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Actor, Assistant Director
Henry B. Walthall was a respected stage actor who became a favorite of pioneering film director D.W. Griffith. Born in 1878 in Alabama, Walthall embarked on a law career but quit law school in 1898 to enlist in the US Army in order to fight in the Spanish-American War. Returning from the war he decided to take up an acting career instead of the ...

Born: March 16, 1878
Star sign: Pisces
Height: 5' 7" (1.7 m)
Known for: The Birth of a Nation (1915), Wings (1927), The Avenging Conscience: or 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' (1914), A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
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