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Does D.W. Griffith Look Like Alan Cumming?

February 6, 2013 01:18PM
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A pioneer of filmmaking in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, D.W. Griffith was best known for directing the 1915 film The Birth of a Nation. Although Griffith put innovative cinematic practices into place by using unique camera angles and techniques that were before his time, his views on social issues and racial representations revealed a less evolutionary side to the man. It's pretty ironic that his modern-day spitting image, Alan Cumming, also works in film as an actor and director but has used his Hollywood powers to illuminate progressive issues. Cumming has become actively involved in speaking out against injustice, specifically in the LGBT community. Who knows, maybe Griffith is Cumming's backward twin, just born 90 years earlier.

 

 

 

What other notable figures in history have similar faces but with minds in completely different places? Sound off below!

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D.W. Griffith

Film Actor, Theater Actor, Director / 1875 - 1948

D.W. Griffith was one of cinema's earliest directors and producers, known for his innovations and for directing the 1915 film Birth of a Nation.

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Alan Cumming

Actor, Director / 1965 -

Alan Cumming is a Scottish actor known for a range of work, from Shakespeare to Cabaret to X-Men, to the television series The Good Wife.

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