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  • American Masters D.W. Griffith: Father of Film (Season 7, Episode 3)
  • TV-14
    TV Episode | 155 min | Documentary, Biography, History

American Masters

D.W. Griffith: Father of Film (Season 7, Episode 3)
TV-14
TV Episode | 155 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Brilliant pioneer of the feature film and discoverer of Hollywood - yet some say he single-handedly re-awakened the Ku Klux Klan.
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Updated Mar 24, 1993

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Mar 24, 1993 (United States)

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59 cast members
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Roy Aitken
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Lindsay Anderson
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Evelyn Baldwin
Self - Griffith's Ex-Wife (as Evelyn Baldwin Kunze) Self - Griffith's Ex-Wife (as Evelyn Baldwin Kunze)   See fewer
Richard Barthelmess
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Nellie Battipaglia
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Lord Beaverbrook
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G.W. Bitzer
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Eileen Bowser
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Karl Brown
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Frank Capra
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Charles Chaplin
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Ricardo Cortez
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James Crane
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Cecil B. DeMille
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Carol Dempster
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Joe Dibuono
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Tommy Duncan
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Douglas Fairbanks
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Dorothy Gish
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Lillian Gish
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Gerrie Griffith Richard
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D.W. Griffith
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Neil Hamilton
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Edna Harron
Self - Robert Harron's Sister Self - Robert Harron's Sister   See fewer
Robert Harron
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Will H. Hays
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Henry Hull
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Walter Huston
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Katherine Johnston
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Miles Kreuger
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David Lloyd George
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Anita Loos
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Mae Marsh
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Louis B. Mayer
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Adolphe Menjou
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Russell Merritt
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Francis Oglesby
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Queen Alexandra
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Edmund Rucker
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Joseph M. Schenck
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Mack Sennett
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Hal Skelly
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Adela Rogers St. Johns
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Madame Sul-Te-Wan
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Blanche Sweet
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Constance Talmadge
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Erich von Stroheim
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Bill Walker
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Emily Wilson
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Woodrow Wilson
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