D. W. Griffith

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actor film director film producer human screenwriter

D. W. Griffith was a pioneering American film director of the silent era, best known for developing many foundational cinematic techniques and directing influential early feature films.

Aliases (1)

David Wark Griffith ×1

Statements (53)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	actor → film director → film producer → human → screenwriter →
awardReceived	Academy Honorary Award →
birthDate	1875-01-22 →
birthPlace	La Grange, Kentucky, United States →
burialPlace	Mount Tabor Methodist Church Graveyard, Centerfield, Kentucky, United States →
causeOfDeath	cerebral hemorrhage →
coFounded	United Artists →
controversialFor	racist depictions and Ku Klux Klan glorification in The Birth of a Nation →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
deathDate	1948-07-23 →
deathPlace	Hollywood, California, United States →
employer	Biograph Company → Edison Studios → Mutual Film Corporation →
familyName	Griffith →
father	Jacob Wark Griffith →
fullName	David Wark Griffith →
genre	drama film → historical film →
givenName	David →
hasSignatureWork	The Birth of a Nation →
influenced	Alfred Hitchcock → Charlie Chaplin → Orson Welles → Sergei Eisenstein →
language	English →
mother	Mary Perkins Oglesby →
movement	silent film →
notableWork	Broken Blossoms → Intolerance → Orphans of the Storm → The Birth of a Nation → The Lonedale Operator → The Musketeers of Pig Alley → Way Down East →
notedFor	development of modern film narrative techniques →
occupation	actor → film director → film producer → screenwriter →
relative	Jacob Wark Griffith →
spouse	Evelyn Baldwin → Linda Arvidson →
usedCinematicTechnique	close-up → cross-cutting → flashback → iris shot → tracking shot →
workPeriod	1908–1931 →

Referenced by (23)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Broken Blossoms → Intolerance → Orphans of the Storm → The Birth of a Nation → The Lonedale Operator → The Musketeers of Pig Alley → Way Down East →	director
Orphans of the Storm → The Birth of a Nation → The Lonedale Operator →	screenwriter
United Artists → United Artists →	foundedBy
Intolerance → The Birth of a Nation →	producer
Mount Tabor Methodist Church Graveyard →	burialPlaceOf
Douglas Fairbanks →	coFounderWith
Biograph Company →	employed
D. W. Griffith ("David Wark Griffith") →	fullName
Mount Tabor Methodist Church Graveyard →	hasGraveOf
Akira Kurosawa →	influencedBy
Edison Studios →	notableEmployee
Owen Moore →	workedWith
The Musketeers of Pig Alley →	writer