Gordon Griffith
Age: N/A | From: Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Aliases: Gordon S. Griffith
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Movie Involvements: 27
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
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]
Most Famous Work
The Little American
(1917) Child (uncredited)
Little Lord Fauntleroy
(1921) Boy Stealing Grapes (uncredited)
Tarzan of the Apes
(1918) Young Tarzan
What Price Crime
(1935) Red - a Gangster
The Son of Tarzan
(1920) Jack
Western Frontier
(1935) Henchman Steve
The Romance of Tarzan
(1918) Tarzan as a Boy
Gun Play
(1935) Henchman MarkActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1936 | Grant | |
| Max | ||
| 1935 | Henchman Mark | |
| Jim Grant | ||
| Henchman Steve | ||
| Red - a Gangster | ||
| Government Man | ||
| 1928 | Bruce | |
| 1926 | N/A | |
| 1925 | Tim Rooney | |
| 1922 | Bub Jessup | |
| Bill as a Child | ||
| Sam Williams | ||
| 1921 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| Boy Stealing Grapes (uncredited) | ||
| Pete Jepsen | ||
| 1920 | Jack | |
| Tom Sawyer | ||
| 1919 | Jimmie Jones (prologue and epilogue) | |
| 1918 | Tarzan as a Boy | |
| Young Tarzan | ||
| 1917 | Child (uncredited) | |
| 1916 | N/A | |
| Cecil - as a Child | ||
| Ben Blair, as a child | ||
| 1915 | Pierre - the Boy | |
| 1914 | Newsboy (uncredited) | |
| N/A | ||
| Boy (uncredited) | ||
| Boy in Park (uncredited) | ||
| Boy | ||
| Fatty's Son | ||
| Landlady's Son (uncredited) | ||
| N/A | ||
| The Boy (uncredited) | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1913 | 2nd Nephew | |
| Boy | ||
| One of the Neighborhood Kids | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Production
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1946 | Associate Producer | |
| 1939 | Production Manager | |
| 1937 | Producer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Directing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1940 | Assistant Director | |
| 1939 | Assistant Director | |
| 1935 | Assistant Director | |
| 1931 | Assistant Director | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1937 | Screenplay | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
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