Birth Of A Nation Cast 1915

Griffith co wrote the screenplay with frank e.

Birth of a nation cast 1915. Find movie and film cast and crew information for the birth of a nation 1915 d w. The birth of a nation 1915. Benjamin cameron the little colonel. Which is why the confederate.

The development of the war in their lives plays through to lincoln s assassination and the birth of the ku klux klan. Walthall ben cameron the little colonel miriam cooper margaret cameron mae marsh flora cameron the little sister lillian gish elsie stoneman robert harron ted stoneman ralph lewis the honorable austin stoneman leader of the house. The stoneman family finds its friendship with the camerons affected by the civil war both fighting in opposite armies. The birth of a nation originally called the clansman is a 1915 american silent epic drama film directed by d.

Ultimately the civil war was about states rights. In this case the state s right to own people and treat them as less than human. The birth of a nation 1915 cast and crew credits including actors actresses directors writers and more. Griffith and starring lillian gish the screenplay is adapted from the 1905 novel and play the clansman by thomas dixon jr.

I could also see given the subject matter and the time that not only were no black actors hired but none would be willing to act in such a movie. With lillian gish mae marsh henry b. It is well known that white actors in blackface played african americans in the 1915 movie birth of a nation but i have the vaguest memory that there may have been some actual black actors playing extras is this the case. The birth of a nation is a landmark of film history.

Woods and produced the film with harry aitken.