Born in Scotland, and In the US from 1906, Crisp enjoyed a long and varied career as an actor and, until 1930, a director; he later featured as a fatherly character performer in some 400 movies through the early 1960s. At the Biograph studios, Crisp appeared in numerous D.W. Griffith films -- portraying General Grant in THE BIRTH OF A NATION (1915), playing Lillian Gish's brutal father in BROKEN BLOSSOMS (1919) and serving as Griffith's assistant director on both. He also directed a good number of silents including DON Q, SON OF ZORRO (1925), starring Douglas Fairbanks; THE NAVIGATOR (1924) was co-directed with Buster Keaton. As a supporting actor, Crisp fought alongside Errol Flynn in THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE (1936), was a stuffy military man opposite Kay Francis in THE WHITE ANGEL (1936) and played a judge in THE OKLAHOMA KID (1939). After winning a supporting actor Oscar as the head of a Welsh mining family in John Ford's HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (1941), Crisp was typecast as white-haired, crusty but good-hearted fathers or men of the cloth in a slew of sentimental classics (LASSIE COME HOME, 1943, NATIONAL VELVET, 1944). He was married to screenwriter Jane Murfin from 1932 to 1944.  Supporting Actor 1941: HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY 1 nomination, 1 Award