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D. W. Griffith
David Wark Griffith was an American film director. Considered one of the most influential figures in the history of the motion picture, he pioneered many aspects of film editing and expanded the art of the narrative film.
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entertainment · American filmmaker (1875–1948) · film director · actor · film producer · screenwriter · film editor · executive producer · director · writer · film screenwriter · also D. W. Griffith, David Griffith, D W Griffith, David W. Griffith, Griffith
Born 22 January 1875 · Died 23 July 1948 · Q51123
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Intolerance (D. W. Griffith, 1916)
The Birth of a Nation
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2009· 1 entry
The Oldham History Center in La Grange, Kentucky, opened a 15-seat theatre in Griffith's honor
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2008· 1 entry
The Hollywood Heritage Museum hosted a screening of Griffith's early films to commemorate the centennial of his start in film
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1999· 1 entry
Then DGA President Jack Shea and the DGA National Board announced that the award would be renamed as the "DGA Lifetime Achievement Award"
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1975· 1 entry
Griffith was honored on a 10-cent postage stamp by the United States
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1960· 1 entry
Griffith was posthumously awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which is located at 6535 Hollywood Boulevard
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1953· 1 entry
The Directors Guild of America (DGA) instituted the D
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1950· 1 entry
The Directors Guild of America provided a stone and bronze monument for his grave site
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1948· 1 entry
Died 1948-07-23.
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1946· 1 entry
Made an impromptu visit to the film location of David O
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1939· 1 entry
The producer Hal Roach hired Griffith to produce Of Mice and Men (1939) and One Million B
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1936· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Honorary Award (1936).
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Director Woody Van Dyke, who had worked as Griffith's apprentice on Intolerance, asked Griffith to help him shoot the famous earthquake sequence for San Francisco, but Griffith was not given any film credit
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1919· 1 entry
With the goal of enabling actors and directors to make films on their own terms, as opposed to the terms of commercial studios
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1917· 1 entry
And he went to Artcraft, part of Paramount Pictures, and then to First National Pictures (1919–1920)
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1909· 1 entry
Was The Cricket on the Hearth, an adaptation of Charles Dickens's novel
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1908· 2 entries
Griffith accepted a role as a stage extra in Professional Jealousy for the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, where he met cameraman Billy Bitzer
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Biograph's main director Wallace McCutcheon Sr
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1907· 1 entry
In an attempt to sell a script to Edison Studios producer Edwin Porter; although Porter rejected the script, he gave Griffith an acting part in Rescued from an Eagle's Nest instead
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1875· 2 entries
On a farm in Oldham County, Kentucky, the son of Jacob Wark "Roaring Jake" Griffith, a Confederate Army colonel in the American Civil War who was elected as a Kentucky state legislator, and Mary Perkins (née Oglesby)
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Born 1875-01-22.
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