The Birth of A Nation - Cast

Cast

  • Lillian Gish as Elsie Stoneman
  • Mae Marsh as Flora Cameron
  • Henry B. Walthall as Colonel Ben Cameron
  • Miriam Cooper as Margaret Cameron
  • William P. DeVaull as Jake
  • Ralph Lewis as Austin Stoneman
  • George Siegmann as Silas Lynch
  • Walter Long as Gus
  • Robert Harron as Tod Stoneman
  • Wallace Reid as Jeff the blacksmith
  • Joseph Henabery as Abraham Lincoln
  • Elmer Clifton as Phil Stoneman
  • Josephine Crowell as Mrs. Cameron
  • Spottiswoode Aitken as Dr. Cameron
  • George Beranger as Wade Cameron
  • Maxfield Stanley as Duke Cameron
  • Jennie Lee as Mammy
  • Donald Crisp as General Ulysses S. Grant
  • Howard Gaye as General Robert E. Lee

Uncredited:

  • Mary Alden as Lydia Brown
  • Monte Blue
  • Bobby Burns as Klan Leader
  • David Butler as Union soldier / Confederate soldier
  • Peggy Cartwright as Young girl
  • John Ford as Klansman
  • Gibson Gowland
  • Sam De Grasse as Senator Charles Sumner
  • Olga Grey as Laura Keene
  • Russell Hicks
  • Elmo Lincoln as Blacksmith
  • Eugene Pallette as Union soldier
  • Vester Pegg
  • Alma Rubens
  • Charles Stevens as Volunteer
  • Madame Sul-Te-Wan as Black woman
  • Raoul Walsh as John Wilkes Booth
  • Jules White
  • Violet Wilkey as young Flora
  • Tom Wilson as Stoneman's servant
  • Mary Wynn
  • W.B. Freeman as Union prison camp sentry

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