
Informations personnelles
Naissance
22 janvier 1875
(73 ans)
Décès
23 juillet 1948
Lieu de naissance
LaGrange, Kentucky, USA
Connu pour
Directing
D.W. Griffith
Biographie
David Llewelyn Wark Griffith était un réalisateur américain pionnier. Il est surtout connu en tant que réalisateur du film controversé et révolutionnaire de 1915 La naissance d'une nation et du film Intolerance (1916). Le film de Griffith, The Birth of a Nation, a fait un usage pionnier de techniques avancées de caméra et de narration, et son immense popularité a ouvert la voie à la domination du long métrage. Il s'est également avéré extrêmement controversé à l'époque et depuis pour sa représentation négative des Noirs américains et de leurs partisans, et sa représentation positive de l'esclavage et du Ku Klux Klan. Griffith a répondu à ses critiques avec son prochain film, Intolerance, destiné à montrer les dangers de la pensée et du comportement préjudiciables. Le film n'a pas été le succès financier que son prédécesseur avait été, mais a été chaleureusement accueilli par la critique. Plusieurs de ses films ultérieurs ont également été couronnés de succès, mais les coûts élevés de production, de promotion et de tournée ont souvent fait de ses entreprises des échecs commerciaux. Malgré tout, il est généralement considéré comme l'une des figures les plus importantes du cinéma des débuts.
Filmographie (458)

Footlight Varieties
1951

San Francisco
1936

The Struggle
1931

Abraham Lincoln / La Révolte des esclaves
1930

1930 Prelude to "The Birth of a Nation"
1930

Die Lady von der Straße
1929

The Battle of the Sexes
1928

Drums of Love
1928

Le Roi des Rois
1927

The Sorrows of Satan
1926

That Royle Girl
1925

Sally fille de cirque
1925

Isn't Life Wonderful
1924

America
1924

The White Rose
1923

One Exciting Night
1922

Les Deux Orphelines
1921

Dream Street
1921

À travers l'orage
1920

The Love Flower
1920

Remodeling Her Husband
1920

The Idol Dancer
1920

The Greatest Question
1919

Scarlet Days
1919

The Mother and the Law
1919

The Fall of Babylon
1919

Pauvre amour
1919

Le Lys brisé
1919

The Girl Who Stayed at Home
1919

Le roman de la vallée heureuse
1919

The Greatest Thing in Life
1918

Lillian Gish in a Liberty Loan Appeal
1918

The Great Love
1918

Cœurs du monde
1918

Intolérance
1916

Naissance d'une nation
1915

La Conscience vengeresse
1914

The Escape
1914

Home, Sweet Home
1914

Brute Force
1914

The Battle of the Sexes
1914

Judith of Bethulia
1914
Waifs
1914
The Conscience of Hassan Bey
1913

Pendant la bataille
1913
Madonna of the Storm
1913

The Adopted Brother
1913

Two Men of the Desert
1913
A Misappropriated Turkey
1913

The Reformers
1913
Her Mother's Oath
1913

The Mothering Heart
1913

Death's Marathon
1913
The Enemy's Baby
1913

A Timely Interception
1913
The Sorrowful Shore
1913
The Ranchero's Revenge
1913
His Mother's Son
1913
His Mother's Son
1913
Just Gold
1913

The Yaqui Cur
1913
The Stolen Loaf
1913

The House of Darkness
1913

The Wanderer
1913
If We Only Knew
1913

The Lady and the Mouse
1913
The Left-Handed Man
1913
A Misunderstood Boy
1913

The Little Tease
1913
The Perfidy of Mary
1913
The Hero of Little Italy
1913

The Sheriff's Baby
1913

Fate
1913

Near To Earth
1913

The Unwelcome Guest
1913

Broken Ways
1913
Love in an Apartment Hotel
1913
A Chance Deception
1913

Oil and Water
1913
Brothers
1913
The Tender Hearted Boy
1913
An Adventure in the Autumn Woods
1913

