D. W. Griffith  

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David Llewelyn Wark "D.W." Griffith (January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948) was an American film director. He is best known as the director of the controversial 1915 film The Birth of a Nation.

Selected filmography

• The Taming of the Shrew (1908)
• Money Mad (1908)
• Balked at the Altar (1908)
• Romance of a Jewess (1908) with Florence Lawrence
• At the Altar (1909)
• "Those Awful Hats" (1909)
• Resurrection (1909)
• The Country Doctor (1909) with Florence Lawrence and Mary Pickford
• In Old California (1910) with Henry B. Walthall
• In the Border States (1910) with Henry B. Walthall
• The Lonedale Operator (1911) with Blanche Sweet
• The Smile of a Child (1911) with Blanche Sweet
• Fighting Blood (1911) with Blanche Sweet and Lionel Barrymore
• Out from the Shadow (1911) with Blanche Sweet
• The Making of a Man (1911) with Blanche Sweet
• Her Awakening (1911) with Mabel Normand
• The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch (1912) with Blanche Sweet
• Friends (1912) with Mary Pickford, Henry B. Walthall, Lionel Barrymore and Harry Carey
• An Unseen Enemy (1912) with Lilian Gish
• The New York Hat (1912) with Mary Pickford, Lionel Barrymore, Mae Marsh and Lillian Gish
• Drink's Lure (1913)
• Oil and Water (1913) with Blanche Sweet, Henry B. Walthall, Lionel Barrymore and Harry Carey
• Judith of Bethulia (1914) with Blanche Sweet, Henry B. Walthall, Mae Marsh, Lillian Gish and Dorothy Gish
• Strongheart (1914) with Blanche Sweet, Lionel Barrymore and Alan Hale
• The Avenging Conscience (1914) with Blanche Sweet and Henry B. Walthall
• The Birth of a Nation (1915) with Lillian Gish, Henry B. Walthall, Mae Marsh, Miriam Cooper and Raoul Walsh
• Intolerance (1916)
• Broken Blossoms (1919) with Lillian Gish
• Way Down East (1920) with Lillian Gish
• Orphans of the Storm (1921) with Lillian Gish and Dorothy Gish
• Dream Street (1921) with experimental sound sequences in Photokinema sound-on-disc process
• One Exciting Night (1922) with Henry Hull
• Mammy's Boy (1923) with Al Jolson
• America (1924)
• The Sorrows of Satan (1926)
• The Battle of the Sexes (1928)
• Lady of the Pavements (1929) with Lupe Velez and William Boyd
• D.W. Griffith's 'Abraham Lincoln' (1930) with Walter Huston