobby the Coward
Directing
Faithful
Directing
His Duty
Directing
Way Down East
Directing
The Medicine Bottle
Directing
The Burglar’s Dilemma
Directing
An Adventure in the Autumn Woods
Directing
Footlight Varieties
Writing
Lena and the Geese
Directing
The Root of Evil
Directing
A Drunkard's Reformation
Writing
Hearts of the World
Directing
The Heart of an Outlaw
Directing
The Newlyweds
Directing
The Sheriff's Baby
Directing
Death's Marathon
Directing
The Gibson Goddess
Directing
The Adventures of Dollie
Directing
Double Trouble
Production
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies
Self (archive footage)
The Cord of Life
Directing
A Romance of Happy Valley
Directing
Gold and Glitter
Directing
At the French Ball
Husband
The Tender Hearted Boy
Directing
The Impalement
Directing
The Converts
Directing
Just Like a Woman
Directing
The Mended Lute
Directing
A Chance Deception
Directing
A Smoked Husband
Directing
The Mountaineer's Honor
Directing
A String of Pearls
Directing
When a Man Loves
Directing
The Squaw's Love
Directing
1776, or The Hessian Renegades
The Enemy's Baby
Directing
A Pueblo Legend
Directing
The Sculptor's Nightmare
The Blind Princess and the Poet
Directing
Two Memories
Writing
Brothers
Directing
When Kings Were the Law
Directing
The Mender of Nets
Directing
The Man
Directing
A Gold Necklace
Production
Her Terrible Ordeal
Directing
Italian Blood
Directing
After the Ball
Production
Father Gets in the Game
Directing
Sweet and Twenty
Directing
Those Awful Hats
Directing
The Golden Louis
Directing
Waiter No. 5
Directing
Teaching Dad to Like Her
Directing
Two Daughters of Eve
At Stage Door
His Mother's Son
Directing
Diane of the Follies
Writing
The Coming of Angelo
Directing
The Odalisque
Production
The Indian Brothers
Directing
Lady Helen's Escapade
Directing
The Iconoclast
Directing
Rose o' Salem Town
Directing
The Cardinal's Conspiracy
Directing
They Would Elope
Directing
The Maniac Cook
Writing
Lucky Jim
Directing
Pranks
Directing
The Renunciation
Directing
The Black Viper
Rescuer
The Prussian Spy
Writing
Mary Pickford a Blessing and a Curse
Self
The Call of the Wild
Directing
The Rose of Kentucky
Directing
The Little Darling
Directing
In the Window Recess
Directing
A Victim of Jealousy
Directing
The Narrow Road
Directing
Thou Shalt Not
Directing
The Sands of Dee
Directing
Nursing a Viper
Directing
Fate's Interception
Directing
Enoch Arden: Part II
Directing
The Greatest Thing in Life
Production
The Revenue Man and His Girl
Directing
The Restoration
Directing
Comata, the Sioux
Directing
The Diamond Star
Directing
Edgar Allan Poe
Directing
'Ostler Joe
Lover
What the Daisy Said
Directing
A Child of the Ghetto
Directing
The Battle of the Sexes
Directing
Love in the Hills
Directing
Let Katie Do it
Writing
Sunshine Sue
Directing
Mr. Jones Has a Card Party
Directing
Twin Brothers
Directing
When We Were in Our 'Teens
Production
The Two Brothers
Directing
The Fatal Hour
Policeman
Her First Adventure
Father
The Struggle
Directing
The Stolen Loaf
Directing
Mr. Jones at the Ball
Directing
The Face at the Window
Directing
The Last Drop of Water
Directing
His Daughter
Directing
The Lamb
Writing
The Hindoo Dagger
Directing
Where the Breakers Roar
Directing
A Country Cupid
Directing
The Seventh Day
Directing
The House of Darkness
Directing
The Cricket on the Hearth
Directing
The Golden Supper
Directing
The Christmas Burglars
Writing
The Girls and Daddy
At Black & Tan Ball
Conscience
Directing
Her First Biscuits
Directing
The Joneses Have Amateur Theatricals
Directing
The Left-Handed Man
Directing
The Ranchero's Revenge
Directing
The Feud and the Turkey
Directing
Deceived Slumming Party
Reginald O.C. Wittington
If We Only Knew
Directing
An Awful Moment
Writing
His Sister-In-Law
Directing
Pippa Passes
Directing
The Greatest Question
Directing
Swords and Hearts
Directing
A Calamitous Elopement
Policeman
When Knights Were Bold
A Decree of Destiny
Directing
In Little Italy
Directing
Mrs. Jones Entertains
Directing
Over Silent Paths
Directing
Gold Is Not All
Directing
The Female of the Species
Directing
Flashback: The First World War
Self (archive footage)
The School Teacher and the Waif
Directing
Falsely Accused!