The Telephone Girl and the Lady
1913

Three Friends
1913

The Coming of Angelo
1913
The God Within
1912

A Cry for Help
1912

Le Massacre
1912

The Burglar’s Dilemma
1912
My Hero
1912

The New York Hat
1912

Brutality
1912

The Informer
1912

My Baby
1912

Gold and Glitter
1912

Heredity
1912

Cœur d'apache
1912

The Painted Lady
1912

The One She Loved
1912

In the Aisles of the Wild
1912

The Chief's Blanket
1912

A Feud in the Kentucky Hills
1912

So Near, Yet So Far
1912

Friends
1912

Two Daughters of Eve
1912

Blind Love
1912

An Unseen Enemy
1912

A Pueblo Legend
1912

The Inner Circle
1912

The Narrow Road
1912

Man's Genesis
1912

An Indian Summer
1912

The School Teacher and the Waif
1912

Lena and the Geese
1912

A Temporary Truce
1912

Home Folks
1912

A Beast at Bay
1912
When Kings Were the Law
1912

A Lodging for the Night
1912

The Old Actor
1912
His Lesson
1912

The Lesser Evil
1912

One Is Business, the Other Crime
1912
Just Like a Woman
1912

The Female of the Species
1912
A Siren of Impulse
1912

Fate's Interception
1912

The Girl and Her Trust
1912

The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch
1912

The Root of Evil
1912

Iola's Promise
1912

A String of Pearls
1912

The Sunbeam
1912

Under Burning Skies
1912

The Sands of Dee
1912

The Mender of Nets
1912

Billy's Stratagem
1912

The Transformation of Mike
1912

For His Son
1912

The Eternal Mother
1912

The Baby and the Stork
1912

The Voice of the Child
1911

A Terrible Discovery
1911

Saved from Himself
1911

The Failure
1911

A Woman Scorned
1911

The Miser's Heart
1911

Through Darkening Vales
1911

The Trail of Books
1911

The Battle
1911
Love in the Hills
1911

The Long Road
1911

The Adventures of Billy
1911
The Unveiling
1911
Italian Blood
1911

The Making of a Man
1911

Her Awakening
1911

The Revenue Man and His Girl
1911

The Squaw's Love
1911

Swords and Hearts
1911

The Rose of Kentucky
1911

The Last Drop of Water
1911

A Country Cupid
1911

The Indian Brothers
1911

Bobby the Coward
1911

Fighting Blood
1911

The Primal Call
1911

Enoch Arden: Part II
1911

Enoch Arden
1911

Enoch Arden: Part I
1911

Madame Rex
1911

The Lonedale Operator
1911
Teaching Dad to Like Her
1911
Conscience
1911
A Decree of Destiny
1911
The Lily of the Tenements
1911

His Daughter
1911

The Diamond Star
1911

Fisher Folks
1911

What Shall We Do with Our Old?
1911

Heart Beats of Long Ago
1911
Three Sisters
1911
A Wreath of Orange Blossoms
1911

Fate's Turning
1911

His Trust Fulfilled
1911

His Trust
1911

The Italian Barber
1911

When a Man Loves
1911
The Two Paths
1911

Winning Back His Love
1910

The Lesson
1910
His Sister-In-Law
1910

The Golden Supper
1910

A Plain Song
1910

The Song of the Wildwood Flute
1910

Sunshine Sue
1910

Simple Charity
1910

The Fugitive
1910

Waiter No. 5
1910
Two Little Waifs
1910
The Message of the Violin
1910
The Banker's Daughters
1910
The Broken Doll
1910

That Chink at Golden Gulch
1910
A Child's Stratagem
1910
The Iconoclast
1910
Examination Day at School
1910

Rose o' Salem Town
1910

The Oath and the Man
1910

In Life's Cycle
1910
A Mohawk's Way
1910
Little Angels of Luck
1910
A Summer Idyll
1910

