Griffith was born in rural Kentucky to Jacob Roaring Jake Griffith, a Confederate Army colonel and Civil War hero. He grew up with his father's romantic war stories and melodramatic nineteenth century literature that were to eventually mold his black-and-white view of human existence and history. 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 ...[Read Story]
