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Elmer Clifton

Born 1890-03-12 Toronto, Ontario, Canada 19 films

Born in Chicago, he was an actor in touring stock companies before making his screen debut in 1912. Joining D.W. Griffith's Fine Arts Studio in 1914, he was cast as Union officer Phil Stoneman in "The Birth of a Nation" (1915) and as The Rhapsodie in the Babylonian story of "Intolerance" (1916). He was also a second-unit director for those films. Promoted to director in 1917, Clifton supervised several successful Fine Arts comedies starring Dorothy Gish wh…

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Filmography

19 films

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A parody of D. W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation", "I Am Not a Racist" rearranges the scenes of…

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I Am Not a Racist

★ 0.0 2019

Nina, a blind girl, lives with her grandmother, who has taught her to make artificial flowers, whic…

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Nina, the Flower Girl

★ 0.0 1917

Senator John Coburn's son Steve, who associates more with gamblers, criminals and drug addicts than…

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The Old Folks at Home

★ 0.0 1916

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages poster

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven wi…

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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

★ 7.1 1916

Young teacher Nan Cartwright leaves Virginia for a narrow-minded Western town. Facing constant hara…

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The Little School Ma'am

★ 10.0 1916

Hard-working insurance company bookkeeper John Carter, comes home Easter eve to his suburban cottag…

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Acquitted

★ 0.0 1916

A 1916 film directed by Lloyd Ingraham.

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The Missing Links

★ 0.0 1916

In China, a man is arrested and tortured for a crime committed years before by his twin brother.

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The Sable Lorcha

★ 0.0 1915

To the dismay of Allison Edwards, her bookworm, adoring neighbor, Mary Randolph, falls in love with…

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The Lily and the Rose

★ 0.0 1915

According to Japanese legend, the Fox Woman was not possessed of a soul. To exist, she was obliged…

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The Fox Woman

★ 0.0 1915

Before his niece and ward, Dosia Dale, comes of age, her uncle, who has spent her entire fortune, m…

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The Lost House

★ 0.0 1915

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwi…

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The Birth of a Nation

★ 5.9 1915