D.W. Griffith Net Worth

David Wark Griffith was born to a former Confederate Army colonel in rural Kentucky. His father's war stories and literature from the nineteenth century had a great influence on Griffith's later films, which were often filled with romanticism and melodrama.
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Birth Day January 22, 1875
Birth Place USA
D.W. Griffith age 144 YEARS OLD
Birth Sign Aquarius
Birth Name David Llewelyn Wark Griffith
Nick Names
Height 5' 11" (1.8 m)

💰 Net worth

Rescued from an Eagle's Nest (1908) $5 /day
Old Isaacs, the Pawnbroker (1908) $15
The Music Master (1908) $15
'Ostler Joe (1908) $15
At the Crossroads of Life (1908) $15
The Stage Rustler (1908) $35
When Knighthood Was in Flower (1908) $35
Her First Biscuits (1909) $52 .50
The Birth of a Nation (1915) $300 per week plus 37.5% of net profits

David Wark Griffith was born in rural Kentucky to Jacob "Roaring Jake" Griffith, a former Confederate Army colonel and Civil War veteran. Young Griffith grew up with his father's romantic war stories and melodramatic nineteenth-century literature that were to eventually shape his movies. In 1897 Griffith set out to pursue a career both acting and writing for the theater, but for the most part was unsuccessful. Reluctantly, he agreed to act in the new motion picture medium for Edwin S. Porter at the Edison Company. Griffith was eventually offered a job at the financially struggling American Mutoscope & Biograph Co., where he directed over four hundred and fifty short films, experimenting with the story-telling techniques he would later perfect in his epic The Birth of a Nation (1915).

Griffith and his personal cinematographer G.W. Bitzer collaborated to create and perfect such cinematic devices as the flashback, the iris shot, the mask and cross-cutting. In the years following "Birth", Griffith never again saw the same monumental success as his signature film and, in 1931, his increasing failures forced his retirement. Though hailed for his vision in narrative film-making, he was similarly criticized for his blatant racism. Griffith died in Los Angeles in 1948, one of the most dichotomous figures in film history.