- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- July 4, 1907
- Place of Birth
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Died
- October 12, 1958
Gordon Griffith
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
moviePandora and the Flying Dutchman
1951 · Producer's Assistant
movieThe Jolson Story
1946 · Associate Producer
movieAdam Had Four Sons
1941 · Associate Producer
movieThe Courageous Dr. Christian
1940 · Assistant Director
movieMeet Dr. Christian
1939 · Assistant Director
movieExile Express
1939 · Production Manager
movieRenfrew of the Royal Mounted
1937 · Producer
movieJungle Menace
1937 · Screenplay
movieOutlaws of the Range
1936 · Grant
movieBlazing Justice
1936 · Max
movieGun Play
1935 · Henchman Mark
movieBars of Hate
1935 · Jim Grant
movieWestern Frontier
1935 · Henchman Steve
movieCaptured in Chinatown
1935 · Assistant Director
movieWhat Price Crime
1935 · Red - a Gangster
movieSpeed Limited
1935 · Government Man
movieThe Nevada Buckaroo
1931 · Assistant Director
movieThe Branded Man
1928 · Bruce
movieThe Cat's Pajamas
1926
movieLittle Annie Rooney
1925 · Tim Rooney
The Street of Tears
1924 · Ted Weller
movieMain Street
1923 · Cy Bogart
movieCatch My Smoke
1922 · Bub Jessup
movieThe Village Blacksmith
1922 · Bill as a Child
movieMore to Be Pitied Than Scorned
1922 · Troubles
moviePenrod
1922 · Sam Williams
movieCameron of the Royal Mounted
1921
movieThe Adventures of Tarzan
1921
movieLittle Lord Fauntleroy
1921 · Boy Stealing Grapes (uncredited)
movieA Daughter of the Law
1921 · Pete Jepsen
movieThe Kentucky Colonel
1920 · Sam Britsides
movieThe Son of Tarzan
1920 · Jack
movieHuckleberry Finn
1920 · Tom Sawyer
movieThe Solitary Sin
1919 · Bob Meredith - Age 14
movieUnder the Top
1919 · Jimmie Jones (prologue and epilogue)
movieThe Romance of Tarzan
1918 · Tarzan as a Boy
movieTarzan of the Apes
1918 · Young Tarzan
movieThe Little American
1917 · Child (uncredited)
movieThe Price of Silence
1917 · Jimmie, Dugan's Son
movieGloriana
1916
movieNaked Hearts
1916 · Cecil - as a Child
movieThe Code of Marcia Gray
1916 · Newsboy (uncredited)
movieBen Blair
1916 · Ben Blair, as a child
movieKilmeny
1915 · Pierre - the Boy
movieTillie's Punctured Romance
1914 · Newsboy (uncredited)
The Broken Doll
1914 · Gordon
A Rural Romance
1914 · Gordon
movieThose Country Kids
1914
A Race for Life
1914 · The Villain
A Wild Ride
1914 · Desmond
movieThe Fatal Mallet
1914 · Boy (uncredited)
movieCaught in a Cabaret
1914 · Boy in Park (uncredited)
movieTwenty Minutes of Love
1914 · Boy
A Bath House Beauty
1914 · Fatty's Son
movieThe Star Boarder
1914 · Landlady's Son (uncredited)
The Chicken Chaser
1914
movieKid Auto Races at Venice
1914 · The Boy (uncredited)
movieLittle Billy's Triumph
1914
His Sister's Kids
1913 · 2nd Nephew
movieMabel's Dramatic Career
1913 · Boy
movieThe Riot
1913 · One of the Neighborhood Kids