Elmer Clifton
- Birthday
- Mar 14, 1890
Bio: Entering films in 1914, onetime stage actor Elmer Clifton became a protege of D.W. Griffith. Clifton played major roles and functioned as a production assistant in Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916), then was assigned to direct a number of features produced by Griffith's unit at Triangle Films. Among his better directorial efforts was… More Bio: Entering films in 1914, onetime stage actor Elmer Clifton became a protege of D.W. Griffith. Clifton played major roles and functioned as a production assistant in Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916), then was assigned to direct a number of features produced by Griffith's unit at Triangle Films. Among his better directorial efforts was the Dorothy Gish vehicle Nugget Nell (1919), the seafaring epic Down to the Sea in Ships (1922) and the rousing urban melodrama Let 'Er Go, Gallegher (1926). Most of Clifton's talking pictures were programmers, potboilers, westerns and serials for the lesser-echelon studios. While directing the 1949 Ida Lupino-produced Not Wanted, Elmer Clifton fell ill, obliging Lupino to briefly take over the directorial reigns herself. Elmer Clifton died shortly afterward; the last film to bear his imprimatur was the 1950 western The Silver Bandit (1950). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Filmography
-
Dead or Alive (2000)
- Director
-
Not Wanted (Shame) (Streets of Sin) (The Wrong Rut) (1949)
- Director
-
The Judge (1949)
- Director
-
Marked for Murder (1945)
- Director
-
Whispering Skull (1944)
- Director
- See all 33 films
Elmer Clifton Videos
Dead Or Alive
1 minutes 29 seconds
Seven Doors Of Death
1 minutes 39 seconds
Assassin Of Youth
2 minutes 1 seconds
Born Today
- Mia Maestro (35 years old)
- Louis Jourdan (94 years old)
- Robin Tunney (41 years old)
- Jean Dujardin (41 years old)
- Eric Schweig (46 years old)
- Lauren Lee Smith (33 years old)
- Hugh Dancy (38 years old)
- Sadie Frost (48 years old)
- Phylicia Rashad (65 years old)
- Mia Sara (46 years old)
- Samuel West (47 years old)
- Virginia Hey (61 years old)
- Daria Nicolodi (63 years old)
- Blake Woodruff (18 years old)
- Aidan Turner (30 years old)
- Vanessa Martinez (34 years old)
- Paula Abdul (51 years old)
- Reza Kianian (62 years old)
- Sean Marshall (48 years old)
- Zoe Saldana (35 years old)
- Gena Rowlands (83 years old)
- Paul Dano (29 years old)
- Poppy Montgomery (41 years old)
- Ryan Hurst (37 years old)
- See more (24)
