Gordon Griffith
Born: 1907-07-04 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died: 1958-10-12
Known For: Acting
Biography
Gordon Griffith (July 4, 1907 – October 12, 1958) was an American assistant director, film producer, and one of the first child actors in the American movie industry. Griffith worked in the film industry for five decades, acting in over 60 films, and surviving the transition from silent films to talkies. During his acting career, he worked with Charlie Chaplin, and was the first actor to portray Tarzan on film. Griffith died of a heart attack in Hollywood at the age of 51. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]
Filmography
1951
- Pandora and the Flying Dutchman ... (Producer's Assistant)
1946
- The Jolson Story ... (Associate Producer)
1941
- Adam Had Four Sons ... (Associate Producer)
1940
- The Courageous Dr. Christian ... (Assistant Director)
1939
- Exile Express ... (Production Manager)
- Meet Dr. Christian ... (Assistant Director)
1937
- Jungle Menace ... (Screenplay)
- Renfrew of the Royal Mounted ... (Producer)
1936
- Outlaws of the Range as Grant
- Blazing Justice as Max
1935
- Gun Play as Henchman Mark
- Captured in Chinatown ... (Assistant Director)
- Western Frontier as Henchman Steve
- Bars of Hate as Jim Grant
- Speed Limited as Government Man
- What Price Crime as Red - a Gangster
1931
- The Nevada Buckaroo ... (Assistant Director)
1928
- The Branded Man as Bruce
1926
1925
- Little Annie Rooney as Tim Rooney
1924
- The Street of Tears as Ted Weller
1923
- Main Street as Cy Bogart
1922
- Penrod as Sam Williams
- The Village Blacksmith as Bill as a Child
- More to Be Pitied Than Scorned as Troubles
- Catch My Smoke as Bub Jessup
1921
- Little Lord Fauntleroy as Boy Stealing Grapes (uncredited)
- The Adventures of Tarzan
- A Daughter of the Law as Pete Jepsen
- Cameron of the Royal Mounted
1920
- The Son of Tarzan as Jack
- Huckleberry Finn as Tom Sawyer
- The Kentucky Colonel as Sam Britsides
1919
- The Solitary Sin as Bob Meredith - Age 14
- Under the Top as Jimmie Jones (prologue and epilogue)
1918
- Tarzan of the Apes as Young Tarzan
- The Romance of Tarzan as Tarzan as a Boy
1917
- The Little American as Child (uncredited)
- The Price of Silence as Jimmie, Dugan's Son
1916
- Naked Hearts as Cecil - as a Child
- The Code of Marcia Gray as Newsboy (uncredited)
- Gloriana
- Ben Blair as Ben Blair, as a child
1915
- Kilmeny as Pierre - the Boy
1914
- Caught in a Cabaret as Boy in Park (uncredited)
- Those Country Kids
- The Fatal Mallet as Boy (uncredited)
- Kid Auto Races at Venice as The Boy (uncredited)
- Twenty Minutes of Love as Boy
- Tillie's Punctured Romance as Newsboy (uncredited)
- The Star Boarder as Landlady's Son (uncredited)
- A Wild Ride as Desmond
- A Rural Romance as Gordon
- A Race for Life as The Villain
- The Broken Doll as Gordon
- A Bath House Beauty as Fatty's Son
- The Chicken Chaser
- Little Billy's Triumph
1913
- His Sister's Kids as 2nd Nephew
- Mabel's Dramatic Career as Boy
- The Riot as One of the Neighborhood Kids