Elmer Clifton
Directing
Born: 1890-03-12 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Died: 1949-10-15
Biography
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 while continuing to serve as Griffith's as
🎬 Movies (30)
I Am Not a Racist
2019
Phil (archive footage) (uncredited)
Outcasts of Black Mesa
1950
Story
The Kid from Gower Gulch
1950
Screenplay
The Silver Bandit
1950
Director
The Judge
1949
Director
Not Wanted
1949
Director
Red Rock Outlaw
1949
Director
Quick on the Trigger
1948
Screenplay
Sunset Carson Rides Again
1948
Writer
West to Glory
1947
Screenplay
Rainbow Over the Rockies
1947
Screenplay
Lightning Raiders
1946
Original Story
Song of the Sierras
1946
Screenplay
Outlaws of the Plains
1946
Story
Swing, Cowboy, Swing
1946
Director
Frontier Fugitives
1945
Screenplay
Marked for Murder
1945
Director
Three in the Saddle
1945
Screenplay
Captain America
1944
Director
Gangsters of the Frontier
1944
Director
Youth Aflame
1944
Director
Seven Doors to Death
1944
Director
Spook Town
1944
Director
The Whispering Skull
1944
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Guns of the Law
1944
Director
The Pinto Bandit
1944
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Teen Age
1944
Screenplay
Brand of the Devil
1944
Screenplay
Dead or Alive
1944
Director
Gunsmoke Mesa
1944
Screenplay