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Gordon Griffith

Gordon Griffith

Born: 1907-07-04 • Chicago, Illinois, USA

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
Outlaws of the Range poster
Outlaws of the Range
1936 • Grant
Blazing Justice poster
Blazing Justice
1936 • Max
Gun Play poster
Gun Play
1935 • Henchman Mark
Bars of Hate poster
Bars of Hate
1935 • Jim Grant
Western Frontier poster
Western Frontier
1935 • Henchman Steve
What Price Crime poster
What Price Crime
1935 • Red - a Gangster
Speed Limited poster
Speed Limited
1935 • Government Man
The Branded Man poster
The Branded Man
1928 • Bruce
The Cat's Pajamas poster
The Cat's Pajamas
1926
Little Annie Rooney poster
Little Annie Rooney
1925 • Tim Rooney
Main Street poster
Main Street
1923 • Cy Bogart
Catch My Smoke poster
Catch My Smoke
1922 • Bub Jessup
The Village Blacksmith poster
The Village Blacksmith
1922 • Bill as a Child
More to Be Pitied Than Scorned poster
More to Be Pitied Than Scorned
1922 • Troubles
Penrod poster
Penrod
1922 • Sam Williams
Cameron of the Royal Mounted poster
Cameron of the Royal Mounted
1921
The Adventures of Tarzan poster
The Adventures of Tarzan
1921
Little Lord Fauntleroy poster
Little Lord Fauntleroy
1921 • Boy Stealing Grapes (uncredited)
A Daughter of the Law poster
A Daughter of the Law
1921 • Pete Jepsen
The Kentucky Colonel poster
The Kentucky Colonel
1920 • Sam Britsides
The Son of Tarzan poster
The Son of Tarzan
1920 • Jack
Huckleberry Finn poster
Huckleberry Finn
1920 • Tom Sawyer
The Solitary Sin poster
The Solitary Sin
1919 • Bob Meredith - Age 14
Under the Top poster
Under the Top
1919 • Jimmie Jones (prologue and epilogue)
The Romance of Tarzan poster
The Romance of Tarzan
1918 • Tarzan as a Boy
Tarzan of the Apes poster
Tarzan of the Apes
1918 • Young Tarzan
The Little American poster
The Little American
1917 • Child (uncredited)
The Price of Silence poster
The Price of Silence
1917 • Jimmie, Dugan's Son
Gloriana poster
Gloriana
1916
Naked Hearts poster
Naked Hearts
1916 • Cecil - as a Child
Ben Blair poster
Ben Blair
1916 • Ben Blair, as a child
Kilmeny poster
Kilmeny
1915 • Pierre - the Boy
Tillie's Punctured Romance poster
Tillie's Punctured Romance
1914 • Newsboy (uncredited)
No Image
The Broken Doll
1914 • Gordon
No Image
A Rural Romance
1914 • Gordon
Those Country Kids poster
Those Country Kids
1914
No Image
A Race for Life
1914 • The Villain
No Image
A Wild Ride
1914 • Desmond
The Fatal Mallet poster
The Fatal Mallet
1914 • Boy (uncredited)
Caught in a Cabaret poster
Caught in a Cabaret
1914 • Boy in Park (uncredited)
Twenty Minutes of Love poster
Twenty Minutes of Love
1914 • Boy
No Image
A Bath House Beauty
1914 • Fatty's Son
The Star Boarder poster
The Star Boarder
1914 • Landlady's Son (uncredited)
No Image
The Chicken Chaser
1914
Kid Auto Races at Venice poster
Kid Auto Races at Venice
1914 • The Boy (uncredited)
Little Billy's Triumph poster
Little Billy's Triumph
1914
No Image
His Sister's Kids
1913 • 2nd Nephew
Mabel's Dramatic Career poster
Mabel's Dramatic Career
1913 • Boy
The Riot poster
The Riot
1913 • One of the Neighborhood Kids