The Modern Prodigal
1910

Wilful Peggy
1910

The Sorrows of the Unfaithful
1910

The Usurer
1910
A Salutary Lesson
1910

The House with Closed Shutters
1910
Her Father's Pride
1910

An Arcadian Maid
1910
Unexpected Help
1910

The Call to Arms
1910

A Flash of Light
1910

What the Daisy Said
1910

Muggsy's First Sweetheart
1910

A Child's Impulse
1910
As the Bells Rang Out!
1910

In the Border States
1910

A Victim of Jealousy
1910
Serious Sixteen
1910
A Child's Faith
1910

A Child of the Ghetto
1910
A Midnight Cupid
1910

In the Season of Buds
1910
Bill Sharkey's Last Game
1910
The Purgation
1910

Ramona
1910
The Marked Time-Table
1910

Over Silent Paths
1910

The Two Brothers
1910
The Face at the Window
1910

Love Among the Roses
1910

The Unchanging Sea
1910
The Impalement
1910

A Romance of the Western Hills
1910
A Rich Revenge
1910

As It Is in Life
1910
His Last Dollar
1910
The Twisted Trail
1910

Faithful
1910
The Gold Seekers
1910
The Way of the World
1910

In Old California
1910

The Thread of Destiny
1910

The Newlyweds
1910
Thou Shalt Not
1910

Taming a Husband
1910
Gold Is Not All
1910
The Englishman and the Girl
1910
The Duke’s Plan
1910
The Converts
1910
The Man
1910
The Woman from Mellon's
1910
The Cloister’s Touch
1910

The Last Deal
1910
The Honor of His Family
1910
The Call
1910
On the Reef
1910

Her Terrible Ordeal
1910
His Last Burglary
1910
The Final Settlement
1910

The Rocky Road
1910
The Heart of an Outlaw
1909

The Day After
1909

To Save Her Soul
1909
In Little Italy
1909

A Trap for Santa Claus
1909
The Test
1909

Le Spéculateur en grains
1909

The Redman's View
1909

Through the Breakers
1909
The Death Disc: A Story of the Cromwellian Period
1909
The Trick that Failed
1909
In the Window Recess
1909

The Mountaineer's Honor
1909
A Midnight Adventure
1909
A Sweet Revenge
1909

The Light That Came
1909

The Restoration
1909

Nursing a Viper
1909

The Gibson Goddess
1909

What's Your Hurry?
1909

Lines of White on a Sullen Sea
1909
In the Watches of the Night
1909
The Children's Friend
1909
The Expiation
1909

His Lost Love
1909

A Change of Heart
1909
The Little Teacher
1909

Fools of Fate
1909

Pippa Passes
1909
Wanted, a Child
1909

The Awakening
1909
Leather Stocking
1909

In Old Kentucky
1909

The Broken Locket
1909

Getting Even
1909

Comata, the Sioux
1909

1776, or The Hessian Renegades
1909

The Sealed Room
1909

The Little Darling
1909

Pranks
1909
The Mills of the Gods
1909

The Seventh Day
1909

Oh, Uncle!
1909

The Indian Runner's Romance
1909

His Wife's Visitor
1909
Mrs. Jones' Lover or, I Want My Hat
1909

They Would Elope
1909

Mr. Jones’ Burglar
1909

The Mended Lute
1909

A Strange Meeting
1909

The Slave
1909

Sweet and Twenty
1909
Jealousy and the Man
1909

The Renunciation
1909

Tender Hearts
1909

The Cardinal's Conspiracy
1909

The Country Doctor
1909

The Necklace
1909

The Way of Man
1909
The Mexican Sweethearts
1909

The Peachbasket Hat
1909

Her First Biscuits
1909

The Faded Lilies
1909

The Son's Return
1909

La Villa solitaire
1909
A New Trick
1909

The Violin Maker of Cremona
1909

What Drink Did
1909

His Duty
1909

Eradicating Aunty
1909

The Cricket on the Hearth
1909

Two Memories
1909
Eloping with Auntie
1909

Resurrection
1909
The Jilt
1909
A Baby's Shoe
1909
Jones and the Lady Book Agent
1909

