The careers of D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin are chronicled culminating in the formation of United Artists and 1919.
Cast
Roddy McDowall
Narrator (voice)
Marc Wanamaker
Self
Christopher Sanders
Unknown
Joy Noe
Mary Pickford
Allan Viner
Unknown
L. Michael Wells
Unknown
Richard Barthelmess
The Yellow Man (archive footage)
Charlie Chaplin
Self / Various roles (archive footage)
Billy Compton
Self (archive footage)
Jack Dempsey
Self (archive footage)
George Eastman
Self (archive footage)
Thomas A. Edison
Self (archive footage)
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Self
Douglas Fairbanks
Self (archive footage)
Lillian Gish
Lucy - The Girl (archive footage)
D.W. Griffith
Self (archive footage)
Robert Harron
Self (archive footage)
Florence Lawrence
Self (archive footage)
Mabel Normand
Self (archive footage)
Mary Pickford
Self / Various roles (archive footage)
Eugen Sandow
Self (archive footage)
Mack Swain
Big Jim McKay (archive footage)
Henry B. Walthall
Col. Ben Cameron (archive footage)
Crew
Hugh Munro Neely
Director, Writer, Editor, Co-Producer
John J. Flynn
Writer, Co-Producer
Joan Zapata
Editor
Don Montoure
Online Editor
John Luker
Director of Photography
Siobhan Flynn
Production Coordinator
Thomas D. Coldicutt
Executive Producer
Elizabeth Wood Coldicutt
Producer
Dal Grauer
Associate Producer
Elaina Archer
Associate Producer, Researcher
Katie Jones
Production Assistant
Ed Weber
Camera Operator
Richard Cheung
Assistant Camera
Jeri Sopanen
Assistant Camera
Keith Lawrence
Second Unit Director, Supervising Producer
Thomas Orsi
Sound Designer
David Friedman
Sound
Mark Roy
Sound
Nigel Holton
Music
John Beyer
Grip
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
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