Name
Huntley Gordon
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1887-10-08
Deathday
1956-12-07 (69 years old)
Place of Birth
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Huntley Ashworth Gordon (October 8, 1879 – December 7, 1956) was a Canadian actor who began his career in the Silent Film era. Gordon was born in Montreal, Quebec educated in both Canada and England. He had various jobs including working in a bank, in a silver mine, contracting, as a commercial traveller, and being a cigarette factory owner before settling on the stage and at one time acted with Ethel Barrymore. He began his screen career in 1916 when given a chance by Thomas Ince. Gordon was once a model for Arrow Collars; he was once painted by American commercial illustrator J. C. Leyendecker.
He served in the Canadian Army during World War I and began a career in motion pictures in England where he had been stationed during the war. With his suave manner and classic good looks he was sought out in Hollywood, California where he acted in both silent and talking films.
In Hollywood, he appeared in numerous films including starring opposite Gloria Swanson in the 1923 film Bluebeard's 8th Wife. That same year he starred in The Wanters with Norma Shearer and Marie Prevost.
For most of his career, Gordon traveled between America and Britain, making films in both countries, appearing in more than 120 films. He was with MGM studios when he retired from film in 1940 and invested in the manufacture of silk stockings, a lucrative business at a time when Canadian and British women could not get them due to the rationing brought on by the Second World War. Although he no longer made motion pictures, Huntley Gordon remained active in the world of network radio.
Huntley Gordon died in Van Nuys, California and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
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- 1940 Phantom of Chinatown as Dr. Norman Wilkes
- 1925 Never the Twain Shall Meet as Mark Mellenger
- 1926 The Golden Web as Roland Deane
- 1927 One Increasing Purpose as Andrew Paris
- 1918 Our Mrs. McChesney as T.A. Buck Jr
- 1935 Murder by Television as Dr. Henry M. Scofield
- 1920 Out of the Snows as Sgt. Graham
- 1928 Our Dancing Daughters as Diana's Father
- 1921 Brother of the Bear as Vincent Harris
- 1921 My Lady o' the Pines as Penn Thornton
- 1938 Gangster's Boy as Principal
- 1927 Don't Tell the Wife as Jacques Cartier
- 1928 Name the Woman as Marshall
- 1923 Pleasure Mad as Hugh Benton
- 1923 The Wanters as Theodore Van Pelt
- 1932 Broadway to Cheyenne as Brent
- 1935 The Spanish Cape Mystery as David Kummer
- 1939 Mr. Wong in Chinatown as Mr. Davidson
- 1921 Society Snobs as Duane Thornton
- 1933 The World Gone Mad as Osborne
- 1932 Midnight Warning as Mr. Gordon
- 1929 The Marriage Playground as Cliff Wheater
- 1921 Tropical Love as Clifford Fayne
- 1936 Daniel Boone as Sir John Randolph
- 1919 The Unknown Quantity as Dan Kinsolving
- 1932 Night World as Jim
- 1932 The King Murder as Arthur B. Bronnell
- 1924 True As Steel as Frank Parry
- 1927 Sensation Seekers as Ray Sturgis
- 1934 Dancing Man as Mason
- 1923 The Famous Mrs. Fair as Jeffrey Fair
- 1921 Enchantment as Fairy Tale King
- 1922 Reckless Youth as Harrison Thomby
- 1926 Other Women's Husbands as Jack Harding
- 1932 Red Haired Alibi as Captain Kent
- 1923 Chastity as Darcy Roche
- 1934 Their Big Moment as John Farrington
- 1920 The Dark Mirror as Dr. Philip Fosdick
- 1938 Professor Beware as Capell - Producer
- 1919 The Invisible Bond as Harleth Crossey
- 1932 Sally of the Subway as Stanley M. Gordon
- 1926 The Gilded Butterfly as John Converse
- 1937 Portia on Trial as Dr. Thorndike
- 1921 The Girl from Nowhere as Herbert Whitman
- 1919 Out Yonder as Edward Elmer
- 1936 Klondike Annie
- 1932 Speed Madness as Harrington
- 1924 Shadows of Paris as Raoul Grammont - Minister of the Interior
- 1940 Lady with Red Hair as Actor Playing John (uncredited)
- 1930 Anybody's Woman as Grant Crosby
- 1934 Bombay Mail as Burgess
- 1919 The Glorious Lady as Lord Chettington
- 1933 Corruption as District Attorney Blake
- 1932 Afraid to Talk as Governor
- 1934 Managed Money as Police Officer
- 1933 Merrily Yours as Police Officer
- 1933 Secrets as William Carlton
- 1929 Melody Lane as Rinaldi
- 1931 How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 3: 'The Niblick' as Huntley - the Husband (uncredited)
- 1937 China Passage as Arthur Trent
- 1930 New Movietone Follies of 1930 as Marvin Kingsley
- 1920 The Frisky Mrs. Johnson as Sir Lionel Heathcote
- 1923 Bluebeard's 8th Wife as John Brandon
- 1924 The Enemy Sex as Judge Massingale
- 1937 Idol of the Crowds as Harvey Castle
- 1925 The Great Divide as Philip Jordan
- 1941 Lady Scarface as James A. Pierce
- 1933 Sailor Be Good as Mr. Whitney
- 1923 The Social Code as Judge Evans Grant
- 1928 Outcast as Hugh
- 1922 Man Wanted as Charlie Harris
- 1918 The Million Dollar Dollies
- 1933 Only Yesterday as Investor (Uncredited)
- 1924 Married Flirts as Pendleton Wayne
- 1937 Stage Door as Cast of Stage Play
- 1925 The Golden Cocoon as Gregory Cochran
- 1919 Atonement as Vincent Carlton
- 1935 Page Miss Glory as Radio Official (uncredited)
- 1923 Her Fatal Millions as Fred Garrison
- 1925 My Wife and I as Mr. James Borden
- 1933 Racetrack as Attorney
- 1926 The Truthful Sex as Robert Mapes
- 1928 A Certain Young Man as Mr. Hammond
- 1924 So This Is Marriage?
- 1929 Scandal as Burke Innes
- 1924 Wine as John Warriner
- 1926 Silken Shackles
- 1934 Embarrassing Moments as Runyon
- 1932 The All-American as Harcourt
- 1934 She Had to Choose as Attorney
- 1922 Beyond the Rainbow as Major Bruce Forbes
- 1919 The Common Cause as Edward Wadsworth
- 1922 When the Desert Calls as Dr. Thorpe
- 1920 Red Foam as Arnold Driscoll
- 1916 The Destroyers as Peter God
- 1916 The Conflict
- 1936 Yours for the Asking as Clark Bering (uncredited)
- 1935 Circumstantial Evidence as The Governor (as Huntly Gordon)
- 1918 Men as Tom Courtney
- 1928 Sally's Shoulders as Hugh Davidson
- 1922 What Fools Men Are as Bartley Claybourne
- 1923 Cordelia the Magnificent as D.K. Franklin
- 1923 Your Friend and Mine as Hugh Stanton
- 1925 The Love Hour as Rex Westmore
- 1928 Gypsy of the North as Steve Farrell
- 1926 Lost at Sea as Richard Lane
- 1918 The Beloved Impostor as Dick Mentor
- 1921 At the Stage Door as Philip Pierce
- 1922 What's Wrong with the Women? as Loyd Watson
- 1925 The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted as John Mannering
- 1922 His Wife's Husband as George Packard
- 1919 Too Many Crooks as Bidwell Wright
- 1928 Sinners in Love as Ted Wells
- 1928 Their Hour as Mr. Shaw
- 1933 Justice Takes a Holiday as Judge Martin Walker
