Griffith's performance earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress and won her the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy.

Though he applauded Griffith's performance (" Mr. Griffith plays him with thunderous vigor ..."), at the same time, he felt that the character overpowered the rest of the cast and the story.

She was a prominent film star of the 1910s and 1920s, particularly associated with the films of director D. W. Griffith, including her leading role in Griffith's seminal Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ).

The duke also has a role in D. W. Griffith's 1916 film Intolerance, part of which covers the lead-up to the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.

Griffith's next starring role was in the urban thriller Pacific Heights ( 1990 ) with Matthew Modine.

He also played an uncredited role in A Face in the Crowd as Barry Mills, touted as the down-home successor to Andy Griffith's megalomaniacal TV star Lonesome Rhodes.

By the end of the 1980s, after years as a struggling, unfamiliar actor, he finally found the role that would make him famous as Andy Griffith's private investigator, Conrad McMasters, on Matlock.

Her first major role was as The Mountain Girl and Marguerite de Valois in D. W. Griffith's Intolerance ( 1916 ).

The coming of sound ended Griffith's acting career, but he did have one memorable role in a motion picture before retiring from the screen, playing a French soldier killed by Lew Ayres in the 1930 Lewis Milestone film All Quiet on the Western Front.

From 1992 to 1995, he played Andy Griffith's assistant, final private investigator and right-hand man, Cliff Lewis, on the television drama Matlock, replacing Clarence Gilyard, during the 1993-94 season, and he also had a recurring role opposite Don Johnson's character as the corrupt officer, Insp.

But Griffith's first use of cross-cutting in The Fatal Hour, made in July 1908, has a much stronger suspense story served by this construction than those in the earlier Pathé examples.

Matlock also has conspicuously finicky fashion sense ; he generally appears in court wearing a trademark light gray suit and, over the series ' entire run, owned three generations of the Ford Crown Victoria – always an all-gray model ( Griffith's character had always driven Ford products in his 1960s series, The Andy Griffith Show ).

Illustrating S pneumoniaes plasticity, the abstract of Griffith's paper reports, " The S form of Type I has been produced from the R form of Type II, and the R form of Type I has been transformed into the S form of Type II ".

A park has been named in Griffith's honor in his native Virgin Islands.

Griffith's editorial support for the Limerick Pogrom ( a boycott of Jewish businesses in Limerick organised by the Redemptorist Father John Creagh in 1904 ) has also been criticised.

Maye has also stated that Griffith's anti-semitic beliefs were tempered after 1910.

The Big Chicken has also appeared in the comic strip " Zippy the Pinhead " as a part of artist Bill Griffith's fascination with roadside icons, such as West Hollywood's " Tail of the Pup ", and the ubiquitous " Muffler Man " who was used to hold full-sized car mufflers, giant hot dogs, tires, or other items promoting various roadside businesses.

Since Griffith's landmark study, confidence in Aeschylean authorship has steadily eroded.

Since the observatory opened in 1935, admission has been free, in accordance with Griffith's will.

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

Griffith's main streets are Banna Avenue and Yambil Streets but commercial growth has occurred throughout the city.

Griffith's original rejection of Whittle's concepts has long been commented on.

Griffith's real-life mother Tippi Hedren has a cameo as a rich older woman who is conned by Keaton's character.

In Andy Griffith's real hometown of Mount Airy, North Carolina, barber Russell Hiatt has cut hair for several decades in his institution called " Floyd's City Barber Shop " while also welcoming streams of tourists including, on one occasion, Oprah Winfrey.

Several of Griffith's later films were also successful, but his high production, promotional, and roadshow costs often made his ventures commercial failures.

Griffith's increased use of cross-cutting between parallel actions helped him to get more shots into his films than other directors, but he also had another method for doing this.

As well as all this there was Griffith's habit of moving the action into another shot in an adjoining space, and then back again if it was at all possible, which produced a marked change in background, which also made its small contribution to the discontinuity between shots.

Piggott was also one of the filming sites for Andy Griffith's acting debut, A Face In The Crowd.

Collins was also Minister for Finance in Griffith's cabinet.

More accurately, point six of Griffith's abstract reports that R tended to transform into S if a large amount of live R, alone, were injected, and that adding much heat-killed S made transformation reliable Griffith also induced some pneumococci to transform back and forth.

He also remained Minister for Finance of Griffith's republican administration.

Walsh played John Wilkes Booth in Griffith's epic The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ) for which he was also Assistant Director.

It is also often cited erroneously as one of the first films to show people dying with their eyes open ( earlier examples include D. W. Griffith's 1909 film The Country Doctor, the 1931 film The Public Enemy and the 1960 film Psycho ).

He also remained Minister for Finance of Arthur Griffith's republican administration.

He also wrote music for some British films of the 1960s, he was involved in The Turning Point, starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and Leslie Browne, and he wrote scores for two silent film classics: D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation and John Ford's The Iron Horse.

Adaptation to life on Jeep appears to be a greater theme of Griffith's novel, as not only Marghe, but other Company personnel, also eventually are forced to settle on Jeep and adapt to the cultures that its prior colonists have created, in order to adjust to the planetary environment.

Abraham Lincoln, also released under the title D. W. Griffith's ' Abraham Lincoln, is a ( 1930 ) biographical film about American president Abraham Lincoln directed by D. W. Griffith.

He also campaigned for film censorship in the state after large protests were mounted against the racial depictions in D. W. Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation.

Griffith's throat had been damaged by poison gas during World War I and his voice was a horse whisper, prompting Hawks to later state " I thought he ought to be great in talking pictures because of that voice.

Alma-Tadema's meticulous archaeological research, including research into Roman architecture ( which was so thorough that every building featured in his canvases could have been built using Roman tools and methods ) led to his paintings being used as source material by Hollywood directors in their vision of the ancient world for films such as D. W. Griffith's Intolerance ( 1916 ), Ben Hur ( 1926 ), Cleopatra ( 1934 ), and most notably of all, Cecil B. DeMille's epic remake of The Ten Commandments ( 1956 ).

" ( Griffith's Dream Street had essentially been a " goat gland.

America's most prominent pneumococcus expert, Oswald Avery, in New York at The Rockefeller Hospital — which opened in 1910 on The Rockefeller Institute's campus — initially explained that Griffith's experiments must have been poorly conducted and succumbed to contamination.

Even before Griffith's publication, Fred Neufeld, of Germany's Robert Koch Institute — who had visited Griffith's laboratory and had been told of Griffith's findings — had confirmed them as well, Neufeld merely awaiting publication of Griffith's findings before publishing confirmation.

Sports Illustrated reported in its April 18, 2005, edition that Griffith's rage may have been fueled by an anti-gay slur directed at him by Paret during the weigh-in.

Many towns in North Carolina have been proposed as " the original Mayberry ," but many assume Mayberry was loosely based on Andy Griffith's hometown of Mount Airy, North Carolina.

Like his co-star, Nancy Stafford, who played Michelle Thomas in the series, Gilyard had been a fan of Griffith's since the 1960s.