Name
Gordon Griffith
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1907-07-04
Deathday
1958-10-12 (51 years old)
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
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 (excerpted) from Wikipedia]
Known For
6.8
Pandora Reynolds is a woman who has never fallen in love – but one who men kill and die ...
5.2
A female ape takes to mothering the orphaned boy (Tarzan) and raises him over the course o...
5.9
Emilie has been hired to care for the four sons of wealthy Adam Stoddard and his wife, Mol...
5.817
Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. ...
5.576
The Tramp interferes with the celebration of several kid auto races in Venice, California ...
6.172
A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very...
6.8
At the turn of the 20th century, young Asa Yoelson decides to go against the wishes of his...
5.7
Charlie is hanging around in the park, finding problems with a jealous suitor, a man who t...
7
An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to liv...
5.5
Three men compete for the attentions of a pretty girl. One of them, a little tramp, plays ...
- 1915 Kilmeny as Pierre - the Boy
- 1919 Under the Top as Jimmie Jones (prologue and epilogue)
- 1914 Caught in a Cabaret as Boy in Park (uncredited)
- 1922 The Village Blacksmith as Bill as a Child
- 1914 Those Country Kids
- 1914 The Star Boarder as Landlady's Son (uncredited)
- 1914 Twenty Minutes of Love as Boy
- 1918 The Romance of Tarzan as Tarzan as a Boy
- 1928 The Branded Man as Bruce
- 1936 Blazing Justice as Max
- 1936 Outlaws of the Range as Grant
- 1920 The Son of Tarzan as Jack
- 1935 Bars of Hate as Jim Grant
- 1921 The Adventures of Tarzan
- 1935 Gun Play as Henchman Mark
- 1919 The Solitary Sin as Bob Meredith - Age 14
- 1913 The Riot as One of the Neighborhood Kids
- 1913 Mabel's Dramatic Career as Boy
- 1913 His Sister's Kids as 2nd Nephew
- 1914 The Chicken Chaser
- 1914 A Bath House Beauty as Fatty's Son
- 1935 Western Frontier as Henchman Steve
- 1914 The Fatal Mallet as Boy (uncredited)
- 1914 Tillie's Punctured Romance as Newsboy (uncredited)
- 1935 Speed Limited as Government Man
- 1920 Huckleberry Finn as Tom Sawyer
- 1914 Little Billy's Triumph
- 1935 What Price Crime as Red - a Gangster
- 1925 Little Annie Rooney as Tim Rooney
- 1917 The Little American as Child (uncredited)
- 1921 Little Lord Fauntleroy as Boy Stealing Grapes (uncredited)
- 1916 Ben Blair as Ben Blair, as a child
- 1922 Penrod as Sam Williams
- 1914 Kid Auto Races at Venice as The Boy (uncredited)
- 1918 Tarzan of the Apes as Young Tarzan
- 1921 A Daughter of the Law as Pete Jepsen
- 1916 Gloriana
- 1916 Naked Hearts as Cecil - as a Child
- 1926 The Cat's Pajamas
- 1921 Cameron of the Royal Mounted
- 1922 Catch My Smoke as Bub Jessup
- 1923 Main Street as Cy Bogart
- 1917 The Price of Silence as Jimmie, Dugan's Son
- 1914 The Broken Doll as Gordon
- 1914 A Rural Romance as Gordon
- 1914 A Race for Life as The Villain
- 1914 A Wild Ride as Desmond
- 1922 More to Be Pitied Than Scorned as Troubles
- 1920 The Kentucky Colonel as Sam Britsides
- 1924 The Street of Tears as Ted Weller
- 1916 The Code of Marcia Gray as Newsboy (uncredited)
