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
- Blazing Justice as Max
- Outlaws of the Range as Grant
1935
- Bars of Hate as Jim Grant
- Speed Limited as Government Man
- Western Frontier as Henchman Steve
- Gun Play as Henchman Mark
- Captured in Chinatown ... (Assistant Director)
- 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
- Catch My Smoke as Bub Jessup
- More to Be Pitied Than Scorned as Troubles
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
- Huckleberry Finn as Tom Sawyer
- The Son of Tarzan as Jack
- 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
- The Romance of Tarzan as Tarzan as a Boy
- Tarzan of the Apes as Young Tarzan
1917
- The Little American as Child (uncredited)
- The Price of Silence as Jimmie, Dugan's Son
1916
- Gloriana
- Naked Hearts as Cecil - as a Child
- Ben Blair as Ben Blair, as a child
- The Code of Marcia Gray as Newsboy (uncredited)
1915
- Kilmeny as Pierre - the Boy
1914
- Tillie's Punctured Romance as Newsboy (uncredited)
- A Bath House Beauty as Fatty's Son
- Caught in a Cabaret as Boy in Park (uncredited)
- Twenty Minutes of Love as Boy
- The Star Boarder as Landlady's Son (uncredited)
- Those Country Kids
- Kid Auto Races at Venice as The Boy (uncredited)
- The Fatal Mallet as Boy (uncredited)
- The Chicken Chaser
- Little Billy's Triumph
- A Wild Ride as Desmond
- The Broken Doll as Gordon
- A Rural Romance as Gordon
- A Race for Life as The Villain
1913
- The Riot as One of the Neighborhood Kids
- Mabel's Dramatic Career as Boy
- His Sister's Kids as 2nd Nephew