Biography: life and films
D.W. Griffith was an American film director, screenwriter and producer whose birth name was David Llewelyn Wark Griffith. He was born in LaGrange, Kentucky, USA on 22nd January 1875 and died in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA on 23rd July 1948, aged 73.His best films as a film director include The Birth of a Nation (1915), Intolerance (1916), True Heart Susie (1919), Way Down East (1920) and Orphans of the Storm (1921), and whose best work as a screenwriter include The Birth of a Nation (1915), Intolerance (1916), Chester M. Franklin's Let Katie Do It (1916), Way Down East (1920) and Orphans of the Storm (1921).
D.W. Griffith directed 90 films (including 34 shorts), scripted 52 films, appeared in 18 films and supplied the music for 2 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Wallace McCutcheon (15 films), Paul Powell (3), Frank Powell (3), Christy Cabanne (3), (3) and Lloyd Ingraham (2).
His most frequent genres include: drama (67 films), romance (14), comedy (14), Western (8), War (7), history (5), Biography (5), comedy-drama (4), comedy-romance (3) and Documentary (3).
Our average rating for D.W. Griffith over all films is: 2.7
Filmography
Key: d = director; w = writer; m = musician; a = actor
The Fight for Freedom (1908) [d,w]
The Day After (1909) [d]
A Child's Faith (1910) [d]
His Last Dollar (1910) [d]
Never Again (1910) [d,w]
The Cloister's Touch (1910) [d]
The Tenderfoot's Triumph (1910) [d]
As in a Looking Glass (1911) [d]
Flaming Arrows (1911) [d,w]
The Heart of a Savage (1911) [d]
A Pueblo Romance (1912) [d,w]
Home, Sweet Home (1914) [d,w]
Judith of Bethulia (1914) [d,w]
The Avenging Conscience: or 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' (1914) [d,w]
The Battle of the Sexes (1914) [d]
The Escape (1914) [d,w]
The Birth of a Nation (1915) [d,w,m]
The Lamb (1915) [w]
The Lily and the Rose (1915) [w]
An Innocent Magdalene (1916) [w]
Daphne and the Pirate (1916) [w]
Diane of the Follies (1916) [w]
Hoodoo Ann (1916) [w]
Intolerance (1916) [d,w]
Let Katie Do It (1916) [w]
The Flying Torpedo (1916) [w]
The Marriage of Molly-O (1916) [w]
The Missing Links (1916) [w]
The Wood Nymph (1916) [w]
Hearts of the World (1918) [d,w]
The Great Love (1918) [d,w]
The Greatest Thing in Life (1918) [d,w]
The Hun Within (1918) [w]
A Romance of Happy Valley (1919) [d,w]
Broken Blossoms (1919) [d,w]
Scarlet Days (1919) [d]
The Fall of Babylon (1919) [d,w]
The Girl Who Stayed at Home (1919) [d,w]
The Greatest Question (1919) [d]
The Mother and the Law (1919) [d,w]
Remodeling Her Husband (1920) [d]
The Idol Dancer (1920) [d]
The Love Flower (1920) [d,w]
Way Down East (1920) [d,w]
Dream Street (1921) [d,w]
Orphans of the Storm (1921) [d,w]
One Exciting Night (1922) [d,w]
Mammy's Boy (1923) [d,w]
The White Rose (1923) [d,w]
America (1924) [d]
Isn't Life Wonderful (1924) [d,w]
Sally of the Sawdust (1925) [d]
That Royle Girl (1925) [d]
The Sorrows of Satan (1926) [d]
Topsy and Eva (1927) [d]
Drums of Love (1928) [d]
The Battle of the Sexes (1928) [d]
Lady of the Pavements (1929) [d]
The Struggle (1931) [d,w,m]
Footlight Varieties (1951) [d,w]
The Funniest Man in the World (1967) [a]
The greatest French Films of all time
Kafka's tortuous trial of love
The Carry On films, from the heyday of British film comedy
