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D. W. Griffith at IMDb; Photo of Griffith as a young man in the 1890s or early 1900s; D.W. Griffith in the Vanity Fair Hall of Fame; A magazine article by the famous director printed in Illustrated World; Free scores by D. W. Griffith at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) Works by or about D. W. Griffith at the Internet Archive
Judith of Bethulia is an American film starring Blanche Sweet and Henry B. Walthall, and produced and directed by D. W. Griffith, based on the play "Judith and the Holofernes" (1896) by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, which itself was an adaptation of the Book of Judith.
He has a Jewish-American lieutenant of his, Sam Dreben to send feelers to American film studios. Villa's plan is to convince them to send film crew to film his battles. D.W. Griffith is immediately interested and convinces Mutual Film Studios boss Harry E. Aitkin (Jim Broadbent) to send a crew. As Aitkin's nephew, Thayer is initially assigned ...
Douglas Elton Fairbanks Sr. [1] (born Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman; May 23, 1883 – December 12, 1939) was an American actor and filmmaker best known for being the first actor to play the masked Vigilante Zorro [2] and other swashbuckling roles in silent films.
His career spanned over 50 years, during which he worked with Mack Sennett and D. W. Griffith. Shyer was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the son of Hattie (Schwarzenberg) and Charles Richard Shyer. [3] His family was of German-Jewish background. [4] His son was writer and director Charles Shyer.
A Child of the Ghetto is a Biograph silent film directed by D. W. Griffith in 1910. [1] [2] The story features a seamstress in New York City. [3] [4] References
The Birth of a Nation 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.
Myers attended Los Angeles High School but left after D. W. Griffith gave her bit part in the film Intolerance (1916), for which her father was an unpaid consultant. She continued her education at a school for young actors. [3] Myers helped her brother become a writer and director in Hollywood.