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David Wark Griffith (January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948) was an American film director. Considered one of the most influential figures in the history of the motion picture, [2] he pioneered many aspects of film editing [3] and expanded the art of the narrative film. [4]
D.W. Griffith, pioneer American motion-picture director credited with developing many of the basic techniques of filmmaking, in such films as The Birth of a Nation (1915), Intolerance (1916), Broken Blossoms (1919), Way Down East (1920), Orphans of the Storm (1921), and The Struggle (1931).
D.W. Griffith. Director: The Birth of a Nation. David Wark Griffith was born in rural Kentucky to Jacob "Roaring Jake" Griffith, a former Confederate Army colonel and Civil War veteran.
D.W. Griffith. Professor of Cinema Studies, New York University. Author of Film: An International History of the Medium and others. Professor and Director of Film Studies Program, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. Author of A History of Narrative Film.
In 1919, D. W. Griffith joined forces with three of the most prominent actors of his time, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks, to found a new studio, United Artists.
The Birth of a Nation, originally called The Clansman, [5] is a 1915 American silent epic drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish. The screenplay is adapted from Thomas Dixon Jr. 's 1905 novel and play The Clansman. Griffith co-wrote the screenplay with Frank E. Woods and produced the film with Harry Aitken.
D.W. Griffith - Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, Filmmaker: In 1913 Griffith left Biograph and entered into an agreement with Mutual Films for the direction and supervision of motion pictures. From this association, among other films, came The Birth of a Nation.
D.W. Griffith. Director: The Birth of a Nation. David Wark Griffith was born in rural Kentucky to Jacob "Roaring Jake" Griffith, a former Confederate Army colonel and Civil War veteran.
David Llewelyn Wark "D.W." Griffith (January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948) was an American film director. He is widely credited with being the first to realize and develop the potential of film as an extended dramatic medium, and with making the first feature-length movie.
David Wark Griffith (1875-1948), American filmmaker, was a pioneer director-producer who invented much of the basic technical grammar of modern cinema. On Jan. 22, 1875, D. W. Griffith was born at Crestwood, Oldham County, Ky., the descendant of a distinguished (but impoverished) Southern family.