D.W. Griffith Biography

D.W. Griffith biography

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NAME: David Lewelyn Wark Griffith
OCCUPATION: Film Actor, Theater Actor, Director
BIRTH DATE: January 22, 1875
DEATH DATE: July 23, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH: Floydsfork, Kentucky

PLACE OF DEATH: Hollywood, California

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D.W. Griffith was a pioneering silent film director who developed many of the basic techniques of filmmaking. He directed the controversial Birth of a Nation.

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D.W. Griffith began his career in amateur theatre. He sold scenarios to Biograph and made over 400 one-reelers for them in which he developed film techniques including the close-up and cross-cutting. Griffith left Biograph for Mutual and directed The Birth of a Nation, which was technically brilliant but controversial for its glorification of the KKK. Griffith died in 1948.