The Birth of a Nation

The Clansman

Directed by: D.W. Griffith, USA, 1915

USA, 1915
Plakatmotiv The Birth of a Nation, © ,


Cast and Credits

Production
Distribution
Producer D.W. Griffith
Director D.W. Griffith
Assistant Director George Siegmann
George Siegmann
George Beranger
Monte Blue
Christy Cabanne [(as William Christy Cabanne)]
Elmer Clifton
Howard Gaye
Fred Hamer
Fred Hamer
Tom Wilson
Tom Wilson [(uncertain or unconfirmed)]
Erich von Stroheim [(uncertain or unconfirmed)]
Raoul Walsh [(uncertain or unconfirmed)]
J.A. Barry [Executive and production assistant]
Scenario D.W. Griffith
Frank E. Woods
Based on Thomas Dixon [Novel "The Clansman"]
Director of Photography G.W. Bitzer
Camera Operator Karl Brown
Camera Assistant Frank B. Good [(as F.B. Good)]
Composer Joseph Carl Breil
D.W. Griffith
Editor James Smith
Rose Smith
Joseph Henabery
Raoul Walsh [(uncertain or unconfirmed)]
Set Decoration Raoul Walsh
Cast Henry B. Walthall [Colonel Ben Cameron [The little Colonel] (as Henry Walthall)]
Miriam Cooper [Margaret Cameron, The Elder Sister]
Mae Marsh [Flora Cameron, The Pet Sister]
Josephine Crowell [Mrs. Cameron]
Spottiswoode Aitken [Dr. Cameron]
George Beranger [Wade Cameron - Second Son (as J.A. Beringer)]
Maxfield Stanley [[John French] Duke Cameron - Youngest Son]
Jennie Lee [Mammy, The Faithful Servant]
Ralph Lewis [Hon. Austin Stoneman - Leader of the House]
Lillian Gish [Elsie Stoneman, his daughter]
Elmer Clifton [Phil, Stoneman's Elder Son]
Robert Harron [Ted Stoneman, the younger son]
Wallace Reid [Jeff, the Blacksmith (as Wallace Reed)]
Mary Alden [Lydia - Stoneman's Mulatto Housekeeper]
George Siegmann [Silas Lynch - Mulatto Lieut. Governor (as George Seigmann)]
Walter Long [Gus, a renegade negro]
Joseph Henabery [Abraham Lincoln and several other parts (as Jos. Henabery)]
Raoul Walsh [John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's Murderer]
Donald Crisp [Gen. U.S. Grant]
Howard Gaye [General Robert E. Lee]
William de Vaull [Nelse, an old-fashioned negro]
William Freeman [Jake, a black man faithful unto death / Sentry at the Hospital]
Tom Wilson [Stoneman's Servat]
Sam de Grasse [Charles Sumner]
Fred Burns
Allan Sears
Allan Sears [Flora Cameron as a Child]
Elmo Lincoln [White-arm Joe and other Roles]
Alberta Lee [Mrs. Lincoln]
Olga Grey [Laura Keene]
Eugene Pallette [Union Soldier]
Dark Cloud [General in the Appomatox surrender]
John Ford [Klansman (uncertain or unconfirmed)]
Madame Sul-Te-Wan [A black woman, Dr. Cameron's taunter]
Gibson Gowland [Extra]
Jack Pickford [[In blackface]]
Jack Pickford [Man falling from roof (uncertain or unconfirmed)]
Erich von Stroheim [Man falling from roof (uncertain or unconfirmed)]
Jules White [Man falling from roof (uncertain or unconfirmed)]
Jules White [Man falling from roof (uncertain or unconfirmed)]
Eagle Eye [Extra]
Lenore Cooper [Elsie's Maid]
Alma Rubens [Belles of 1861]
Donna Montran [Belles of 1861]
Donna Montran [Piedmont Girl]
Charles Stevens [Man who reports Piedmont raid to the Confederates]
Charles Stevens [Cameron's Male Servant]

Technical specifications
Category: Feature Film
Technical Details: Format: 35 mm, 1:1,33 - Ratio: 1:1,33 - Black and White,Length: 190 minutes, 11335 feet, 12 reels, 16 frames per second
Sound System: silent
First Screening: January 1, 1915 in Riverside, California, Loring Opera House [as The
US Copyright: February 08, 1915 - ©LP.6677 [as The Birth of a Nation]
Survival Status: Prints of this picture exist
Szenenphoto aus The Birth of a Nation, © ,

Szenenphoto aus The Birth of a Nation, © ,
Szenenphoto aus The Birth of a Nation, © ,

General Information

The Birth of a Nation is a motion picture produced in the year 1915 as a USA production. The Film was directed by D.W. Griffith, with Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mae Marsh, Josephine Crowell, Spottiswoode Aitken, in the leading parts. We have currently no synopsis of this picture on file; There are no reviews of The Birth of a Nation available.

Bibliography - Motography, Vol XIII, March 20, 1915, pg 431p
- Motography, Vol XIII, June 19, 1915, pg 1009
100 Film da salvare, pg 20ff; - Jerzy Toeplitz, Geschichte des Films, Band I, pg. 129f

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