from Triangle Productions
Directed by
D.W.
Griffith
Starring
Lillian
Gish (The Woman Who Rocks the Cradle/the Eternal Mother)
Olga Grey (Mary Magdalene)
Mildred Harris (Harem Girl)
Robert Harron (The Boy)
Joseph Henabery (Admiral Coligny)
Lloyd Ingraham (Judge of the Court)
Lillian Langdon (Mary the Mother)
Ralph Lewis (Governor)
Vera Lewis (Mary T. Jenkins)
Elmo Lincoln (Belshazzar's bodyguard "the mighty man of
valor")
Howard Gaye (The Christ)
Walter Long (The Musketeer of the Slums/Babylonian warrior)
Bessie Love (The Bride of Cana)
Mae Marsh (The Dear One)
Tully Marshall (The High Priest of Bel)
Seena Owen (Attarea, the Princess Beloved)
Alfred Paget (Prince Belshazzar)
Eugene Pallette (Prosper Latour)
Georgia Pearce (Marguerite de Valois)
George Siegmann (Cyrus)
Ruth St. Denis (Solo Dancer)
Maxfield Stanley (Count d'Anjou)
Pauline Starke (Harem Girl)
Carl Stockdale (King Nabonidus)
Constance Talmadge (The Mountain Girl/Marguerite de Valois)
Guenther von Ritzau (Pharisee)
Erich von Stroheim (Pharisee (and others))
Margery Wilson (Brown Eyes)
Tom Wilson (The Kindly Policeman)
Monte Blue (Strike Leader)
Madame Sul-Te-Wan (Woman at slave auction)
Donald Crisp
William E. Cassidy
Wallace Reid
Wilfred Lucas
Spottiswoode Aitken (The Father of Brown Eyes)
Frank Bennett (Charles IX)
Fred Turner (Her Father)
Barney Bernard (Prosecutor)
Tod Browning (Car Owner/Crook)
Kate Bruce (Babylonian Mother)
Ed Burns (Charioteer of the Priest)
Elmer Clifton (The Rhapsode)
Miriam Cooper (The Friendless One)
Jack Cosgrave (Chief Eunuch)
Josephine Crowell (Catherine de Medici)
Nigel De Brulier
Sam De Grasse (Arthur Jenkins)
George Walsh (Bridegroom of Cana)
Alma Rubens
Mary Alden (Reformer)
Eleanor Washington (Reformer)
Pearl Elmore (Reformer)
Lucille Browne (Reformer)
Mrs. Arthur Mackley (Reformer)
A.W. McClure (Father Fathley)
John P. McCarthy (Prison Guard)
Dore Davidson (Friendly Neighbor)
Marguerite Marsh (Debutante)
Edward Dillon (Crook)
Billy Quirk (Bartender)
William H. Brown (Father of Bride of Cana)
W.S. Van Dyke (Wedding Guest)
Allan Sears (Mercenary)
W.E. Lawrence (Henry of Navarre)
Chandler House (Page)
Written by
Tod Browning
D.W. Griffith
Anita Loos (titles) |
 D.W.
Griffith's large-scale epic, spanning several centuries and cultures.
The film is made up of four distinct stories linked solely by
a single common thread: intolerance. Three of the stories are
based on historical fact: Medieval France during the reign of
Charles IX; the birth and crucifixion of Christ; and the fall
of Babylonia. The fourth tale is a "modern" story of
greed, cruelty and betrayal. Intolerance had its New York premiere
on September 5, 1916; it was released two years after The Birth
of a Nation, and it is widely regarded as D.W. Griffith's protest
and self-defense against the charges of racism leveled at him
for Birth's glorification of the Ku Klux Klan.
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