D. W. Griffith va ser un director de cinema dels Estats Units que és considerat com un dels creadors de la narració cinematogràfica.[1] Es consignen aquí només les pel·lícules en que va participar com a director.[2]
Retrat de David Wark Griffith
Gladys Egan, Mary Pickford , Adele DeGarde I Marion Leonard (d'esquerre a dreta) en un fotograma de la pel·ículal The Lonely Villa (1909)
Linda Arvidson, James Kirkwood i W. Chrystie Miller en un fotograma de la pel·lícula A Corner in Wheat (1909)
Marion Leonard, Henry B. Walthall i Arthur Johnson en un fotograma de la pel·lícula In old California (1910)
Fotograma de The House with Closed Shutters (1910)
Fotograma de la pel·lícula The Lonedale Operator (1911)
Mabel Normand a la pel·lícula Her Awakening (1911)
Les germanes Dorothy i Lillian Gish a la pel·lícula An Unseen Enemy (1912)
Fotograma de The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)
Mary Pickford en un fotograma de The New York Hat (1912).
Lillian Gish a The Mothering Heart (1913)
Pòster de The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1913)
Blanche Sweet i Henry B. Walthall a Judith of Bethulia (1914)
Griffith inicia la seva carrera com actor amb “Rescued from an Eagle's Nest ” (1908). Poc després, el director principal de la Biograph , Wallace McCutcheon Sr., es va posar malalt[3] i el responsable de guionatge de la companyia, Lee Dougherty, va recomanar contractar Griffith com a director.[4] La seva primera pel·lícula serà The Adventures of Dollie i a la Biograph hi realitzarà centenars de curtmetratges entre 1908 i 1914.
The Adventures of Dollie
The Fight for Freedom
The Tavern Keeper's Daughter
The Black Viper
The Red Man and the Child
Deceived Slumming Party
The Bandit's Waterloo
A Calamitous Elopement
The Greaser's Gauntlet
The Man and the Woman
The Fatal Hour
For Love of Gold
Balked at the Altar
For a Wife's Honor
Betrayed by a Handprint
Monday Morning in a Coney Island Police Court
The Girl and the Outlaw
Behind the Scenes
The Red Girl
The Heart of O'Yama
Where the Breakers Roar
A Smoked Husband
The Stolen Jewels
The Devil
The Zulu's Heart
Father Gets in the Game
Ingomar, the Barbarian
The Vaquero's Vow
The Planter's Wife
Romance of a Jewess
The Call of the Wild
Concealing a Burglar
After Many Years
The Pirate's Gold
The Taming of the Shrew
The Guerrilla
The Song of the Shirt
The Ingrate
A Woman's Way
The Clubman and the Tramp
Money Mad (1908 film)|Money Mad
The Valet's Wife
The Feud and the Turkey
The Reckoning
The Test of Friendship
An Awful Moment
The Christmas Burglars
Mr. Jones at the Ball
The Helping Hand
The Kentuckian
El gener de 1910 la Biograph va enviar Griffith amb una companyia d'actors a Califòrnia per aprofitar el clima i la llum que hi havia allà durant l’hivern, seguint l'exemple de Selig i de la New York Motion Picture Company (Bison) que ja s'hi havien traslladat.[5] En un llogarret anomenat Hollywood rodaria “In Old California ” i per tant constitueix la primera pel·lícula rodada allà.[6]
The Rocky Road
The Dancing Girl of Butte
Her Terrible Ordeal
On the Reef
The Call
The Honor of His Family
The Last Deal
The Cloister's Touch
The Woman from Mellon's
The Course of True Love
The Duke's Plan
One Night and Then
The Englishman and the Girl
His Last Burglary
Taming a Husband
The Final Settlement
The Newlyweds
The Thread of Destiny
In Old California
The Man
The Converts
Faithful
The Twisted Trail
Gold Is Not All
His Last Dollar
The Two Brothers
As It Is In Life
A Rich Revenge
A Romance of the Western Hills
Thou Shalt Not
The Way of the World
The Gold Seekers
The Unchanging Sea
Love Among the Roses
Over Silent Paths
Ramona
A Knot in the Plot (director disputed)
The Impalement
In the Season of Buds
The Purgation
A Child of the Ghetto
A Victim of Jealousy
In the Border States
The Face at the Window
The Marked Time-Table
A Child's Impulse
Muggsy's First Sweetheart
A Midnight Cupid
What the Daisy Said
A Child's Faith
A Flash of Light
Serious Sixteen
As the Bells Rang Out!
