1. Griffith - Noun
2. Griffith - Proper noun
United States film maker who was the first to use flashbacks and fade-outs (1875-1948)
Source: WordNetFilm begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami. Jean-Luc Godard
Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith. Spike Lee
People of a certain age look back on the Mayberry of 'The Andy Griffith Show' and become almost as homesick for that simple fictional hamlet as they do for their own home towns. Tom Shales
Seventy years ago there were men like D. W. Griffith and seventy years later - now - there are not many men like Martin Scorsese. But so long as there is one there will be others, and the art of the cinema will survive. Michael Powell (director)
You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' - the variety of characters was so amazing to me. J. B. Smoove
1936 in film In 1939, the producer Hal Roach hired Griffith to produce Of Mice and Men (1939) and One Million B.C. (1940). Source: Internet