Cop in Court
The Modern Prodigal
Directing
At the Altar
The Indian Runner's Romance
Directing
May and December
Production
Saved from Himself
Directing
The Conscience of Hassan Bey
Directing
In Life's Cycle
Directing
The Peachbasket Hat
Directing
Schneider’s Anti-Noise Crusade
Writing
His Lost Love
Directing
A Sweet Revenge
Writing
The Wood Nymph
Writing
The Planter's Wife
Directing
Billy's Stratagem
Directing
What Shall We Do with Our Old?
Directing
The Children of the Feud
Production
Oh, Uncle!
Directing
Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20)
Himself
The Taming of the Shrew
Directing
Jones and His New Neighbors
Directing
The Awakening
Directing
The Valet's Wife
Directing
The Red Girl
Man on Footpath
Dream Street
Directing
Through the Breakers
Directing
Lillian Gish in a Liberty Loan Appeal
Writing
The Helping Hand
Directing
Monday Morning in a Coney Island Police Court
Directing
Susan Rocks the Boat
Production
The Light That Came
Directing
The Call to Arms
Directing
Love Finds a Way
Writing
The Final Settlement
Directing
A Troublesome Satchel
Directing
The Broken Cross
Directing
The Deception
Directing
Over the Hills to the Poor House
Writing
Winning Back His Love
Directing
The Adopted Brother
Directing
A Fool's Revenge
Directing
Her Sacrifice
Directing
The Violin Maker of Cremona
Directing
What's Your Hurry?
Directing
Enoch Arden: Part I
Directing
A Misappropriated Turkey
Directing
The Invisible Fluid
Mailman
The Way of the World
Directing
The Baby and the Stork
Directing
The Englishman and the Girl
Directing
The Sorrows of the Unfaithful
Directing
The Criminal Hypnotist
Directing
The Kentuckian
1930 Prelude to "The Birth of a Nation"
Self
The Greaser's Gauntlet
Writing
The Hero of Little Italy
Directing
The Zulu's Heart
Writing
At the Crossroads of Life
Suitor
The Man in the Box
Station Agent
The Fight for Freedom
Directing
Heart Beats of Long Ago
Directing
The Jilt
Writing
The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch
Production
One Is Business, the Other Crime
Directing
Unexpected Help
Directing
The Gold Seekers
Directing
The Fascinating Mrs. Francis
Directing
A Summer Idyll
Directing
The Duke’s Plan
Writing
The Adventures of Billy
On Bench
Love Among the Roses
Directing
Mr. Jones’ Burglar
Directing
Behind the Scenes: Where All Is Not Gold That Glitters
Directing
A Rural Elopement
Directing
The Twisted Trail
Directing
The Winning Coat
Writing
The Marriage of Molly-O
Writing
Those Boys!
Writing
The Man and the Woman
Directing
Examination Day at School
Directing
As the Bells Rang Out!
