translate English to German: Walsh played Lincoln's murderer in Griffith's towering classic The Birth of a Nation (1915), often cited by critics (along with Citizen Kane ) as the greatest movie ever made. Walsh enjoyed success as a director with the innovative and spectacular The Thief of Bagdad in 1924 starring Douglas Fairbanks and Anna May Wong .
Er war der Assistent von Filmpionier D. W. Griffith bei dessen Filmen Geburt einer Nation und Intoleranz .