Gordon Griffith

ProductionDirectingWriterProducerActor Jul 4 (died age 51) Chicago, Illinois, USA 1913–1951 (38 year career)

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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 (excerpte…

Known For

Film

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

Producer's Assistant

Film

Kid Auto Races at Venice

The Boy (uncredited)

Film

Tillie's Punctured Romance

Newsboy (uncredited)

Film

Twenty Minutes of Love

Boy

Film

Caught in a Cabaret

Boy in Park (uncredited)

Film

Little Annie Rooney

Tim Rooney

Film

The Fatal Mallet

Boy (uncredited)

Film

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Boy Stealing Grapes (uncredited)

Filmography

Acting (50)

Movies (50)

Outlaws of the Range

as Grant

Blazing Justice

as Max

Bars of Hate

as Jim Grant

Gun Play

as Henchman Mark

Speed Limited

as Government Man

Western Frontier

1935

as Henchman Steve

What Price Crime

as Red - a Gangster

The Branded Man

as Bruce

The Cat's Pajamas

Little Annie Rooney

as Tim Rooney

The Street of Tears

as Ted Weller

Main Street

1923

as Cy Bogart

4.0

More to Be Pitied Than Scorned

1922

as Troubles

Catch My Smoke

1922

as Bub Jessup

The Village Blacksmith

1922

as Bill as a Child

5.3

Penrod

1922

as Sam Williams

A Daughter of the Law

1921

as Pete Jepsen

7.3

Cameron of the Royal Mounted

1921

Little Lord Fauntleroy

1921

as Boy Stealing Grapes (uncredited)

7.0

The Adventures of Tarzan

1921

5.9

The Kentucky Colonel

1920

as Sam Britsides

The Son of Tarzan

as Jack

Huckleberry Finn

as Tom Sawyer

The Solitary Sin

as Bob Meredith - Age 14

Under the Top

1919

as Jimmie Jones (prologue and epilogue)

The Romance of Tarzan

as Tarzan as a Boy

Tarzan of the Apes

as Young Tarzan

The Little American

as Child (uncredited)

6.3

The Price of Silence

1917

as Jimmie, Dugan's Son

Ben Blair

1916

as Ben Blair, as a child

Naked Hearts

1916

as Cecil - as a Child

Gloriana

1916

Kilmeny

1915

as Pierre - the Boy

The Chicken Chaser

1914

Little Billy's Triumph

The Fatal Mallet

as Boy (uncredited)

A Race for Life

as The Villain

A Bath House Beauty

1914

as Fatty's Son

The Star Boarder

1914

as Landlady's Son (uncredited)

Those Country Kids

A Wild Ride

as Desmond

Caught in a Cabaret

1914

as Boy in Park (uncredited)

5.7

The Broken Doll

1914

as Gordon

Kid Auto Races at Venice

1914

as The Boy (uncredited)

5.5

Twenty Minutes of Love

1914

as Boy

5.6

Tillie's Punctured Romance

1914

as Newsboy (uncredited)

6.1

A Rural Romance

1914

as Gordon

His Sister's Kids

1913

as 2nd Nephew

Mabel's Dramatic Career

1913

as Boy

5.5

The Riot

1913

as One of the Neighborhood Kids

Crew (10)

Movies (10)

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

Producer's Assistant

The Jolson Story

Associate Producer

Adam Had Four Sons

Associate Producer

The Courageous Dr. Christian

Assistant Director

Exile Express

Production Manager

Meet Dr. Christian

Assistant Director

Jungle Menace

1937

Screenplay

5.0

Renfrew of the Royal Mounted

1937

Producer

3.5

Captured in Chinatown

1935

Assistant Director

4.4

The Nevada Buckaroo

1931

Assistant Director