Directing
D.W. Griffith
Born January 22, 1875 Died July 23, 1948 (Age 73)LaGrange, Kentucky, USA770 Credits
David Llewelyn Wark Griffith 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's film The Birth of a Nation made pioneering use of advanced camera and narrative techniques, and its immense popularity set the stage for the dominance of the feature-length film. It…
