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D. W. Griffith at IMDb; Photo of Griffith as a young man in the 1890s or early 1900s; D.W. Griffith in the Vanity Fair Hall of Fame; A magazine article by the famous director printed in Illustrated World; Free scores by D. W. Griffith at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) Works by or about D. W. Griffith at the Internet Archive
Judith of Bethulia is an American film starring Blanche Sweet and Henry B. Walthall, and produced and directed by D. W. Griffith, based on the play "Judith and the Holofernes" (1896) by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, which itself was an adaptation of the Book of Judith.
Douglas Elton Fairbanks Sr. [1] (born Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman; May 23, 1883 – December 12, 1939) was an American actor and filmmaker best known for being the first actor to play the masked Vigilante Zorro [2] and other swashbuckling roles in silent films.
Intolerance is a 1916 epic anthology silent film directed by D. W. Griffith.Subtitled as Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages and A Sun-Play of the Ages, [2] [3] the three-and-a-half-hour epic intercuts four parallel storylines, each separated by several centuries: first, a contemporary melodrama of crime and redemption; second, a Biblical story: Christ's mission and death; third, a French ...
D. W. Griffith's Judith of Bethulia was filmed earlier than The Squaw Man, but released later. [76] This as the only film in which DeMille shared director's credit with Apfel. [62] The Squaw Man was a success, which led to the eventual founding of Paramount Pictures and Hollywood becoming the "film capital of the world".
He has a Jewish-American lieutenant of his, Sam Dreben to send feelers to American film studios. Villa's plan is to convince them to send film crew to film his battles. D.W. Griffith is immediately interested and convinces Mutual Film Studios boss Harry E. Aitkin (Jim Broadbent) to send a crew. As Aitkin's nephew, Thayer is initially assigned ...
His career spanned over 50 years, during which he worked with Mack Sennett and D. W. Griffith. Shyer was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the son of Hattie (Schwarzenberg) and Charles Richard Shyer. [3] His family was of German-Jewish background. [4] His son was writer and director Charles Shyer.
These are the films directed by the pioneering American filmmaker D. W. Griffith (1875–1948). According to IMDb, he directed 518 films between 1908 and 1931.