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2 unusual facts about Edward H. Griffith


Edison Studios

Other important directors who started at Edison included Oscar Apfel, Charles Brabin, Alan Crosland, J. Searle Dawley and Edward H. Griffith.

Edward Griffith

Edward H. Griffith (1894–1975), American film director, screenwriter and producer


40-Mile Loop

In 1912, another city planner, Edward H. Bennett, also recommended developing a ridgetop park long the West Hills.

Always Faithful

The film marks the sound film debut of veteran film actress Blanche Sweet who began her screen career in 1909 as a teenager working for D. W. Griffith.

Arthur Marvin

He shot 418 films between 1897 and 1911, including The Adventures of Dollie (1908), the directorial debut of D. W. Griffith, as well as other early Griffith shorts such as Pippa Passes in 1909.

Center for Latin American Studies – University of Pittsburgh

The Center was formally founded on September 16, 1964 during Chancellor Edward H. Litchfield’s tenure at the University.

Ceratosaurus

Ceratosaurus has appeared in several films, including the first live action film to feature dinosaurs, D. W. Griffith's Brute Force (1914).

Cinema 1: The Movement Image

The cinema covered in the book ranges from the silent era to the 1970s, and includes the work of D. W. Griffith, Abel Gance, Erich von Stroheim, Charlie Chaplin, Sergei Eisenstein, Luis Buñuel, Howard Hawks, Robert Bresson, Jean-Luc Godard, Sidney Lumet and Robert Altman.

Civic Center, Denver

When Speer was reelected in 1916, he re-pursued his ideas about the Civic Center, hiring Chicago planner and architect Edward H. Bennett, a protégé of Daniel Burnham.

Creature from the Haunted Sea

Screenwriter Charles B. Griffith was asked to rewrite a screenplay that had previously been filmed as Naked Paradise and Beast from Haunted Cave for the new locations, to complete the screenplay in three days, and that Corman would be playing one of the characters, Happy Jack Monahan.

Daniel G. Rollins

Congressman Edward H. Rollins was a distant cousin, all descended from Judge Ichabod Rollins (1722–1800).

Edward H. Funston

He served as chairman of the Committee on Agriculture (Fifty-first Congress).

Edward H. Gillette

Foreseeing westward expansion after the war, Francis Gillette and brother-in-law John Hooker had purchased shares in a concern which owned thousands of acres of sprawling Iowa landscape.

Edward H. Hobson

Hobson's Federal style brick home in Greensburg (built by his father in 1823) is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

He was married to Katie Adair, a niece of Kentucky Governor John Adair.

In 1887, he became president of the Southern Division of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.

Edward H. Hume

From 1903-1905 Hume was in Bombay as an Acting Assistant Surgeon in the Commissioned Corps of the United States Public Health Service to monitor the Plague outbreak that had started in 1896.

Edward H. Kruse

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Eighty-second Congress in 1950.

Edward H. Levi

John G. Levi was recently confirmed to the Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation.

Edward H. Lingo

In 1872 he moved to Denison, Grayson County, Texas, which had recently become a railroad town and a center of population and industry, and entered a partnership with J. P. Leeper & Company, later Waples, Lingo & Company.

Edward H. Shortliffe

He has served as president and chief executive officer of the American Medical Informatics Association from 2009-2012 and continues to hold adjunct faculty appointments in biomedical informatics at Columbia University and Arizona State University.

Edward Hart

Edward H. Harte (1922–2011), American newspaper executive, journalist, philanthropist, and conservationist

Edward Hobson

Edward H. Hobson (1825–1901), merchant, banker, politician and officer in the United States Army

Federal Trade Commission Building

Edward H. Bennett of the Chicago firm Bennett, Parsons and Frost oversaw the project and designed the final building, which would become the headquarters for the FTC.

Forbidden Island

Forbidden Island is a 1959 film directed by Charles B. Griffith.

Francis M. Griffith

He was reelected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses and served from December 6, 1897, to March 3, 1905.

Griffith was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William S. Holman.

Ghost of the China Sea

Ghost of the China Sea is a 1958 film co-written by Charles B. Griffith set during World War II.

Grace Henderson

She was in His Trust (1911), which was directed by D. W. Griffith, and Trying To Fool Uncle (1912), a production of Mack Sennett.

Herbert C. Hoover Building

Soon afterward Treasury Secretary Andrew W. Mellon and the Board of Architectural Consultants, composed of leading architects and headed by Edward H. Bennett of the Chicago architectural firm of Bennett, Parsons, and Frost, developed design guidelines for the site.

John G. Shedd

One of the Commercial Club's most notable undertakings was the sponsorship of Edward Bennett and Daniel Burnham's Plan of Chicago, which was released in 1909 and which to this day is considered to be one of the most important urban planning documents ever created.

John H. Griffith

He subsequently returned to United Airlines as a flight instructor, until retiring to Penn Valley, California.

Joyce Coad

Drums of Love (1928), directed by D.W. Griffith, is set in the middle of the nineteenth century in South America.

Julia Morgan

Along with classmates Arthur Brown, Jr., Edward H. Bennett and Lewis P. Hobart, Maybeck mentored Morgan in architecture at his Berkeley home.

Martha Ellen Auditorium

A list of events from 1916 and 1917 includes films, among them D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation and The Avenging Conscience, operas, lectures, plays, and a heavyweight wrestling match.

Melony G. Griffith

Griffith also host a local Public-access television show entitled "Modern Mentors" for the town of District Heights, Maryland.

Myrtle Vail

After the show ended, Vail became a low-keyed supporting actress in films, best known for roles in the low-budget cult films A Bucket of Blood (1959) and The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), written by her grandson Charles B. Griffith, and directed by Roger Corman, for whom Griffith has written and/or directed several films.

Naked Paradise

Robert Wright Campbell's script was rewritten by Charles B. Griffith, who claimed Corman asked him to reuse his screenplay for Atlas (1960), Beast from Haunted Cave (1960) and Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961).

National States' Rights Party

As a result, in April 1976 U.S. Attorney General Edward H. Levi concluded an FBI investigation into the group, after it was decided that they posed no threat.

Owen Moore

While working at D. W. Griffith's Biograph Studios, Moore met a young Canadian actress named Gladys Smith whom he married on January 7, 1911.

Peter Griffith

In 1965 he married actress Nanita Greene, and together they had two children, Tracy Griffith (also an actress) and Clay A. Griffith (a production designer).

Quinlan, Texas

In 1892 Edward H. R. Green, Hetty Green's son and president of the Texas Midland, abandoned Roberts as a depot and established a new depot town, Quinlan, 1½ miles north of the older community.

Samuel B. Griffith

After participating in the post-World War II occupation of North China, where he commanded the 3rd Marine Regiment and later the U.S. Marine Forces in Qingdao, he was a student and then a faculty member at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport from 1947 to 1950.

Satan Presiding at the Infernal Council

The bold iconography and design of Martin's engravings were inspirations for scenes in D. W. Griffith's films Birth of a Nation and Intolerance, and for the design of the Galactic Senate in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.

St George's Church, Thornton Hough

The interior of the church is richly and elaborately decorated, the sculptor being Edward O. Griffith.

WEA Film Study Group

On 3 and 4 December 1966, the society held a non-residential film weekend on D. W. Griffith, with such features as Way Down East (1920), Orphans In The Snow (1922), and Isn't Life Wonderful (1924) being shown.

Wilder Brain Collection

Edward H. Rulloff, a philologist and murderer who possessed one of the largest recorded brains.


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