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Gordon Griffith

Gordon Griffith

Actor · Born 1907-07-04 · Chicago, Illinois, USA

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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 (excerpted) from Wikipedia]

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914) — The Boy (uncredited)
  2. Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914) — Newsboy (uncredited)
  3. Twenty Minutes of Love (1914) — Boy
  4. Caught in a Cabaret (1914) — Boy in Park (uncredited)
  5. The Star Boarder (1914) — Landlady's Son (uncredited)
  6. The Fatal Mallet (1914) — Boy (uncredited)
  7. Tarzan of the Apes (1918) — Young Tarzan
  8. Little Annie Rooney (1925) — Tim Rooney
  9. The Little American (1917) — Child (uncredited)
  10. Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921) — Boy Stealing Grapes (uncredited)
  11. Those Country Kids (1914)
  12. Mabel's Dramatic Career (1913) — Boy
  13. The Adventures of Tarzan (1921)
  14. The Son of Tarzan (1920) — Jack
  15. A Daughter of the Law (1921) — Pete Jepsen
  16. The Village Blacksmith (1922) — Bill as a Child
  17. What Price Crime (1935) — Red - a Gangster
  18. The Branded Man (1928) — Bruce
  19. Huckleberry Finn (1920) — Tom Sawyer
  20. Main Street (1923) — Cy Bogart
  21. The Romance of Tarzan (1918) — Tarzan as a Boy
  22. Blazing Justice (1936) — Max
  23. Outlaws of the Range (1936) — Grant
  24. Bars of Hate (1935) — Jim Grant
  25. Gun Play (1935) — Henchman Mark
  26. Little Billy's Triumph (1914)
  27. Under the Top (1919) — Jimmie Jones (prologue and epilogue)
  28. The Solitary Sin (1919) — Bob Meredith - Age 14
  29. His Sister's Kids (1913) — 2nd Nephew
  30. A Bath House Beauty (1914) — Fatty's Son
  31. Western Frontier (1935) — Henchman Steve
  32. Speed Limited (1935) — Government Man
  33. Penrod (1922) — Sam Williams
  34. The Cat's Pajamas (1926)
  35. Cameron of the Royal Mounted (1921)
  36. Catch My Smoke (1922) — Bub Jessup
  37. The Broken Doll (1914) — Gordon
  38. A Rural Romance (1914) — Gordon
  39. A Race for Life (1914) — The Villain
  40. A Wild Ride (1914) — Desmond