D.W. Griffith 4 pictures

Director, Writer, Producer
David Wark Griffith was born in rural Kentucky to Jacob "Roaring Jake" Griffith, a former Confederate Army colonel and Civil War hero. Young Griffith grew up with his father's romantic war stories and melodramatic nineteenth-century literature that were to eventually mold his black-and-white view of human existence and history. In 1897 Griffith ...

Born: January 22, 1875
Star sign: Aquarius
Height: 5' 10" (1.78 m)
Known for: The Birth of a Nation (1915), Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916), Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (1919), Orphans of the Storm (1921)
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