D. W. Griffith

David Llewelyn Wark Griffith (January 22 1875 – July 23, 1948) 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, of Welsh ancestry, was born in La Grange, Kentucky to Jacob "Roaring Jake" Griffith and Mary Perkins Griffith. His father was a Confederate Army colonel, a Civil War hero, and a K... more

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  • Jan 22, 1875

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  • Jul 23, 1948 (age 73 years)

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  • D.W. Griffith,
  • David Llewelyn Wark Griffith
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