- The name 'Fireworks' Wilson is known to film buffs as D.W. Griffith's special effects supervisor on The Birth of a Nation. Almost no information survives about him, except for that which Karl Brown included in his book 'Adventures with D.W. Griffith.' Brown remembered him a as a short man with a colorful personality, a mefisto goatee and mustache, and a missing arm. He supervised special effects and explosions on several silent films, but Birth of a Nation is his only known credit.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Kieran Kenney
- SpouseElizabeth C. Willson
- Owner of Willsons Fireworks in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
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