The French Duel
1909
The Note in the Shoe
1909

The Suicide Club
1909
The Eavesdropper
1909
Tis an Ill Wind That Blows No Good
1909

Lucky Jim
1909
Twin Brothers
1909
Drive for a Life
1909

Lady Helen's Escapade
1909
A Troublesome Satchel
1909

Confidence
1909
The Winning Coat
1909
Schneider’s Anti-Noise Crusade
1909
A Rude Hostess
1909
Trying to Get Arrested
1909
The Road to the Heart
1909

A Drunkard's Reformation
1909

Jones and His New Neighbors
1909

The Medicine Bottle
1909
A Burglar’s Mistake
1909
The Deception
1909
And a Little Child Shall Lead Them
1909

The Voice of the Violin
1909
I Did It
1909

The Lure of the Gown
1909

The Salvation Army Lass
1909
The Roue’s Heart
1909
The Wooden Leg
1909
A Fool's Revenge
1909

The Prussian Spy
1909
His Wife's Mother
1909

At the Altar
1909

The Golden Louis
1909

The Politician's Love Story
1909

The Joneses Have Amateur Theatricals
1909
The Hindoo Dagger
1909

The Curtain Pole
1909
His Ward's Love
1909
Tragic Love
1909

Edgar Allan Poe
1909
A Wreath in Time
1909
The Brahma Diamond
1909

The Girls and Daddy
1909

The Cord of Life
1909

Those Awful Hats
1909
The Welcome Burglar
1909

Mr. Jones Has a Card Party
1909
The Fascinating Mrs. Francis
1909
The Criminal Hypnotist
1909
Those Boys!
1909
A Rural Elopement
1909
The Sacrifice
1909

Love Finds a Way
1909
The Honor of Thieves
1909
Mrs. Jones Entertains
1909
The Maniac Cook
1909
One Touch of Nature
1909
The Helping Hand
1908

Mr. Jones at the Ball
1908
The Christmas Burglars
1908

An Awful Moment
1908
The Test of Friendship
1908
The Reckoning
1908
The Feud and the Turkey
1908

Money Mad
1908
The Valet's Wife
1908
The Clubman and the Tramp
1908
A Woman's Way
1908
The Ingrate
1908

The Song of the Shirt
1908
The Guerrilla
1908

The Taming of the Shrew
1908
The Pirate's Gold
1908

After Many Years
1908
Concealing a Burglar
1908

The Call of the Wild
1908

Romance of a Jewess
1908

The Planter's Wife
1908
The Vaquero's Vow
1908

The Barbarian Ingomar
1908

Father Gets in the Game
1908

The Zulu's Heart
1908

The Devil
1908
The Stolen Jewels
1908

A Smoked Husband
1908

Where the Breakers Roar
1908
The Heart of O Yama
1908
The Red Girl
1908
Behind the Scenes: Where All Is Not Gold That Glitters
1908

The Girl and the Outlaw
1908
Monday Morning in a Coney Island Police Court
1908

Betrayed by a Handprint
1908
For a Wife's Honor
1908

Balked at the Altar
1908

For Love of Gold
1908

The Fatal Hour
1908
The Man and the Woman
1908

The Greaser's Gauntlet
1908

A Calamitous Elopement
1908
The Bandit's Waterloo: The Outwitting of an Andalusian Brigand by a Pretty Senora
1908

Deceived Slumming Party
1908
The Redman and the Child
1908
The Tavern Keeper’s Daughter
1908

The Black Viper
1908
The Fight for Freedom
1908

Les Aventures de Dollie
1908

Biograph Shorts Special Edition: 1909-1913
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A Griffith Biograph Collection Featuring Mary Pickford: Volume One
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