James Griffith
Born: 1916-02-13 in Los Angeles, California, USA
Died: 1993-09-17
Known For: Acting
Biography
James Griffith was an American character actor, musician, and screenwriter.
Filmography
2004
- Los Angeles Plays Itself as Jesse Quinn in Dragnet (archive footage)
1981
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as Uncle Silas
1980
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow as Squire Van Tassel
1978
- Fantasy Island as Hezekiah Pugh
- Desperate Women as Jonas Scurlock
1977
- The Gift as Tav
- Flood! as Charlie Davis
- Grizzly Adams as Watts
- Speedtrap as Wino
1975
- Isis as Dr. Blandford
1974
- Little House on the Prairie
- The Six Million Dollar Man as Will Long
- Kolchak: The Night Stalker as Schwartz
- Hitchhike! as Sheriff Bentley
- Seven Alone as Billy Shaw
- Run, Joe, Run
1973
- Kojak as Mr. Swift
- Police Story
1972
- Emergency!
- The Streets of San Francisco
- Kung Fu as Joe Purdy
1971
- Catlow ... (Writer)
1970
- Dial Hot Line as Sam
- Like It Is as Father
1969
- Medical Center
- Heaven with a Gun as Abraham Murdock
- Seven in Darkness as Harlan Cabot
1968
- Lancer
- The Mod Squad
- Shalako ... (Screenplay)
1967
- The Guns of Will Sonnett
- Winchester '73 as Minister Riding on Horse
1966
- Batman as Trusty
- Mission: Impossible ... (Writer)
- The Monkees
- A Big Hand for the Little Lady as Mr. Stribling
- The Monroes
1965
- The Big Valley as Clyde
- Laredo
- Motorpsycho! ... (Original Story)
- F Troop
- Honey West as Conrad Wycherly
1964
- Daniel Boone as Feathers
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Dr. Trebush
- Lorna as The Man of God
- The Rogues as Bert
- Advance to the Rear as Hugo Zattig
1963
- The Fugitive as Dispatcher
- The Great Adventure as Harry Young
1962
- The Storm as Ed Brandies
- How the West Was Won as Poker Player with Cleve (uncredited)
- General Electric True
1961
- Dr. Kildare as Sims
- Ben Casey
- Officer Morgan and a Man of Mystery as Detective Tom
- Pocketful of Miracles as Detective Briscoe (uncredited)
1960
- Spartacus as Otho (uncredited)
- Thriller as Ed Brandies
- Outlaws
- The Tall Man
- North to Alaska as Salvation Army Leader
- The Amazing Transparent Man as Major Paul Krenner
1959
- Rawhide as Tyree
- The Deputy as Ballard
- Lock-Up
- Riverboat as Cpl. Sam Giler
- The Big Fisherman as Beggar
- The Lawless Years
- Wichita Town
1958
- The Texan
- Bullwhip as 'Slow' Karp
- Bronco
- Return to Warbow as Frank Hollister
- Man from God's Country as Mark Faber
- Frontier Gun as Cash Skelton
- Seven Guns to Mesa as Papa Clellan
1957
- Perry Mason as Arthur Dorian
- Have Gun, Will Travel
- Maverick as John Wesley Hardin
- M Squad as James Keniton
- Omar Khayyam as Buzorg
- Trackdown
- Raintree County as Mr. Gray's Searching Companion (uncredited)
- The Vampire as Henry Winston
- Domino Kid
- The Walter Winchell File
- Official Detective
- The Guns of Fort Petticoat as Kipper
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Taggert
- The Adventures of Jim Bowie
- Tribute to a Bad Man as Barjak
- The First Texan as Davy Crockett
- The Killing as Mr. Grimes
- Rebel in Town as Marshal Adam Russell
- U.S. Marshall as Deputy Tom Ferguson
1955
- Cheyenne
- Gunsmoke as Joe Kite
- Matinee Theater
- The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
- The Millionaire as Allan Reese
- The 20th Century Fox Hour
- The Night of the Hunter as District Attorney
- Frontier
- Count Three and Pray as Swallow
- Buffalo Bill Jr.
- I Cover the Underworld as Smiley Di Angelo
- At Gunpoint as Alexander
- Apache Ambush as Abraham Lincoln
1954
- Lassie
- Dragnet as Jesse Quinn
- Drum Beat as Veteran One-Legged Soldier at White House Gate (uncredited)
- The Boy from Oklahoma as Joe Downey
- Masterson of Kansas as Doc Holliday
- Ride Clear of Diablo as Henry
- Rails Into Laramie as Orrie Sommers
- The Black Dakotas as Warren
- The Shanghai Story as Carl Hoyt
- The Law vs. Billy the Kid as Pat Garrett
- Manhunt in Space as Ken, Cassa 7 Air Controller
- Day of Triumph as Judas Iscariot
- Jesse James vs. the Daltons as Bob Dalton
1953
- No Escape as Peter Hayden
- Kansas Pacific as Joe Farley
- City Detective
- I Beheld His Glory as Caiaphas
1952
- Cavalcade of America as Abraham Lincoln
- Hopalong Cassidy
- Red Skies of Montana as Boise Peterson
- Eight Iron Men as Pvt. Ferguson
- Dangerous Assignment
- Death Valley Days as Aaron Winters
- Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie as Ollie
1951
- Dragnet
- Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison as Carl Gebhardt (uncredited)
- The Blue Veil as Joplin's Agent (Uncredited)
- The Lady Pays Off as Ronald
- Al Jennings of Oklahoma as Slim Harris
- Rhubarb as Ogelthorpe Meadows
- Chain of Circumstance as Sid
- Payment on Demand as Arthur
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Raymond Andrews
- Apache Drums as Lt. Glidden
1950
- Bright Leaf as Ellery (uncredited)
- Indian Territory as Apache Kid aka Johnny Corday
- Lux Video Theatre as Henry Jackson
- The Breaking Point as Charlie, Bartender (uncredited)
- Double Deal as Walter Karnes
- The Petty Girl as Royal Roof Orchestra Leader (uncredited)
- The Cariboo Trail as Higgins
1949
- Holiday Affair as Crowley's Floorwalker (uncredited)
- Alaska Patrol as Operative Dale
- Special Agent as Candy Vendor on Train (uncredited)
- Oh, You Beautiful Doll as Joe, a Reporter
- Daughter of the West as Jed Morgan
- Search for Danger as Lt. Cooper
1948
- Every Girl Should Be Married as Insurance Salesman (uncredited)
- Blonde Ice as Al Herrick