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Also Known As David Wark Griffith
Born January 22, 1875 • Kentucky
Died July 23, 1948 (aged 73) • Hollywood • California
Founder United Artists Corporation
Notable Works “Intolerance”

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D.W. Griffith
D.W. Griffith
Lillian Gish as Elsie Stoneman and Henry B. Walthall as Colonel Ben Cameron in period costume, with Walthall holding a rifle, in a scene from The Birth of a Nation (1915).
Black-and-white scene from The Birth of a Nation (1915) showing actors in Ku Klux Klan costumes on horseback charging down a street, with armed men fleeing in the foreground.
D.W. Griffith: Intolerance
Black-and-white close-up of a man's face framed by a small barred window in a metal door, from the silent film Intolerance (1916).
The founding of United Artists Corporation
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