
D.W. Griffith (1875 - 1948)
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- Born:
- 1-22,1875 in LaGrange, Kentucky, USA
- IMDB:nm0000428
David Wark Griffith was born in rural Kentucky to Jacob “Roaring Jake” Griffith, a former Confederate Army colonel and Civil War hero. Young Griffith grew up with his father’s romantic war stories and melodramatic nineteenth-century literature that were to eventually mold his black-and-white view of human existence and history. In 1897 Griffith …
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