~The Birth Of A Nation~
1915
~Lillian Gish~
~Plot Synopsis~
~A Plot Synopsis for "The Birth of a Nation," is coming soon!~
Directed by: D. W. Griffith

Written by:
Thomas F. Dixon Jr. - novel "The Clansman: An
Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan"/play "The
Clansman"/Novel "The Leopard's Spots"
D.W. Griffith - writer
Frank E. Woods - writer
~Cast~

Lillian Gish ...  Elsie Stoneman
Mae Marsh ...  Flora Cameron
Henry B. Walthall ...  Col. Ben Cameron
Miriam Cooper ...  Margaret Cameron
Mary Alden ...  Lydia Brown
Ralph Lewis ...  Austin Stoneman
George Siegmann ...  Silas Lynch
Walter Long ...  Gus
Robert Harron ...  Tod Stoneman
Wallace Reid ...  Jeff (blacksmith)
Joseph Henabery ...  Abraham Lincoln / 13 other bits
Elmer Clifton ...  Phil Stoneman
Josephine Crowell ...  Mrs. Cameron
Spottiswoode Aitken ...  Dr. Cameron
George Beranger ...  Wade Cameron (as J.A. Beringer)
Maxfield Stanley ...  Duke Cameron
Jennie Lee ...  Mammy
Donald Crisp ...  Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
Howard Gaye ...  Gen. Robert E. Lee
Tom Wilson ...  Stoneman's servant (as Thomas Wilson)
Monte Blue ...  Bit Role (uncredited)
Bobby Burns ...  Klan leader (uncredited)
Edmund Burns ...  Klansman (uncredited)
Edward Burns ...  Klansman (uncredited)
Fred Burns ...  Klansman (uncredited)
David Butler ...  Northern soldier / Confederate soldier (uncredited)
Peggy Cartwright ...  Young girl (uncredited)
William E. Cassidy ...  Bit Role (uncredited)
Dark Cloud ...  A general (uncredited)
Lenore Cooper ...  Elsie's maid (uncredited)
Sam De Grasse ...  Sen. Sumner (uncredited)
William De Vaull ...  Jake (uncredited)
Charles Eagle Eye ...  Man who falls from roof (uncredited)
John Ford ...  Klansman on horse holding up hood with hand
(uncredited)
Alberta Franklin ...  (uncredited)
William Freeman ...  The sentry (uncredited)
Gibson Gowland ...  Bit Role (uncredited)
Olga Grey ...  Laura Keene (uncredited)
Fred Hamer ...  (uncredited)
Russell Hicks ...  (uncredited)
Charles King ...  Undetermined Role (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
Alberta Lee ...  Mrs. Lincoln (uncredited)
Elmo Lincoln ...  Blacksmith (uncredited)
Donna Montran ...  Belles of 1861 (uncredited)
Eugene Pallette ...  Union soldier (uncredited)
Vester Pegg ...  (uncredited)
Alma Rubens ...  Belles of 1861 (uncredited)
Allan Sears ...  Klansman (uncredited)
Charles Stevens ...  Volunteer (uncredited)
Madame Sul-Te-Wan ...  Black woman (Dr. Cameron's taunter)
(uncredited)
Raoul Walsh ...  John Wilkes Booth (uncredited)
Jules White ...  (uncredited)
Violet Wilkey ...  Flora as a child (uncredited)
Mary Wynn ...  (uncredited)
George Walsh ... minor role
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