The Call to Arms
Unexpected Help
An Arcadian Maid
Her Father's Pride
The House with Closed Shutters
A Salutary Lesson
The Usurer
The Sorrows of the Unfaithful
Wilful Peggy
The Modern Prodigal
A Summer Idyll
Little Angels of Luck
A Mohawk's Way
In Life's Cycle
The Oath and the Man
Rose O'Salem-Town
Examination Day at School
The Iconoclast
That Chink at Golden Gulch
The Broken Doll
The Banker's Daughters
The Message of the Violin
Two Little Waifs
Waiter No. 5
The Fugitive
Simple Charity
Sunshine Sue
The Song of the Wildwood Flute
A Plain Song
A Child's Stratagem
The Golden Supper
His Sister-In-Law
The Lesson
Winning Back His Love
Flaming Arrows
The Two Paths
When a Man Loves
The Italian Barber
His Trust
His Trust Fulfilled
Fate's Turning
A Wreath of Orange Blossoms
Three Sisters
Heart Beats of Long Ago
What Shall We Do with Our Old?
Fisher Folks
The Diamond Star
His Daughter
The Lily of the Tenements
The Heart of a Savage
A Decree of Destiny
Conscience
Was He a Coward?
Teaching Dad to Like Her
The Lonedale Operator
The Spanish Gypsy
The Broken Cross
The Chief's Daughter
Madame Rex
A Knight of the Road
His Mother's Scarf
How She Triumphed
The Two Sides
In the Days of '49
The New Dress
The Crooked Road
The White Rose of the Wilds
A Romany Tragedy
The Smile of a Child
Enoch Arden
The Primal Call
Her Sacrifice
Fighting Blood
The Thief and the Girl
The Jealous Husband
Bobby, the Coward
The Indian Brothers
A Country Cupid
The Last Drop of Water
Out from the Shadow
The Ruling Passion
The Sorrowful Example
The Blind Princess and the Poet
The Rose of Kentucky
Swords and Hearts
The Stuff Heroes Are Made Of
The Old Confectioner's Mistake
The Squaw's Love
Dan the Dandy
The Revenue Man and the Girl
Her Awakening
The Making of a Man
Italian Blood
The Unveiling
The Adventures of Billy
The Long Road
Love in the Hills
The Battle
The Trail of Books
Through Darkened Vales
The Miser's Heart
Sunshine Through the Dark
A Woman Scorned
The Failure
Saved from Himself
As in a Looking Glass
A Terrible Discovery
The Voice of the Child
Grannie
The Baby and the Stork
A Tale of the Wilderness
The Eternal Mother
The Old Bookkeeper
For His Son
A Blot on the 'Scutcheon
The Transformation of Mike
A Sister's Love
Billy's Stratagem
The Mender of Nets
Under Burning Skies
The Sunbeam
A Siren of Impulse
A String of Pearls
The Girl and her Trust
Iola's Promise
The Root of Evil
The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch
The Punishment
Fate's Interception
The Female of the Species
Just Like a Woman
One Is Business, the Other Crime
The Lesser Evil
The Old Actor
A Lodging for the Night
His Lesson
When Kings Were the Law
A Beast at Bay
An Outcast Among Outcasts
Home Folks
A Temporary Truce
Lena and the Geese
The Spirit Awakened
The School Teacher and the Waif
Man's Lust for Gold
An Indian Summer
Man's Genesis
Heaven Avenges
The Sands of Dee
Black Sheep
The Narrow Road
A Child's Remorse
The Inner Circle
A Change of Spirit
A Pueblo Romance
A Pueblo Legend
In the North Woods
An Unseen Enemy
Blind Love
Two Daughters of Eve
Friends
So Near, yet So Far
A Feud in the Kentucky Hills
The Chief's Blanket
In the Aisles of the Wild
The One She Loved