Directing
A Terrible Discovery
Directing
The Bandit's Waterloo: The Outwitting of an Andalusian Brigand by a Pretty Senora
Writing
The Call
Writing
Waifs
Directing
In the Border States
Directing
The Wooden Leg
Directing
The Princess in the Vase
Lover
Concealing a Burglar
Directing
A Siren of Impulse
Directing
Madame Rex
Directing
True Heart Susie
Directing
Money Mad
Directing
The Sorrowful Example
Directing
The Test of Friendship
Directing
Through Darkening Vales
Directing
The Missing Links
Production
The Welcome Burglar
Directing
His Last Burglary
Directing
The Expiation
Writing
The Suicide Club
Directing
All on Account of the Milk
Production
The Outlaw
Writing
Eloping with Auntie
Directing
An Indian Summer
Directing
The Song of the Shirt
Directing
The Song of the Wildwood Flute
Directing
A Rich Revenge
Directing
The Heart of O Yama
Footman
The Transformation of Mike
Directing
Romance of a Jewess
Directing
One Touch of Nature
Directing
A Girl of the Timber Claims
Production
Madonna of the Storm
Directing
The House with Closed Shutters
Directing
His Trust Fulfilled
Directing
Ingomar, the Barbarian
Directing
A Midnight Adventure
Directing
A Knight of the Road
Directing
And a Little Child Shall Lead Them
Directing
Betrayed by a Handprint
Directing
The Stolen Jewels
Directing
Three Sisters
Directing
Balked at the Altar
A Midnight Cupid
Directing
Drive for a Life
Writing
The Little Teacher
Directing
Tragic Love
Directing
Trying to Get Arrested
Directing
The Country Doctor
Directing
The Sacrifice
Directing
The Redman and the Child
Writing
For a Wife's Honor
Directing
The Road to the Heart
Writing
The Test
Directing
The Italian Barber
Directing
The Ingrate
Directing
Eradicating Aunty
Directing
Wanted, a Child
Directing
Taming a Husband
Directing
The Tavern Keeper’s Daughter
Directing
The Pirate's Gold
Directing
As It Is in Life
Directing
The Mills of the Gods
Directing
The Girl and the Outlaw
Directing
The Voice of the Child
Directing
The Reckoning
Directing
Her Mother's Oath
Writing
His Mother's Son
Directing
In the Season of Buds
Directing
Mixed Babies
Writing
The Trail of Books
Directing
Old Isaacs, the Pawnbroker
Doctor, Charity Worker
Jealousy and the Man
Writing
A Wreath of Orange Blossoms
Directing
The Trick that Failed
Directing
The Banker's Daughters
Directing
A Change of Heart
Directing
The Girl and Her Trust
Directing
The Brahma Diamond
Directing
In the Watches of the Night
Directing
The Guerrilla
Directing
The Stage Rustler
Phil Bowen
Little Angels of Luck
Directing
Simple Charity
Directing
A Burglar’s Mistake
Directing
The Lily of the Tenements
Directing
The Woman from Mellon's
Directing
The Vaquero's Vow
Directing
A Salutary Lesson
Directing
His Wife's Visitor
Directing
The Roue’s Heart
Writing
Tis an Ill Wind That Blows No Good
Directing
The Broken Doll
Directing
Yellow Peril
Mr. Phlipp
The Sorrowful Shore
Directing
Cupid’s Pranks
For Love of Gold
Directing
A Child's Faith
Directing
His Ward's Love
Writing
Bill Sharkey's Last Game
Directing
I Did It
Directing
Serious Sixteen
Directing
The Politician's Love Story
Man - First Couple
The Mexican Sweethearts
Directing
The Marked Time-Table
Directing
Hulda's Lovers
Her Father's Pride
Directing
A Mohawk's Way
Directing
A Child's Stratagem
Directing
A Plain Song
Directing
Caught by Wireless
Paddy
Iola's Promise
Directing
The Spanish Gypsy
Directing
A Baby's Shoe
Writing
The Devil
Directing
A Griffith Biograph Collection Featuring Mary Pickford: Volume One
Directing
A Woman's Way
Writing
His Last Dollar
Directing
The Purgation
Directing
The Note in the Shoe
Writing
The Clubman and the Tramp
Directing
Jones and the Lady Book Agent
Writing
How She Triumphed
Directing
A Romance of the Western Hills
Directing
His Wife's Mother
Writing
The Children's Friend
Directing
Professional Jealousy
Extra on stage
A Rude Hostess
Writing
Biograph Shorts Special Edition: 1909-1913
Directing
His Lesson
Directing
The King's Messenger
Messenger
The Troublesome Baby
Production
The French Duel
Directing
Mrs. Jones' Lover or, I Want My Hat
Writing
The King of the Cannibal Islands
Cannibal in Top Hat
Two Little Waifs
Directing
A Famous Escape
Prisoner
A New Trick
Directing
The Music Master
The Thief and the Girl
Directing