Gordon Griffith
Birthday: 1907-07-04
Deathday: 1958-10-12
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned
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]
Credits
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1936-04-07 | Outlaws of the Range | Grant |
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1936-01-18 | Blazing Justice | Max |
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1935-12-02 | Gun Play | Henchman Mark |
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1935-11-01 | Bars of Hate | Jim Grant |
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1935-08-07 | Western Frontier | Henchman Steve |
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1935-05-27 | What Price Crime | Red - a Gangster |
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1935-01-12 | Speed Limited | Government Man |
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1928-05-01 | The Branded Man | Bruce |
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1926-08-29 | The Cat's Pajamas | |
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1925-10-18 | Little Annie Rooney | Tim Rooney |
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1923-04-25 | Main Street | Cy Bogart |
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1922-12-31 | Catch My Smoke | Bub Jessup |
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1922-11-01 | The Village Blacksmith | Bill as a Child |
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1922-02-20 | Penrod | Sam Williams |
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1921-12-25 | Cameron of the Royal Mounted | |
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1921-12-01 | The Adventures of Tarzan | |
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1921-09-15 | Little Lord Fauntleroy | Boy Stealing Grapes (uncredited) |
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1921-02-06 | A Daughter of the Law | Pete Jepsen |
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1920-04-30 | The Son of Tarzan | Jack |
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1920-02-29 | Huckleberry Finn | Tom Sawyer |
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1919-07-01 | The Solitary Sin | Bob Meredith - Age 14 |
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1919-01-04 | Under the Top | Jimmie Jones (prologue and epilogue) |
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1918-10-17 | The Romance of Tarzan | Tarzan as a Boy |
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1918-01-27 | Tarzan of the Apes | Young Tarzan |
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1917-07-12 | The Little American | Child (uncredited) |
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1916-11-06 | Gloriana | |
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1916-05-29 | Naked Hearts | Cecil - as a Child |
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1916-03-09 | Ben Blair | Ben Blair, as a child |
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1915-07-22 | Kilmeny | Pierre - the Boy |
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1914-12-21 | Tillie's Punctured Romance | Newsboy (uncredited) |
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1914-08-19 | Those Country Kids | |
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1914-06-01 | The Fatal Mallet | Boy (uncredited) |
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1914-04-27 | Caught in a Cabaret | Boy in Park (uncredited) |
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1914-04-20 | Twenty Minutes of Love | Boy |
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1914-04-12 | A Bath House Beauty | Fatty's Son |
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1914-04-04 | The Star Boarder | Landlady's Son (uncredited) |
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1914-04-01 | The Chicken Chaser | |
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1914-02-07 | Kid Auto Races at Venice | The Boy (uncredited) |
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1914-01-28 | Little Billy's Triumph | |
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1913-12-13 | His Sister's Kids | 2nd Nephew |
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1913-09-08 | Mabel's Dramatic Career | Boy |
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1913-08-07 | The Riot | One of the Neighborhood Kids |