The Painted Lady
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
Heredity
Gold and Glitter
My Baby
The Informer
Brutality
The New York Hat
My Hero
The Burglar's Dilemma
A Cry for Help
The God Within
Three Friends
The Telephone Girl and the Lady
An Adventure in the Autumn Woods
The Tender Hearted Boy
A Misappropriated Turkey
Brothers
Oil and Water
Drink's Lure
A Chance Deception
Love in an Apartment Hotel
Broken Ways
A Girl's Stratagem
The Unwelcome Guest
Near to Earth
Fate
A Welcome Intruder
The Sheriff's Baby
The Hero of Little Italy
The Perfidy of Mary
The Little Tease
A Misunderstood Boy
The Left-Handed Man
The Lady and the Mouse
If We Only Knew
The Wanderer
The Stolen Loaf
The House of Darkness
The Yaqui Cur
Just Gold
His Mother's Son
The Ranchero's Revenge
A Timely Interception
Death's Marathon
The Mothering Heart
Her Mother's Oath
The Sorrowful Shore
The Reformers; o, The Lost Art of Minding One's Business
The Enemy's Baby
The Mistake
The Coming of Angelo
Two Men of the Desert
The Adopted Brother
Madonna of the Storm
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
The Conscience of Hassan Bey
Fotograma de El naixement d'una nació (1915)
Fotograma de Intolerance (1916)
Aquest any, després de rodar Judith of Bethulia amb unes despeses que van duplicar el pressupost per a la pel·lícula, la Biograph va ser conscient que més que un actiu per a la companyia, Griffith era un perill per a la seva viabilitat econòmica. Per això li van indicar que si volia continuar a la Biograph ja no dirigiria més sinó que seria el supervisor d'altres directors.[7] Griffith va abandonar la productora amb la seva companyia d’actors i tècnics per incorporar-se a la Reliance/Majestic.
Aquest any Griffith rodaria només estrenaria una de les seves obres mestres que també la seva pel·lícula més polèmica pel seu caràcter racista. A partir d’aquell moment formaria la seva pròpia productora, la David W. Griffith Corp., distribuint les pel·lícules a través de diferents companyies.
Lillian Gish i RIchard Barthelmess a Lliris trencats (1918)
En resposta a les acusacions de racisme i amb les guanys de la pel·lícula anterior[8] Griffith filmà aquell any una de les pel·lícules més influents del cinema mut, Intolerance
Lillian Gish a Way Down East (1920)
Aquest any, conjuntament amb Charles Chaplin , Mary Pickford i Douglas Fairbanks funda la United Artists . Griffith havia rodat Lliris trencats que havia de ser distribuïda per la Famous Players-Lasky Corp. però va decidir adquirir-la per 250.000 dòlars per distribuir-la a través de la United Artists[9] obtenint uns guanys de 700.000 dòlars.[10]
The Idol Dancer
Remodeling Her Husband
The Love Flower
Way Down East
L'associació de Griffith United Artists va ser per pocs anys. Moltes de les pel·lícules posteriors no van tenir un gran èxit comercial i el director es retirà el 1931.
«D.W. Griffith » (en anglès). Internet Movie Database. [Consulta: 4 abril 2021].
«Broken Blossoms » (en anglès). American Film Institute Catalog. [Consulta: 4 abril 2021].
Balio , Tino. United Artists: The Company Built by the Stars (en anglès). University of Wisconsin Press, 2009, p. 30-31. ISBN 978-0-299-23004-3 .