Birthday:
Jul 04, 1907
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
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
| Movie | Cast | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Kilmeny | Pierre - the Boy | 1915 |
| Under the Top | Jimmie Jones (prologue and epilogue) | 1919 |
| Caught in a Cabaret | Boy in Park (uncredited) | 1914 |
| The Village Blacksmith | Bill as a Child | 1922 |
| Those Country Kids | 1914 | |
| The Star Boarder | Landlady's Son (uncredited) | 1914 |
| Twenty Minutes of Love | Boy | 1914 |
| The Romance of Tarzan | Tarzan as a Boy | 1918 |
| The Branded Man | Bruce | 1928 |
| Outlaws of the Range | Grant | 1936 |
| Blazing Justice | Max | 1936 |
| The Son of Tarzan | Jack | 1920 |
| Bars of Hate | Jim Grant | 1935 |
| The Adventures of Tarzan | 1921 | |
| Gun Play | Henchman Mark | 1935 |
| The Solitary Sin | Bob Meredith - Age 14 | 1919 |
| Mabel's Dramatic Career | Boy | 1913 |
| The Riot | One of the Neighborhood Kids | 1913 |
| His Sister's Kids | 2nd Nephew | 1913 |
| A Bath House Beauty | Fatty's Son | 1914 |
| The Chicken Chaser | 1914 | |
| Western Frontier | Henchman Steve | 1935 |
| The Fatal Mallet | Boy (uncredited) | 1914 |
| Tillie's Punctured Romance | Newsboy (uncredited) | 1914 |
| Speed Limited | Government Man | 1935 |
| Huckleberry Finn | Tom Sawyer | 1920 |
| Little Billy's Triumph | 1914 | |
| What Price Crime | Red - a Gangster | 1935 |
| Little Annie Rooney | Tim Rooney | 1925 |
| The Little American | Child (uncredited) | 1917 |
| Little Lord Fauntleroy | Boy Stealing Grapes (uncredited) | 1921 |
| Ben Blair | Ben Blair, as a child | 1916 |
| Penrod | Sam Williams | 1922 |
| Kid Auto Races at Venice | The Boy (uncredited) | 1914 |
| A Daughter of the Law | Pete Jepsen | 1921 |
| Tarzan of the Apes | Young Tarzan | 1918 |
| Naked Hearts | Cecil - as a Child | 1916 |
| Gloriana | 1916 | |
| The Cat's Pajamas | 1926 | |
| Cameron of the Royal Mounted | 1921 | |
| Catch My Smoke | Bub Jessup | 1922 |
| Main Street | Cy Bogart | 1923 |
| Series | Cast | Year |
