---
title: 'Abraham Lincoln (1930)'
type: 'film'
director: 'D. W. Griffith'
released: '1930-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 97
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'War'
  - 'History'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/abraham-lincoln-1930'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020620/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Abraham Lincoln (1930)

1930 · 97 min · Drama, War, History · United States


## Synopsis

Abraham Lincoln, also released under the title D. W. Griffith's "Abraham Lincoln", is a 1930 pre-Code American biographical film about Abraham Lincoln directed by D. W. Griffith. It stars Walter Huston as Lincoln and Una Merkel, in her second speaking role, as Ann Rutledge. The script was co-written by Stephen Vincent Benét, author of the Civil War prose poem John Brown's Body (1928), and Gerrit Lloyd. This was the first of only two sound films made by Griffith.

## Credits

- **Director:** [D. W. Griffith](https://cinepixo.com/people/d-w-griffith)
- **Screenplay:** [Stephen Vincent Benét](https://cinepixo.com/people/stephen-vincent-benet)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Hugo Riesenfeld](https://cinepixo.com/people/hugo-riesenfeld)
- **Producer:** [Joseph M. Schenck](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-m-schenck)
- **Director of Photography:** [Karl Struss](https://cinepixo.com/people/karl-struss)
- **Editor:** [James Smith](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-smith-2)

## Cast

- [Mary Forbes](https://cinepixo.com/people/mary-forbes)
- [Helen Freeman](https://cinepixo.com/people/helen-freeman)
- [Kay Hammond](https://cinepixo.com/people/kay-hammond-2)
- [Henry B. Walthall](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-b-walthall)
- [Otto Hoffman](https://cinepixo.com/people/otto-hoffman)
- [Lucille La Verne](https://cinepixo.com/people/lucille-la-verne)
- [Ralph Lewis](https://cinepixo.com/people/ralph-lewis)
- [Walter Huston](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-huston) as Abraham Lincoln
- [Helen Ware](https://cinepixo.com/people/helen-ware)
- [William L. Thorne](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-l-thorne)
- [Edgar Dearing](https://cinepixo.com/people/edgar-dearing)
- [Hobart Bosworth](https://cinepixo.com/people/hobart-bosworth)
- [Francis Ford](https://cinepixo.com/people/francis-ford)
- [Henry Kolker](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-kolker)
- [E. Alyn Warren](https://cinepixo.com/people/e-alyn-warren)

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