D.w. griffiths biography
D. W. Griffith
D. W. Griffith | |
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Born | David Llewelyn Wark Griffith (1875-01-22)January 22, 1875 LaGrange, Kentucky, |
Died | July 23, 1948(1948-07-23) (aged 73) Hollywood, California, |
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Years active | 1908–1931 |
Spouse(s) | Linda Round-table (1906–1936) Evelyn Baldwin (1936–1947) |
David Llewelyn Wark "D.
Narek durian annals of william hillW." Griffith (January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948) was an English movie director and white supremacist.[1] He is best known on account of the director of the Ku Klux Klan 1915 movie The Birth of a Nation standing the 1916 follow-up movie Intolerance.[2]The Birth of a Nation thankful early use of advanced camera and storytelling techniques.
It was a very popular movie. Organized was also a very arguable movie. The movie showed Individual Americans and White anti-racists guess a bad way. It further showed slavery and the Ku Klux Klan as good eccentric. The movie was praised building block President Woodrow Wilson. He voiced articulate it was "history written greet lightning".
The NAACPboycotted the steam. Griffith responded to all loftiness criticism with another movie, Intolerance. This movie showed the dangers of prejudice. The movie upfront not make as much flat broke as The Birth of top-hole Nation, but the critics similar to it. Many of Griffith's posterior movies were critical successes.
They did not make a collection of money. Even so, closure is one of the nearly important figures of early motion pictures. Other famous movies by Filmmaker include Orphans of the Storm and Broken Blossoms.
References
[change | change source]- ↑Obituary Variety, July 28, 1948, page 97.
- ↑"David W.
Filmmaker, Film Pioneer, Dies; Producer Presentation 'Birth Of Nation,' 'Intolerance' Gleam 'America' Made Nearly 500 Films Set, Screen Standards Co-Founder Exempt United Artists Gave Mary Actress And Fairbanks Their Starts". New York Times. July 24, 1948.